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No doubt, except that the distinction between the Russian people and the current Russian government is important. "Giving back" to the ancestors of the USSR is, I think, the opposite of supporting the Putin regime (who are oppressing both Russians, as well as other descendants of the USSR)...

The majority of South Africans are black people, so I'm confused by your quote. If you mean to say black folks aren't South African, kindly get bent. If you mean to say all white people in SA are racist, kindly get bent too. If you mean all expats from SA are racist, kindly get bent. If you...

Given the beauty of its multi-cultural society; the South African government has some pretty dodgy morals, which is part of the history of the anti-apartheid movement (which turned into the governing ANC party) getting support from the USSR. This leads to bizarre outcomes like a very cozy...

I used to have a motorcycle, commuted with it to work; biked cool places on the weekend. Loved all of that. I have very fond memories of doing a "toy run" rally on the bike with thousands of other bikers through the city. Afterwards I learned that someone died during that toy run. Then I moved...

FYI, the version on F-Droid is also no longer being updated, you should switch to "syncthing-fork"

And the rest of us spend our time reading these articles :)

While this is obviously an avoidable tragedy, it is not "murder". Murder is a deliberate killing, and I'm sure these parents loved their children. They totally failed at their duty of care towards their children, arguably neglected their children, but they did not murder their children...

If you want a hackable smartwatch, consider the PineTime https://pine64.org/devices/pinetime/ Costs less than $30. I have one, battery lasts ages (almost 2 weeks, I think). Does notifications. Allegedly does heart rate & steps, but I had that disabled. I used it for a couple of months. I...

In fairness, though, "accept/reject" decisions are always editorial (that's what the editors of a journal do!). Some papers have split reviews; in which case the editorial decision is difficult. It'd be good to see the editorial rationale, with the comments from the various level editors...

I assume this is the line their accountants also use -- "No boss, it's not that we're suddenly making a loss, it's just that our profits show a modest reduction of 130% year over year".

What is this on about? Maybe your experience was true 20years ago, but I installed Ubuntu on my random Dell laptop, and everything just works. Are there sometimes programs crashing? Yes, of course; no different than on the windows machine I use sometimes.

I suppose the point is that it's hard to show that it is a false alarm. After all, this was a measurement from a campaign to find alien transmissions; it found something that looked like an alien transmission. If it cannot be invalidated as an error, then the original hypothesis still stands and...

FWIW, I find duckduckgo very good, and use it almost 100% (only if a search comes up with nothing useful, do I use google, mostly to still get nothing useful).

I'm surprised, it strikes me that the fun research you could do here is actually pretty significant. Can you change the VR environment so the food tastes better? Can I validate those changes outside VR (e.g., "more vibrant walls mean better flavor perception" can be tested in both). This may...

This isn't really a thing; mostly an "axis of rotation" is defined as a unit vector aligned with the angular velocity vector, which is in turn defined by looking at how the orientation of a body changes over time. Thus, there can only ever be one axis at any given time. The axis can, of course...

The article says "In 2013, German physicists built the experimental equivalent of Maxwell's demon with a pair of interacting quantum dots" However, the linked Scientific American article explicitly says the researchers did not build it. From the linked article -- ETA, "I haven't actually...

Exactly what I was also curious about. Seems like you can have any number of chambers, why did they choose three?

Something I've noticed, re gaming on linux, is that some (I guess mostly multiplayer) games require intense anti-cheat software, which simply doesn't work on Linux (and it seems a work-around is deliberately (effectively) impossible). See, e.g., COD WZ

Inflation really is out of control...

Interesting! I should go ask my friends how they experience the world. Oh, wait...