Kushan

I’m guessing it’s the latter, they need to keep accidents to a minimum if they’re ever going to get broad legislation to legalise them.

Every single accident is analysed to death by the media and onlookers alike, with a large group of people wanting it to fail.

This is a prime example, we’ve known about the human intervention for a while now but period people seem surprised that those people are in another country.

It’s not really the same thing today as it was 15 years ago. It also hasn’t been running continuously that whole time. They regularly stop experimenting to build new extensions onto it.

I visited the LHC back in 2019 and at the time they were expanding it even then.

Superior technology does not necessarily mean a superior product. History has plenty of examples where the inferior technology won out because the majority of people don’t care about having the best or most advanced technology, they want the easiest, cheapest and (most importantly) lowest effort.

To be clear, I don’t think digg is a superior product either, I’m just saying that how good the tech is matters far less than people want to believe. What truly matters is the implementation.

Have you seen the lengths people go to in order to not have to change their world view even a smidge? To not have to correct themselves about anything at all? I’ll give you a hint, literally every right wing party in the world doing well is because weak people can’t change a damn thing about themselves.

We’re gatekeeping science now?

This is just the equivalent of “oh you like <band>, name all their albums”. It’s dumb and you don’t need to be an expert to appreciate something.

Haha I appreciated this update, though! They’re both adorable and I love that they still cuddle together 🥹

No because apple bought up almost the entire 2026 allocation.

The only drawbacks to having actual security cameras is when you trust your data to a 3rd party known to use your data for evil.

If you record things locally, there’s really zero drawbacks.

Sea urchins? We have those on land, too, they’re called land sea urchins.

Yeah my boys are a good few years old now, I think they’re nearly 9!

But what a fun little coincidence 😁

Haha, not strays, they were part of a litter that a friend’s cat had. I’m based in the UK :)

Here they are!

Holy shit, I have two cats that are brothers from the same litter that look just like them!

I’m old enough to remember the SVN days (he’ll, even the CVS and…dare I say it… source safe days).

Git is fantastic. It’s pretty universally uses because it’s the best dvcs out there and it’s free. It wipes the pants with the likes of mercurial.

In certain industries (such as gaming) there’s still a strong hold by perforce but we can ignore that as it’s proprietary and a bit specialised.

Anyway, as great as git is for making things easier and cleaner when dealing with distributed development, it by no means makes something impossible “possible” - it just makes it a hell of a lot easier.

The Linux kernel on the other hand enabled a lot of impossible things. Remember back in the day there wasn’t anything free and open source in the operating system world, it was all proprietary and licensed. If you wanted to create your own operating system, you basically had no option but to spend a fortune either writing your own kernel or licensing someone else’s (and the licensing part means you cannot distribute it for free).

The fact that the FSF has always wanted to write their own OS and never been able to achieve it without the Linux Kernel, in spite of them essentially writing “everything else” that makes up an operating system, shows just how nontrivial this is.