ourob

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[–] ourob@discuss.tchncs.de 0 points 2 years ago (4 children)

I would love to see the cost/feasibility of boosting to a stable/graveyard orbit. The ISS is massive and not built for that kind of maneuver, but it would be great to be able to preserve it for the future.

[–] ourob@discuss.tchncs.de 5 points 2 years ago (1 children)

It also prohibits countries from claiming sovereignty, and it actually used the Antarctic treaty for inspiration.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Outer_Space_Treaty

Which is not to say that it’s exactly the same situation as Antarctica, but the treaties are more similar than you might assume.

[–] ourob@discuss.tchncs.de 8 points 2 years ago

Not really, and no. This shouldn’t affect your already-running system. This change means that the iso will offer plasma by default and will run plasma in the live environment.

And I wouldn’t say it’s particularly hard to switch from any desktop environment to another. It takes some relearning where stuff is, keyboard shortcuts, etc, but any desktop environment can run any Linux program, provided the necessary libraries are installed (which your package manager takes care of). You can install kde programs on your xfce desktop, and they will run fine (and vice versa). They’ll just pull in a bunch of kde libraries when you install.

[–] ourob@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Doesn’t the outer space treaty place similar restrictions on mars?

[–] ourob@discuss.tchncs.de 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Time traveling North Koreans are getting ammo from the USSR? My god…

[–] ourob@discuss.tchncs.de 13 points 2 years ago (2 children)

A far more likely scenario is that they have been overstating what the software can do and how much room for progress remains with current methods.

AI has blown up so fast with so much hype, that I’m very skeptical. I’ve seen what it can do, and it’s impressive over past machine learning algorithms. But it does play on the human tendency to anthropomorphize things.

[–] ourob@discuss.tchncs.de 30 points 2 years ago

Multiple choice:

  1. Israel is something of an ethnostate that antisemites want to mimic.
  2. Israel existing is a precondition for the rapture, or something.
  3. They don’t like Jews, so they want them to have somewhere to go that’s not here.
  4. They’re just dumb shits.
  5. All of the above.
[–] ourob@discuss.tchncs.de 8 points 2 years ago

I still feel the Perfect Strangers theme fits better.

[–] ourob@discuss.tchncs.de 13 points 2 years ago

My mother has joked with me that she's spending my inheritance, despite her friends telling her not to say that.

Without knowing your mother, it’s entirely possible she was first exposed to that joke when it was generally believed that your children will be at least as successful as you, thanks to ever-increasing standards of living, and never stopped to reevaluate the cruelty of the joke. But since friends are telling her to stop, she’s either willfully ignorant or being cruel.

A Greek proverb says a society grows when old men plant trees whose shade they shall never know. What's the exact opposite of that?

Fuck you; got mine?

[–] ourob@discuss.tchncs.de 11 points 2 years ago (1 children)

What? Linux does use git for version control.

[–] ourob@discuss.tchncs.de 12 points 2 years ago (1 children)

This is my beef with basically all modern interfaces. Stuff changes and moves with just enough of a delay to cause me to miss click. Autocomplete changing recommendations on phones, UI elements shifting on web pages, etc.

[–] ourob@discuss.tchncs.de 27 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Plus, jokingly using fash shit tends to attract people who aren’t really joking but want plausible deniability.

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