Nature is healing

“File manager, no Electron” sounds like “baby food, no strychnine”

Harsh realm

“groovy” was already only used ironically back in the day, having much the same connotations as referring to Nirvana as a “beat combo”

“Gunzel” is also Australian/New Zealand slang for trainspotter/railway enthusiast. Not sure if it’s related.

Well, since he bought Instagram, he did turn it from a social hub to a slot machine whose payout is fragments of connection to people you care about, carefully metered to be just enough to keep you coming back without leaving ad money on the table.

In this economy?

Where nuclear plants have been built to a safe standard, sweat them for their useful life. The costs are paid down, and the energy is cheap to produce, creating only a truckload or so of waste (which can be reprocessed into fuel) for a year’s power.

Where there aren’t usable nuclear plants, you’re probably better off building renewables and/or energy storage. The upfront costs of nuclear are steep. (Also, some nuclear plants built when the climate was cooler are having to shut down on hot days due to the temperature of water used to cool them being too high.)

In either case, I’d rather have modern nuclear power than coal.

Was this at a pioneer camp or some similar soviet-bloc institution that would be unfamiliar in our consumerist world?

One cat, in original packaging

They could add a lowercase to FE-Schrift (i.e. the German licence plate typeface, which was designed to make it very difficult to make any glyph look like anything but itself) and use that for the URL field.

Linux is an odd fit for the 68000; it can only run a MMU-less nerfed Linux, which is basically a proof of concept. More interesting could be seeing whether the various 68000 computer/console OSes can be shoehorned into each others’ hardware: can they get some version of MacOS or AmigaDOS running on a MegaDrive, or somehow hack Sonic The Hedgehog to sort-of run on an Atari ST or something.

Well, this sucks.

Back to the Israeli VPN, I guess.

If China can conquer Taiwan, they should be able to also subjugate, or at least finlandise, Japan, which would give the PLA Nikon and Canon.

They named an airport after LaGuardia. Maybe one day they’ll name a high-speed rail terminus after Mamdani.

If iOS and macOS 26 were about AI everywhere, making them the “fuck around” release, 27 can be the “find out” release. Freeze new features and focus all effort on making the system as RAM and space-efficient. Cut the fat, and replace the convenient, memory-heavy data structures we use today with old-school lightweight alternatives (i.e., never use a string when a word-sized numeric value will do — and on a 64-bit machine, it’ll do a lot of the time, coalesce multiple booleans/enums into bitfields, replace top-heavy formats like XML where there isn’t a good reason for them, and so on).

It would have to be faster than an airliner, as a flight westward (from, say, Tokyo to London) just succeeds in dragging the day out.

Padme: “…and then they’ll drop, right?”

There’ll probably be several to choose from on AliExpress at that price point.

That’s not entirely fair. DogeCoin was, by all accounts, created by fairly decent people as a low-stakes joke, before Space Trump settled on it as his ticket to being popular and liked and, after spending some pocket change on a Shiba Inu for display, barged in and skunked it with his musk.