Badabinski

I'll mirror what others have said. Arch is the most stable distro I've ever used over the long term. Even with heavy AUR use, I've been rocking the same installation for over a decade on one of my computers.

I'm assuming that moving the power poles is also difficult due to property lines. I don't know the rules in Australia, but in the US you'd have to convince the property owners to grant an easement to allow someone to install a power pole and perform routine maintenance on it. The easement is attached to the property, meaning the next owner of the property would be subject to the easement whether they like it or not. This can have a bad effect on property values and (I think) can have more significant legal ramifications.

I doubt this... "roundabout" is the product of pure incompetence. To me, it speaks of a disconnect between the project's requirements and resources. There's still plenty of room for incompetence there, but if you give someone an impossible task, they'll generally do whatever it takes to tick the boxes in the "definition of done."

source: I'm an incompetent person who has ticked boxes and suffered for it.

EDIT: I should clarify that this is all based off of the assumption that the power poles don't have anywhere else they could move to without going on private land. Maybe that's a stupid assumption. Maybe you work with power poles frequently and I'm a gibbering fool. If that's the case, then I can only agree.

I use one of those daily and god they're all terrible. They're huge and they all break really easily. My phone is fucking huge, just give me a built in headphone jack!

God I love Taskmaster.

Absolutely fucking yes w.r.t. the characters being stupid in the show. In the books, the people from Preservation are incredibly competent.

It's really hurting my enjoyment of the show. Why can't we have competence porn like we used to with shows like TNG and DS9?

God damn that cat is chill as hell.

EDIT: just like, really fucking chill as shit yo

I was in a crowd of ten thousand people screaming "FUCK MIKE LEE" and god damn did it feel good and god damn do I want that to happen again where he can hear it.

Here's the source code: https://codeberg.org/kramo/sly

It's licensed under the GPL! That's a huge plus for me.

This also sucks because the CSB produces really awesome videos ):

Still, the drug’s average price of $466,200 a year is staggering even for rare-disease treatments.

What uh, the fuck‽

Hey!

Hey assholes!

What the fuck are you doing‽ This medicine is literally just a salt of an incredibly commonplace medicine that's been around for 50 fucking years. I get that you need to pay for your R&D costs and profit on top of that, but does that actually justify charging patients and insurance companies almost half a million dollars a year?

I fucking hate it. I'm glad that the people suffering from a horrific disease can have relief, but it makes me so fucking mad that they get a 466k yearly tax on their fucking lives.

At least the ACA's preexisting conditions thing hasn't been rolled back.

I was in a crowd of people screaming "FUCK MIKE LEE" on Saturday and god do I want to scream it again now. Mike Lee is such a worthless cunt and I'm furious that he supposedly represents me.

I wonder what the maximum theoretical efficiency is. The article says the current system is 20% efficient, which is not exactly good. I'm not a physicist so take this all with a grain of salt. They're going to have to overcome generation losses (this article says diode lasers can be 60% efficient but have Problems™), transmission losses (the inverse square law is a bitch, and they'll have to contend with atmospheric absorption and scattering), and receiving losses (they're using PVs which are famously not super duper efficient). I'm sure they're working on all of this, and it seems reasonable that you might be able to get power transmission up to, say, 50% efficiency. That's great and has its uses, but it's not going to replace transmission lines, batteries, solar panels, and gas generators. Plus, we're talking about sending 10 kilowatts of power across 200 km via light. Can you imagine how dangerous that would be? Like, what happens to anything in the path of that laser beam? What happens if the light gets reflected? a 10kW CW laser is no fucking joke!

EDIT: I could see this being useful for recharging/powering drones or something. It also seems like it would be much more useful in space where atmospheric scattering becomes a nothing burger.