monotremata

Why would you think it's only foreign agents who would use ICE as cover to disappear politicians they don't like?

Also the mathematicians wouldn’t decline to give an answer.

Are you sure? I only minored in math, but even I would struggle to provide an answer to this. It would have to be something incredibly vague, like "a number is a mathematical object that has certain consistent properties relevant to the field of study." Because otherwise you get situations like "is infinity a number?" and you can't answer categorically, because usually it's not, but then you look at the transfinite numbers where you can indeed have omega-plus-one as a number. And someone asks if you can have an infinite number of digits to the left of the decimal place, and you say "well, not in the reals, but there are the P-adic numbers..." and folks ask if you can have an infinitely small number and you say "well, in the reals you can only have an arbitrarily small number, but in game theory there are the surreal numbers, where..."

So yeah, I'm not sure "what is a number" is even a math question. It's more a philosophy question, or sometimes a cognitive science question (like Lakoff and Nuñez's "Where Mathematics Comes From").

Obligatory XKCD: https://m.xkcd.com/1428/

I sincerely think that China's massive government investment in solar panel production is the biggest thing our species has done about climate change. It's the reason it's now cheaper to build a new solar plant than to continue to operate an existing coal-powered plant. (Though we're not doing that in the US, because we've bottlenecked grid connection requests, which is holding up a ton of new solar buildouts.)

I mean it's not enough yet, but it's made a huge dent in the problem. Economics actually favor shifting to renewables at this point. It's just the entrenched interests working against it we have to overcome now.

I'm not getting the same error anymore, but the site still seems fucked up. At one point it loaded the desktop version of the old reddit format for no apparent reason on Firefox mobile.

The speculation I saw was that it's just Firefox in general. Folks were saying turning off ad blocking didn't help.

I guess it's not technically a new movie, but I just bought the 4k blu ray rerelease of Dark City that came out this year. So there are still some new releases in the format.

Or--and hear me out here, Mr. Nolan--maybe have the important dialogue take place once the characters are off the speedboat.

(I assume that wasn't actually important dialogue, but I'll never know.)

For those like me who had to look it up, Bazzite.

See, that makes it sound to me like you could probably come up with a setup that would do what you want, but that doing so would probably mean making it worse at some of the other things you currently use it for.

Which is where using an external drive for a third installation might be easier. Or at least easier to dispose of if you get sick of the project. But I am perhaps unusually lazy in that regard.

Bulgur wheat makes a really good textural element in vegetarian chili.

I think there's huge variability, but as a gross overgeneralization AMD gpus run Cyberpunk 2077 a bit faster on Linux than Windows, and nVidia gpus run it a bit slower on Linux than on Windows.

If you've got a spare usb hard drive you could always install Linux there for a test drive though. You might be able to find a setup that gets you the extra performance you're looking for.