Thanks I was looking at the answer and thinking it didn’t fit my memory. i’m sure most of mine were ACs. TBF with things like VPAM coming in the late 90s, you did have backspace and all sorts of stuff like that.

I still remember doing linear regression in a stats exam on i think a casio fx-115W something like that . Excellent calculator - but just no, it was time for some things to be on a real computer.

Unexpected but entirely welcome.

People do forget this all too often.

Cheaper stuff, use more , value less.

Having to listen to that Queen song, forever.

It’s a handy way to know what to avoid.

But why don’t pubs seem to know that? Most pubs these days hav become lemon parties.

If I were god I might do all sorts of shit to test the supposed intelligence of my creations. That might include including telling them “do some pointless thing, or else”.

It might interest me to see if they’re capable of reasoning or testing to determine that the task is pointless and the threat is empty. Probably not, but its hilarious for them to think they matter to me; It’s like a videogame to me.

It only takes 6 days for me to start whole a new game. I’m probably bored of it long before now or at least well ino my hundred and somethingth play-through light-years away. I prefer keeping the dinosaurs because they’re way cooler than humans.

Also, did you ever get a sense of dejavu?
QED.

On debian i just comment out all except the main official repos that I want. As long as you have the main deb and security and updates ones i think you’ll be fine.

I tend to go for flatpak or appimage for anything not in those. I’d avoid any testing, unstable , backport sources unless you know what you’re getting into.

I guess you’re maybe using aptitude to avoid cli, but i’d recommend at least looking at the /etc/apt/soures.list file, and any stuff in the subfolder /etc/apt/soures.list.d

This is the list of where it looks for software. If it can’t connect to any of those, It’ll probably warn you about an unavailable source.

https://wiki.debian.org/SourcesList

Have you been watching a fairly terrible late1990/early2000s tv series starring jessica alba? I’m pretty sure they had some fish-mutants.

I don’t think you can radically change a human’s environment that much faster than nature, especially not a system so critical as breathing. The whole organism (including the internal microbiome) needs to co-evolve with itself and the ecosystem it is to survive in - to function effectively as an independent organism. I don’t know how long it took cetaceans to evolve, but even they still breathe air at the surface - they’re really just big flappy hippos.

I’m sure it’s not impossible but I think you’d need, many, maybe thousands of generations for it to become something viable that can effectively provide enough oxygen to the other systems - or more likely adapt all the other systems to less oxygen. So it might have to live basically in a lab / sea-world for centuries. You might need scientists with unusual ethical standards to get to human - but an underwater rat? I’m sure you’d find a few Dr Mephestos out there eager to drown a few thousand of those.

Source: 100% ignorant opinion.

I’d actually not mind them getting monitored for breaches of the highway code, or investigation of homicides/crashes, stuff like that.

When you take dangerous things into public, there should be some accountability.

Not that I think that’s what the telemetry is intended for.

You could also consider getting every office worker a lorry. They can have an desk in the back and work whilst sitting in the traffic jam.

Then we can get rid of all the office buildings to make more space for the lorries!

Probably also adapt this method to work on your housing shortages too.

New villain is a cleaner with a feather duster +1.

windows ftw (forced through work) linux btw (because tortuous work)

its just a sign of the times. bikes were easier/cheaper to maintain and take less space to stable than horses, especially in inner cities. Trams (electric ‘streetcars’) were probably only just starting to spread in the larger cities.

There would have been quite a few underground train lines in london that would go on to become ‘the tube’, but in early 1900s mostly still slow and dirty steam trains, electrification was starting, but fairly slow to phase out steam.

The 1890s had seen a bicycle boom/bubble following mass production of the chain drive ‘safety’ bicycle and Dunlop’s pneumatic tyres. Even in 1912 cars were very few and far between compared to bikes

Obviously cars were starting to appear, but i suspect many more bikes and horses were still on the roads.

The british expeditionary force in 1914 still had many cavaly divisions, very little of the army would have been motorised at the start of WWI. things like tanks were developed during the war so pretty unheardof in 1912.

But if they do get jumbled, sorting them back out into different experiments, batches or subjects or time periods might make you prefer some extra info accesible by eye.

If you’ve got a robot sorter maybe a qr code - but you’d have to be pretty large scale for that to be cheaper than a human.

Magnum dong for scale.

There’s also a possibility that if humans live coyotes closely for several generations, it is likely to end up domesticated - one way or another.

Oh hang on, millions of humans already do live closely with domesticated canids.

does that make it a disintegrated IDE?

This could be used like boss-key in old games.

l often get sent a long list of info/ criteria in excel. It’s often easiest (and traceable / maintainable back to their request) just to stay in the excel to generate large chunks of the SQL

yeah, bring back feudalism