The real difference is that F9's Merlin engines can't throttle down enough to hover. All it can do is the hoverslam, where it shuts them down at the exact moment of landing. NG was able to hover for a moment before landing.

Some of the command names that were chosen might be questionable, but the basic functionality of git works quite well. I just ported a personal project over from svn, made more complicated by not starting with a proper svn repo layout (git-svn would only import one half or the other depending on the options I chose), but I was able to wrangle the strings of commits into what I needed. And now that I've got the git repo constructed, I can replicate it easily.

(I was actually surprised that git-svn imports using deterministic hashes based on the original svn repo. And I understand why it happened, but I was a little sad when I moved the second chunk of my commits on top of the first, and those hashes all got rewritten.)

Just vibe-code the font! What could possibly go wrong?

Seriously though, this sounds like it's time for the industry to cooperate on creating some open-sourced default fonts and technology to make it easier to edit (and share) new fonts.

I don't know why you're so shocked by this. The Dem-controlled states have already done that long ago. Illinois, California, Massachusetts, etc. have already been gerrymandered way in favor of the party in control, out of proportion with the general voting population in the state. What's happening now is that the requirement for requiring the creation of explicit "minority" voting districts is going away, for which the red states had (unwillingly) been gerrymandered in favor of "minority" (aka Democrat) districts.

I watched it on a non-quite-live stream and it was really impressive for a first landing attempt. First of all, the rocket went on to a successful orbit, which is the first priority of a reusable rocket. The first stage came down like a fireball (a rocket going butt-first is quite harsh dynamically), and it crashed next to the landing pad. That's even better than New Glenn's first attempt.

The stream was quite an experience tool. A couple of Spanish (or were they Mexican?) guys checking whatever social media that video clips of the launch were being posted to, even a photo of a monitor at the space center showing a a drone view of the landing zone. At the same time people were posting the same video clips and photos on 4chan. All this just at my bedtime, I wouldn't have known if I hadn't checked minutes before.

A few years ago, even before LLMs, I was getting concerned that I might be getting phone calls from/to computers. I came up with "What day is it?" as a mini Turing Test question. It was out-of-band information that a human would know and wouldn't get confused by time zones, yet would be unlikely that someone would go out of their way to add to a phone chat bot. The expected answer from a human would be something like "Saturday", or "the tenth". A computer not programmed for this would get confused, and too complicated of answer could potentially also indicate a computer. And now it seems like my old question is effective against LLM chat bots! Take that, clankers.

We all know how the saying goes, "the cloud" is just another way to say "someone else's computer". While it would be nice to give a few weeks warning for a change like this, if the users cared they would have saved a copy when they created it.

I have a feeling there will be a net positive increase in vulnerabilities.

Did he try 1 2 3 4 5 ?

So they literally did it for the lulz.

Always Incorrect

Yet another reason to throw Windows out the... window. I have a Dell XPS 17" that runs fine under the current Linux Mint. It didn't a few years ago when it was new (sound card wasn't detected by older kernels), but it's quite nice now. It's even got two NVME slots, so I just added a second one for Linux.

The only issues I've had so far is when I reboot from Linux it wants to start Windows (probably a BIOS problem, fixed by having Windows boot manager put up a screen) and recently the 80% battery charge limit that I set in BIOS was ignored and it charged to 100% (still watching the situation).

You forgot Idiocracy.

I'm pretty sure that Gemstone III was on GEnie. I had been playing since the last month of GS2 beta... those GEIS computers were not very timeshare friendly, and the game would sometimes freeze up user commands while the monsters clicked away on their 10 second timers. As I recall, GS3 was set up on a Sun workstation to avoid such problems, and I guess it's possible that they could have added another gateway from Compuserve.

Thanks to how they did turn timing, I am to this day quite good at counting down seconds on my microwave while doing something else, usually to better than +/- 5 seconds per minute.

And you might be wondering what happened to Gemstone I. As I recall, it was the original demo which ran on an Amiga.

The Macintosh has had em-dashes on shift-option-minus since 1984.