It is illegal* to ask if candidates are married.

It is illegal* to ask if candidates have children.

It is illegal* to ask if candidates live with their parents.

* In America.

There is nothing about such a mission that mandates obsolete, 2x order of magnitude money torching. Please stop it with your commie shilling.

It doesn't really matter in the long run. Sooner or later the US with elect another (D) president and the teacher's union and/or some other pressure group will once again cut NASA's space program and take the money. After than, NASA or whomever will be forced to adopt cost effective solutions.

The source was The New Yorker, not the New York Times.

Different things, even if they both have "New York" as part of their name.

Yeah, it was cool watching those four $146,000,000/each RS-25 engines return to the landing pad. Stupid capitalists.

This will help push FOSS gaming and community driven self-hosting of gameservers back towards mainstream. And that's a good thing.

I was into climbing and moutaineering in my teens. I clearly remember when climbing an 8k mountain actually meant something and doing it proved you were an experienced hardcore expedition climber. Everest today is such a joke and farce that I'd be embarrassed to brag of even attempt a summit. They should just install a Via Ferratta, stairs and bridges all the way to the summit and be done with it. That would actually make sense, given the state of things we've reached. They have actual traffic effing jams at the summit and the rainbow flank is littered with the dead bodies of dimwitts taken out by Darwin. It's called "rainbow flank" because of all the colored jackets of the dead.

Just build a staircase, ask an obscene fee to pay for it and void all insurance for anyone who goes above 5500 meters. Problem solved.

While a large proportion of observant, fundamentalist Jewry in Israel do not support Zionism or fight in its wars, a vast number of American Christian Zionists consider themselves obliged to serve the Chosen by helping kill their enemies.

A sufficient proportion of Americans and Israelis don't care about Muslim lives to let this preference guide policy. Islamist backlash will increase that number.

The proportion of Americans fit for service is tiny. While the USAF (which never drafted) and Space Force easily meet recruiting goals they also don't require the number of mundane jobs other services do. The enormous support tail enabling modern warfighting can often be manned by lower quality troops.

The late draft era was a military disaster. One day some leadership imbeciles will bring it back but it's so easy to disqualify yourself from service without provable malingering mostly greater imbeciles would be drafted.

The "home lab" hobby proves their point. There is a large selection of used, reiliable tthin clients for very light appliance use and a wide range of "tiny" PCs (and other architectures) for users wanting as or more capable options complete with power supplies, cases etc and with good community support for mods and upgrades including 3D printed parts. Rugged industrial computers and network appliances are also abundant and increasingly well known thanks to enthusiast channels.

If I bought a bare Pi board I'd need much more than that to make it usable. I'd need to buy, scrounge or make those components. OTOH I can choose from any of many complete and partial prebuilt enterprise quality commercial systems made in vast quantiities and enabled by many options, accessory configurations, 3D-printed community parts.
and parts.

Pi moved to compete in a very competitive space. It's original niche was more specialized rather than being intended as a general purpose PC in a world full of used performant thin clients and tiny office PCs often powerful enough to game or easily modded. Enthusiasts wanting small size but higher performance often assemble small rack systems with each same-form factor tiny PCs.

For example they can quickly, easily and cheaply assemble a main PC for desktop use, a file server and a network appliance of choice. Even a rack or larger case is optional. (I stick my Lenovo tiny PCs together with flat magnets held to their parent component with double-sided industrial tapes like 3M VHB (also used in building Class 8 dry van and other trailer bodies instead of mechanical fasteners).

Why do the mods never discuss why they're choosing to lazily enshittify Slashdot? The owners clearly fail to understand they would make vastly more profit by shitcanning these lazy saboteurs and choosing to return to Slashdot being a quality tech site.

People are turning down profit for whatever the reward is from an irrelevant, rudderless Slashdot that could make far more than the several million bucks it generated last year. That's not quite as hilariously stupid as Kaplan shutting down fuckedcompany in an age where it's highly relevant, but it's impressively silly.

I'm part of that 5%+. The thing about gaming on Linux is that I have no time or mood for fussing around with compatibility issues. Steams Proton layer handles quite a few games without trouble. I used to be a GoG only person but since their requirements for Linux versions are very specific and cause trouble on newer versions of Linux I finally installed Steam on Linux a few weeks back. Sure it's quite a performance hog and it keeps you in the dark about wether it's taking so long to launch because it's running some background update thingie and you have to use top to see what's going on, but other than that, the games listed as playable on protondb launch with a simple click. Which is good.

Guess I'm a steam customer now. After, what, 25 years? I remember when Half-Life 2 came out and they tied it to steam to push the first big digital game distribution platform. Guess that was/is a huge success. Provide good value, get my money. I don't mind.

For all I care they deserve it. If they can't or won't run the servers anymore they should at least release the server as freeware and allow for hobbyists to continue hosting the game. This used to be common practice with multiplayer games and we should enforce this practice by law, especially with people paid solid money for their game copies.

LibreOffice was considered somewhat outdated and the OnlyOffice codebase more modern with less cruft. While LibreOffice still is considered as a viable alterternative to commercial solutions, FOSS OnlyOffice / Euro-Office is now officially preferred.

Immunology, presumably.

The only donor bodies that aren't going to treat the transplant as an act of war are clones or heavily immunosuppressed; and it's probably more plausible to assume that you'll be able to clone a human like a sheep than assume that you'll be making some fundamental breakthroughs in immunology to deal more elegantly with unmatched hosts.

I can see the utility of having spare organs in certain emergencies; but how much life extension would you actually get even if the sort of neurosurgery involved in removing a brain and reattaching it to a new host's spinal cord were viable? Is the theory that the assorted ghastly flavors of neurodegeneration are actually to be blamed on older organs and everything will be fine; or is this just a very expensive way to ensure that you skip the various ways peripheral organs can kill you and are assured to be the spryest patient in the dementia ward?