zarkony

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[–] zarkony@lemmy.zip 5 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

That's a major part in the Ender's Game series. They have faster than light communication, but the ships travel at like 90% the speed of light. So when traveling between planets, it's like a two week trip to the people traveling, but 20 years on planet.

The main character Ender travels often, so he is only 35 in the second book, a couple thousand years after the first book.

[–] zarkony@lemmy.zip 8 points 1 month ago (2 children)

It's a thing, it's just run by the same companies, so you're stuck with them either way.

Plus, with everything moving to streaming, satellite TV just isn't as relevant. You end up dealing with the same cable companies for internet regardless.

[–] zarkony@lemmy.zip 6 points 3 months ago

Unfortunately, that isn't feasible in the current system. In first past the post every vote is damage control at best.

We need ranked choice voting everywhere before people will even consider a third party.

[–] zarkony@lemmy.zip 17 points 3 months ago

Yep. They rewrote the progression/leveling system like 5 times.

[–] zarkony@lemmy.zip 17 points 4 months ago

Yes.

The only added flavor in standard chocolate chip cookie dough is vanilla. Plus the chocolate chips.

Of course people don't usually think about it like that because vanilla is in nearly all baked sweets.

[–] zarkony@lemmy.zip 2 points 5 months ago

Yep, the captchas are great. I've got mine set to an NFC card in another room. It forces me to get out of bed and walk to another room to tap my phone on it to turn off the alarm.

[–] zarkony@lemmy.zip 1 points 6 months ago

Endeavour's current iso is still KDE 5 and X11, but if you do an online install it will default to 6 and Wayland. Just make sure to connect to the Internet before starting the installer.

[–] zarkony@lemmy.zip 1 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I think they're rationalizing it by saying that's a juvenile sandworm. The larger one with the round mouth is fully grown.

They probably just wanted a design difference between a smaller human scale threat and the massive ones that eat entire structures like spice harvesters.

[–] zarkony@lemmy.zip 21 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Spotify has almost every song on the planet

Until a contract negotiation with UMG goes south and they lose half the catalog overnight. See what's happening on tiktok right now for a good example of this.

I understand the convenience draw, but I'm not a fan of continually paying for content that can disappear at any moment.

[–] zarkony@lemmy.zip 1 points 8 months ago

Yes, but the word rewrite implies that it would serve the same function and retain compatibility.

If someone wrote a new implementation of the x protocol, as a drop in replacement for the existing x.org server, you might call that a rewrite.

Wayland is an entirely different solution to the same problem. It doesn't follow the x protocol, and doesn't maintain compatibility with the x.org server.

[–] zarkony@lemmy.zip 16 points 10 months ago

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flint_water_crisis

They were buying water from Detroit's water system. In order to save money, they switched to getting it from the nearby river, but they failed to account for how the new water source would interact with their pipes. They didn't treat the new water correctly and it corroded all their old lead pipes, dumping lead into the water and giving everyone lead poisoning.

Even years later, after they switched back to Detroit water, they're still having problems because the damage to the pipes is already done.

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