How else is Science going to pay the rent? They keep raising it. People ask a lot from Science, and to be fair it’s always come through for us in the past, but these days Science is working two jobs just to get by. Science hasn’t even had time to relax and play Crysis since last August.

I’d like to know how things would’ve turned out if they hadn’t made the decision to start allowing commercial traffic on the Internet.

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The world as we know it is rapidly approaching the point where it’s going to cease to function. Ecology matters, and climate change is going to wreck the world economy we know and love if war doesn’t wreck it first. Whether hypothetical future better-organized societies should choose to put as much effort into steelmaking as we do seems highly questionable, but it’s up to them.

So your thinking is that you don’t want to live in a world where people aren’t coerced into doing jobs they hate, because then you personally wouldn’t be coerced into doing the job you hate? Just saying you might consider looking for other work.

Same as the incentives under any other economic system: Ambition, adventurousness, and it seemed like a good idea at the time.

What if we just vote on individual words, and then show them all in order of popularity?

The universe started out good, and then it took billions of years for large enough stars to form that their collapse could create supernovae capable of reaching the energies needed to synthesize evil particles.

What’s a media zombie? Someone who watches 7 hours of tiktok every day?

I’m not a very good swimmer… which one looks more buoyant?

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I hear that boomer + trans can be tricky.

Hmm, tough call. Generally speaking I guess I’d prefer freedom over eternally paying rent to the tech oligarchs but then I’d miss out on the benefits of Microsoft’s latest adjustments to the Windows 11 start menu.

Poor Nvidia… the AI bubble is going to burst, the gamer market has all kinds of reasons to hate them now, and all they’ll have to console themselves with is several trillion dollars.

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Okay I’m not surprised that C and Rust are popular, but I didn’t expect there to be so much Vala in there.

I am insufficiently versed in Star Trek to know whether there’s a known reason why that isn’t true at warp speed.

Device drivers are not like other software in at least one important way: They have access to and depend on kernel internals which are not visible to applications, and they need to be rebuilt when those change. Something as huge and complicated as a GPU driver depends on quite a lot of them. The kernel does not provide a stable binary interface for drivers so they will frequently need to be recompiled to work with new versions of linux, and then less frequently the source code also needs modification as things are changed, added to, and improved.

This is not unique to Linux, it’s pretty normal. But it is a deliberate choice that its developers made, and people generally seem to think it was a good one.

Nouveau might be good enough by now for most games that will run on a 1060, maybe worth a try.

The driver needs to interface with the OS kernel which does change, so the driver needs updates. The old Nvidia driver is not open source or free software, so nobody other than Nvidia themselves can practically or legally do it. Nvidia could of course change that if they don’t want to do even the bare minimum of maintenance.