It does, actually. Not from a direct hit of course, that would need tens of meters of reinforced concrete and radiation shielding, but the vast majority of nuclear attacks don't hit you directly. And for that, getting out of the line of sight and into a place somewhat protected from flying debris is a very good idea.

On the other hand, swearing at Word, or any Microsoft product for that matter, is the default mode of operation, and is not going to help. If Copilot ever gains sentience, then based on its current training data, it'll actually enjoy putting you into this mode.

On the third hand, me living about a kilometer (in straight line) from the airport in a city ~50km away from Russian border is probably bad for survivability.

Well, technically it works -- but it's so far from email standards that I wouldn't be surprised if they drop compatibility with regular email at some point.

At this point, it'd be reasonable to make arch/x86 require 64-bit and that arch/x86-old dir keep 32-bit. It'd allow for massive cleanup of old code that was last maintained a couple of decades ago.

I expect that it'll go towards U+2E3A and U+2E3B rather than U+2013.

What "excellent film adaptation" are you talking about? There's one old animated adaptation, and that's is. There's also a movie that bears the same title, but it's apparently a coincidence: nothing except the title and names of some of main characters matches, thus I don't see how it could be relevant to Tolkien's books.

The first thing about adapting a book is reading it at least once, and Peter Jackson skipped that step.

Before anybody points this out, a gallon of bleach (the common size) is currently well over their weight limit. OTOH, that doesn't mean we shouldn't be thinking ahead to the possibility of hackers ordering risky combinations of materials that might ignite or release hazardous fumes if jostled. I don't know if Wing's drones drop cargo like other services I've seen either. The videos I've seen have drogue parachutes but things still come down a bit fast. Anyway, it's not a realistic concern *for now*, apparently; but hopefully it's being considered.

I'd like to send an order of bleach, ammonia and thumb tacks to 1000 of my closest friends, via drone.

That's a blockade done against human drivers, who (usually) know how to drive off the railway track, and the blockaders are only protesting rather than actively trying to murder. They stop cars from passing but don't trap them on the tracks.

What GP suggests is that by people simply standing there, the self-driving car's software will stop on the track without aggressively trying to escape.

Here in Poland we have campaign teaching people how to get out of a railway crossing if you get stuck. A bunch of differently-smart humans didn't even contemplate driving through the bar gate, and in some cases didn't even evacuate the car either. The bars are designated to break easily when forced by a car, but somehow in a stressful situation drivers regard them as sacrosanct. As Waymo cars behave that way in about every potentially dangerous situation, I'm afraid they'll do the same when on a railroad crossing as well.

Another piece of evidence: a link in the summary goes to https://support.microsoft.com/ which is currently tits up. Apparently they're hosting that site on Windows and/or staffing it with their employees.

The policy changes have been rolled back. Heck, it even looked possible that Russia would have its first non-rigged election in their history, but for obvious reasons that couldn't have been allowed to happen.

They don't need to stall forever -- there are only two important dates: 2026 midterms and 2028. Afterwards, even if Reps win your election, it won't be Trump's administration, and he doesn't care who ends up paying as long as it doesn't interfere with his opportunities for graft. If he can continue his gravy train till 2028 and his and his friends' ill gotten gains don't get taken back immediately after, all is good.

Well, it's Dems who have been the more racist party, both historically (1860 1910 1960) and today. But then, both of your parties are very very similar. They do have some disagreements on social issues, and they fight violently _which_ of their donors deserves more of public money, but their core platforms are pretty much the same: insane corporatism.

It's kind of like claiming that brown socialism and red socialism are opposites when they're factions of the same side.

Compare with eg. the country that I just received another lecture to not call them "Russia" -- which went from communism to fascism without any change to internal policies.

There's plenty of mirrors. For example .ax, .es, .mx, .fr, .lol, .info are all online and not domain-squatted.

The most accurate predictor for cable breakage is the number of ships that have been renamed more than 20 times in the past year going in their vicinity. Number of overlays is nothing in comparison.

Yes it was. That's why people are trying to make something to replace the Disney slop.