Right angle and focal distance. Eyeglasses sit such that the focal point concentrated enough to start a fire is a focal point further away than the back of your retina. But it can still cause permanent sunburn/vision loss.

The thing about Altman is that he actually believes in what he’s doing.

Ultra wealthy ideologues are extremely dangerous because they think their wealth means they’re morally correct.

Cities generally have a fixed budget for infrastructure and maintenance.

This means that resources put towards bike infrastructure are taken out of car infrastructure resources, but because cities tend to have elected people setting policies on alternative infrastructure, it is rare that you get a properly implemented city plan that benefits drivers, cyclists and pedestrians.

Take my area; to use a bicycle to get groceries, I have to leave my place and go onto a single lane road with parking and pedestrian only sidewalks on both sides.

This goes around a blind corner to a busier two lane street with parking on both sides and a shared pedestrian/bike path… that is on the far side of the road with no crosswalk, that runs for 500 meters, dumping you at an unlit intersection that has a road going away from the shops that has a pedestrian only sidewalk on the opposite side of a two lane road, and a gravel shoulder used for parking on the near side.

The route you need to take is a right turn onto an unlit two lane road with no shoulder, down a steep hill.

This road has traffic calming at the far end with those white traffic sticks to prevent people from parking on the side… forcing cyclists out into the center of the road right before they need to turn right…

…onto a wonderfully engineered road with lights, plenty of driving space, parking, and a set-back shared bike and pedestrian way…

…that then loses that a km further on, directing foot and bike traffic onto what is now a narrow two lane road.

Then through another intersection, on the far side of which, there’s sidewalks, then a bike lane, then parking, then a two lane road.

On this stretch, the only like it in the city, cars open their doors into car traffic onto one side and bike traffic on the other. Many larger vehicles park into the bike lane. At intersections, the bike lane is invisible to turning vehicles.

But all that’s OK, because this road dumps cyclists onto a four lane highway with no bike lane and a sidewalk that has obstacles that make it impossible to push a stroller down it, let alone ride a bike on it.

This takes you to the shops, where as a cyclist you have to ride the length of the parking lot to get to the limited bike racks by the loading bay, and THEN walk all the way back through the parking lot to get to the shops.

And I know this isn’t uncommon. It makes bikes visibly annoying to car drivers, creates unavoidable choke points, and statistics indicate regular use of this route will eventually end in injury.

You could have got Collabora for free?

I’m more interested in how you managed to pull off dating yourself :D

Whose definition of robot are you using? Mechanical servant? Android? Self-navigating electronics?

Is an artificial limb a robot?

This is configurable; you can set BitLocker to always require a password on boot. If you do that, the clearkey doesn’t get placed (yet). If you set this mode, the key also doesn’t get uploaded to OneDrive. Of course, there’s a big warning when you set it up, and it recommends you print off and save the one time recovery key list.

Easier just to use an OS that doesn’t require you to jump through hoops to secure it though.

The problem with that is the rash of deaths of people with copyright over desirable content.

And this isn’t just speculative.

What I’d like to know is, why does Trump feel so insecure unless he takes one of Denmark’s islands? What is he afraid of?

And if it’s not him, and someone else is feeding him this garbage… why?

I mean, there’s plenty of time to forcibly take Greenland AFTER the world begins to fall apart. So why now?

Are you looking for likeminded individuals with which to cross-train your model?

Not copium when the purpose is different.

A mix of both; finding old gear and combining parts to restore functional units, repairing where needed and learning more about how the systems work in the meantime.

And older SIMMs and DIMMs are relatively cheap right now — you can create a maxed out system for its era and still do everything on the computer that was possible to do when it was new.

There’s even great web proxies for older systems now, so if you want to, you can browse the modern web on a computer from 1996.

Switch to retrocomputing; it’s currently significantly more affordable.

Nobody wins. Someone just gets control of the official narrative.

But who’s the “you” you’re asking here?

It’s not just useful for lawsuits (creating them and defending against them) — it also helps you identify early if a new job is going down the same path.

You’re still doing a lot of glossing.

My parents listened to Roy Orbison, Chubby Checker, Buddy Holly, and some of the very early Elvis. Would they consider Elvis “oldies?” Probably not — he was pop music to them. Roy Orbison? Yeah; he’d be oldies.

To me, Madonna and Prince are oldies.

Think of them not as means of differentiating musical style for you, but as historical ways of explaining how a band or musical movement differed from the norm.

Take a band like The Beach Boys. In the 70s, what they were doing was alternative rock — that is, they took the dance/music genre of classic rock and roll, and re-imagined how it would sound on a sandy beach at a surf party instead of in a dance hall.

Enter the 80s, and their music became part of the cultural norm, so they were popular/“pop” music.

And yet, as a band, they kept adding new techniques and writing new music right into the 2000s, often drifting back out of popular culture while doing so.

The point of this is, see what the subgenre tells you about the musicians; it isn’t really a useful way to clearly divide musical works themselves into subcategories.

The only reason XP was decent was that it stuck around for so long so people got used to it, just like OS X 10.4 for Macs. XP SP2 fixed a lot of stuff, as did the yearly patches after that, but it was still a usability and security nightmare that tried to hide what it was doing from the user.

Personally, I feel like NT4 was pretty good, but didn’t have driver support. Windows 2000 onwards was intentionally breaking stuff to make NT more like Windows 95. And just this month, some buggy driver code ported from Windows 98 to Win2K was FINALLY removed from Windows 11.

Defendant crashed its website, slowed it, and damaged the servers, and Defendant admitted to the same by way of default,” the ruling said.

OK, so if I set up a lawsuit against OCLC in my country where they don’t reside, and they fail to show up to contest the charges, I get to claim they admitted guilt by default?

Also, since the claim is they used bots that behaved like legitimate search engine bots, are they also suing Google?

I can see why they might not want AA putting undue stress on their servers, but that doesn’t seem to be what they’re suing over.

MS cares about one thing there: download numbers. Because when people using Edge go to the extension store, Microslop will be featured as a popular extension, which will lead to people learning about why that’s so.