The question is whether they will release it before or after Ubuntu 26.04 LTS…
The question is whether they will release it before or after Ubuntu 26.04 LTS…


I find it even easier just not to do things in the first place.


Imagining your death. :P
But seriously, it’s perfectly sensible when remember that i is just the mathematical representation of “left turn”, just like -1 is the mathematical representation of “go backwards”-- and as we know, two left turns sends you backwards. So think about this triangle in the following way:
Imagine you are a snail, starting at the origin. Now imagine that you walk forward 1 step along the horizontal line. Then you turn 90° to the left to start walking along the vertical line, but then, because you need to walk i steps along this line you take another 90° turn to the left, which means that you are now walking backwards and you end up back at the origin. How far away from the origin are you? Zero steps.


Maybe this is finally a good use for depleted uranium?


Ugh, I really hate it when people make comics like this that make it seem like solving our problems would be so simple. In the real world, where things are a lot messier, you need the blade to be at least several times higher for it to work properly!


To me, one of the most interesting quotes from the article was:
“Our intel tells us that… one of the most important things we can do to hurt Palantir right now is disrupting their recruitment pipeline by hurting their brand image, to the point where even very apolitical recent college graduates [feel] that it’s social suicide.”
This really seems to me like exactly the kind of thing that a peaceful protest could accomplish that could really pay off!
It is not obvious to me, though, that the following tactic is super-effective at this:
After blocking the street outside Palantir’s unassuming redbrick office, and briefly making way for an ambulance, the crowd marched to a nondescript building nearby where organizers said the company was holding a developer conference to recruit new talent, slapping rhythmically on the windows and chanting “quit your jobs!”
This seemed to work in terms of shutting the event down:
Although Palantir did not confirm whether its event was disrupted, one visibly confused event worker did try to deliver equipment, only to find their intended recipients had vanished.
I suspect, though, that if the event were disrupted then the impression the people got at it was more along the lines of, “There are crazy people outside!” and less along the lines of, “I should really feel guilty about my life decisions.”
Having said that, it is not clear that a lower level of confrontation would have accomplished anything either, so who am I to say?
You are absolutely in the wrong so unfortunately I had to actually make you die on that hill, but I am upvoting anyway to leave a memorial in honor to your bravery for standing up for your principles.
I think that you may have mistaken this community for !linuxquestions@lemmy.world.


You can tell that this image did not actually come from God because it is not 640x480x16.
Wow, it is impressive the lengths people are willing to go to vandalize Musk’s property as a form of political protest!


I was a nerd, so I tried really really hard to prove logically that my religion was the correct one… and failed.
Historical revisionism at work:
The astroid shot first.
Interesting! I had not even realized that this was a problem, though it makes sense now after your description. How realistically feasible is this type of approach, though, given that the manufactures can always just ignore the kernel’s request to reprogram them and continue to access the bus and memory directly?
What exactly does the statement that Linux does not already “embrace the whole hardware” mean?


Which, in turn, is a consequence of the spin-statistics theorem.
As for why the spin-statistics theorem is true, the answer is that, in a sense, we do not really know. This is because, although we have rigorous mathematical proofs that it is true, they rely on arguments that are very technical in nature, so they provide no real intuitive insight into why the theorem is true. (This theorem is actually really notorious for this; people have been trying for a long time to improve on the situation, but have yet to succeed in coming up with a satisfactory elementary proof of it.)


Doesn’t language editions solve that problem? (I am not a Rust expert so please correct me if I am wrong.)


Curses, foiled again!


I can be glad that the Union won the U.S. Civil War and and ended slavery yet still consider it to be war crimes that they deliberately attacked civilians as part of Sherman’s March; no logic had been violated there.


The problem with this reasoning is that instability, whether as the result of undermining governments or regional wars, has unpredictable outcomes. For example, overthrowing the democratically elected government of Iran seemed like a great idea to those in power in the U.S. at the time when we disagreed with Iran’s policies, but this decision turned around to bite us when that got overturned. So it is not in our material interests to promote instability, and I think that the current administration knows this, so to the extent it is supporting Israel with effectively no conditions on its actions I think that it is behaving irrationally rather than maliciously.
If it’s explicitly consensual then it’s not cheating because you are not breaking any understood rules of the relationship.