It’s my main issue I have with the whole topic. Starting in 2017 or so, there were so many idiotic promises regarding space travel and all, this one included. Oh yeah and we’ll colonize Mars btw. Like what are you people on? And now SpaceX is even behind on the contractual obligations to NASA, Artemis will not bring astronauts into moon’s orbit this year. Now while do acknowledge that space travel is really hard, this was achieved almost 60 years ago already. What was promised does in no way match reality. Going to Mars was always unrealistic, but to me it feels like progress on ambitious yet achievable goals is worse than 60 years ago.

I guess? The comment I replied to said “tourist” though and Polaris is with a professional crew.

The mission was contracted for 2023, which already passed. I know SpaceX didn’t cancel it (why would they of they can just move the date into the future indefinitely) and that’s why I said they didn’t perform it. But the result is the same and the reaction of the client understandable. Any sane party will cancel a contract when they see that the other party is unable to fulfill their offer.

They avoided this by just not performing contracted missions

https://www.space.com/spacex-starship-dearmoon-crew-reacts-private-mission-canceled

Probably for the better

It’s not that far-fetched, PDFs in my opinion are closer to vector graphics than to document formats like odt and docx. They have no understanding of format if not using advanced features, like a table in a PDF is just spaced text with lines between them, and text is just independently placed letters. In fact the space symbol doesn’t exist in most PDFs, it’s just that two letters were spaced further apart. So they basically are multiple canvases that are being painted on with letters, lines, fill areas and even bitmap graphics.

Modern PDF actually does further in the direction of a document format by providing the content in a structured way, mostly for accessibility, but also for making the format suitable for automatic processing the contained data.

Not being able to Syu every 5 minutes and only being able to update once a day was the biggest challenge when I changed to NixOS

Which he can borrow cash against

Genius

I don’t really understand the comments here. This is not about vaping being banned, just the flavored variant (which I do have several issues with).

Why would people not just switch to unflavored vaping instead of smoking? The article notes the ban doesn’t seem to affect older vapers, which makes sense, as the flavored ones are tailored towards younger consumers, which is my main issue. They vape flavorless instead or have been doing it anyways. But why, if your strawberry cheesecake nicotine hit is no longer available, would you not switch to flavorless but instead to a taste that might be straight from the garbage?

Or maybe a Dota-inspired collectible card game? 🙃

They’ll just use the opportunity to buy back stock.

less comes with all distributions I know

That’s reflected in the linked article:

First, we know the reason a bike will continue on its path isn’t just because of the force of momentum pushing it there. We know that because if you lock a bicycle’s handlebars so that they can’t turn, then the bike falls over, regardless of how fast it’s moving. So part of this riderless bike phenomenon has to do with its self-steering properties.

Buying XMR from exchanges with the money it would cost me to mine would result in me having 4 times as much XMR in the future at that value, so it’s still not a viable proposition

Unfortunately, expected payout here is about 1/4 of energy cost with a machine from less than 5 years ago.

How to make sure nobody wants to work for you. Kind of funny because I’d think these workers are in demand, plus if this goes to court, the hospital will most likely lose.

Also I hope that that the people who got fired still show up to work every day. In case they win on court, the clinic has to pay every day they showed up as if they fully worked - it only counts if you offer you work as an employee, if your employer declines, that’s his fault. This is kind of important because this means they also have to cover social and health insurance retrospectively.

Cryptocurrency with Tor has unironically done more for drug safety than most administrations worldwide. I hate the framing “fake money for criminals” because while there are despicable crimes, not all of them use cryptocurrency, in fact USD was the most common last time I checked, OTOH what constitutes a criminal can be an arbitrary rule. Woman in Texas having an abortion paying with crypto? Fits the definition but I’m not sure people here would condemn it.

I’m not happy with how cryptocurrency turned out with the huge speculational bubble, NFTs, not even a huge fan of smart contracts but I think the idea of a decentralized and maybe even anonymous ledger is very much in the spirit of the fediverse.

Don’t put too much thought into it, ist an empty threat to scare idiots, there’s no logic

I’m assuming its API was originally very friendly and unintrusive

Which would make sense - stuff like this automates content creation on your platform, which justifies pricing for advertisement (its main income). Basically bots but not really because they’re initiated by a human action.

Classic sidegrade