If you're not interested in details behind the stories, you probably shouldn't read this book.

Given that it was published two days ago i obviously haven't read it yet,
but i'm certain this book contains material not previously published.
I've never seen Christopher publish anything that didn't add to the corpus.
Beren and Luthien is a good example. We all know that story to pieces,
and last year's publication didn't particularly disrupt anything,
but it was interesting to read the verse form, and there were many details which aren't surfaced elsewhere.

"Elon Musk Calls Boss of Tesla Troll Who's Heavily Invested In Oil Industry"

"calls the boss"
"calls up boss"
"phones boss"

"Elon Musk Phones the Boss of Heavily Oil-Invested Tesla Troll"

I STAND ASSUAGED!

this is an attractive theory, but needs a solid citation.

Given the very scanty details provided in the article, you seem to be leaping to conclusions.
It's unlikely that people at our level of remove from the details can accurately form an evaluation of the sort you're presenting.

Your line of reasoning is similar to lay-people second-guessing scientific experts on complex scientific topics.

Also, suppose you're totally on-target in all your points.
So what ? It's not your call whether these folks choose to do this work. It's theirs.

is https://www.crypto51.app/ saying that $630K would make me solely authoritative for the bitcoin BC for a couple hours or so ?

i mean really,
#define kGALAXY_ROT_SPD 1000000000
?

don't do that.
the editor is not the boss of you.

true that. also semicolons are optional in javascript. for ordinary statements you can simply leave them out.

word. mod you up if i could.
i despise trump, but the article provides zero to bolster its conclusion.

hm, that's intersting.

but I hadn't realized this star is only 1500 light years away.
if we assume a major FTL traffic hub at that distance I'd sort of expect more visitors here on earth.

there's no radio signals for them to have received yet,
but if they're that fancy I'd expect them to have pretty good telescopes,
and with FTL who knows how short the trip is out to us.

i was thinking the same thing. the exclamation "success!" seemed in the same category.

i know the OP posited windows as a requirement,
but there's also a hybrid approach.

my primary goal was to protect my mom from serious financial fraud - ie bank account stuff.

mom uses windows for photoshop & other SW that won't go on a tablet,
and also makes heavy use of some windows-only apps which keep her away from OSX.

so, i got her a tiny HP laptop and put Linux (mint) on it,
with the strict instructions that all banking is done on the Linux machine,
and *only* banking is done on the Linux machine. no shopping, no surfing.

shopping i figure is fine on the windows machine: the credit card is secured against fraud,
and shopping itself is risk enough that it doesn't belong on the banking machine.

I suspect she's not actually following this advice, because she hasn't asked for help w/ the Linux box,
but that's probably also a failing on my part for not following up.

thanks to the article author for conveniently providing a link to a definition of 'raconteur'.
that was super helpful.
ditto the link to the wikipedia page for Canasta.
both links are totally cogent and i never would have found that info myself.

lots of good suggestions here, including maybe getting a different dorm.
i think i recall there being a 'quiet' dorm at UCSC. ("live here if your main interest in being at college is .. academics", i guess)

but mostly the suggestions seem to be either Block The Sound or Drown The Sound In Noise.

i'd highly recommend going for the former before the latter, for the kinda obvious reason of hearing damage.
i'm not an expert, but my tinnitus gives me a gut feeling that chronic exposure to even background-level noise can't be good for the cilia.