Back in my University days , 1990s, early 2000s (I was there a decade, grad, postgrad all that) I was a fairly regular bar-fly at the on campus student pub. Learned more in that pub talking to academics and other students over pints than I ever did in the classroom.

Around half way through my degree a new face turned up, a man in his early 70s with a polite british accent, Kev, walked up to our table with a jug of beer and introduced himself. We where a pretty diverse lot, so we made a space, and all of us became fast friends.

He had retired a while back, had a career as an industrial chemist that sent him around the world, spent a lot of time in africa, and generally had an almost endless stream of stories to tell. After a few years of retirement, he decided to go and do a chemistry degree again, because when he had retired he felt the world had left him behind in his knowledge., so he went back to scratch to catch up on all the developments the previous 40 years had brought. No intention of working again, but he didnt want to spend his twilight years as a bored retired person with 20 cats and a drinking problem.

He had a blast too with his newfound circle of 20yo friends. Smoked his first joint, discovered the joys of 90s indie pop, occasionally got himself in trouble with the ladies, but generally had a polite british demeanor that got him out of a lot of trouble too. We all knew his morals came from a different era, so we cut him a bit of slack. We dubbed him "The worlds oldest teenager".

I visited him a few months ago. Age finally caught up to him, and I doubt he has much time left. He ended up hooking with one of our groups elderly mothers (that was..... awkward) and ended up looking after her after her son died and she fell to pieces, but its clear he hasnt got much time left. His body is just falling to pieces.

Still, I thoroughly recomend to anyone who's retired to consider going back to university if, or you've got the funds to pay for it. Too many old folks just retire and stop doing anything, and the lack of activity in both the brain and body end up killing them. And don't worry about all those young folks. If your a friendly, fun and active person, chances are all those young folks will adore you for your stories and wisdom, and you get to have a second youth.

While I think the high end models are actually very impressive, the one on top of google search results is a drooling idiot and regularly just makes up nonsense. Just yesterday I searched for information about radiation suits on the "Dune Awakening" game (very fun), and it utterly hallucinated a big bunch of nonsense about it being 3 piece, with exchangable breathing apparatuses and the like. None of that is true. I *think* it was cribbing details from Fallout. (It mentioned "Radaway" tablets, which are from fallout) but it was so matter-of-fact about it being part of the Dune awakening, and clearly the results bellow it on the search directly contradicted it. Its not a good implementation of generative AI.

Sure, but if the judge thinks its just some shit-ass nonsense suit, like he seems to, technically true, but stupid on its merits, he may well be inclined to deny costs to spank the plantiff for wasting the courts time.

I doubt it'd happen. It'd be a significant concern for the anti-trust cops (and even if the current US admin doesnt seem to have a problem with anti-trust behavior, the europeans are quite capable of raining hell). More to the point, it doesnt sound like Gabe has any interest in taking Steam public or selling it. Its a strangely organized hyper-flat company that seems to run more like a worker-coop than a traditional heirachical company and thats how Gabe likes it. And its making him ridiculous money. He's got no motivation.

Er, word perfect command sequences I mean. ^C ^V ^X etc. Still waiting for that morning coffee to kick in, and this ridiculous website still hasn't got an edit button.

Well yeah, but this is intended for windows where a lot of old timers muscle memory is msedit.

On the subject of good linux ones, check out "micro" if you get a chance. Its in a similar conceptual space as nano , simple editor, not really designed for big coding jobs, but great for quickly editing a config file or whatever, but its got a few modern affordances.Wordpress style command sequences, and works great with a mouse in a way nano never quite managed to pull off well. Sure I'll still use Emacs (and I suppose most folks would use vi) for bigger stuff, but its become my daily driver for quick config file edits on servers and stuff.

Yeah we're putting a stop to it at work. We can't meet our legal compliance requirements if the. company is doing this.

Theres a *tonne* of things in magic lantern though. I was always a fan of the ability to do both black and white balance, as this is pretty essential to flat colour without burnt whites or lost blacks that you need for good grading. Add to that a decent HDR system, HDMI unlocks on the cameras that need it, removing 30min limits, and so on, and yeah it can turn a good prosumer camera into a monster thats competitive with things like the REDs and the like.

That doesnt unfortunately stop trial lawyers, judges and juries from ignoring legal precedent, and the advice of musicologists who study this stuff in excruciating detail (music is *very* mathematical when you break it down, humans enjoy it and tend to write it intuitively, but under the hoods our brains are just giant pattern matching machines, and all the symmetries and patterns in music give it a nice big tickle and combined with the cultural stuff "I like this genre" etc, make music), and can tell you that "yes this tune sounds similarish to that tune but heres 500 other tunes that do too going back to medieval bards, so claiming violation is weird and wrong."

I'll NEVER respect bill gates he is the most corrupt evil bastard in high tech, and MS Windows is a shit tier operating system

"Evil" is a strangely heated term to throw around. The guy has been out of the tech industry for a couple of decades now, and focuses on..... well doing good...... so, you don't have to enjoy windows, I sure don't, unix forever, but try not make your product choices your entire personality, thats a terrible way to live.

It actually is, though god help anyone who tries to use it for something productive beyond decorating web pages. But yes, you could write an entire app in it. It would just.. be a terribly confusing hell to do so.

all the arguments that Dark Matter can't be baryonic? Why did they argue with such certainty? What assumptions were made?

Nothings changed in that regard. We've found missing baryonic matter. Its still not nearly enough to explain galaxy rotation etc.

Dark matter is still a necessary question mark in our understanding.

Yeah a friend of mine at university died from that type of T1 diabetes. Prior to that. he was partly blind, and had damage to various organs.

Diabetes 1 does not mess around, its a serious medical emerhency that *will* kill if left untreated.

This is a potentially epic treatment if it manages to avoid the autoimmunge response, and that could lsave the health system billions of dollars, hundreds of millions per year.

The trial involved getting kids to take a photo and having an AI calculate their age. Needless to say, I'm skeptical

The issue thats worrying legislators isn't so much the disinfo problem (although thats clearly a real problem), its the fact that the kids seem to be spiral eye glued to their little black dystopia phones 24/7 and its showing real psychological harms to socialization and mental health. God knows its been bad for me, and I at least managed to get my social skills in place well before the publically available internet came into being.

I do hope they keep some solid data on effects. If this doesn't work, then I'd strongly suggest reversing the ban would be well in order, and pronto.