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It’s okay to plagiarize books if they’re in a library.

Oil has a bad reputation but how lucky we are to have it. How does a civilization on a planet without hydrocarbons make the leap to a technological species?

It’s not impossible, but it’s got to be a lot harder.

When they do boil off they need to make sure to have a hell of a lot of cocktail sauce and melted butter on hand.

It could simply be that the rise of life is wildly more rare than we think.

I read that stuff a few weeks ago. And the responses and discussion on Kagi’s Discord. I’ll continue to monitor Kagi’s behavior, of course, but for now I prefer Kagi. I get far more relevant results with no advertising noise and as much or as little “AI” assistance as I want.

Google is a cesspool and DDG is simply inferior - worthy, but inferior.

Try Kagi. Paid search engines are the future in order to extract yourself from the enshittification of “free” search engines.

One day soon someone will search online for what to do for a cut and some AI will spit out “Blood letting can actually be healthy in many American males, since often they have a overabundance of iron…”

ChatGPT and github copilot are great tools, but they’re like a chainsaw: if you apply them incorrectly or become too casual and careless with them, they will kickback at you and fuck your day up.

Kagi is good. I’m using the unlimited search tier. It’s so nice not to have all the cruft in my searches.

She defended this by saying that it was thejr money that had been taken from her by force and, therefore, she was entitled to getting it back.

Your comment precisely expresses my attitude. When it came up i used to say that I was fiscally conservative and social liberal. A Libertarian.

But the older I get the more I realize that Libertarianism isn’t the fiction of Atlas Shrugged. There are many people of great worth that cannot be Dagny Taggart or Howard Roark.

Rand failed to take into account that the allure of increasing wealth subverts many bright creators into becoming resource vampires that in turn become oppressors. Ayn Rand would have loved Mark Zuckerberg’s rise through intelligence and hard work, but what would she think of what he’s ultimately built and what it’s done to society?

Real people aren’t as altruistic has her characters.

Razer designing and selling a piece of medical equipment is an idea that should never have survived the brainstorming session.

Boston was my first reaction. Their first album is nigh perfect; everything after is merely decent '80s rock.

I’m 59 and I’ve worn briefs my entire life. My wife calls my balls “high and tight”.

Your mileage may vary.

I liked rock sort of “meh” when I was a kid, being born in 1964 a lot of it was old hippie stuff that never clicked with me like Zeppelin.

Then one day I was playing D&D at a friend’s house and he played Mongoloid by DEVO. Holy shit I lost my mind. There was music out there that actually spoke to me!

The origin story.

Embedded systems developer here. If you’re programming on ARM or one of the other big microcontrollers there aren’t many well supported options. ARM’s official Keil compiler and libraries are C and C++ and I see no official movement to change that.

They have literally decades in building those tools.

Microsoft’s multithreaded OS ThreadX is C code. They just bought it for a large undisclosed amount in 2018. It ain’t going anywhere soon.

AWS’s FreeRTOS is C. Not going anywhere.

Embedded development toolchains are very slow to change.

My Cadillac has a video display as a rear view mirror and it has that issue. With a traditional rear view mirror your focal length doesn’t change much, but in my car your focus has to shift to the mirror 2 feet away.

It has upsides though, as passengers or objects in the rear seat don’t affect your mirror view.

Whenever I change vehicles it takes a few minutes to readjust.

I couldn’t find an image but there’s an old Far Side cartoon that shows a building that’s something like “Jake’s Croissants and Fill Dirt”. Reminds me of that.

Having cut my teeth on MS-DOS 3.0 in a 4.77MHz PC with a monochrome monitor, two floppy drives and no hard disk, it was drilled into me early to save, save, save. It’s just muscle memory for me now.

Writing a whole paper without saving is unimaginable to me.