Driving a cab over is not hard. We got a diesel pusher bus where you're way further out in front of the front axle than that, and the only adjustment really is turning a little later. You get reasonably used to it in short order. If you don't have to deal with an 8' vehicle in a 10' wide lane (yeah they're meant to be 12' but then there's bridge crossings and such) then I bet it's not even scary.

That's a feature of systemd, but it's also a feature of other systems which predate its adoption, so it's not actually a change for most users.

Thanks for the assist. I really loved how you included Mechahitler's supporting comment, even a literal bot knows better than that meat bot.

The great thing about licking boots is that they will always find a new boot to put in your mouth. Great if you love licking boots, that is.

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Cry more, bootlicker.

In Europe these types of van are used for all sorts of things beyond delivery. Because they are enclosed you can build a little workshop in there, or at least have nicely organized tools on shelves and racks. With seats they can be used for crew transport as well.

Basically most of the times an American would have a truck, Europeans have a van.

It's also like the new twitter, in that there's a bunch of censorship. And ironically (one hopes) it's often aimed at people spreading anti-Trump messaging.

That's pretty good. I'd see if they have service in my area but unfortunately they are one of the corporations that paid a build-the-ballroom bribe so now they're dead to me.

I haven't used one in a bunch of years (10 or more) but last I looked, Homebrew was a system for installing software.

If you were to search for "Macintosh Homebrew" I bet the top search result would be what you want. I know Google isn't what it used to be, but you have to do your part. Did everyone move on to prompt engineering for LLMs and just plain forget how to do prompt engineering for search engines?

Have they? It looks mostly like they've been working to make their operating systems shittier. I fucking hate 11. When there's a transient network failure I can't even open an explorer window to C:\ to access my backup local copies. I guess a system I cannot use is potentially secure?

Are those 1T unique URLs?

How many of those are 404s where the site doesn't actually send a 404 error? I see a lot of those in the archive when I'm trying to find things.

FTFY :D

What is wrong with the US that businesses can't take advantage of the obvious cost savings that EVs offer?

Cheaper "fuel", lower maintenance, green credentials. Businesses were early adopters in Europe because the benefits were obvious and quickly realized. Even the higher purchase cost in the early days was not a big issue, because they were often spending big chunks of money to kit the vans out anyway.

It's not so much about not leaving stuff on the surface, it's about reusability. They want to keep costs down by having the lander do more than one mission. But now it looks like Lunar Gateway won't happen, you have to wonder what the point of that is.

Unfortunately pivoting to a disposable lander probably won't help them now, there just isn't enough time.

SpaceX is contracted to provide a lander, which they plan to be Starship. The idea is they will land it vertically on the moon, similar to their boosters. No catching it like they do on Earth. Then there will be some kind of lift to get the occupants down to the surface.

They are a long way from making it happen. They need to get Starship reliably to orbit, so that they can launch with a payload of fuel. Then they need to perfect in-orbit refuelling. Then trans-lunar injection, lunar orbit rendezvous, and finally landing. Then get it man rated. The idea is for the astronauts to get to lunar orbit on another ship and then transfer, but that depends on other vehicles being available for that.

Blue Origin are also providing a different lander, but are also quite a long way from having it working. SLS and Artemis are both floundering.

Meanwhile the Chinese are working towards a more conservative system. They will do a lunar orbit rendezvous between the lander and crew craft, each of which will make its way there independently. That allows them to use smaller, existing rockets, and the combined vehicles can be a little larger than Apollo too. They have been showing off the lander prototypes for a while, and testing seems to be going well. They have experience from their space station of longer duration missions and life support systems. Their lunar surface suit is coming along well too. They want to land by 2030, which is believable based on their progress so far, and given that they don't have nearly as much to develop as NASA does.