mattp1086.bsky.social
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A lot is just familiarity. I switched to Linux from Windows 20 years ago and I now find Windows to be an unholy confusing mess where everything is a lot more work!
I like the state of flow and relaxation too I get in Linux!
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I edited that scene out of my copy of home alone 2!
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It definitely tails off towards the end of the series, but I enjoyed most of the books. The last one not so much.
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This series remains one of my favourites although I haven't read it for ages. Very original and quite weird.
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I often feel like blasting a bit of Mozart out at top volume when they do this, but it would only annoy everyone else even more.
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Light just follows a "straight" path through the curved spacetime caused by the mass.
As John Archibald Wheeler famously said: "Space tells matter how to move. Matter tells space how to curve."
He could have included light in the first sentence.
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IMHO, this is really quite good, and the sequels.
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Most already mentioned here, but I will add Tau Zero by Poul Anderson.
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One of my all time favourites.
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Nice poster! Tom Baker was always my favourite Doctor.
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Love the Latin Tears for Fears at the end! Rest of article also good :)
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I still miss the earlier days of the internet, where everything was an open protocol and anyone could implement any client they liked for it. Email, Usenet, FTP, etc.
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He also said "That’s what everybody else in the world wants: American citizenship.”
Let me see... guns everywhere, school shootings, religious zealots, MAGA, abortion rights, health care.
So no, we really don't. Nice place to visit maybe, wouldn't want to live there.
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Great list! I would add "The Bohr Maker" by Linda Nagata, first in the Nanotech Succession series.
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Hardly. Source control systems weren't that hard to use even in the 90s, and neither were they expensive.
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There is a big difference between wealth taxes and income taxes.
Say you are wealthy and own a big house worth 2 million. What does it mean to tax wealth "at the same rate as PAYE at 47%"?
Does it mean the house owner has to pay nearly 1 million a year because they own the house?
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Saw it, not a great photo though...
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It's short, but Manna by Marshall Brain touches on these aspects.
marshallbrain.com/manna1
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I've been using Linux as my main system for over 20 years now and I'm fully used to it, and find Windows extremely annoying when I have to use it.
The main thing is to embrace the difference, some things are a lot better as long as you don't expect it to be Windows. Takes some time.