It’s weird; I was like this up until I got married. My wife never said anything about it; she can also leave glasses around. Something just changed and I started bringing the old glass back to the kitchen in the morning. I rarely leave stuff in my car anymore, either.

That’s what happened to Cool Edit Pro?

I’d love to see older Adobe and even Macromedia products working on Wine, things that don’t phone home. Still, if Adobe doesn’t try to break this and Wine gets current Adobe products working on Linux, that would probably be a boon for getting more creatives off Windows and even macOS and onto Linux.

Someone posted about a read-only Linux client they made that looked like it came straight out of Windows 7/Vista. It was probably at least a year ago and I’m not finding it so far.

I think “cooked” in the meaning you refer to has actually existed for decades longer than people saying “let him cook”

It was created in response to the September 11th attacks. Before then, for constitutional reasons of Separation of Powers, most IDs in the US were issued by the states and they had varying standards of what was on the IDs, what criteria was required, and how they were issued. Some were easier to create fake versions of (mostly used by college students to buy alcohol), others were easier to obtain authentic IDs using fraudulent information. IIRC some of the hijackers used authentic IDs obtained fraudulently when they boarded their flights.

The Real ID Act of 2005 tried to standardize IDs nationally and the criteria for issuance, including verification of documents. It’s taken 20 years to get all of the states on-board and compliant, so they only started requiring passengers to present a Real ID recently, but there are a lot of people out there who haven’t obtained one yet based on when their state started issuing them and when they’ve had to renew their driver’s license. I think my state has offered Real IDs for a decade or more, but the Real ID was more expensive and optional for a while. I didn’t bother getting one until a couple years ago, partly because I already have a passport and that’s also a valid ID for flying.

Except in the case of Jackson, because he was rich, bad parents looking for a payout would intentionally bring him their children and then sue him for his behavior with their children

It’s always a little wild to me to look at pre-computer offices, especially to think how tedious some tasks would’ve been when done by hand on paper

If they actually generate lift I’d call it flying, but I don’t know if they do

You don’t even need IMAX for 4K; ordinary 35mm film can normal scan to a nice 4K video. Films shot on the 65mm IMAX cameras would probably make good 8K content, but most of that was educational films, not what most people apparently want to watch all the time.

The digital IMAX projections were actually a step backwards in resolution.

Smaller than my fingertip

You don’t lock the doors of your house because you have something to hide, you lock it because you have valuable things you want to protect.

Your dad’s fear is not the government (whether or not it actually should be), but he should have a reasonable fear of criminals taking his money. Technology has made it easier than ever to be robbed but also created better locks than ever to fight the criminals.

I could never do most medical care jobs. About the only thing I could do is work in the pharmacy, and even then they sometimes have to give people vaccinations. I might be able to do that but that’s still pushing my general squeamishness.

When I was in college I worked a data entry job at an investment advisor firm. One of the financial planners had #8 as their setup.

From the article:

Debian GNU/kFreeBSD used the Debian userland on top of the FreeBSD kernel, although sadly, due to lack of manpower the project ended in 2023. There was a similar effort using the kernel from the slightly older BSD, Debian GNU/NetBSD. Multiple others have been suggested, including ports to the kernels of OpenBSD, OpenSolaris, IBM’s OS/2 kernel and others.

Unfortunately I’m about 13° latitude farther south, so it’s much harder to see them normally

I really hope to see them sometime. Whenever we’re in Quebec and there’s a good geomagnetic storm the weather is cloudy.

A joke also used on Futurama

I can’t speak to all of Canada, but my in-laws live in Quebec and I see a lot of EVs up there, but a different mix than what we have in my part of the US. In Quebec they have a lot of hydroelectric energy and electricity is relatively cheap. Where I am in the US there are a lot of Tesla vehicles, especially the model Y. We see other brands but at a rough guess I’d say Tesla is over 50% of the electric cars. Where my in-laws are in Quebec the Teslas are pretty rare and I see a lot more of the cheaper cars with shorter ranges, like the Hyundai Kona EV or Chevrolet Bolt. The F-150 Lightning (recently discontinued) also seems much more popular up there; people can still put all their accessories on it to carry their snowmobiles and camping gear.

It shows just how much he has changed in the last few years (beyond the obvious white-nationalist stuff), as Musk originally said Tesla would pivot to a more traditional design if the Cybertruck failed. It has failed. Now what?

I feel like his ego was already strong enough back then that he never had any intention to pivot