Maybe, although I think that’s a separate mystery that the JWST has found. It’s quite possible that when they solve one of these riddles it’ll crack the other too, that’s the joy of science. We kniw our models of the universe and how it works are wrong, but they’ve been useful so far. We’ll keep on refining them and making them even more useful.

So 5 meter long sharks with 24 feet? That sounds terrifying. How far up the beach can they run?

Whilst I appreciate the source material, in this case it’s not even danger he’s running away from, it’s being rubbish at a game he claimed to be good at.

Penny Mordaunt.

The more seasoned commenters are used to this, everyone else just needs to ketchup.

I was a bit confused too as I was pretty sure this was old news. Here’s a NASA article from 2023 with more information.

At a guess, that’s the version the poster had to hand, and it doesn’t really bother most people, so spending time and energy finding a different version probably wasn’t high on their agenda.

I manage all my homelab infra stuff via ansible and run services via kubenetes. All the ansible playbooks are in git, so I can roll back if I screw something up, and I test it on a sacrificial VM first when I can. Running services in kubenetes means I can spin up new instances and test them before putting them live.

Working like that makes it all a lot more relaxing as I can be confident in my changes, and back them out if I still get it wrong.

Debian can install without systemd, you can use SysV init and udev instead. So far I’ve had no particular problems with it, and the more people who do it, the better support is likely to be.

I can’t help you much with the systemd issue, frustrating issues like that drive me round the bend too.

Absolutely. It’s a simple design that makes it easy to find things in the dark, and provides plenty of storage space for various bits and bobs you might want easy access to before bed or in the morning (not just that, get your mind out of the gutter!). Make sure at least one of the cubbies are large enough to take an oversized hardback book, and ideally have some space under it to hide an extension cord so you can plug in your phone charger and a bedside lamp.

How do such people program?

They don’t. They used to copy and paste stuff they found on the internet, then when it doesn’t work they made a barely coherent post on Stack Exchange, or maybe the issue tracker of one of the packages they think they’re using. I suppose that nowadays they copy and paste whatever they get out of the LLM de jour, then try to tell it that it didn’t work, copy and paste the answer and repeat until it either compiles or they finally give up and post to an issue tracker.

It stops automated OCR reading the word and blocking it on more centralized social media systems.

Seriously. Can you imagine, you’ve had this process running quietly for years, and it’s getting you round some awkward tax or import restriction somewhere, you’re making a tidy extra profit, and you don’t even feel too bad about fidfling the paperwork a bit, after all, who’s going to notice, a bunch of flightless birds? Then along comes the orange idiot and his cadre of fascists and accidentally expose you because they don’t understand how to rationally calculate tarrifs and just get an intern to copy and paste from the nearest LLM.

It’s laughing at this sort of thing that’s jeeping me sane right now.

It’s got to be something like that, there was something like $1.3m of machinery exports from an island populated by penguins. Someone was doing something naughty, and whilst the way these tarrifs are calculated is idiotic, it’s fun that it’s exposed sonething like this.

That probably explains why he wants to buy one despite being a citizen already. I’d guess he thinks it’ll mean he wont be taxed on overseas income either. Figuring out whether he’s currently paying any, and if so how much is left as an exercise for the interested reader.

Slinkitty.

I assume they mean 12% per annum, compounded daily, but I’d prefer your reading of it.

I’m not sure where you are, but typically even if you rent rather than owning you pay the normal taxes, either directy or via your landlord, so they have little to do with owning a property, and more to do with occupying one, as a proxy for the demands you put on communal services. In most places you would also not lose your home for not paying them, you’d get dragged through the courts, possibly jailed for some period, and the tax authority in question would just end up with a lien on the property, entutling them to recompense when you sold or refinanced it.

I’m not discounting the possibility you live sonewhere with different property tax laws, but you’ve been making extremely broad and general statements that don’t match reality in many places.

They say that an ordnance tech at a dead run outranks everyone else, but I’d say a cat making a bee-line for shelter probably outranks them if you want to remain in the same number of pieces. Cats have good hearing and the nous to associate a stimulus with bad things happening and to get away in time.

it’s hard to imagined it’s not planned.

It was all planned. They wrote it all down, called it “Project 2025”, then said they definitely wouldn’t do it whilst giving a big wink and crossing their fingers. Aparently that was enough to convince enough people.