I took four years of German, didn't cheat, had a B+ average, and three years after I graduated high school I could pretty much just count, say the alphabet, and knew maybe a dozen phrases. If you're not actively using the language, even a little, it's not going to stick whether you cheated or not.

Uh-huh. So what happens if you run one of the "modules" by itself, like you can do with other Unix/Linux programs?

Plenty to choose from:

https://nosystemd.org/#alterna...

I tend to run Devuan, which is a Debian fork.

A modern Ethernet PHY already has to support multiple different encoding schemes, MLT-3 for 100BASE-TX and PAM-5 for 1000BASE-T (and PAM-64, etc for higher speeds like 2.5 or 10 gig.) Eliminating the Manchester encoding for 10BASE-T is a logical way to save on cost and complexity, especially since most companies probably don't have a lot of legacy 10 mbit only gear to test with.

For a while the scheme DID matter. From 1.0 to 2.6, evens (and zero) were stable, odds were development.

2.6 stretched from 2003 to 2011 when Linus just declared that instead of the next version of "stable" being 2.6.40 it was going to be 3.0.

Is it ALL TV? Or if it's an emotionally engaging movie, is that more like reading, and only the brain rot TV is "passive"?
What about sitting and listening to music? Is that active or passive?

Yup. Native born women have had a total fertility rate of below 2.1 (replacement) since the 70s. It's been the first generation immigrant women keeping the average up, and even that average has been slipping of late.

As someone who came up on X terminals, the concept of an X system that can't do the standard client/server scheme just blows my mind.

And I remember when X.org was the upstart fork of XFree86!

But at least the "random code" from Stack Overflow was _working_ code. The AI stuff is a crapshoot.

A beginner using AI to "vibe code" isn't going to understand when it's making things up out of whole cloth (like how it has a tendency to hallucinate Powershell cmdlets) and is going to spend more time whack-a-moling the result to get a kinda-working program than they would if they just started with a basic foundation and got better as they go.

You learn to build a skyscraper by first learning to build a house, not by ChatGPTing a skyscraper and then figuring out what you need to shore up to prevent it from falling down.

But if T-Mobile had been able to get that spectrum back, they might not have been able to buy US Cellular, which got them spectrum _and_ customers. They're now solidly in the middle of the pack when it comes to customers (as opposed to before, where AT&T was nipping at their heels) and have _more market share_ than Verizon even though the latter has ~13M more subs (because T-Mobile's mixture of customers is pulling in more money per customer than the other two carriers.)

Not if all the single family housing stock is being bought up by corporations to rent them out, since the surviving children will always take top dollar in cash (with no inspection) from a corporation rather than a mortgage from an actual family.

Somehow Source 2 has better lip sync than many modern game engines I've seen.

Who in the blue F thought The Wire "started slow"? Is that shorthand for "it didn't wrap everything up by the end of the first episode?

Everything you typed is true in the Scandinavian countries, and they have low birthrates too. Not as low as Japan, but still well below replacement rate.