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27 is really bad when it's constant. I lived like this for long periods of time (top floor + evening sun) and it's exhausting. 25 is fine.

27 with air conditioning is different. It's less humid and usually the air is also noticeably moving.

Not in any communist society I've ever heard of.

How do Indians feel about rule under the British East India Company from the 17th-19th centuries?

Ah you’re right, in a discussion about increasing taxation on the wealthy the only options are to do nothing or switch to authoritarian communism.

Also I assume you only have a pop history knowledge of communism if you haven’t heard of the Kerala state in India.


The government decides who is owed what material goods. This is known as property rights. The destruction in this case would be equivalent to transferring the ownership of some factories to the government, exchanging those factories for something flammable on the open market and then setting fire to said flammable things. It's obviously wasteful, but definitely possible, and it won't directly and measurably impact anyone's quality of life. Investor confidence in your country will nosedive, though.

This is correct. Some widespread libraries leak memory, for example. I love Rust, but I don't think this happens much in Java land.

Rust's definition of memory safety doesn't consider leaks unsafe, which isn't to say your system requirements can't .

Those are two unusually competent countries when it comes to trains. Try Germany or the UK for a more average outcome.


Ha, even using the UK as a counterpoint, they do pretty well. I enjoy taking the LNER, and appreciate that it is a 'slow' train that happens to run 50% faster than the top speed of Amtrak in all but a very limited set of tracks in the NEC. And maybe I've just had unusually good luck, but LNER has almost always been punctual.


I don't particularly care about LLM use per se, but when I see LLM text it makes me think I'm about to read something devoid of content - just word vomit. The equivalent of yesteryear's listicle. This instinct usually serves me well. A good text is a good text. If an LLM wrote all of it that'd be fine with me, but that's usually not how things go.


The (current, I believe) BBC News jingle is a real banger.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vc9xLvrV_Zw

THIS IS THE BBC! DO NOT LISTEN TO THE OTHERS, THEY ARE THE FALSE PROPHETS!

How it was made: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/videos/c3ge48d0v4go

It references the Greenwich pips played on BBC radio stations so people know they're on time: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greenwich_Time_Signal

If you want to play along:

    countdown bass chord
       46      Bb   Bbm
       42      Bb   Eb
       38      Bb   Bbm
       34      Bb   Eb
       30      Bb   Bbm
       26      F    Fm
       22      Gb   Gb
       18      Eb   Eb
       14      Gb   Gb
       10      Bb'  Eb
        6      Bb'  Bb




I think Pop does Nvidia well, but have no real experience with that.


I have used Pop OS for years and for me it was the most smooth desktop environment I've ever used.

They have been working on a custom Desktop Environment which sadly still isn't very stable yet. Promising development, but putting me off of using Pop for a while.


I just put the new popos on my laptop and am still running the old version on my primary desktop. Agreed that Cosmic is not quite ready for prime time yet, but it is pretty impressive the state it's in for how new it is. Haven't had any show stopping bugs on the laptop, just a few small quirks.


If enough people believe this then it is true. That's just how markets work.


It is how (unregulated) markets work, but is this the right outcome? What do you think would happen if this were allowed to play out to its logical extent?


Desirable things become expensive and undesirable things become inexpensive.


As long as no significant websites are IPv6-only qnd no significant user base is IPv6-only, why would anyone join IPv6? What proponents could do is make their websites IPv6-only. The IETF website, for instance, should be IPv6-only.


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