Source is The Onion. There’s more than just the headline, and it’s a classic.

Music CDs or data? Music CDs have built-in error correction, data CDs don’t. You can certainly extend the lifetime if they’re stored in the dark in a cool, dry place (UV light, heat, and humidity all damage the dye that gets burned to encode them) but they’re not reliable archival storage without error correction.

They don’t last very long. About 5-10 years at most, and that’s if you bought special archival burnable DVDs. If you depend on them for backups, you should check the integrity annually (always include a checksum like SHA256 with any backup archive).

Roman concrete was more durable than most modern concrete, but was much, much weaker. It also relied on volcanic ash, which isn’t as readily available as the ingredients for portland cement. Being able to have larger freestanding spans and lower construction costs due to reinforcement is usually worth a much shorter design lifetime.

The reinforced aerated autoclaved concrete was clearly a mistake, trying to make a concrete foam to reduce weight meant that more water could get to the rebar and cause corrosion much more quickly than in normal reinforced concrete.

Gopro helmet mounts!

Defederation means you don’t see their posts. It does NOT mean they can’t see your posts.

I still don’t think federating with them is a good idea, but defederating won’t preserve privacy. It’ll just cut down on the “influencer” BS Meta promotes.

Tasha Yar dies due to the Exxon Valdez.

I’m hoping some, but not all, states disqualify him.

He’s not yet been convicted. If he gets on some ballots, wins those states’ Republican primaries, and then gets convicted (and thus disqualified) the party will have to decide who of the other candidates gets their nomination. If different candidates came in second in different states, that could get interesting.

IANAL, but I’d say yes. Conviction should be required, if it weren’t politicians could just accuse their opponents to disqualify them.

They also separate concerns better than classical distros. Executable binaries & libraries are separate from configuration which is separate from data. It makes backups much simpler, makes configuring new machines easier than something like Ansible, etc.

i^2 = j^2 = k^2 = ijk =-1

Omnipotence!

I can’t remember a particular first game. Nethack, various MUDs, Descent 1, Starcraft, and Unreal Tournament (1999) were all reasonably early.

Descent 1 here. I miss that series.

They’re just authoritarians. Right wing vs left wing doesn’t change how destructive authoritarianism is, it just changes who gets attracted to it.

Knot Tying. Sure, there’s an International Guild of Knot Tyers, but it’s a rather small group.

Sysco provides the food to both in many cases.

But (for the non-limit ordinal infinities only) it’s a different infinity.

Good old Magic User class.