The best book is either Consider Phebas by Iain Banks, or Fine Structure by Sam Hughes.

Oh, you meant programming books. Maybe still try Sam Hughes, it’ll probably be more blog post than book, though

Edit: You might also like Ra by Sam Hughes; it’s magic as a field of science/engineering, and spells have programming-like syntax. Spoiler: ‘magic’ is not actually magic

The problem is we have apple hoarders with deep pockets who are willing to pay just as much for those 1000 apples as those 10, because if they don’t prop up the price, then the value of the other 100,000 apples they’ve hoarded will all fall as well. In order to seriously affect the price, we need to produce so many apples that buying them at current prices would bankrupt the apple hoarders

Only way would be shenanigans with copy-on-write and deduplication; when it’s done seeding, copy it elsewhere on the same filesystem (which will use no space and be instant, because it’s just making a pointer to the original). Then make your modifications to the new version

Not nowadays with the DRM they use. Back in the actual-film days it was doable, and called a telecine

‘rival’

And that’s how you get the Thompson hack

Streaming to someone is distributing

Of course it’s a crime (or at the very least illegal, but a civil matter), you’re distributing pirated media.

Are you going to get caught? No.

Now do the USA

I’ve found a couple plugs “upgraded” to 3-prong by jumping the load and ground together. That made for a fun firework show when my metal fan touched something metal. Even the landlord was impressed by that stupidity.

Ah, the good old reverse polarity bootleg ground.

Fun fact: RPBG is the one fault that those plug-in outlet testers can’t recognize

Edit: Wait, no, that would be hot bootleg ground, they should catch that. RPBG has the hot and neutral switched, and also a bootleg ground to the neutral that’s actually hot

Reminds me of a story about magic

Jokes are supposed to be funny :(

Shitty modern electric stove tops use infrared radiation. Good modern electric stove tops are induction

Right? Why wasn’t that the headline?

That is madness. I love it

Lol, Republicans need to answer yes

I’ve found SMB to more frequently have connection issues with my Linux clients, and often be slower. It’ll work, but if you’re mainly supporting Linux clients, might as well set up NFS if you like toying with things anyways

SMB for the windows clients, possibly NFS as well for the others. *nix will talk with SMB fine, but NFS may be faster. Windows’ NFS support is shit though.

Running both daemons won’t really add much overhead

He would no longer be a convicted felon if the conviction was overturned on appeal, but that unlikely scenario is the only future where he isn’t a convicted felon

Does the mandatory national service pay $30+/hour, with raises if you stay voluntarily after the mandatory period is finished? That might do it.

The next president, they’re going to be able to appoint a couple of justices

That being the case, maybe Biden should stop trying to throw the election

Flac for storage, turn up the compression level. Transcode to an appropriate format when copying or streaming to a device

when people google that they want immediate relief

Well, bad news as far as ‘immediate relief from depression’ goes.

Though I suppose there’s always ketamine.

Some bands of old-time hackers figured out how to induce disk-accessing patterns that would do this to particular drive models and held disk-drive races.

I love the Jargon File

And how is this allowed?

It isn’t.

I do, everything at Tim’s is garbage, why would their lids be any different?

I’m mostly in agreement, and would prefer worker-owned co-ops over crown corporations in theory, my only issue is one of scale, and that’s unfortunately where a crown corp wins out, unless UFCW starts opening union co-ops across the country to compete with Loblaws.

Which they should, but UFCW doesn’t have the guts to try

A national crown corp could pull it off just as well as a national private corp like Loblaws could

Yeah. We could have been Norway, with a ridiculous sovereign fund, but instead the right wing gave it away

I would make the comparison to SaskTel or Canada Post

I do quite like co-ops, but I was thinking a crown corporation, just because that way they’d have the scale to seriously threaten Loblaws and the like.

Of course, the problem with crown corporations is that as soon as the Conservatives get into power, they’ll sell it for pennies (and probably to Loblaws)

We don’t need a foreign grocer, we need a publicly owned option

It will be if Poilievre wins the next election

Fuck Deep Saini

I still consider that kind of doublespeak to be lying; she knows what Nazi means, and is deliberately perverting that.

Trump, on the other hand, I’m not sure knows what ‘law and order’ actually means, you’ve got me there

Those are all serious concerns, and I expect PHEV vehicle design to change over the next few years (my only concern is how many “few” is).

The more sensible design if you’re are going for ‘ICE as backup’, not ‘electric as efficiency improvement on top of ICE’ is a typical electric ‘drivetrain’ and battery, with a generator, more similar to diesel-electric trains. A switch to diesel in general wouldn’t be a bad idea either, but the north american market would be resistant.

Depending on how gas prices and the EV market go, I wouldn’t be surprised if drop-in engine replacements for converting ICE vehicles to hybrid become easily available in the next 5-10 years either, especially on larger vehicles.

It’ll still be a typical ICE transmission, which will still be less efficient, but you can run the engine at the ideal RPM all the time which helps make up for that. Where to put enough battery to be worthwhile is problematic, but the vehicles that would benefit most tend to have vestigial truck beds, so there is that

When people like Greene decry Nazis, they mean something different than we do. We mean “Nazis”: violent white supremacist nationalists.

No, when people like Greene decry Nazis, they are straight-up lying.

Also, PHEV vehicles will retain most of the benefit of all-electric, while alleviating range anxiety stemming from deteriorated batteries

We’re not all troglodytes, but unfortunately a lot of the people here are. I’m hopeful for the next election, nobody likes Danielle Smith, even the people who voted for her. Here in Edmonton most of the city goes NDP

Come to Alberta, we have idiots with giant ‘Trudeau is a communist’ billboards