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Sorry, no fake internet points for “I almost did it” 😉 Good on ya for buying refurbished though, it’s a real gamble sometimes, unfortunately.

Infrastructure is communist. We each need to just have SUVs large enough to roll over the rivers and forests so we can stop building all those commie roads.

Buying a Framework laptop always felt ideological, not value-based. Like a statement that you want to support Linux-first hardware. Hard to compete without economy of scale, of course, but that wasn’t their main goal.

And the fact that 40% of all taxes represents less than 20% of their income should tell you how much money they’re really holding onto.

Unfortunately, by the tightening up the language, the question resembles more and more “Are there animals with human brains?” To which of course we have to say no, so somewhere along the scale before the question turning into that there must be some version that is an interesting question with an interesting answer.

So what kind of answer are you looking for? An intelligence that resembles human problem solving sufficiently that we could somehow use it ourselves? A fungus can solve a maze through branching in a way that we can’t so its solution isn’t useful for a human actually in a maze. But maybe a linear algebraist could apply the technique to families of problems and a solver could be implemented in specialized hardware more efficiently than a Turing machine GPP.

But I don’t think we left any non-human intelligent species around to compete with us, if you’re looking for a conversation. Neanderthal was the last.

“intelligence is a nuanced topic” Understatement champion. Applying your examples “in any form” still doesn’t really work since those examples are built on communicating the steps as well as the result. If an animal can intuit precision without showing the work, do we still give credit for intelligence? Jumping spiders, for example, have an extremely developed intuition for parabolic trajectories, but I’d bet real money there’s no neural structure in their brains that looks like y^2 = 4ax.

If you are wanting to learn more Linux internals AND create something maintainable, you can create your own distro using Yocto/Bitbake. LFS teaches you all about Linux internals, but kind of leaves you to twist in the wind afterward. I would argue that Yocto exposes those internals AND gives you the ability to maintain the distro you’ve created (roll your own packages, pull in kernel patches/versions/modules, scan for applicable CVEs, etc.)

Or Gentoo sounds cool. Maybe an easier intermediate step before rolling your own.

Interesting that the thousands of protesters that this authoritarian theocracy murdered just a little while ago are so easily forgotten with the latest headlines. Sure, the US’s “kill chain” is all kinds of fucked up right now, and its leadership is absolutely child-like, but surely Iran’s leadership can’t be forgiven and pronounced “better” that quickly and easily.

I assume you’re comparing US’s leadership to Iran’s leadership, not comparing their football teams.

Yep. I have to clean up the mess made by little kids at home already. I don’t want to do it at work too.

Yes, that was part of the argument, but not the core part, sorry if that was distracting. Social-sexual interaction really clouds all the preassociations people have with dance and layers in a shame element. Dance as a proxy/secondary sexual fitness characteristic creates a false conditional associated with its absence.

I should have emphasized more that even when performed in isolation, dance won’t necessarily tap emotional pathways that aren’t pre-wired or preconditioned. Proprioceptive sensitivity, exertion (endorphin sensitivity), even aerobic fitness will have a large effect on efficacy of this proposed emotional regulatory effect, and those are largely genetically pre-determined. Some people just won’t benefit much from it and shouldn’t be shamed if it doesn’t “fix them”, as if they aren’t in touch with themselves or “close minded”. Maybe being jaded by stuff like this is making me sound “red-pilly”. I’ll have to be more careful, thanks for that. There have been lots of pop psychology “cures” like these. “Scream Therapy” comes to mind from the eighties. Varied success, really depending on the individual.

All that to say: If it works for you, great. But don’t make people do it and then shame them when they aren’t magically fixed. (I know that’s not what you, particularly, are saying)

Same here. There was a window of a couple of months when some NC background process wasn’t running reliably in Android, but that got fixed (a year ago?) and it’s been rock solid before and since.

Which part? That people can be different? I know religion and sexuality can be triggering, so there’s some risk drawing parallels there, granted. Maybe a less controversial comparison might be “an ear for music” or a “sense of direction”? Something with a both nature and nurture components.

GenX tech job nostalgia trip. Thanks for posting!

Dance is like religion or sexual orientation: You can force it to some extent, but you gotta be pre-wired for it. Not everyone wants it as much or the same way. Sure, some enjoy it, and even profit from showing themselves off socially and getting that attention, but it shouldn’t be always required or shamed.

Given the current rate of obesity, starvation will take a loooong time.

As if scientists choose which studies get mis-quoted and sensationalized by media.

I don’t know how AliExpress works internally. It was one of the apparently common scams where the seller pretends to ship a package to you. It’s scam #5 in this list: https://www.reddit.com/r/Aliexpress/s/YEqwsP1ef6

First time using AliExpress I got scammed. I got a refund, at least, but I haven’t been back since.

The current regulations do consider density (people, buildings) when designating flight restrictions. Heavier small aircraft have to avoid certain areas because of the extra risk. This kind of single-passenger aircraft is way lighter than a car and wouldn’t be allowed over urban and residential areas, for example. I agree that CHANGES to the existing regulations could potentially add risk, but currently we’re ok and those changes happen slowly and are evidence-based. FAA and EASA don’t use the public as a testing area. It’s not as dystopian as the media might make you think. HTH.

A passenger car crashed through the window of my local grocery store a few months ago. I think people see small aircraft as this great threat, but forget that cars have been quite capably killing people for over a century. They aren’t very safe, quiet, or efficient anyway, so I’m happy to see other technology getting taken seriously.