Gordon Lightfoot himself considered it his best work and I fully concur

I would recommend moving off of Duolingo if you can. What you move to depends on the language you’re learning. They fired a bunch of their language developers and went hard on AI.

I help run a community for Welsh learners and we’re finding more and more people coming in with questions about a Duolingo lesson where things are wrong and weird. Plus their business practices aren’t great. They realized that they make money from you staying on the app, not learning a language, so your progress is artificial stunted. Plus the complete lack of grammar explanation at all we’re finding hurts people more than helps

As a general recommendation, textbooks are so much better.

I also see Gmail. I don’t have a recommendation for a replacement as I’m doing my research on it now, but getting away from Google is a good idea

Here, let me give you a second more fun one

Talking in just modern times most any technology uses it. It’s used in medicine as nanoparticles for biosensors and cancer treatment (photothermal therapy) as well as targeted medicine delivery. Pretty much all computers have gold wires in them due to it’s conductive properties which sure isn’t necessary for sustaining life technically but modern life, yes. It’s been used in dentistry since like 1000 BC because of how inert it is, it’s used in chemistry all over the place and material science which we rely on to use on all the previous fields. I could go on but I think the point is clear, gold has many many uses beyond just jewelry.

The things I could do with 160GB of RAM 😭 finally could load my entire database at once instead of hard drive thrashing

Well what do you expect when his son won’t let him watch porn?

Por que no los DOS? (Pun intended)

But really it’s been two things. I’ve had to adapt algorithms to some extremely ancient hardware that had another twenty years planned service, and I’ve had to work on robot operating systems where timing of operations is extremely important

“human legible”

Have you looked at a punch card? I like some assembly, but the punch card is just dots. They blur together until all you see are holes and more holes and structure has lost all meaning.

That econdary drive I highly recommend you find a way to move that out of your house. For me I have a friend 8 hours away, we swap drives on occasion to keep each other’s backups in case of flood/fire/toddler or whatever other force of nature to save ourselves cloud backup costs

If you’re not familiar with wine, it can be your friend. Run Windows applications in Linux if you can’t find an alternative application

Snap packages have a larger install size, run slower, increase resource usage (so more RAM and CPU cycles), the snap store is a closed source system so you get things like Cryptocoin wallet scams , and personally, I think conceptually snap system leads to poor library maintenance long term

Curseforge, another Minecraft launcher that many modpacks get uploaded to and also supports multiple versions, has been working for about a year for me on Linux Mint too incase she ever wants that.

Because people have to spend more time maintaining The Sex Machine then using it

Was feeling a little Wooooo today. Just know your post made me feel a little more Weeeee

Most people when they hear “drama” they think things like the brain dead hissy fits on reality TV. The kind of pointless fighting we should avoid. Destigmatizing the word would legitimatize that stuff.

We really need a better word for this posts topic where there’s very public back and forth but it’s a much more valid moral disagreement.

She’s back on another flotilla, the sumud flotilla. Spain and Italy (might have the countries wrong) are sending actual government sanctioned ships to protect them

To answer the second. Nvidia today announced the $100,000,000,000 investment in OpenAI. On the face of it because AI is coming and this will secure them a larger chunk of the pie.

In reality, it’s probably a grift so OpenAI can go to other investors and say “look, we’re getting so much money, get on board or miss out” and then buy even more Nvidia product with even more investor money to keep the circle going.

I would but I’m allergic 😭 to the shrimp, not the cesium just to be clear

Many are going even further. Both my friend and I are planning to get dumb flip phones next. Forget also this smartphone always online stuff

“There is considerable overlap between the intelligence of the smartest bears and the dumbest tourists.” - Park Rangers talking about me