Enjoying it, and time.

In my opinion, we either have free will, or we have something else that is effectively indistinguishable from free will. The whole debate is a waste of time, and a person should act as if they had free will regardless of the answer.

Annoyingly, the article never said what it tasted like.

Exchange rates are a bitch

I am both a (T-)SQL expert and a language design enthusiast. IMO, SQL the language is mediocre in its grammar and extremely resistant to cleanliness. Once you get past that, the things you can actually do with it are extremely useful.

I’d love for a better syntax to exist, but it’s a Herculean task to make one. Modern SQL dialects have gargantuan, labyrinthine grammars, and they grow with each new product version. It’s a lot easier to keep adding to that than to build a feature-complete replacement. This is also the reason why most ORMs are so frustratingly limiting: it’s too much work to support the advanced features of one SQL dialect, let alone multiple.

Dang. In wildfire season here in western Canada, my air filter gets brought out well before the 100 mark.

I know the evidence says that therapy works in general, but yeah, it’s difficult to believe. And to be honest, I’d rather take a pill than talk to a therapist, all else being equal.

The engines are at the back of this aircraft. Also in Russia, Russian air defence sites do not need to be concealed from Russian business jets. That said, I find either cause equally plausible.

I disagree with Sabine on accelerators for the simple fact that accelerators are fucking cool. We should be building more and bigger accelerators for that reason alone.

Not so fast. You can do your duty to the Economy by adopting and raising children, reducing the children’s burden on the State and transforming them into productive adult drones who will work for low wages (and who might later reproduce)! Really, unless you adopted three children while reading this, you have been negligent.

So if a ship, train, or cargo plane full of drones happens to have a little explody accident while en route to Russia, Iran definitely won’t care, because hey, it’s not their drones.

Neato. Love a good theory/experiment tension! I’m gonna attempt to read the paper.

The metric half-giraffe is the accepted unit, I thought.

Windows 11 is Linux like my car is a Bluetooth headset.

I wonder if this guy is secretly receiving funding from Russia. This is exactly the kind of article the SVR (Russian foreign intelligence agency) would want written. I don’t like that a small part of the AFU uses the symbol or has a white-supremacist past, but that’s no reason to stop supporting Ukraine. Russia’s territorial ambitions and lust for war crimes must be obliterated. Once there is peace, there will be plenty of time to deal with whatever far-right sentiment remains. Personally, I think the journey to EU and NATO membership will do much to moderate those people.