Fun fact: in my area, straws can only be recycled at the “Center for Hard to Recycle Materials,” and even then they have to be separated out from all other plastics. You can imagine how that affects the rate at which they get recycled, I assume!

Oups, c’est un dommage ce qu’il a inundé avec des comments anglaises quand le topic devenu populaire.

(Je suis en train d’apprendre la français et je ne sais pas si je suis écrire correctement).

(Je preferé aussi les pailles en métal, d’ailleurs.)

GNU HURD.

Marketing is just a euphemism for propaganda. I avoid all of it as much as possible.

Whatever you end up doing, OP, you owe us a pic or video of the result!

It’s neat that that service exists, but you can also call up local arborist companies and ask, or wait until one is chipping a bunch of debris at a neighbor’s house and ask the truck driver in person.

For those situations, there’s 917, 1447, and probably some others.

Double-hung windows are probably the most common type in US single-family houses.

Now Taiwan is stuck with the official stance of “one China” because China’s (PRC) Anti-secession law of 2005 promises war if Taiwan changes its name

Except they’re not stuck with anything, since that PRC law has no jurisdiction over them, being a separate sovereign country. It’s just a threat.

I remember a Real Life comic (which I can’t easily find again, sorry) about Mae getting ready to have bottom surgery and having doubts. Her wife pointed out “you know, most guys wouldn’t be excited about having their dick chopped off” and Dave, overhearing from the next room, yelled something to the effect of “can confirm!”

As a cis guy, yep, that just about sums it up!

the debate basically comes down to “technically linux” (ie, it runs on the linux kernal like chrome os and android) and “spiritually linux” (ie, you, the end user, are the ultimate owner of the hardware and the software that runs on it).

This is why Stallman tried to insist on “GNU/”. As usual, he was right.

Now find a map of wealth inequality and see how well they correlate.

high resolution, high bitrate video files are pretty large.

Can it actually transfer data fast enough to save or play them back in real-time, though?

That’s a use-case for a fuckton of total capacity, but not necessarily a fuckton of per-drive capacity. I think what the grandparent comment is really trying to say is that the capacity has so vastly outstripped mechanical-disk data transfer speed that it’s hard to actually make use of it all.

For example, let’s say you have these running in a RAID 5 array, and one of the drives fails and you have to swap it out. At 190MB/s max sustained transfer rate (figure for a 28TB Seagate Exos; I assume this new one is similar), you’re talking about over two days just to copy over the parity information and get the array out of degraded mode! At some point these big drives stop being suitable for that use-case just because the vulnerability window is so large that the risk of a second drive failure causing data loss is too great.

We could have had Scheme or Python (both of which are also cross-platform, BTW) embedded in the browser instead. And yes, Netscape was seriously considering those two specific languages before Eich oozed into the situation and fucked it all up.

Javascript did not “need” to happen. The only reasons it exists are Not-Invented-Here and Dunning-Kruger Syndromes (specifically, Netscape wanting something new and vaguely Algol-like that they could name to glom onto the Java hype at the time, and Eich having the inexperience and hubris to think he could hack together a half-assed design in a week and it would somehow turn out okay).

Yes it’s grown out of something that was originally messy, but a lot of work has been done to make it better.

Yeah, no shit! Literally millions upon millions of man-hours, probably! Do you have any concept at all of how much better the Web could have been if all that effort had been put towards something actually useful instead of working around Eich’s mistakes?!

“Respect” for you as the user means you shouldn’t have to do stuff like that in the first place.

Who also inflicted Javascript upon the world, the incompetent piece of shit.

I won’t say that’s worse than the homophobia because I don’t want to seem dismissive about oppression of queer folks, but it sure as Hell isn’t better, either!

It skips the step where you have to sift through a bunch of results and determine “is this what I was looking for?” and “how does this apply to my specific context?”

Right: it skips the part where human intelligence and critical thinking is applied. Do you not understand how that’s a fucking problem‽

Looking up a list of resources that you then evaluate yourself is very categorically different from getting an “answer” from a bot.

What does that have to do with anything I wrote?