

I don’t think so. At least not with the unique expedition reward eggs.
But, build a base on a planet with a cool companion. After the expedition ends, your base will still exist and you can teleport there.
Centrist, progressive, radical optimist. Geophysicist, R&D, Planetary Scientist and general nerd in Winnipeg, Canada.
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I don’t think so. At least not with the unique expedition reward eggs.
But, build a base on a planet with a cool companion. After the expedition ends, your base will still exist and you can teleport there.
Yes. It’s about a year away
Legend of the Galactic Heroes is an interesting one. It is based off a Japanese novel (debatable whether it is one long novel or a series, but that is a digression) that is okay ish. But the show does a pretty decent job of it, and many actually consider the show to be the better form. It’s pretty long, like 110 episodes (from memory, could be wrong) and occasionally it veers into petty politicking a little too much for my liking. But it’s really interesting from a tactical point of view in a way that no other sci Fi has attempted. It’s very fuedal naval empires in space. Master and Commander stuff.
Worth it. Give it a few episodes to let the show grow on you. The art style will throw you off initially, but after a little bit it seems normal.
We could stack export tariffs on there. Bureaucratically difficult since we currently don’t really do export tariffs. But it would be an interesting political response.
Actual artporn. Also, loving the writeups
Canada wouldn’t be allowed to vote, presuming elections still existed. It’s just expansionism at the end of the Republic.
One of my favourite authors wrote one of my favourite articles: “Am I a bad feminist?” By Margaret Atwood
https://www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/am-i-a-bad-feminist/article37591823/ (view in incognito mode or similar to bypass paywall)
Quoting: “We are acceptable neither to Right nor to Left. In times of extremes, extremists win. Their ideology becomes a religion, anyone who doesn’t puppet their views is seen as an apostate, a heretic or a traitor, and moderates in the middle are annihilated.”
The topic of her essay is not relevant to this particular topic, but the quote resonates nevertheless.
I was trying to keep my comment short(ish), but you’re not wrong. There are other complications :)
What’s the weirdest one you’ve tried? Most challenging? Have you found any really cool defining features in any distro?
For example GoboLinux and NixOS eschew the Linux file hierarchy standard (FHS), and that becomes their defining feature. But many other distros have some other defining feature. Slackware uses tarballs as package management and oldschool init. LFS has you build from nothing. Etc.
kate
I use Kate – part of the KDE project ecosystem (for anyone else wondering) – on all platforms, including Windows. So worth it.
Just use wine on windows ;)
What algorithm should I use – oh shit, I just deflated
How to say you don’t understand physics without saying you don’t understand physics
Eww. I don’t mean Eww because of shipping through the Hudson Bay. I mean, Eww because oil is the driver behind it.
Please let’s just stop building ways to get oil to market, and start building refineries that do value-add here in Canada. Make the aviation fuel and plastics and whatever else cannot be replaced with green energy. Reduce the export of crude and help wean the world off of the worst stuff by choking supply.
Bonus photo I took of the Hudson Bay railroad bridge in The Pas, MB, from a few weeks ago.
I’ll ignore the market share question and talk a little about history. The compatibility layer is what killed OS/2 back in the day.
See, IBM (with OS/2) and Microsoft (with Windows 2.x and 3.x) were cooperating initially. Windows was the new kid on the block, and MS was allowing IBM to make a windows application compatibility layer on OS/2 in the early days. Think Windows 2.x/3.x. This was a brilliant stroke on behalf of MS, since the application developers would choose the Windows API and develop against that API only. Soon, there were no real native OS/2 apps being sold in any stores. Once MS Office came about, OS/2 was effectively a dead commercial product, outside of the server space.
The parallel here is that wine allows developers to target only the Windows API (again). This means you don’t have to bother with linux support at all and just hope that Proton or whatever will do the work for you.
There are some modern differences though. First: Linux didn’t start as a major competitor to Windows in the desktop/gaming space. We’d all love the Linux marketshare to increase, but largely there isn’t a huge economic driver behind it. So Linux will increase or not and the world will keep on turning. We’re not risking being delegated to history like OS/2. The second: the compatibility layer is being made as an open source project, and this isn’t MS trying to embrace-extend-extinguish in the same way that their assistance to IBM implementing that layer was. (We could quibble about .Net and Mono and others though.)
So I don’t think it’ll play out the same way. Linux will be okay. It’s already a vast improvement from prior years.
Historically, there was nothing like a killer hardware situation for OS/2 – no equivalent of the Steam Deck – that was driving wide hardware adoption to encourage additional native apps. Valve has done more for linux desktop adoption in the last few years than anyone that came prior.
Some other polls are showing gaps that are closer to 5 points. I think there’s a huge Trump-related backlash happening among the saner centrists, combined with Trudeau-fatique and the prospect of new leader to face PP. We shall see though – a lot of time before an election still.
I can hear her
It’s just iron stained water – like every other iron stained water body in the world. Probably has a pretty low pH too.
Did you know that the mining mega-corporation named “Rio Tinto” refers to the red water at a naturally flowing river in Spain? They’ve been mining metals there forever – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Riotinto-Nerva_mining_basin#From_Antiquity_to_the_Middle_Ages
This seems to be mostly a problem for publicly traded companies. There are exceptions. But if you look at airlines, the pattern is there.
They should be considered infrastructure. Infrastructure can pay a dividend to shareholders, but you shouldn’t be able to speculate on shares.