Seriously, fuck Pearson. Garbage company.

Because you .ml types

what do you mean, “you people”?

oh yeah, definitely all the same language:

• OBX Brogue
• Appalachian “Mountain Talk”
• Louisiana Creole French
• Cajun English (2)
• Da Kine (Hawaiian Pidgin)

Just because the government has only 1 “official” language doesn’t mean other cultures don’t exist within the country. In my area businesses post signs in English, Spanish, Korean, Cantonese (pretty sure it’s not Mandarin, but I’m not an expert), and occasionally Vietnamese, Thai or Hindi.

And like… have you ever walked around NYC? nothing further from a monoculture.

Plus you’ve pretty much just dismissed all the Native American tribes that still speak their own languages.

But how can my ideology win, if other ideologies exist?

The first step to a successful revolution is destroying all competing revolutionaries

“Why don’t people like our user surveillance systems? they’re so impressively good at invading your privacy!”

There’s a pretty good Behind the Bastards episode on Stahlin. Basically he was an ultra-paranoid drunk that forced his cabinet members to get drunk with him on a regular basis, which pretty much ruined any potential for effective government in the USSR.

Russia has a strong-man fetish which even the Bolsheviks couldn’t overcome. For all the post-revolution ideology and communist rhetoric, they still just want a Tsar.

He’s on third.

Maybe?

Yes.

Trained on a corpus of messages written primarily by the people who spend the most time using the Internet to talk to their friends… teenagers.

Imagine dumping the entire content of Snap, Instagram, Kik, Facebook messenger, etc, into a blender and attempting to derive a style of speech from it. The most impressive thing about these LLMs is that they’re (marginally) coherent.

Privatize the profits, socialize the losses.

I understand the need to wrap the mechanism to help keep it clean, but why no zippers or Velcro or something? From the perspective of a technician, cover panels should be easily removable for access, especially on a prototype. Cutting off the covering onstage seems… dramatic.

Also, um… why does it have boobs?

Depending on what you’re emulating, the 8BitDo ultracompact options might work for you:

8BitDo Micro

Basically turn your phone into a Gameboy, good for 90s games where you don’t need sticks. The controller and clip together will cost you $35.

• Cool Spot - an unreasonably good (and challenging) platformer that is basically just an add for 7-up
• Chex Quest - DOOM but with Chex cereal - it’s stupid, it’s fun
• The Simpsons: Hit & Run
• Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic
• Star Wars: TIE Fighter
• Star Wars: Jedi Knight: Jedi Academy

OK, so you want to install Linux on an old laptop after wiping the hard drive.

Sure, you would have root control for that OS. Make sure that there is no BIOS/UEFI password set before you start, or that you have the password.

Do not use the root account for regular use, especially if you will be connecting this laptop to the Internet. Log in as a normal user account and escalate your privilege as needed.

I also highly recommend gparted for editing the hard drive partitions before you install the OS. Don’t install goarted, just run it live from a USB drive.

Do you know which Linux distribution you want to install?

There are definitely at least 9 circles of emacs filled with tormented souls.

er, what exactly do you mean by “from the scratch”? and what exactly constitutes “my own system”? are you planning on designing your own logic circuits, manufacturing your own chips, and then writing your own firmware to run them?

This too shall pass

Most biodegradable polymers are water-permeable (water intrusion is how bacteria get inside the material to break it down). Anything water-permeable is not appropriate for medical use, even as a wrapper for something else, because you can’t guarantee that the thing inside is sterile.