It’s still a dick move, because Harper Collins has a huge amount of oligopoly power. Any supposed concession is likely of no real use to any authors who rely on the big companies to get published.

"these actions are part of Boston University’s commitment to re-envision these programs to allow for their long-term sustainability. This temporary pause and cohort reduction will ensure BU is able to meet its commitments to currently enrolled students and to set up its future programs for success.”

I’m inclined to give some benefit of the doubt, here. These programs of study probably aren’t rolling in extra income.

Hopefully BU’s administration mean what they say. The humanities have rarely been huge direct profit centers, but they’re important both for a healthy educational institution and for humanity at large.

I have and my wife likes to test it as she never has anything to say to me unless im in the middle of a cutscene that can’t be paused.

As someone who has also found true love…I felt that comment in my bones. I guess it cannot be true love if it’s never tested…lol.

Edit: And all the game developers who make ‘start’ skip the cutscene instead of pausing it need to fix their shit. Argh. Lol.

Sure but an automated ban and manual review and removal could easily leave them blocked for more hours than not, each day.

Blue sky has an owner and investors, right?

Publicly funded organizations should be required to use open solutions.

If they want to also replicate what they post somewhere open to BlueSky and Xitter, and Facebook, so be it.

That said, I could see carving out an exception for BlueSky if it provides the full open stack (public unauthenticated HTML, RSS, federation, etc ), and only while it does so.

Lol. That’s true. I suspect that Xitter doesn’t have the staff or engineering talent left to pivot to enforce any new rules internally. It should be possible to catch them in a constant automated ban without hitting anything worthwhile.

Let’s at least block the government agencies from using it in favor of open platforms and protocols to communicate with its citizens.

Yeah. When public services solely use Xitter or Facebook pisses me off. We can and should make that shit illegal.

Yeah.

It sounds delusional, but by their deluded standards it makes sense.

Everyone should want to work themselves to death do build Jeff Bezos’ empire. It’s just logical… At least to Jeff.

I had the privilege of having lunch with an entomologist once, and yes.

Also, some of them keep advanced databases for looking up cool bugs in case they can’t remember them later.

If I was born deaf, in an era where a safe surgery could give me the gift of hearing, and my parents elected not to, I would be angry at them. Probably forever.

As a former member of the deaf community, I too have mourned what will be lost when we fully cure deafness.

But the beautiful community is still just a work-aorund for a disability. It’s a consolation prize, not something to be sought. And yeah, I’m kind of a traitor to the deaf part of my heritage by saying that.

Also, while deafness isn’t an immediate life threat, it can get someone killed. Being able to hear makes a person safer, throughout their life.

I can’t fathom not getting my kid the surgery and then losing my kid to an accident that hearing could have prevented. Ugh.

Again, the deaf community is a huge blessing. But being able to hear is still better.

Maybe they just have a big sign that just says “HERE”.

The hand-book says we roll 1d6. On a one or a two, we save the monkey torturer. On a 4-6, we put both doses back in storage.

I’m banking on that, myself.

Give directly to the charity yourself, you’ll get a sticker and sometime a free pen.

Lol. I can confirm, it’s true!

Joking aside, some of my most cherished possessions are hand-written thank-you notes from worthwhile causes that I support.

(Especially ones from children! “Donors Choose” is great when I need some crayon drawn notes in exchange for buying some school supplies.)

(And given the context, I should clarify, from my own money, not someone else’s.)

Suoer-computing is a pain-in-the-ass, so my guess is some combination of SUSE picking up top talent that left other Linux vendors as IBM has been purchasing them, and SUSE just being willing to put in the extra work for the added brand recognition.

Yeah. Thankfully, Windows server cleaned up that stupidity starting around 2006 and finished in around 2018.

Which all sounds fine until we meditate on the history that basically all other server operating systems have had efficient remote administration solutions since before 1995 (reasonable solutions existed before SSH, even).

Windows was over 20 years late to adopt non-grapgical low latency (aka sane) options for remote administration.

I think it’s a big part of the reason Windows doesn’t appear much on this chart.

Heh. I don’t think that number was ever official, but I heard it as well.

Heh. I don’t think that number was ever official, but I heard it as well.

That’s certainly a big part of it. When one needs to buy a metric crap load of CPUs, one tends to shop outside the popular defaults.

Another big reason, historically, is that Supercomputers didn’t typically have any kind of non-command-line way to interact with them, and Windows needed it.

Until PowerShell and Windows 8, there were still substantial configuration options in Windows that were 100% managed by graphical packages. They could be changed by direct file edits and registry editing, but it added a lot of risk. All of the “did I make a mistake” tools were graphical and so unavailable from command line.

So any version of Windows stripped down enough to run on any super-computer cluster was going to be missing a lot of features, until around 2006.

Since Linux and Unix started as command line operating systems, both already had plenty fully featured options for Supercomputing.

RIP legend. O7

May his prompt always read “READY” wherever his legacy may GOTO or RETSUB.