Disgusted (mostly at the Russian government), but not surprised. There was no good option for Mozilla to take with respect to this—it was either block these add-ons in Russia, or have the entire browser blocked in Russia, and I'm not sure which would do the most harm in the end.
Too bad the map legend is unreadable on my browser—flies off to the right when opened. Although I doubt it would tell me anything I didn't already know.
What, you mean 640KB isn't really enough for everyone?
. . . I kid, I kid. Still, the CarThing strikes me as more of an embedded-type system. 512MB is generous for devices of that class, and more than sufficient for a carefully-tailored Linux kernel + busybox + another 100MB+ of running software. Potato, yes, but potatoes are a useful food source—just not as impressive as filet mignon.
Note that they're talking here primarily about $10000-and-up printers that use technologies like laser sintering, not the plastic filament types that you can buy for a few hundred and set up in your garage. Sintering printers can print metal and ceramic as well as plastic, and can produce better-quality parts.
So, if we do some sloppy rounding and say that the subscriptions make them 3 million a year . . . it'll only take a bit more than 330 years for anyone buying Humane at the asking price to break even. My cat could figure out that wasn't a good buy. (Of course, he'd prefer to invest in a tuna cannery . . .)
I fail to understand why people hate gimp so much.
Because they've spent years learning Photoshop's unintuitive interface rather than GIMP's unintuitive interface. I learned them both more or less in parallel and found them both equally awful. (So who does have an intuitive interface? Paint Shop Pro, back in the days that JASC owned it, came the closest of any piece of raster image editing software I've ever used.)
In all fairness, there are a few features that Photoshop has and GIMP doesn't, but the ones I'm aware of are professional level stuff (spot colour support and some complex editing constructs), and there's usually a way to do without them or compensate with some other program.
Microsoft has essentially forgotten what a desktop GUI is for. It's a program launcher packaged with a set of libraries that make it easy for other programs to do complex things like displaying video in a uniform way, plus some system administration tools. Pack-ins not related to system administration should be limited to very basic software.
There may be something that Microsoft has added to Windows lately that isn't bloat, or evil, or both, but damned if I know what it is.
When you think about it, triage in medicine is also not an ideal solution. Ideally, in both medicine and law, the system would have enough capacity to deal with everyone in strict first-in-first-out order without anyone being harmed. In the absence of that capacity, we have to decide which cases to look at first somehow, and FIFO doesn't appear to be the best basis for making that decision.
We need more judges too, but even if we were to somehow force legislators to select them this instant, some cases would end up getting dropped before the backlog got caught up. I'd much prefer that they were things like solicitation, small-amount drug posession, and minor traffic violations—not petty theft if we can help it, since that isn't a victimless crime, but I'd nevertheless rather have ten petty theft cases dropped than one assault case that landed someone in the hospital.
The problem is that the courts don't prioritize, and we're at a point where we need to triage. Cases involving death or serious bodily harm should be jumping the queue, and victimless crimes sent to the back of the bus.
Heroin was originally developed as a pharmaceutical, so I wouldn't be surprised if it is still being manufactured and distributed as such somewhere in the world. Morphine has certainly never gone out of style.
Most of those responsible are probably dead—the Kamloops school closed in 1978 after ~85 years of use, and there would have been more deaths earlier in the school's existence. Assuming staff members were at least 20 years old, the youngest of them would now be in their late 60s, and the testimonies of the surviving students would be more useful in bringing them to account.
Whether the remains need to go home to their families is something the families have to agree upon. Some might prefer that the remains be left undisturbed. Religious beliefs may factor in, and may differ between tribes—it's unlikely that all the victims were local.
And actually, in some cases they have been dug up, by accident or by design. There have also been one or two cases of human remains in unmarked graves near former residential schools being revealed by erosion. It's only the recent ground-penetrating radar scans that haven't been verified by excavation, including those in Kamloops.
The question is, how necessary is it to verify that the graves of the missing children are at the specific locations pointed out by the radar and other scans? I would say "not very", but I'm not someone whose opinion matters in this.
Liters are a great unit for making small things seem large. I’ve seen articles breathlessly talking about how “almost 2000 liters of oil was spilled!” When 2000 liters could fit in the back of a pickup truck.
That just means you have no intuitive sense of how large a litre is. If they'd written it as "2000 quarts" (which is close enough to being the same volume at that level of rounding) would it have painted a clearer picture in your head?
Yes, you can have your own robot attack dog for about the same price as a high-end gaming PC. Some assembly possibly required, and you'll have to write your own attack software based on a manual poorly translated from Chinese (if you're lucky), but what do you expect at that price point? 🤨
I actually have a bit of hope for this one, since they seem to have figured out a way to avoid one of the known problems with these systems. At very least, it's an angle worth exploring.
Disgusted (mostly at the Russian government), but not surprised. There was no good option for Mozilla to take with respect to this—it was either block these add-ons in Russia, or have the entire browser blocked in Russia, and I'm not sure which would do the most harm in the end.