Yeah, right.

If you cannot prove either A or (non A), then A doesn't exist. Or doesn't matter.

Podcasts have always pissed me off: I can read the same text in 1/3rd the time it takes to listen to the podcast. They are good only when driving. Caveat emptor: my wife listens to hers at 16x the speed but I can't do that.

Managers have more leverage over a visa-based employee compared to a citizen. If a citizen refuses an order the worst outcome is that they must find another job. Whereas a non-citizen may have to leave the country if they can't find another job before their visa expires. Highly paid positions are not always easy to achieve so there is no reason to believe this effect would be limited to cheap workers.

Yes. And 3 days ago he fired the entire National Science Board...

How can you move the cursor in less than 10 minutes with a trackpoint ?!? I just noticed for the 1st time there's one on the keyboard I'm currently using and I tried it. And that's really the time it takes me to move the cursor anywhere.

Yup, been running like that for well over 20 years. Windows is shit and I'll retire long before I am forced to use Win11.

I don't understand why there's not more choice in laptop options. Keyboard with/without numpad, with/without Windows or Option or AltGr key, with/without Home/End/Insert/Del/PgUp/PgDown/Arrow key. Touchpad with/without bottom buttons, top buttons or nipple. I'm typing this on a 13 year old Dell 19" with a fantastic keyboard that still runs Kubuntu perfectly. I recently bought a used laptop for a family member and I had a hard time finding one with a usable keyboard.

Anecdote time: when working in the US a couple decades ago, we used to go eat lunch downtown and would take turns driving with colleagues filling our car. Once I rode with a secretary. She backed out of her parking spot brutally and without looking. It was scary. A colleague, trying to stay polite:

• Why don't you look before backing up?
• And how exactly do you expect me to do that?
• Well, you could turn your head, or look into your rearview mirror...
• Ha! they do that in the movies!

Needless to say I never set foot in her car again.

Where is one of the last places you'd expect a rear-view mirror?

The SR-71 had one.

The practical use case was checking the deployment of the landing parachute.

Speaking of forensics, if you're a law-abiding citizen who just wants to keep private information private, iOS lockdown mode will reported halt the Coruna forensics tool in its tracks. Source, Eva Galperin at EFF. It's a royal PITA to use though.

Or, as Robert Morris Sr. said about breaking confidential communications, "Look for plaintext. It comes up in the darnedest place", or words to that effect.

I wonder if humans are less sensitive to lung cancer than other animals: we've been sitting around campfires or in smokey huts for hundred of thousands of years, long before we started smoking tobacco/cannabis. There must have been selective pressure to survive it better, no ?

You will not be able to find prior examples where the DoD secretary removed people from the O-7 promotion list.

You will not be able to find prior examples where the secretary of the army's objections to the handling of the O-7 promotion list was made public.

You will not be able to find prior examples where the army chief of staff was forced out due to objections about the O-7 promotion list.

You will not be able to find prior examples where the pentagon chapel did not hold some sort of Catholic service on Good Friday. You will, however, be able to find times that Hegseth's favorite pastor has called for the removal of catholic displays from the United States.

You will not be able to find any examples where Hegseth has blocked promotions of white males or fired white males because they were 'not warriors'.

Yes, that's the one. I remembered it was a famous author. It's not as good as the Forever War (what is ?) (where is the movie BTW, it's been in the pipe for years ?) but it was an interesting read.