A file is an arbitrary string of bytes. Removing the ability for the user to handle them like this is so obtuse.

Per the article:

According to the BTRON3 specification, the first two halfwords of an application ID are the data type it applies to, and only the third distinguishes rival handlers for the same type. When a document contained writing, a table, and a figure, opening those parts made the system launch each one's registered handler to draw its own content inside the parent document's window. If no handler exists, or the handler fails to draw, the system strikes a diagonal line through the region where the content should have been.

That's a window manager with application/file associations, with the 'window' that the application draws to being embedded within a hypertext document. So, you'd be able to attach arbitrary hypertext to a file and when you open it the window manager presents that information along with the application window. That's not any less flexible or more limited than any other desktop OS.

EDIT: now, it sounds like you could embed multiple 'windows' within the same document, and maybe do something with transclusion, but I haven't read enough about how BTRON worked to say much about that. Still, that doesn't fundamentally change what I wrote above.

Every single mainstream operating system has metadata and index stores associated with its files and applications.

Linux has locatedb and .desktop files, and many other files that determine how content is presented to you in a desktop environment.

Windows has NTFS alternate data streams, the registry, multiple appdata folders, and a bunch of other kludges.

They all started killing each other because plasmid use makes you psychotic, unless you can afford to keep taking more and more.

They all started taking plasmids because they needed to compete in the workplace (then later, in the war) or end up homeless / dead.

Plasmids were legal in the first place because Randism, being based 100% on individual responsibility, doesn't believe that things like feedback loops or cumulative effects can happen at a societal level, and so doesn't believe in regulations.

Plasmids are a pretty clear metaphor for dehumanizing yourself to serve the market, especially because the Randian superman is a psychopath that is only self interested.

But even without plasmids the fact that the worlds elite were brought down to Rapture, yet (to quote an audio log) "we couldn't all be captains of industry, someone had to scrub the toilets" bred a huge amount of resentment from people who felt scammed and now trapped down there. Just like in the real world the markets in BioShock rely completely on low level workers to be able to function, and yet punish them for being in that position.

There are actually some fossils of dinosaur mummies, a rare preservation of a rare preservation. For some species these give us direct evidence of their physical appearance beyond their bone structure.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dinosaur_mummy

Never forget, there is no acceptable form of resistance to oppression.

If you use physical violence in response to violence you will be told you're just as bad as your oppressor.

If you destroy property as a form of direct action you will be lumped in with looters and hooligans and told that invalidates your cause.

If you block traffic, or engage in other forms of nonviolent nondestructive civil disobedience, you'll be told that you're getting in the way of struggling people that just want to do their job and collect a paycheck.

If you physically impede nothing and no one, but use only signs and shouts, you will be told that if your position held any weight you'd be able to debate people and convince them to your side.

If you argue calmly with people in public, using reason to explain yourself, you will be told that you're just as annoying as the people you're arguing against. Or that you need to be nicer. Or that its your fault that your abusers are acting the way they do because you're not convincing them in the right way.

If you do nothing but simply exist as you are, you'll be told that your existence is an inconvenience for other people or a problem for society.

If you go out of your way to hide yourself then you'll be told that any problems you have are your own fault because you didn't do more to solve them.

It needs a port that you can attach your bag of caffeinated noodles to.

They didn't "lose money", they made less money than they thought they were going to make, or hypothetically could have made if we were living in some imaginary situation instead of actual reality.

If I go to my fridge and find out that there isn't as much ketchup in there as I thought there was I don't write an article whining about all the ketchup I've "lost".

Additional options include:

• Partially cover agricultural fields that get too much sun (yes, it is possible for a plant to get too much sun, depending on the species)
• Cover water reservoirs with floating panels, which both cools the panel (improving its efficiency and lifespan) and lowers evaporative water losses.
• Cover patches of desert, which get a ton of sun.
• Cover rooftops.

I don't think I would have brought a new person into the world during any of the other time periods you mention either.

Its an edit of this comic:

I was suspicious of the version in the post because the Kelly character wouldn't know who any of the people in the top right are.

The british mind cannot comprehend the concept of high speed rail.

Since we strive for transparency, and the LEGAL definition of “sale of data” is extremely broad in some places, we’ve had to step back from making the definitive statements you know and love. We still put a lot of work into making sure that the data that we share with our partners (which we need to do to make Firefox commercially viable)

So in other words we sell your data and get paid for it, and some countries won't let us lie about it.

This is more psychotic than any of the dialogue in American Psycho.

If you wouldn’t interrupt a stranger at a party to announce that America is doomed, don’t do it here.

Apparently the microblogging format has made people so socially dysfunctional that they've forgotten what a conversation is.

Genuinely, switching to Linux full time was amazing for my mental health. I didn't have a feeling of dread every time there was a new update, wondering what settings would get reset or what new ways they'd try to fuck with me. I no longer felt like I was sharing a house with an abusive person who was going to try to hurt me the second I let my guard down. In the weeks and months that followed tension that I didn't even know was there melted away.

Of course that was years ago, and Windows is even worse now.

From the wording at the top it sounds like this was just for fun and probably ungraded.

That was a different technique, using simulated evolution in an FPGA.

An algorithm would create a series of random circuit designs, program the FPGA with them, then evaluate how well each one accomplished a task. It would then take the best design, create a series of random variations on it, and select the best one. Rinse and repeat until the circuit is really good at performing the task.

The "50 countries in a trenchcoat" thing is so stupid.

No other country in the entire world does federalism apparently.

I wouldn't say it was "fundamentally" founded in democracy when originally only white property owning men could vote.