Let's be real. They blew the school up because it was a school, and most likely a lot of the leadership / military families sent their girls there. And our leaders are evil bastards, working for evil bastards on behalf of other evil bastards. It's an exercise for the reader to determine the nature of those evil bastards.

One thing that's infuriating me is that apparently it's now impossible to implement in modern GNU/Linux distros as Wayland does not allow applications (such as file managers) to position windows.

Yeah, really.

And by "not allow" I don't mean "they haven't gotten around to it", they've actually said they're opposed on principle in the mailing lists.

We are running so fast in the wrong direction with UI design it's not funny. GNOME wanted to try something new, and I respect that, but it's like they took everything we've learned about what makes a good UI in the last 40 years, and did the exact opposite. It's one thing to change where the scrollbars are, or decide whether to put menus at the top of the screen or not, or what buttons should look like, etc, but they don't even value concepts like consistency any more.

It's horrific.

If I read that summary correctly, this will only ever be usable to clean small amounts of stuff in a closed container. It's not going to work for, say, the Great Pacific Garbage Patch.

That's what it meant ever since RUR. I'll grant that PR people keep spinning different meanings for it though.

I doubt the 2,000 trainees (likely from a pool of 20,000 gamers) will result in more than 500 people that make it through two years.

The US has around 14,000 controllers so that puts them close to a nominal replacement rate. It is not a magic game changer, but if they do manage to retain more or expand the recruiting class size it will help over ~5 years.

Please modify this to:
"""Whenever a "discovery" is announced it's best to wait for verification before popping champagne corks."""

If there isn't independent verification then it's poor policy to believe. It may also be poor policy to disbelieve.

Actually, I had measles twice before there was a vaccine. There are two different kinds of measles, but presumably the vaccine covers both.

He's not doing it. He's not going to do it anyway. He won't do it whether CA sues him or not. The entire movie making industry is in Hollywood. That's where the talent goes. Companies start in other parts of the country and then either go bust or move.

It's even less likely to happen than Tesla will finish its move to Texas.

People aren't going to move out of California just to work for some RWNJ when most of the jobs in that field are in LA.

Linthicum continued: "Linux delivered what I can only describe as a true 'AI desktop' experience

Please, just kill me now.

I dearly want open computers, but not like this. Not like this.

Fuck the world, stop the world, I want to get off.

Not necessarily. If they're designed to achieve maximum penetration, then you're probably correct, but if they're designed as networks of friends, and you can't invite whole networks, then it's a lot more manageable. Say that no group can have more than, O, 254 members, and you don't have the problem you posit. Of course, everyone would have trouble finding the groups they wanted to be a member of that also had room for them, but there are problems with every approach.