Normally, I would have advocated for the nationalization of Starlink and SpaceX as a matter of national and global security, but it’s not like the current American regime would do any better. I’m not going to be counting on them to investigate, let alone prosecute the affairs of this Russian junkie-stooge either.

You’re not going to believe this, but I’ve got an even better suggestion! Easy to remember too: it’s just one word, and it happens to be the same the previous advice started with.

Nice! Good job, Mozilla!

Nothing in particular, except the terms generally used to describe models of governance - cronyism etc. - tend to have greek rather than latin roots.

“…And conclusively proves that there are no pedophiles in the GOP. Also that the Democratic Party is run by reptillian aliens from Alpha Centauri, which I really think we ought to focus on instead. Why are you laughing? This is serious, people!”

I’m insufficiently educated to figure out how to render “Rule by Golden Fat-tip Pen” in Greek, but whatever it’s called, the model has proven unsurprisingly ineffective so far. Maybe it’s best if we don’t name it and just forget about it. Forever.

I suppose the next batch of marks have now learned why some of us don’t trust Microsoft any further than our noodly coder-arms can throw them.

That’s… a thing one can choose to make, I guess.

Hell no. The essential difference between games and movies/television or books as a source of entertainment is that they’re participatory. The player’s choices during interaction affects the exact outcome.

That’s not to say there’s anything wrong with being entertained by others making those choices, but they won’t be yours.

0.9438Hz, i.e. 1*(2^(-100/1200)) IIRC.

Sounds to me like your body is giving your sound advice. Now throw in some sort of chilled drink based on coconut, pineapple and dark spiced rum. Your liver demands it.

Ah, common issue. When that happens, you just start using your toes.

Pah, mathematicians and their generally applicable pure approach to solutions and fancy modulus operations, who needs 'em? Computing is applied and we always work with well-defined finite precision. Granted, writing the boilerplate for all possible 64 bit integers is a bit laborious, but we’re programmers! That’s what code generation is for.

Right. The point is: No, unfortunately I’m not. Damn shame really, but what can you do?

At least he finally let go of the fake trophy that replaced the one he stole, so I guess it could have been worse.

No, I don’t remember any of those people, and I doubt they care about me either. While we’re on the subject, that is far from the only way in which I’m nothing like Ryan Gosling.

Incidentally, that also happens to be a highly accurate description of Trump’s testicles.

“Is someone close to him on the list?”

“Yes, much like you, it’s someone who’s very very close indeed.”

Well, yes. But that’d require fair, sensible distribution and use of available resources, and then how would we be able to support the ability of a handful of billionaires to subvert our democracies for their own gain? /s

Um. If you use the file encrypted with a weak keyphrase a the key for a second round, how would you decrypt the result unless you keep the first-stage encrypted file around, thus defeating the purpose?