I suppose the Germans weren't actually occupying Ukraine?

Oh, it's roman_mir, your grasp of history is tenuous at best so I shouldn't be surprised.

Bandera's idea was that once Germany conquered the USSR he was going to rule it as a vassal state for the Nazis. Hitler on the other hand had no intention of any Slavic "untermenchen" being allowed to rule anything so put him under arrest. His fanatics still continued to happily serve their Nazi masters, and carried out many massacres of Roma, Jews and Poles. Several of the death camps were guarded by Ukrainian POWs, apparently the Germans felt safe arming them as long as they had Jews and Poles to abuse.

Today's Ukrainian government sees no issue with putting up statues to Bandera or his henchmen just blocks away from the massacre sites.

Fun fact, there has been two Linux distributions officially certified as "UNIX". Inspur and Huawei for whatever reason bothered to get them officially certified.

On the flip side, there's an odd sentence in the XDG specification that explicitly qualifies the wording around filesystem feature requirements to apply only to Unix-like platforms. Clearly they had Unix in mind, but they explicitly bothered to give an implicit pass to any hypothetical non-Unix, non-Unix-like platforms.

Even if you do keep the key safe, it's impossible to keep YOU safe. A heart attack, a drunk truck driver, a falling meteorite -- are all pretty good at destroying wetware.

No they won't. Trump will simply move his Gold House to Aspen, CO. Problem solved.

Bixby's Law says, "In any security installation the weakest link is not in the hardware or the software, but in the wetware."

SlashDot has been infested with Libertardians for a long time, otherwise intelligent people who believe that if we just get rid of taxes and government the Magical Mystical Free Market Fairy will wave her magic wand and clean water, clean air, bridges and safe work places will appear.

Public school funding mostly comes from property taxes for a reason; so that districts full of rich people have better schools for their children than districts full of poor people. They were very open about that when the system was set up, and it's working very well. In Michigan schools in Benton Harbor haven't been painted in two decades and have leaking roofs, a couple of hours away in Gross Pointe Shores the high school has a heated indoor pool and kids go to Washington and New York on class trips.

I hate to say I told you so, but..... I told you so! The economics of capital and resource intensive AI services coupled with low demand needs somebody to step up and pay for it. It's not the users, who don't value AI enough to cough up real money and so must be tricked into using it for free. It's no longer the investors, who have put in real money for the last 3 years and are starting to ask for real returns on their investment, not a Ponzi scheme. The last resort to pay for AI are the advertisers. Like advertising in search, advertising in AI will cause the service to degrade and lose its value.

And that's why I use adblockers etc. Because, it's not my job to subsidise the free products with my eyeballs. If it's free, then it's free. If it's free, but you want something in return, then it's a seedy bait-and-switch tactic designed to bypass the normal pricing mechanism. Money is the normal mechanism used for regulating supply and demand.

Tut tut. I am not surprised anyone would say this if they have a very narrow exposure to human beings, and no children. Anyone who has children, or knows somebody who has children, would not be surprised that anyone expected that these things actually would work. In particular, your original impulse is spot on. You really should tut tut and say that these companies are predatory and lying about the capabilities of their products.

I'm fine with the repeated addition. My objection is the OR in your statement. Apparently not. The question was 5x3 and the kid wrote 5+5+5=15 and got marked wrong with no explanation because the teacher wanted 3+3+3+3+3=15. So I guess that you would have had a 50% chance of being marked wrong on a 2nd grade arithmatic worksheet as well, as absurd as that is. Correct answer notwithstanding.

BTW, that's not at all new. We covered multiplication that way in the 3rd grade back in 1975. Memorizing the table was just to make it quicker. I quickly "discovered" the commutative property while looking at the multiplication table and cut my memorization load in half. The part that confused the father was why is 5x3 = 5+5+5=15 "wrong".

As for 37+55, we decomposed that in the '70s as well, but I soon decided the easier decomposition was 37+55= 87+5 = 90+2=92. So I would say that meme was just someone wanting to complain. Of course the "old way" ends up in 30+50+10+2 anyway.

Shut up and memorize was not in practice during the education of the parents of today's students.

It can be a viable strategy to lean into bad news perhaps even more than is warranted. When you proclaim in 3-4 months time that you've overcome that disadvantage, people find that marginally more credible, even if that is wrong.

When you speak *exclusively* in CEO optimism speak, at some point people just stop believing anything positive you say.

Yes, I'm a heretic, but I RTFA in Phys.org and it says:

In March 2022, the researchers sent hundreds of sporophytes to the ISS aboard the Cygnus NG-17 spacecraft. Once they arrived, the astronauts attached the sporophyte samples to the outside of the ISS, where they were exposed to space for a total of 283 days. The moss then hitched a ride back to Earth on SpaceX CRS-16 in January 2023 and was returned to the lab for testing.
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The simulation was to see if this was a reasonable experiment to conduct, you need some sort of baseline level of reasonableness before NASA lets you hang something off the ISS.

Surviving reentry would be easy for spores, as soon as there's enough air molecules to create any sort of resistance and slow them down they'll just start to drift. They may take a few months to arrive at the surface, and then there's a 70% chance they'll land in the ocean, but if they wander into a rain cloud it could be faster since spores are one of the things that can cause raindrops to coalesce. Once they're on land it's just a matter of being lucky enough to land somewhere habitable for their species. There are a lot of species of moss that are found from the Arctic to the Antarctic, probably because spores got caught in an updraft that took them into the upper atmosphere for a few months.