Using ‘v’ to alias the citizens table was an interesting choice…

This was very well put. Thank you.

Lidar. China uses this to track aerosol and carbon dioxide distribution in the atmosphere. Likely some similar US-based scientific monitoring. Almost certainly not Elon - he hasn’t tweeted about it and there’s no X branding.

Hey, I have that combination on my luggage!

Don’t get comfy, I used to be fedora, then debian, then arch. Mint + Cinnamon is my final resting place.

Dust off your VPNs folks, you can still browse old.reddit from a Hong Kong endpoint.

(I probably shouldn’t have mentioned this)

Yes, because the one thing we really need is more heat on earth.

The number of times that signing an online petition has prevented the plans of an evil corporation is exactly zero.

Ah, at last someone properly qualified to talk on the matter. So nice to see another graduate from the Kerbal Space Program.

This already exists as ‘Mixture Of Experts’ (MOE) models. It’s how Deepseek is able to remain competitive with a fraction of the budget.

I don’t want SystemD.

Firefox, or its fork Librewolf if you really value privacy.

I’m doing my part!

“B as in bdellium.” Or, “B as in subtle”.

You clearly haven’t used Perl a lot. Perl’s ternary looks like:

$even = $num % 2 ? “nay” : “yay”;

Incidentally, it is also the same as PHP’s, but mainly because PHP stole it.