Research Machines built weird PCs in the 80s based around the 186. It was almost PC compatible but had to have its own special versions of DOS and Windows 2. Unfortunately Research Machines had some kind of lock on the UK education sector, so schools that weren't still using BBC Micros or Acorn Archimedes machines, had these strange 90% IBM-compatible abominations. (Just looked it up, it was called the "RM Nimbus")

So what. When you're screwed you might as well try unorthodox things on the off-chance something might work, because hello, we don't actually understand human biochemistry perfectly. And what exactly did he have to lose, a few more or fewer weeks with life with apparently lethal metastatic cancer?

If you offer bets on things that aren't definitely and objectively classifiable, you aren't foolish, you're a scammer. There's a difference.

There's an added point here, similar to what Rory Sutherland went on about with the, according to him, unfortunate preference for rational (or rather conventionally logical) approaches in business. As of now, zero people have gotten fired for suggesting "Our sales are down, we ought to advertise more!" , even when it didn't work. Now, try to think what would happen to your job if, instead, you went "Our sales are down, we ought to advertise less!"

A while back someone posted a (now-deleted) comment on the Fediverse about how they were able to construct a single unicode glyph of arbitrary length, e.g. a single character that could require 2MB of data to store.

The salmon code appears to be doing something similar - if you look at the source code in a hex editor, you'll see that the four spaces before "is very yummy" are actually a huge stream of F3,A0,81,93 and so on, where '93' is a varying number that may contain the actual payload (a recipe for cooking salmon). I don't know enough about unicode to tell precisely how it's doing that, but essentially it's some strange unicode trick.

However, I do not understand the significance of the 'grill' defines, since the code doesn't appear to be calling it in a way I'm familiar with, but it is also doing some unicode shenanigans with that too, and the code won't build if the 'grill' defines are commented out.

but I'm not touching the ad-serving vehicle that is Chrome and its derivatives with a ten foot pole. And, let's face it, this is the only reason for anti-firefox propaganda these days - they really need to whittle it down before forcing manifest v3 through, or users will mass-switch.

Since a polite way of putting it isn't cutting it, let's try again. What the "x maintainer" in questiponn posted on the linux kernel mailing list doesn't matter because nobody reasonable gives two shits, more so in a completely different project. So, you coming with it like it's a revelation is at best ridiculous.

I've never liked the distribution - I've used SuSE, Slackware, Mint and finally Debian... but there's a difference between "I'm not a fan" and "this unapologetically sucks". The internet is full of people having issues with Wayland.

...so? In what way did that impact his X.org work? Like, when I go to a restaurant I care that the cook knows how to cook, not who he voted for.

That was my first reaction, but the post actually says "Sequels and remakes". So given that there was a previous Dune film in 1984,it still fits in the list.

Yeah, but living expenses are fixed costs, so even percentages are tricky. A flat 50% tax on someone hypothetically earning 15000 a month is survivable, on someone who is earning 1500 it isn't.

I don't fly, and the last concert I've been to was before Corona hit, so, no. As for the internet, most of the stores that I've bought stuff from require no login and my browser is relatively well warded so I'm more certain than not that no discriminatory pricing is being offered.

You're mostly right, with one exception - there's no way there could be anything fair about the practice, since it exploits both an information asymmetry (store collecting data about you) and a negotiation asymmetry (store changes offer but you can adhere or get out, there's no counter-proposal from you) to royally screw you over. All this is is rentseeking on crack.

There's multiple differences here - one is that progressive taxation is based on the idea that if you're rich, you're using the commons and the services society provides to a greater extent, thus you should contribute more. On the other hand, there's nothing such that Wal-mart or Kroger is providing for you, they're simply taking a bet that you'll not walk away in disgust at seeing the price they toss at you.
Furthermore, you're overly optimistic in that financial dispositions are the only factor entering this - you could pull off tricks like noticing a customer really seems to like one brand of say, mayo and start cranking up the price, or even more atrociously, identify things which look like a necessity and amp up their price... or ,for instance, amp up the prices for people with full baskets because they're less likely to leave if they've already picked up a ton of wares.
The whole practice smells sky-high of bullshit, and I'm certainly not going to visit any store that has electronic price tags.

That can work for audio - Frank Zappa did this to archive 1" 12-track tapes - but in this case, it's probably a C-Format helical scan videotape. You would need an Ampex VPR or Sony BVH machine to play it back.