Unfortunately, I don’t have any links to hand. It’s mostly pop sci level stuff I’ve picked up from various places.

The time one I want to say was Richard Feynman. Though an informal experiment on fellow professors in the lunch room. Possibly from his autobiography, which is an excellent read either way.

Most areas of our brain can only do 1 task at a time. If you try and do more, it flips rapidly between them. Basically, you would “watch” vaguely 30-50% of each show, with your brain trying to fill in the gaps.

Interestingly, you can do 2 tasks that don’t share significant resources. This is how you can both drive a car and listen to a podcast. It’s also why you suddenly need to turn down the music when you need to navigate, or park. Those require use of general cognition, which the music/podcast was using.

An interesting example of this is time keeping. Some people can talk and keep an accurate mental timer. However they will lose track when looking at images. Others will be the reverse, or something different.

It turns out that humans don’t have a consistent time keeping mental circuit. We hijack other systems. If you “hear” the time passing, you will struggle to also hear someone talking without issues. If you visualise a clock, you can talk, but your visual cognition is now occupied.

It does have a pci-e socket… 😁

Steam’s main thing is that they have recognised that killing the golden goose is a bad thing for everybody. They have consistently played for long term growth and profits, over purely short term gains.

Steam has made mistakes, but their demonstrated values have been shown to be mostly compatible with mine. I can work with that.

Also, them being privately owned means that they are less have seagull investors swooping in and demanding short term gains now now now.

I’ve seen similar before. The missing bit is that the landlord and customer were old friends. They kept in touch loosely, either online, or via other friends.

Basically, the landlord likely knew it was coming, and played it for laughs.

Adopting a rescue dog has various home checks and interviews and welfare checks. Leaving hospital with a baby: “Do you have a car seat for them?”, “Yes…”, “You’re all good to go then!”, “…”

The aiming is still a problem. The Hubble is relatively small. Even then, it can’t track fast enough to image the moon, let alone the earth’s surface.

Any useful reflector would be measured in Km^2 . Aiming that, with the same precision as Hubble would be a tall order. Added to that, the mirror would have to be light enough to launch. You’re basically trying to aim a sheet of tinfoil, as large as a stadium (minimum), with active tracking.

The same reason a dam owner panics over a finger sized leak. A hole becomes a crack, a crack a breach, and a breach can collapse the whole dam.

A while here too.

I remember earth gov went ever more extremist in a right wing direction. Babylon 5 ended up declaring independence, and later led a coalition to liberate the people of earth.

It might also be a single dev who pushed for it. With only a 1-3% market share, the company is unlikely to push resources at it. That 1 dev getting any working version out is a win in many ways.

Also, most Linux users are a lot better trained at reporting bugs. Most of the time, this is a good thing, letting them get fixed in FOSS development setups. Unfortunately, in gaming, it ends up making Linux look a buggy mess. When 60% of your big reports come from 0.5% of your users, companies can panic. Even if the same bugs exist in windows, just no one bothers to report them.

To anyone who’s seen it, the spoiler definitely counts as a mild /s

The series Expeditionary Force" by Craig Alanson actually plays on this.

Spoiler to protect those who might want to read the series.

It brought time, to finish the stations and build the aircraft. Given how close the RAF came to being broken, it made all the difference.

A lot of investment went into the RAF. Alongside the chain home radar net to guide it.

Without those, Dunkirk would have been soon followed by the invasion of the UK.

Fully agreed. There’s a huge difference between tactical appeasement, and being cowards. Chamberlain at least knew what he was doing was bad. It was trying to fix it.

American democrats don’t even have that excuse. I also doubt they will fall on their swords for the sake of those coming in who might be able to fight back either.

Appeasement did its job. It gave Britain time to retool for war. He also fell on his political sword, at the end. That let Churchill actually defend Britain, with a clean slate, and the military he had built.

Terry Pratchett captured it well in death’s speech.

YES. AS PRACTICE. YOU HAVE TO START OUT LEARNING TO BELIEVE THE LITTLE LIES.

“So we can believe the big ones?”

YES. JUSTICE. MERCY. DUTY. THAT SORT OF THING.

“They’re not the same at all!”

YOU THINK SO? THEN TAKE THE UNIVERSE AND GRIND IT DOWN TO THE FINEST POWDER AND SIEVE IT THROUGH THE FINEST SIEVE AND THEN SHOW ME ONE ATOM OF JUSTICE, ONE MOLECULE OF MERCY. AND YET—Death waved a hand. AND YET YOU ACT AS IF THERE IS SOME IDEAL ORDER IN THE WORLD, AS IF THERE IS SOME…SOME RIGHTNESS IN THE UNIVERSE BY WHICH IT MAY BE JUDGED.

“Yes, but people have got to believe that, or what’s the point—”

MY POINT EXACTLY.

Justice is a communal lie. It doesn’t exist. Yet, but believing it it, we can make it real.

It’s worth noting, that the police issue in America is very solvable. Most of the Western world’s police use a “police by consent” default. America’s “police by overwhelming force” is the outlier. It leads to a lot of your issues over there. While they are far from perfect, the UK police are far better than America police.

It’s worth looking for the opportunity to reform the police in the process, not just hate on them (ineffectively).

If you treat people as a group, they tend to lock together as a group. The police are already getting pissed off with ICE, in many places. That crack needs to be pryed open. Indifferent, pissed off police/FBI etc is a lot better than them standing in lockstep with ICE.

I’ll take compatible.

Most people game on windows. It’s monolithic nature also means that they will mostly encounter the same bugs.

Linux has a wider base of functionality. A bug might only show up on Debian, not Ubuntu.

End result, they spend 60% of their effort solving bugs, for 2% of their base. That’s not cost viable.

Compatibility means they just have to focus on 1 base of code. All we ask is that they don’t actively break the compatibility. This is far less effort, and a lot easier to sell to the bean counters.

Once Linux has a decent share, we can work on better universal standards. We likely need at least 10% to even get a chance there.