It was just like a clueless captain to say “energize” as if that’s going to magically make it work. Like, I’m trying to invent a whole new field of engineering here, Kathryn. Maybe step off a bit if you want them back in one piece.
Did people think they meant something else? Or was it more that they didn’t really elaborate and folks didn’t know quite what they meant?
I can’t imagine it’s going to be very long before Elon’s hostile attitude toward basic safety results in a high-profile catastrophy involving human deaths under the ospices of Space X.
I’ll take the grape ones if you don’t want them.
Particularly Pixie Stix. Grape’s the best flavor of those.
Jesus told me it doesn’t have to be alcohol. He once turned piss into Mtn Dew. I’ve only ever done the opposite.
I think what you’re talking about is called a “LAN”/“Local Area Network”.
Honestly, this isn’t much of a hypothetical for me. At work, my choices are Windows, Mac, or Ubuntu. I’m quite happy with Ubuntu, though I’ve switched away from the default desktop environment to i3.
I use Arch (BTW) on my personal systems. And Ubuntu isn’t as bad as I worried it would be.
My main gripe is snaps. Firefox is practically unusable as a snap. And my employer forbids installing any software (save for a select list of exceptions) not via the officially-supported Ubuntu way of doing things. Chrome is available without snap, so I use it on my work machine. Which annoys me, but if I’m less efficient in my job as a result, it’s their own fault.
Stahp I just watched a 2-hour video analysis of liminal spaces I can only get so hauntological
Honestly, “browser engine” and “lightweight” currently don’t belong in the same sentence. Unless you’re going for something with very little functionality compared to Webkit or Gecko or whatever. We can hope that changes with time, but I don’t think there are a lot of prospects.
As far as “little functionality” options, there’s the Dillo browser. I’m not sure its engine is really easily “seperable”, so to do so might be some work. It’s surprisingly maintained. Its latest release is from 3 months ago. It’s definitely extremely lightweight. (Unless you’re comparing it against, say, elinks or something.)
As for somewhat promising projects that are not yet anywhere near ready for prime time, there’s the Ladybird browser. Again, I don’t know how seperable the engine is. And I don’t know how lightweight this one is either.
And how much are you asking for in research funding?
Hey, everyone, look at this meme I found:
planetary, planetary, intergalactic
But seriously, even so, I think it’d be reasonable to still have per-galaxy navigation systems.
Probably arbitrarily one of the two vectors perpendicular to the plane of the Milky Way? (Assuming it wasn’t necessary for this navigation system to work outside of our galaxy.)
It’s published under a CC BY-NC-SA Creative Commons license, according to Wikipedia. (Look at the “written works” section.)
“Dysautonomia.” Which my doctor hasn’t stuck his neck out so far as to say was from COVID, but it was. Heh.
I was an “early adopter” of COVID, so there weren’t tests yet when I started having symptoms, so I guess take it with a grain of salt because I don’t have a positive test result. But all the weird symptoms I had match up with COVID – though to be fair it’s really wild the range of different things COVID can do to you – and there were visitors from the London office at my workplace just a few weeks before I had that syncope and subsequently got long-term sick. (I’m in the U.S.)
Good to hear you’re able to drive! Fortunately I didn’t have any syncope after that one time, but I do sometimes feel symptoms that might be syncope coming on. And if I get that while driving, I always pull over somewhere and do the machinations to fix it.
I was really excited for CJDNS (not to be confused with “Domain Name System”) at one time. It’s a mesh networking protocol. And they’d established an “Internet 2” (as in, a sequel to “The Internet”) based on the CJDNS protocol called “Hyperborea.”
I haven’t heard anything about CJDNS in a good while now. I wouldn’t be surprised if there were other efforts looking to do something roughly the same, but I’m not up to date on anything more recent.
When was the last time you drove a motor vehicle?
I only really ask because I had an episode of syncope (which is the manly way to say I fainted) in 2020. When I finally got in to see a neurologist, he was very concerned that nobody else (my GP or cardiologist, for instance) had told me not to drive until either we had an explanation why the syncope and a reasonable expectation it wouldn’t happen again unexpectedly, or 6 months had passed without an episode.
I’m only guessing that you don’t and/or can’t drive, but it would make sense.
We have to go deeper.