OmnipotentEntity @ OmnipotentEntity @beehaw.org

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You may be surprised to learn that they didn't all run out until 2013. UEFI had been around for 7 years by this time, and Microsoft was doing patent enforcement actions against Tom Tom during this time period.

Sure, they're expired now, but not at the time. It was supposed to be an open standard at the time.

Imo, pretty much all third party candidates are doomed to lose, no matter who they are, unless they have explicit backing of one of the two major parties.

The best thing to do is change the rules before you try to play by them. This means attacking the 2 party system by the actual weak link: the first past the post voting system. Run on and vote in candidates to the two parties who vow to dismantle it. Elections are run by the locally, so we can do this state by state, city by city. This is achievable and has already started in some cities.

I like wasabi.

I think the study is probably irreproducible bullshit, but at least I like wasabi.

For the record, the rate at which the power increases and decreased on the reactor is more or less accurate to the simulation, but the simulation has been speed up by about 100x. Mentioning this just in case the game leaves you with the impression that managing a nuclear reactor is a twitchfest.

Alas, I have "Americanwhoisfamiliarwithmetricitis." I'm afraid it's terminal.

Honest question, not being catty or anything. Why is this news, exactly? This is a nearly every winter occurrence to get below -50C in Yakutsk, the average winter day is -42C. (It also gets up into the 90s during the summer, Yakutsk is a wild place.)

This would be roughly equivalent to a news article saying Detroit is down to 10F today, i.e. colder than normal, sure, but not really beyond the pale for a December day.

Honestly asking because I'm just wondering if this is the start of the "there can't be global warming because it's cold somewhere" coverage for this winter season, or if this is intended to be a fun TIL article for the lucky 10000.

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Best: the one I use.

Worst: also the one I use.

Until you get a night that was supposed to be snow but instead was freezing rain, and now instead of just ice hard frozen onto your windshield you have ice and a towel, which is infinitely more horrible?

Out of curiosity, which one?

The word "incel" colloquially covers quite a bit more territory than its acronym expansion implies, much like MAGA means quite a bit more than just a collective of individuals who want to see America succeed. But of course you know this, so why exactly are you asking?

If "D" is physically on the same hard drive, then you'll probably want to back it up before installing. Technically, you can manage to do it without screwing everything up, but I would not trust myself to. It's always a good idea to have backups anyway.

Also, user files typically reside on C by default and it takes some effort to put them on a different drive. Things like Downloads, Documents, Pictures, etc. so it's worth checking that before wiping as well.

Additionally, you'll probably want to format your "D" drive to a Linux native filesystem (eventually, after you back it up, because formatting results in data loss). While Linux does support NTFS quite well, it's not perfect, and your data would probably be safer on ext4 or f2fs (depending on if you have HDDs or SSDs) (or zfs or btrfs is you're into COW filesystems).

In Linux, you have all of your files mounted to a single "drive" called /. Everything is below /, which is called the "root" of your filesystem.

Typically, user data is stored in "/home" and this resides in the same directory structure as the rest of your OS, but on most systems it's on a different filesystem or even on a different drive entirely. This is because in Linux it is routine to put a "D" drive just in a folder. On my computer, I have several of these mount points defined, so the different types of data don't get mixed around, and I don't have to worry about downloading too much bullshit affecting my computer's updates.

Hope this helps.

Just make sure you back up any important data before wiping your own hard drive. And yeah, Steam handles a lot of the weirdness of running windows only games pretty well automatically.

There are many other ways of making methane, it's not a very complicated molecule: CH4. It gets exciting when there's a lot of it, because it's not the most energetically stable molecule.

EDIT: looks like the article goes into it.

The last draft before publication: https://j3-fortran.org/doc/year/23/23-007r1.pdf

Sure, I'd give you dry toast for $1.

Hey at least we got the CEO of a Saudi oil company heading up the climate talks. I'm sure that he's perfectly willing to set aside his own personal interests and take one for the team and reduce his profits by leaving Saudi oil in the ground, and encouraging (or even requiring???) everyone else to do the same, right? Right?

This is a cool idea. There are other programming languages that have libraries that expose similar behavior. For instance, Rust has the uom crate, Haskell has the units package, and C++ has the header only library SI.

But there is something to be said about it being built in.

If I'm remembering correctly, it's a WW2 propaganda poster about enlisted men avoiding venereal diseases.

Change to Haskell formatted commas and the problem goes away :D

    
{ "a": 1
, "b": 2
, "c":
    [ 3
    , 6
    , 9
    ]
}

  

The single killer feature that convinced me to move to NixOS is the ability to very easily keep separate development environments separate. For instance, if you're working on multiple dev projects that have different minimum requirements, and you want to ensure that (for instance) you don't accidentally use features from after boost 1.61 for project A, because that's the stated requirement, but you need features from boost 1.75 in project B.

In a normal distribution, in order to set up an environment that has the proper version for project A you'd need to set up a chroot, a virtual machine, a complicated set of environment variables in a bespoke script with custom installation paths that you need to set up manually and remember to source, or just install a newer version of boost and rely on continuous integration to catch it if you screw up.

In NixOS, you can set up different shells which all reference the exact correct version of the libraries required for every project, you can have them installed simultaneously and without conflicts, and there's even a shell hooking program that will automatically load and unload this configuration when you change directories into and out of the project folder. It makes managing many different projects much easier. It's like a better version of venv, but for everything.