One pothole and it’s done for
One pothole and it’s done for
Regardless of how you interpret the statistics, I think that this is a sign that the long vexed problem of software distribution for Linux has been significantly improved. Not quite solved, but for most desktop apps this is fantastic news.
I’ve often had the impression that universities are the best places to cut your teeth in IT. Even though the pay isn’t great, the environments are said to be some of the most complex you’ll encounter. Any credence to that?
David Attenborough is your friend:
I’ve had success with Focalboard and noticed nobody is using it here! Should I look at alternatives?
YouTube awareness ads some dystopian black mirror shit
Me: how many applications have you got installed? SimplyMepis: Yes.
First OS was DOS, though my parents used a computer with Windows 3.1 on it before we got the dos box.
Excluding Damn Small Linux, first real Linux was Mandrake 9.2 (download edition).
Got these near my house. Actually it’s the grey headed flying fox. Cutest bats of all time but their shit is not something you want on your car
Wasn’t the point of IPv6 to remove the need for CGNAT?
Isn’t there a Chinese Tesla factory?
Ooh will try thanks for the heads up!
Reading pages out loud has been an unexpected hit for me on the latest iOS. I’d love this in Firefox too.
Rules based world order when you could pretend and get away with it
The Witness. Started seeing puzzles in real life and having the urge to drag my finger across them
I first try to think of the broad headings. If I can’t do that yet, I write out dot points of my ideas and see if I can group them.
Next, I start expanding the headings out with as many dot points as I need.
When I want to add more detail to a dot point, I indent that further, or write a sentence/sentences under it.
When I’ve got sentences for everything, I start to remove the scaffolding and group into paragraphs.
Say I want to write a how-to guide to change a car tyre. I initially think of two main things:
Now, let’s add some dot points
Notice how I added a new heading when a thought came to mind?
Now I’ll keep adding detail until I’ve got paragraphs.
Then keep doing this until you’ve finished it! Remember it’s normal to rearrange things as you go.
charm the Borg ear to avoid being assimilated, or shoot yourself before it strikes
But was it drinking raw milk?
Oh we already know this. There are parts of the genome that, if even slightly changed, cause terrible, terrible things.
Mutations can happen anywhere, but serious mutations (that may affect the basic things a cell needs to do in order to exist) result in cell death and therefore don’t manifest in the population — the population continues on as though the mutation had never existed.
In this way, natural selection conserves some parts of the genome while less essential parts can vary more freely without being deleterious to the organism.
For example, most non-bacteria (including all plants, animals, fungi, protists) have special proteins called histones. Histones are used to package the DNA together and wrap it all up. Cells can’t function at all without a these proteins, and the most important histone proteins evolve so slowly that they’re almost identical between a human and a pea. (Humans and peas shared a common ancestor over half a billion years ago.)
ETA: My molecular biology knowledge is rusty, but IIRC the way DNA is packaged and unpackaged can also reduce or increase the risk of DNA being exposed to potential mutagens. So if it’s wrapped up, it’s harder to access and tamper with
FHS is an absolute dumpster fire that would never be dreamed up in this day and age