Also UBI programs get you just enough to survive. Not to have an interesting life with projects, hobbies, etc... In other words, shut the fuck up or we are gonna starve you.

Well, if the US was a functioning country (or its predecessor), they would have hanged the crew of the White Lion in 1619 and freed its cargo of prisoners meant to be sold as slaves. It boggles the mind that this wasn't obvious, even at the time.

Oh shit, this reminds me I have written a lot of 32-bit software that will rollover in 2038. Fortunately I retire the year before that...

You sure it's a Windows problem and not a mouse+bluetooth problem ? I had one that I hated because it forgot to click or move sometimes (particularly tiny motions). USB mouse or bust for me.

Yes. I never left X11 because my tries with Wayland showed that remote desktop via ssh+vnc didn't work and I need that daily. Maybe it works now or there is some suitable replacement but I never bothered as I don't see what problem Wayland is trying to solve and I don't need a faster screen.

To this day I still haven't managed to improve my coding with AI.
When trying to do something I know nothing about, it just gives me standard boilerplate examples, but I could find them by myself just reading the doc.
When learning very obscure or uncommon protocols, it is no better than me.
When dealing with a large codebase (big makefile or cmake), you can't upload the whole thing to chatgpt, so how do you tell it to refactor something ? Maybe I'm showing my age but I don't get it. Maybe it works with the kernel because the entire code is publicly available, but for a private codebase ?

Yeah, well, about that... I just bought an oldish electric car, so my first thought was to go update the firmware(s). On the manufacturer's website it just says 'no longer supported' and doesn't even tell me what the last version numbers were. Damn lazy fucks.

Eh, now that's no way to talk. It's much better to keep them busy in a Math Dept than to institutionalize them !

In side and outside the windshield, yes. But also in the air outside if there is some condensation. And also on you eyeglasses if they are a bit dirty or even just old. And even in your fucking eyes if you have various kinds of problems in the liquid inside. My wife does and cannot drive at night anymore, all she sees are tiny shiny dots when there are bright headlights the other way.

I saw that too, looking closer it turns out to be 2 halves of a UK flag, as mounted on some Mini as an option. And yes, they look like arrows pointing the wrong way. Damn stupid. Pic here (sorry for the amazon link)

And also some permafrost in Canada are 30cm of dirt sitting on pure granite. Nothing can grow there except for some stunted trees. And if it gets too dry all the dirt blows away.

What do you mean "he couldn't do it [corruption]" ? He's doing TONS of it: pardons for money, Boeing gift from the Saudis, Trumpcoin, using his golf courses as official residences (that _you_ pay for), etc, etc... A quick search reveals endless lists.

Humans have learned (learnt?) to drain and dry swamps for agriculture for at least 6 millennia. (That is not a statement against global warming [I was part of the team that made the 1st direct historical measurements in Antarctica]). But the surface gained for agriculture in Canada and Russia (that's about it) will be nothing in comparison to the one that will be lost in the rest of the world. And yes, drying permafrost will release tons of CO2...

You seem very angry... A nobel prize in penguin country should make any self-respecting Linux nerd happy !
Anyway, this observatory doesn't just prove that neutrino exist, we already knew that as you mention, but it is also highly directional and can build a map of sources. The JWST is very noce, yes, but it only take *better* pictures than previously. This allows for an entirely new view on the universe, in the same groundbreaking way as the gravity wave detectors. A few years ago everything we knew about the universe was from photons: radio, optics, then UV, IR, gamma, etc... but still electromagnetic. Then we build (I built !!!) cosmic ray detectors. And now neutrinos and a few others. It's great.

Exactly. I give a few embedded/industrial linux lessons at the university. Some students regularly give me code with comments like "/* and here replace with the name of your variable */" or similar. Some people are not very bright.