Ok, this one is bleak.

Oh, this was an excellent read. Thanks for the link!

China owns a bit under a trillion USD of US Treasury bonds, that is to say, debt. If they decide to liquidate it, that's enough to seriously affect the value of those bonds, and therefore the US's ability to borrow more money, and from there, the value of the dollar.

I am in mad love with this Darmok-ass comment.

Let's maybe not bring fash comics to Lemmy...

You'd THINK the article would link to a source about the fingerprinting in question instead of 90% filler slop and ads for their own service... Anyone got a link?

Chat, I don't feel this guy gets it.

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(By which I mean, of course you could, same as you could replace any pronoun with one or several nouns, that being the entire deal with pro-nouns. We could but pronouns save us from having to do that.)

Or the Dodgy. I'm partial to that one.

My fav neopronoun by far:

Chat.

That, now, is indeed a genuine issue. Trump has stated that his end game is annexation, and experience has shown that when he sounds like he's got a bee in his bonnet about something, however bonkers, he's actually serious about it. So I'm not seeing him stop the aggression on Canada.

which I’m sure we did somehow

Trudeau sold him measures that Canada had already voted on. See this post from the end of last year. https://www.canada.ca/en/public-safety-canada/news/2024/12/the-government-of-canadas-border-plan-significant-investments-to-strengthen-border-security-and-our-immigration-system.html

Trudeau "caved" by giving Trump essentially zilch, apparently assuming -- perhaps not incorrectly -- that Trump would be that easily swindled.

Nope? They (Colombia) got exactly what they wanted as far as In understand. Trump caved, the flights will have to follow the conditions dictated by Colombia. It's telling that the press is selling this as a Trump win.

I had missed that. Wild.

It... depends. There is some great tooling for Python -- this was less true only a few years ago, mind you -- but the landscape is very much in flux, and usage of the modern stuff is not yet widespread. And a lot of the legacy stuff has a whole host of pitfalls.

Things are broadly progressing in the right direction, and I'd say I'm cautiously optimistic, although if you have to deal with anything related to conda then for the time being: good luck, and sorry.

The Earth's orbit is an ellipse, not a circle, and therefore the Earth speeds up or slows down depending on where on its orbit it is at the time. In turn this means that the duration of the solar day fluctuates from day to day, from a bit under 24h to a bit over 24h and back.

So if you take a picture every 24h precisely the sun will appear to move horizontally a little bit on top of the expected vertical movement.

I mean, he's been implementing hard right policies all along, so...

The default actually works pretty well these days.

Messing with the EFI partition, for instance by attempting to have two of those on separate disks, will probably cause you more pain than Windows will. As far as I understand, only one EFI partition can be configured in BIOS as the boot partition, so you will have to change the configuration in BIOS whenever you want to boot to the other OS.

Windows does have a history of changing the default EFI bootloader once in a while; however your chosen bootloader is still there, just not marked as the default anymore. A Windows app like EasyUEFI will let you change the default back.

She's pretty and deserves neck scritches. :) Also needs to see a farrier.

Yup, that's a giant house spider. No kidding, that's the vernacular name of the species, see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giant_house_spider. Formerly filed under the tegenaria genus, now its own genus.

They're comically large and terror-inducing, but not aggressive. And they keep out more aggressive species too.

Windows 98 really sucked and running Unix at home became an option.