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Well yeah. Don't wait for Boeing supply to be replaced by AliExpress orders.


Something which would most likely to be too niche of a market but which I would spend almost unreasonable money on would be a framework like laptop which one could upgrade by popping in a new cm every other year.



Hmm, Intel Compute Card strikes back? Doesn't sound terrifically practical (even the RPi 5 is kind of anemic as a desktop...)


https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Seven_Daughters_of_Eve a few of the seven mothers of Eve seem to have lived around the same time. Just an observation.


Interesting book, very hard to tell whether you're a serious twue believer or just engaged in some wry leg pulling:

    Howy Jacobs in Nature labelled the book as semi-fictional with the majority of the information "the accounts of the imagined lives" of human ancestors. He commented: "All this made me feel that I was reading someone's school project, with influences from The Flintstones cartoon series, rather than a treatise by a leading academic."
The wikipedia summary didn't give a time frame for the book events, however the Laschamp event was 42 thousand years before prest .. after the settling of coastal and much of inland Asia, Australia, etc.

It seems a little near in time for a literal bottleneck of seven women's genetics, I feel even Bryan Sykes would have pushed back his dating of the seven clan mothers further than a mere 42 kyears.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laschamp_event


"It seems a little near in time for a literal bottleneck of seven women's genetics ..."

The bottleneck was figurative. No actual bottle was involved.

(I have five figures of karma with which to fight this battle).


A lot of people misunderstand figurative bottlenecks too.

The "7 women" does not mean anything like "only 7 women existed at the time". Particularly:

* other women existed who only had sons, or whose daughters only had sons, etc. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galton%E2%80%93Watson_process (about surname extinction, which is basically the same thing other than sex-specific polygamy effects)

* other tribes existed (or split off) who later faced extinction due to being outcompeted by these 7 tribes.


> used for emphasis or to express strong feeling while not being literally true.

The word got misused so many times that Oxford modified the definition, and the wrong way is now right, by consensus.

Ah, the joys of a living language.


I want a browser filter that just removes the word. It almost never adds to the content, it's just a styrofoam filler word.


Seeing the example of "Berliner Fernsehturm" I was reminded of https://twitter.com/dw_culture/status/1166657103332872197


... but will it allow me to turn my Kindle off?


Look for kmonad on GitHub - it's not hardware, but works well on (at least) linux, where I am using it.


But if you don't control the client, you will now have to deal with client side migration and server database version management. If you create an additional v3, you will need to decide to either keep v1->v2->v3 code or v1->v2, v1->v3. Also, reporting.


I am using raid5 for data for some years now. Not using raid5 for meta data though, as that isn't recommended.


Information is dark matter. Absence of information is dark energy. A shower thought of mine...


It's one of sixteen states. Office 365 (and Windows 10) have been identified as not being able to be used in accordance with data privacy laws in Germany time and time again. So far, nobody got fined for using either software yet.


Do you know any authorities using Windows 10 who handle personal data? Last I looked the BSI (Bundesamt für Sicherheit in der Informationstechnik) hasn't blessed Windows 10 as appropriate over battles with MS on telemetry.


Munich is switching away from Limux towards Windows 10, which I assume also includes workstations that handle PII.


I'd be very surprised to find any authorities using such a recent version of Windows.


Maybe it's a start.


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