[-] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 8 points 1 day ago

Anybody want a peanut?

[-] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 8 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Well yes, but so is Canada, which has a higher HDI than the US.

Parent was asking why Mexico is excluded from the list while Canada is not.

By "don't have incentive" I'm just referring to an on-paper incentive from an HDI ranking.

[-] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 8 points 1 day ago

Canada has roughly the same HDI ranking as the US, whereas Mexico is somewhat lower. So from the "looking for a better life" perspective, Canadians don't have an incentive to move to the US (other way around actually, from HDI).

Just a guess though.

[-] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 4 points 2 days ago

https://www.gocomics.com/shen-comix/2019/11/15

It was originally posted in 2019. Joke of course being that things associated with the 1920s would be relevant again in the 2020s.

Comic then shared as a meme with the 3rd panel being replaced with other panels. https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/things-were-bringing-back-in-the-2020s

[-] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 1 points 6 days ago

EulerOS, a Linux distro, was certified UNIX.

[-] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 4 points 6 days ago

But OS X, macOS, and at least one Linux distro are/were UNIX certified.

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People often complain about San Francisco's public transit


and to be sure, it's not perfect by any means (multiple separate agencies doesn't help). But the historic streetcars are pretty neat!

They're painted with the livery of various historic streetcars from all over the country (and a few international, I think). Best of all, they run alongside the modern fleet


same route, same fare.

[-] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 117 points 1 month ago

When I took some astronomy classes in the early 2000s, Jocelyn Bell was absolutely credited. In her own words:

It has been suggested that I should have had a part in the Nobel Prize awarded to Tony Hewish for the discovery of pulsars. There are several comments that I would like to make on this: First, demarcation disputes between supervisor and student are always difficult, probably impossible to resolve. Secondly, it is the supervisor who has the final responsibility for the success or failure of the project. We hear of cases where a supervisor blames his student for a failure, but we know that it is largely the fault of the supervisor. It seems only fair to me that he should benefit from the successes, too. Thirdly, I believe it would demean Nobel Prizes if they were awarded to research students, except in very exceptional cases, and I do not believe this is one of them. Finally, I am not myself upset about it - after all, I am in good company, am I not!

That said, yeah, I think she absolutely should have been awarded the Nobel prize. But while she did not, she has the admiration


rightly so


of many a budding astronomer.

[-] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 109 points 2 months ago

Reminds me of that West Wing episode where he "accidentally" makes an offensive gun analogy comment; Harris doesn't really alienate any supporters here, and she appeals to the undecided gun crowd voters. As a bonus, she's "telling it like it is" for folks who are self-described as being "fed up with PC culture."

[-] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 127 points 6 months ago

I just tried that and got the same result. It's from a site that just quotes a snippet of an Onion article 🤦

[-] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 116 points 6 months ago

One of the real downsides of ARM is, it seems, the relative lack of standardization. An x64 kernel? It'll run on most anything from the last ten years at least. And as for boot process, it's probably one of two options (and in many cases one computer can boot either legacy or EFI).

ARM, on the other hand...my raspberry pi collection does one thing, my Orange Pi does something else, and God help you if you want to try swapping the Orange kernel for the Raspberry (or vice versa)!

[-] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 257 points 8 months ago

Similar with Y2K


it was only a nothingburger because it was taken seriously, and funded well. But the narrative is sometimes, "yeah lol it was a dud."

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