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A friend did pass on last year, well past average for death, and every year before that I told him that the bad news was the incurable diagnosis and no prognosis, and the good news…

The most efficient way to search is to read the text. Waiting for images to download and then admire them cannot improve that. It looks like Google has lost relevance and is tellin…

The fallacy in the 'fair use' logic is that a person acquires a book and learns from it, but a machine incorporates the text. Copyright does not allow one to create a derivative wo…

After a quick look at the website, see "start for free" and then OP makes a payment. Perhaps the 100 email messages per day, but anyway, now that Twilio has set its hook in, it's d…

Old-growth forests are not susceptible to fires - or being chopped down - because either will destroy the forest. My grandfather made a career of "proper forest management" - inclu…

Other browsers, just an ad to use one of five other browsers, and incidentally use Javascript. Always use noscript to reduce the attack surface. For the dyed-in-the-wool, lynx http…

[from the FAQs] Where can I find the source code? The source code will be available at https://github.com/scylladb/scylladb . Commit notes and comments will also be available in th…

So install Linux and tell Microsoft to refund the Microsoft tax (aka license on Windows).

Decades ago, a manager told me (in an interview) that it takes 5 years before Java developers are productive. I still disagree. It might take time to become a wizard but the priori…

Do not try to go back, even though developing software is enjoyable. Perhaps a horizontal move into management is possible; I have seen that. Found a startup if you have time and c…

>reduce the risk of developing cardiometabolic multimorbidity in individuals without any cardiometabolic disease, Get funding for a study, run multiple regression against a large s…

Aside from convincing Microsoft that there is a good business practice to recover these lost data (did you ask a chat bot to disgorge its annals?), get busy about recreating those …

Not at all, but refer to the Polgar-Kasparov where Garry Kasparov swore he did not take his hand off the piece, and the next day after Judit Polgar had looked at the film, she blis…

Also see https://scitechdaily.com/how-close-are-we-to-the-climates-po... , also with a Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research byline and referring to Nature Communications e…

The brushes wear down. The springs atop them can need a little help: tap! Or, the solenoid can stick as its lubrication fails.

Why was Russia flaring off natural gas in the period before the explosion, if Russia was not involved? Wikipedia: gas deliveries were suspended from August 31, 2021 and Germany "su…

I've been using Linux on laptops since at least 2007. This one has extra M.2 and SATA bays, so, after a SSD failed suddenly in the prior laptop, I can have a mirror in place. I ins…

Who are they trying to fool? Wholesale expropriation after stripping the license and authorship, while those in the open source community observe both of them very carefully. Give …

One should avoid type-casting people. It is tantamount to being a slur all by itself. As far as discussing Elon Musk's whims, let's not feed the troll.

Someone is trying to sell something. Fool me twice, shame on me. CSV is a convenient format but omits schema/subschema. CSV data are what you make it. With so many implementations …

Not bash either, yet see what people do with them. Going through K&R taught me C. Start with something accessible so you can see tangible results. Then you can learn the nuances.

sudo: what, the problem is its attack surface is too big? Nothing like systemd's. Right now systemd, PID 1 won't finish on a Debian 12 (upgraded) which I am slowly debugging. Neith…

Gnome's UI peaked at 2.32. Find out how the users operate and implement so users can work efficiently. Don't make changes just to make your mark or to make users work on the deskto…

Yes, the sender needs the recipient's public key. I did not find any service supporting this. Even Proton Mail ( https://proton.me/support/password-protected-emails ) writes, "To r…

Holy S-Box, Hackman!