Not from the US but currently living here. I would say the Disability Act is the gold standard worldwide. The amount of consideration for people with a variety of disabilities that almost universally applies is exceptionally amazing. It's kind of shocking to see the dedication to adhering to that law while otherwise abandoning that portion of the population (e.g. Healthcare, SSDI, etc.).

Abcde (pronounced AB-sid-ee) was certainly memorable if nothing else.

I also don't use Mint personally, but based on their releases page, it looks like they follow the Ubuntu LTS releases. The latest LTS version of Ubuntu is already being used for Mint 22.1, so I wouldn't expect to see Gimp 3 until the next LTS release in April of 2026.

Debian based distros are notorious for using old, but known stable packages. That's kind of their whole thing. If you want the latest and greatest, look for a rolling release based distro.

Ah, I believe that would be from a college course.

For those, like me, who wondered how much data was written in 400 picoseconds, the answer is a single bit.

If I'm doing the math correctly, that's write speeds in the 10s-100s GBps range.

I really wish Sr Grafo joined the fediverse. I miss his comics and haven't found a suitable replacement yet.

I unfortunately have firsthand experience with this in the US.

First I was sent to the ER where I was placed under constant monitoring. I was interviewed by the medical staff as well as a case worker from the state, and given the option to voluntarily commit myself to a mental care facility, or take my chances with the court.

The first time this happened, I chose to take my chances. The court determined that I needed to be committed, and I was sent to a mental health facility anyway. The second (and last) time it happened, I volunteered.

In both cases, the facilities were basically a mix between a hospital and a jail. Multiple layers of locking doors, no doors on the rooms, visibility into the bathrooms, heavily weighted or bolted down furniture, but also medical equipment, nurses, and the overall asthetic of a hospital.

They were also both basically a one-size-fits-all for any kind of issue that didn't qualify for prison. There were homeless people that were stuck in the system waiting for housing to become available, drug addicts going through remission, people with multiple personalities, two different Jesus Christ's, one at each facility, and people that would be mostly normal most of the time, but would suddenly snap, become violent, and need to be detained while everyone was sent to their rooms. There were also people that were struggling with depression or bipolar disorder, and in one case a kid (18 or 19) who had jaywalked across a normally busy street and a cop decided to harass him and have him committed (because that was supposedly not a mentally sound action).

I could go on, but I've already written a short novel so I think I'll leave it there. Please feel free to ask any follow up questions and I'll try to answer to the best of my ability.

Statements that start with # in C/C++ are known as preprocessor directives, that is, they are executed before compilation begins. OP has used a #define which will replace any instance of A (IF(x)) with B (while (x)) in the code.

So the IF statement is really just a while statement.

It sounds like Karl still has a lot of internal struggles and identity issues. I would recommend not getting too close to him until he can work through those things, especially in light of what it sounds like is rather poor treatment towards you.

You deserve someone who unambiguously cares for you and treats you well. He likely doesn't even know how he feels about you, but because he is comfortable with you, feels like he can safely use you as his punching bag while he works through his internal emotions.

If he's able to put in the work and overcome his struggles, he won't make you feel like garbage and it will be infinitely easier to ask if he has romantic feelings towards you. If he continues to act like a jerk, or flip flop between friendly and hostile, there are far too many people in this world that are more worthy of your time and energy.

"Hey, this is Presh Talwalkar.

Discussion of a brief history of this viral math problem, followed by explanations of common incorrect answers. Ultimately followed by brief discussion on the order of operations, concluding in a final example that equals 11

And that's the answer. Thank you so much for making us one of the best communities on YouTube, where we solve the world's problems, one video at a time."

What happens if the SSH session closes before dd finishes? Sounds pretty badass but I don't think I would trust this approach in prod lol

That's still an average of over 10% FPS gains overall. Similar improvement to a new GPU generation, but on the same hardware. Sounds pretty massive to me.

I would recommend editing your fstab and use the USB drive's UUID to mount it to a consistent location. That way, even if you reboot or disconnect the drive and the reconnect it to, say, a different USB port, it will always mount to the same mountpoint.

See this page from the arch wiki for more info.

It's a very minor annoyance and well worth it in my opinion.

I was searching for a book quote for over a year. I tried every search engine, tried changing the terms, checking back several times every few weeks or so, but couldn't find anything even close. I tried kagi and it was literally the very first result on my very first search.

I haven't looked back and have never had an issue finding what I'm searching for since.

I would absolutely believe that this was coincidence or unintentional "borrowing" or "inspiration" if the name of the location wasn't literally "Azura Deluxe Hotels." At that point it's pretty blatent.

Edit response to parent edit: I can't find any iconography that represents the religious Azura (or Ishtar) with both the Sun and Moon, especially as depicted in this statue, outside of the Elder Scrolls universe. Happy to be proven wrong, but I think it's clear which party was influenced by the other.

That's not really all that special or unique. There are lots of things that many people would instantly recognize that others would have never seen before.

45/33 1/3 RPM records might be well within your wheelhouse, but would you recognize a 78 RPM record, or an Edison wax cylinder at first glance? How about the image below?

"Let's go eat, huh?"

Or for one that has more or less pierced the cultural zeitgeist:

"Oh hi Mark"

I can't say for sure if anyone saw it as a positive experience overall, but while we were in there, the common feeling expressed was how much we all wanted to get out of there.

I fully agree that it's not a good place to recover from many mental health problems, but that's unfortunately the system that we have. The staff were trying their best, but both facilities were clearly underfunded and working with what they had.

It was even worse when the court was involved, because I had to speak with a lawyer regularly and attend court hearings over the phone. That only added to the stress of the situation.

How does this differ from something like FreeMcBoot?

I get that this is better than the old titles.db + specific PS1 disc method, but FreeMcBoot memory cards already made that approach obsolete years ago. Is it just that it supports more models than the older exploits?