For example, synaptic is a long running front end for apt that has the buttons for update and upgrade.

Jeebus louiebus.

The union voted internally on a resolution, and then union leadership held a press conference following that resolution? What else is the guy supposed to do, but represent the will of his constituents?

Specifically, the location is fairly far away from China and the South China Sea. So that by itself represents a level of blue water capability that the PLAN has not been well known for.

It really is junk fake Latin.

I can’t immediately find a reference for this, but I would assume that all US forces deployed to support NATO in Europe can be commanded by the Supreme Allied Commander (SACEUR) who is always an American general. If the Russkies decide to invade, I’m sure that SACEUR has the authority to dictate response if he can’t immediately reach the President.

The only reason that NATO would need to urgently and immediately speak to POTUS is for nuclear weapons release, and fortunately that scenario has been wargamed to hell and back.

It’s all massive spaghetti code too, including spaghetti wiring. Terrible cable management.

Pro tip: EU membership comes with its own defense pact among just the EU members. Whether you join NATO or not.

150 pounds makes about 600 average burgers, you reckon?

Get a bigger monitor, just like the software dev has.

Yep. Texas does that because of a state law that says any landowner with property adjacent to a highway has a right to access that highway.

I can get to 22 in the foreground of the pic with some lanes underneath others with the flyover ramps.

Whew. I can’t imagine any Sunny D consumer being satisfied with a real orange flavor.

I can’t imagine trying to put $12 in quarters into that machine.

Except the “emergency capsule” is all of them, including Starliner. Because Starliner is perfectly capable of returning to earth safely.

Because every thruster that has shut down has hot fired okay, and the known helium leaks still leave enough margin to cover several multiples of the 5 hours or so of RCS operation that you need to get to landing.

Discarded corn cobs and pages from the Sears Roebuck catalog. At least in midwestern USA.

My understanding is that the second Distance campaign is mostly recycled Nitronic Rush levels.

I mean, Adolf Hitler was a world leader with a predilection for speed, and look where he ended up. Makes sense to me.

The deal with LLMs is that it’s very difficult to say which piece of training material went into which output. Everything gets chopped up and mixed, and it’s computationally difficult to run backwards.

My understanding of the image generators is that they operate one pixel at a time too, looking only at neighboring pixels. So in that sense, it’s not correct to say they understand the context of anything.

Like, there’s lots of information about Bilbo Baggins in Lotr, that doesn’t mean it was written in the third age of Middle Earth homie

The conceit of the LOTR appendices is that Lord of the Rings, as published in English, is really just the Red Book that Bilbo writes at the end. Dr. Tolkien merely found the manuscript somewhere and has graciously translated it from Third Age common language into English for the benefit of us modern people.

Big Smoke, you make big mistake.