If you enjoy bat, may I also recommend you try:

• eza as an alternative to ls
• zoxide as an alternative to cd
• fd as an alternative to find
• fzf paired with fd for enhanced reverse searching and more
• delta for syntax highlighting pager for git, diff, grep, blame output

I’ve been using these for probably around 5-10 years / daily, without issue.

Not OP, but they said “but it could be”, not that it is required.

I knew lightning could strike horizontally and downward. But never realized it could go up. That just seems so weird to me.

I guess it’s less strange than ball lightning though. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ball_lightning

Do you remember what you guys were using to burn millions of CDs at the time? Genuinely curious how it was done at that scale, as I think it was one of the biggest CD campaigns.

Personal preference, but elixir just strikes a balance that doesn’t make me feel like I’m reading hieroglyphs so I’m actually happy to see it praised.

I was curious about this, so I tried to find out what the record for KSTAR was to date. In my research I found that it ran for 48 seconds in ‘24. The goal is to able to run it for 300 seconds by ‘26, but they have not attempted this.

Although for Plasma generation we’ve achieved much longer run times in both the east (1,066s) and west (1,337s)

Same, I exclusively use Linux for gaming now that the performance is better on my machine in most games.

If someone is interested in getting involved with meshtastic but doesn’t have soldering or any electronics background you can purchase ready made devices from many vendors.

https://muzi.works/products/refurbished-r1-with-external-antenna

https://lilygo.cc/products/t-deck-plus-meshtastic?variant=45315795845301

What the tech is being marketed as and what it’s capable of are not the same, and likely never will be. In fact all things are very rarely marketed how they truly behave, intentionally.

Everyone is still trying to figure out what these Large Reasoning Models and Large Language Models are even capable of; Apple, one of the largest companies in the world just released a white paper this past week describing the “illusion of reasoning”. If it takes a scientific paper to understand what these models are and are not capable of, I assure you they’ll be selling snake oil for years after we fully understand every nuance of their capabilities.

TL;DR Rich folks want them to be everything, so they’ll be sold as capable of everything until we repeatedly refute they are able to do so.

I go hunting many times a year and as you can imagine find myself surrounded by old birch forests from time to time.

I have yet to see a healthy group of birch trees. I even have birch on my property, and the only ones that are doing well are surrounded by anything other than birch.

You must not write much Kotlin then? It’s far more than sugar when a language fixes core issues in another.

It’s a modern, statically typed language that addresses many of Java’s longstanding limitations with robust type safety, expressive functional features, coroutine-based concurrency, and extensibility — all integrated natively. Interoperability with Java is a strength, not a sign of dependency.

Calling Kotlin merely syntactic sugar is like saying Swift is just Objective-C with prettier syntax — it misses the deep improvements in language design, safety, and developer experience.

Show me an Android app written in Java, and I’ll show you the line of developers ready to rewrite it in Kotlin.

Adam Savage has a video where they use the eufy to print onto glass (and many other materials). The result was pretty incredible, so I hope we see this become easier and easier.

It’s simply easier to exert control over society through private corporations than in the light of day with public goods and services. Especially when what you desire is of minority opinion.

Depends what you mean by depressing. But Lavender Town was for me since it was designed to be spooky and full of ghosts

This is why I only upload incriminating files. No one needs to be convinced to backup my data.

But my pets yawn when I yawn

Thanks fixed

Pacman has many of the same issues git does. The DX is lacking, but all of the tools you need are there, and it’s reliable despite the lackluster experience.

Do you assume everyone around you is fully aware of what’s happening when they are controlling their death machines?