That the four good emperors of Rome, namely Trajan, Hadrian, Antoninus Pious and Marcus Aurelius had a good thing going until Marcus by deciding to pass the empire to their adopted sons. Nerva was also there with his excellent decision to adapt Trajan out of everyone.

This is portrayed as an altruistic non-nepotism move when in reality they were all childless. Nerva and Antoninus specifically selected because they were old and childless and Hadrian was just straight up gay. They probably would have passed on the empire to their sons if they had them.

I think Qualcomm drivers are the least of our problems. Getting all the other drivers for 5G, GPS, gyro, accelerometer, compass, WiFi etc is going to be an issue since they’re all vendor loaded blobs now.

Turns out you can, by using () instead of {} in the function declaration you can run the function in a subshell where changes to variables are scoped to the subshell and functions are local.

Wikipedia agrees with you. Commonly viewed as a psuodoscience. The equipment is very good at amplifying subtle hand movements.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dowsing?wprov=sfla1

You’re not forced into global forced variables, but they’re the default. Use the local keyword in front of the variable declaration for nicely scoped variable.

It’s not that cumbersome to do things like

local date=`date`
echo "$date"

but in all honesty the syntax sucks ass because it’s not intuitive. If statements suck ass, passing variables has to be done via command line arguments sucks ass, switch statements suck ass, making structured data sucks ass (jq is nice though).

I agree with you that bash really sucks when you get to anything more than 10 lines and at that point I’d take literally prefer Dreamberd.

It’s true that the ears receive stereo input, but brain postprocesses it to make surround sound. It uses the time difference from sound hitting your right and left ear to do some black magic and figure out at which angle the sound is coming from.

Another interesting part on this is that the brain is pretty bad at detecting whether a sound is coming from the front or back of the head so it uses visual cues and combines it with the processed sound to make it seem like it’s coming from either the front or the back.

That’s the neat part, the brain does that using some black magic. You just have to add all the sounds individual waves together and the brain deciphers it.

Yeah, it’s like bing but actually anonymous.

Tech savvy people like Duckduckgo, Duckduckgo uses Bing under the hood

It’s pretty simple actually. Mine runs the program as it would normally and whenever the program reaches out to say “create this file” or “load this font” for example Wine will grab that call and translate it into a Linux OS command. As long as the program gets all their Windows API calls and windows specific files requests satisfied it will happily continue.

This is why ARM support is such a hassle for wine since the processor is with a different architecture so the compiled binary needs to be translated as well with all the nuances.

If we collectively pay for open source software development it will have a massive impact on productivity. It’s just good economics but doesn’t help any group specifically.

I agree, it’s a waste of talent but I’m not going to blame anyone for taking a high paying job, especially if they have an exit plan.

“Copilot, download the latest drivers and make it easy for me to update them” and it gives you some Driver Helper malware

That’s a nice theory but the dodecahedron was found in across a wide region of the western side of the empire and primarily in military graves. There’s also the rarer icosahedron which didn’t have large holes on the sides which really jumbles up theories. I’ll give some interesting ideas for it’s use I’ve heard.

Cryptography, when combined with a disc-like key it could be used like “move clockwise after every word” like this guy speculate https://youtu.be/vBDgmE3d0aw. Notable issue with this is that it’s waaaay more complex to manufacture than required. You could make the first key with a hexagonal hole and the second key that slots into it. No dodecahedron required.

Craftsman proof of expertise, since it’s very hard to manufacture it can be used as a proof you can make it. But then why was it found a lot in military graves?

Artillery calibration, by using the holes you could put down rocks at 200m, 300m and 400m marks and see which rocks fits exactly inside inside the view when the two holes line up in size. Hard to prove and there’s no need to have such an extensive number of knobs on it to fulfill that purpose. Could save a lot of expensive metal by having it made of wood for example.

Knitting fingers, it’s not very convenient and suuuper expensive for its purpose.

Weaved metal, more plausible than knitting but if this was the case we would see scratches or signs of use along the holes.

Religious artifact or recreation, this is the archaeological “we don’t have anything better” explanation. Can be used as a fancy dice or for asking the gods or something. It only sounds plausible because we don’t have anything better.

This is why it’s still a mystery even though so many people have guessed, the knobs on every corner, difficulty to manufacture, cost, varying hole sizes and that it’s found in military graves is very hard to put together. It’s looking like we’re going to need to find a non-existing manual for it’s use.

On the steam hardware page it says the CPU and GPU are discrete although also “semi-custom” which I think means it’s not Gigabyte and has some cooling features that are tailored to the form factor.

I know my case is specific but having a Jellyfin running on a Steam computer looks to me as good case for having a computer in the living room. Adding a TV applications to Steam such as Netflix is also a case. Then there are people who have their workstation close to the TV so they can use it instead of their laptop and just switch displays with one of these HDMI branching dongles.

I think 1000 or 2000 for me. I know it’s optimal to put it on my mortgage but that’s an amount I would use the excuse of “having to spend it” to spend it on myself. 20k in cleared debt is like 1.4k yearly expense reduced which really moves the needle. If you pay off 1k a month you’re effectively increasing the payoff rate by 12%.

I thought it was obvious, 2026 is going to be the year of the Linux desktop.

Wizard of Oz sepia “filter” fits in here?

I’m also going to in honesty pick Brazil (1985). It still holds up really well.

Download a picture from the Internet, move it to the desktop with the file explorer only. Then print it out.