"academia works"?

You think Academia ever accomplished anything at all?

Good. You're finally getting the picture that American crony Capitalism sucks rocks and considers immigrants to be barely better than slaves.

With millions of citizen tech workers laid off in the last 3 years, fewer foreign workers is only good news.

PLEASE avoid the United States. We're going through an existential cultural identity crisis right now, and don't need your third world kleptocracies, we have enough kleptocracy here.

Somehow the lawyers will get the majority of the settlements.

This is bad news if the Pixels are now eSIM only.

GrapheneOS only supports pixels and many of its users prefer a permissionless SIM.

Maybe they'll add support for some other device, perhaps one of the privacy phones.

How we use them isn't.

Humans are all different. For some the levels of distinction and discrimination achievable with mathematical operations performed on four bit floats is sufficient. For others less than 16 bits will not do.

Not really in the popular science. Over the years there have been some doozies in the public square. Hawking surveys a few in his works. His final paper featured a smooth exit from cosmic inflation resulting in heat death in a long tail.

One problem with Big Crunch/string of pearls theories is that gravity propagates at the speed of light. As any fool kno, our light cone is on a massive diet as mass exits relevance by being on the far side of so much expanding space that it can never come back or influence us - the event horizon. As the rate of crunch exceeds the speed of light we remain islanded from the rest of that irrelevant greater Universe as you would still have to exceed light speed to get from there to here. There's still a spot between where the taffy breaks. Another is that since the visible universe is obviously a tiny, perhaps an infinitesimal, portion of the whole of what is/was, naturally we recently were in a condition where if there was enough mass and density to cause a crunch, why didn't it do so when our visible universe was (pick an order of magnitude) more dense? Also, crunch theory involves time travel which is heresy all by itself. Violation of causality is not a state of grace.

Economy being what it is, I'll tail this with my contribution. I did previously speculate about aging of stellar formation media playing hob with the distance ladder. This is I think the second major paper on the matter. It's good to see the notion pencil whipped. Observation is coming fast and furious and the astronomers say "we took the picture. It is what it is. Explaining it is your job." With such a rising bounty of observed fact theories will come and go like salesmen at a Las Vegas convention so it's best not to marry one.

...to humanity if they hired John Connor.

ah, I will check out memory hole on some of my systems.

At least on 6.1 you have to be below 50% RAM usage too.

I found this in a RHEL doc that pointed to a kernel README that looked old af but said the same thing.

I have a few systems that run an app on solar during the day at 80% RAM and I had to stop the service before suspend to get it to work.

Yet it worked for a couple months in disk hibernate but then stopped and only memory sleep would work. On a Debian Bookworm stable kernel, so who the heck knows what broke (wasn't me!).

Battery usage overnight is different enough with many machines that I wish hibernate to disk worked reliably.

Anyway if I have 16GB RAM and a 36GB swap it seems bonkers to me that it is by design only working if less than 8GB of RAM is committed.

The subsystem is quite brittle and everybody seems to know.

Most package management systems require us to figure out which card we have, figure out which package supports it, and install that.

Really we wanted "install the package that supports my card".

Apparently this current problem highlights this disconnect when a package no longer does what it used to but the package system blindly updates it anyway.

Being 2025, surely somebody in the past 30 years has floated a meta package management system to handle this mapping? Or an apt plugin? Anybody here know that history?

I mean, we even have nvidia-detect for their cards to do the actual probing work.

Granted arch is rolling and rolling gonna roll, but we can have software that makes this work correctly.

They're going to launch it in tranches by popularity. Probably by genre and artist too. Unless you have bizarre eclectic tastes they will likely have all the music you might want and all the adjacent stuff, in a reasonable package.

Cutting out 99.9% leaves the most popular 210,000 songs in about 300GB. Metadata is the big prize I think. It's not like you can't just open Spotify and hear what you want.

More about the analysis of the metadata in https://annas-archive.org/blog... /Heavy chart analysis, and they talk about how the bulk has less than 1,000 listens total.

Yep, this is the problem. DEI hires (be they conservative or liberal DEI, doesn't matter, when you are selecting people based on appearances instead of skills is my definition) won't know how to do this properly.

Yep, like BMW charging to use your heated seats.

It's the Washington Post that Bezos owns, not the Wall Street Journal.

This guy either socially engineered his way through a line, analyzed a weakness in the line, or time-traveled from the '90's not realizing we've set up an incompetent but totalizing police-state control grid to interpose every tiny aspect of our lives.

To be fair, "pay on board" is less applicable to airplanes than trains because seatbelts are important in turbulence.

That said, the lack of capacity is widely acknowledged to be a feature of wildly incompetent management.

We just heard they've started a new project to rewrite the air traffic control system for the umpteenth time (and billions and billions later) to hopefully allow for more frequent landings and departures. I fear it won't be specified for AI-assist takeoffs and landings and will be obsolete before it's done.

Better make some more 8" floppies.