Again, who said anything about “civilization?” Even just on Earth, life has existed for 4 billion years. That’s 4 billion of the 14 billion years the universe as a whole has existed, or 28% of the time, which I wouldn’t call “rare” at all!

Life on Earth started damn near immediately (in geologic terms) as soon as the crust cooled enough to not set it on fire cook its proteins (it wouldn’t have caught fire becsuse the atmosphere didn’t have oxygen yet). Does that sound “rare” to you?

He was, like, some kinda crazy person though.

Damning with praise so faint even Hubble couldn’t detect it.

Your statement is basically equivalent to “Massie is the only one in the entire party who isn’t a criminal co-conspirator.” (And even then, the scope of that claim is limited to that particular set of crimes!)

Who said anything about multicellularity, intelligence, or space travel?

Point is, Obama’s answer was vacuously true, and the only answer a non-idiot could reasonably could have given.

…Okay, I admit he could have quoted Contact for extra style points:

“The universe is a pretty big place. If it’s just us, seems like an awful waste of space.”

But aside from that, the answer he gave was the only one he could reasonably have given.

How is that not a bug in the compiler’s type checking? If the code had been i[0] instead, it would have (correctly) given a subscripted value is neither array nor pointer nor vector error. IMO it should have still done that no matter if the thing inside the subscript was an array, because the type that matters to decide if the subscript operator is even valid to use in the first place is the type of the token to the left of it, not the token inside it!

He’s an idiot whose only skill is using his frankly disgusting access to money and power to steal ideas from actual geniuses and calling them his own.

“Actual geniuses,” my ass! Musk steals his ideas from decades-old issues of Popular Science. Electric cars? Spaceships? Hyperloops? That’s like the to-do list of every geeky 12-year-old!

Even your disparagement gives that piece of shit more credit than he deserves. I can’t really blame you, though: it is genuinely difficult to find words emphatic enough to express how unexceptional and unworthy of accolade he really is.

$60.

(Source: I paid $120 for 2x16GB of the same type of RAM used from Ebay last week.)

It is statistically impossible for life to exist on exactly one planet in the universe. Earth just isn’t that fucking special!

Sorry to barge in from ‘all’, but I am compelled to point out that “apart of” means exactly the opposite of “a part of.”

Sure he’s done one crime 34 crimes, but what about second 35th crime?

FTFY.

Where’re ya gonna get sprocket-feed fanfold paper these days, though, let alone in the apocalypse?

The other day, the extent of my investigation was to find this forum thread, dismiss it as “kernel too old” (even though the thread was from 2023, LOL), and move on to Kubuntu. Looking more carefully, it seems like my Debian 13.3.0 image (debian-live-13.3.0-amd64-kde.iso) should’ve shipped with a kernel new enough to include it (6.12, compared to “6.1 or 6.2” which is when the Intel employee in the forum thread said it was added), so now I’m not so sure what the real problem was.

It also just occurred to me that I should’ve jumped up to Debian Testing before resorting to Ubuntu (I wasn’t thinking too hard about it and just used the same flash drive as I had recently used to install it on my parents’ PC, which I really did want to be on Debian Stable). Oh well.

Regardless though, I think the main fix is “ship a newer kernel in the next version of the distro” and it’ll take care of itself over time.

Unless We the People take matters into our own hands.

<sigh>… And here I am, expecting “shuffle” to be a random ordering without repetition at all, like a silly person apparently.

I’m not so sure. I could believe their entire productivity has been consumed by failing AI slop in code reviews.

It’s a tragedy that the advent of smartphones with big screens made cellphones start getting bigger again right before they shrunk small enough to fit in the pocket watch pocket.

Ah, that explains it: he’s making up for all the fingers he’s not allowed to draw in his day job.

If police cars can ram other vehicles, so can streetcars. The strawman nonsense you posted isn’t a consideration for high-speed pit maneuvers by the former, and it would be even less relevant for gentle nudges by the latter.