They count it as Linux, yes!

Once the results come out, so let’s hope for the best!

No, tbh I don’t. I did okay in the written test, but I’m sure I can’t manage a conversation.

I did the reading comprehension and listening parts quite nicely, and predictably struggled with the essay. Quite likely passed though.

I wanted to delete all the subfolders in the current directory:

 rm -rf ./*

After a few seconds, I realize in horror that I had mistyped the path. Whole system nuked. Had backups though.

“Escanciar” in Spanish means pouring from a height for the purpose of mixing a beverage (usually cider) with air. I suppose it would still be valid if you’re pouring a mix from some height.

Disabling the USB port is neat, BUT… What if it got instead reconfigured to pretend to be a USB keyboard when connected and then… you know… For research purposes, of course.

“Socialism turns out to work pretty well and is beating our ass” --> “Now, no one — certainly not me — is discounting the power of markets,” Sullivan noted at the time. “But in the name of oversimplified market efficiency, a large non-market economy had been integrated into the international economic order in a way that posed considerable challenges.”

Yes, you are right, but during most of that time, interest rates neared zero. I like to plot the sum of YoY inflation and interest rates since it is more stable and gives a feeling of how much headroom there actually is.

Curious how long they’ll be able to go on with the narrative that inflation will go down and interest rates will be reduced soon…

I agree, all about it looks like feel-good environmental stuff with a touch of realizing the economy is the problem.

Thanks, that makes sense.

Yes, that was my thought too. They realize the problem is more than just about the environment, but fail to provide any concrete solution.

Production exists to satisfy demand that’s right. And nothing about that is any different under socialism or communism. Whether people want a new phone or not is orthogonal to the fundamental problem of who controls production.

Well, near-zero transaction cost means extremely high processing power. Someone could use that power to create a perfect virtual investment fund that is guaranteed to continuously and perpetually reinvest all its earnings. Nobody would invest in it in a capitalist society, as it would basically act as a money sink, but a socialist state could pour a large enough initial investment into it and let it grow, competing with actual investors and eventually pushing them out of the market. And since those operations would not be censorable, economies already using crypto as legal tender would have no way to stop it.

Seems reasonable to assume it won’t impact anything in a foreseeable future. I will do as you want.

Not a digital ledger, but a decentralized virtual machine that state-of-the-art blockchains essentially are. The machine can provide trust to any operation at a cost bounded by the cost of the transactions themselves, which in turn are limited by the rapidly evolving consensus mechanisms.

Edit: I don’t know if the above scenario is possible through these mechanisms, that’s why I find the issue so complex and interesting.

Very cool context, thx!

If you can’t find a tool, this has worked to some degree for me. Open on e.g. GIMP, scale the images to the desired size in different layers, use perspective transform to align them very precisely, then set layer opacity so that you can merge them down with equal weight on each photo. It’s not a really good method, but might do the job. Good luck!

Lately I use it for hobby projects, but also for academic stuff (e.g., interacting with experimental devices, sensors). Rust allows me to write fast code quickly while not spending a long time with valgrind.