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Methylated spirits aren’t typically much cheaper than IPA in a lot of the world until you’re buying industrial quantities, aren’t as effective at dissolving lots of things (which may or may not be relevant depending on the particular resin you’re using), and typically contain additives that leave stains when dried. For hobbyists, this doesn’t seem like a sensible cost saving trick even if it does work for the resin they have.

Solar actually overtook nuclear as least-killy-per-gigawatt about a year (maybe even two, now) ago, although obviously killing people isn’t the only bad thing a system of power generation can do.

There’s at least one company that does tweak (iirc used) airliner turbofans by taking the fan part off so they just have the turbojet (which is already tuned to mostly generate rotational energy to drive the fan turbine rather than produce thrust itself) and use that to spin a generator. Obviously, it’s a bit more complicated than that in reality, but there are quite a lot of old engines no longer certified for flight out of an abundance of caution but that still work fine, and a market for high-power generators that don’t need to be the pinnacle of efficiency (originally as backups just for occasional use, and now because of AI companies caring only about speed and not about cost).

Whether or not that’s true at the moment (obviously, the status quo has changed because in 2020 UPlay changed to Ubisoft Connect, so the alleged incident happened years ago, and it’s alleged that Ubisoft were forced to stop selling something, so they wouldn’t still be selling it), the article specifically says:

Uplay featured a $15 USD Rainbow Six Siege Starter Pack, but this version was not available on Steam, making the cheapest option on Valve’s platform much more expensive.

The obvious way of parsing that is that it was the UPlay version of the game, but even if not, it’s generally not viable to sell Steam keys for things not available on Steam. The only time you can is when a game’s delisted but you’ve already generated keys for it, and then Valve can just wait for Ubisoft to run out rather than making the alleged threat.

Bumblebees can sting repeatedly, but generally avoid doing so. Dying after one sting is specific to honey bees.

That’s not what the article says. It’s about UPlay keys sold by Ubisoft through UPlay that have nothing to do with Steam, and Valve threatening to remove a game from Steam unless the UPlay keys sold through UPlay became the same price as the Steam keys sold through Steam.

He was murdered by a second, much larger, knife, which wasn’t covered by the allowance for ceremonial knives for religious reasons, so the killer was already breaking existing knife laws. It’s not like Steven Yaxley ‘Tommy Robinson’ Lenon and his supporters will ever care about this, though.

From the Wikipedia page, it seems like a fairly normal cancer vaccine. The thing limiting these in North America and Europe is that you can’t legally do drug trials on people until you’ve tried all the approved medicines for that condition first, as trial drugs might do nothing and might cause side effects, and the placebo control group would literally not be getting any treatment. By the time cancer patients have tried all the existing treatments, they’re usually either already dead, or already cancer-free, so the only trial participants left are already nearly dead, and likely to keel over immediately no matter how good the trial drug. That means things that drug companies have known will work for over a decade still aren’t available, and once they are, they’ll need to be unreasonably expensive just to break even.

Either this one has finally got over these kinds of hurdle after years of effort, or Cuba’s been doing trials that wouldn’t be legal elsewhere. Even if they have, it’s not necessarily a criticism - if a trade embargo stops you accessing lots of medicines, then you need to get through fewer of them before you’ve tried everything available and can start trial drugs. Once it’s fully approved, it won’t need to be expensive, as the research costs can be offset against the cost savings from treating patients, as everything’s state-funded.

It’s a fairly common sentiment that ‘good billionaires’ like Newell will demonstrate that seeking profit by making things people want to buy is more profitable than ruining things people were already buying so margins are higher, thereby making the bad billionaires want to copy them, and then capitalism will start working for the common people, and that therefore seizing the means of production is unnecessary as long as they praise gaben. Pointing out that he’s still accumulating the value of other people’s labour as quickly as he can and he’s just less short-sighted about it, rather than aiming to do good, can be helpful.

A laptop that’s been driven over or smashed with a hammer or otherwise crushed.

I’ll copy the bit here that I just edited into my reply after you edited the first post:

In the face of your edit, I see that you’ve misunderstood the exploit. You need write access to the System Volume Information directory of your own USB stick, not anything on the target machine. It’s much easier to get access to things on a computer than it is to get access on one particular computer, and this exploit lets you jump from one to the other.

By exploit standards, that’s not especially hard. I don’t think there’s really anything blocking accessing it at all if an NTFS volume is mounted on a typical desktop Linux distro, as it’s just NTFS permissions blocking it, and they’re not typically obeyed by Linux in the first place.

In the face of your edit, I see that you’ve misunderstood the exploit. You need write access to the System Volume Information directory of your own USB stick, not anything on the target machine. It’s much easier to get access to things on a computer than it is to get access on one particular computer, and this exploit lets you jump from one to the other.

I’ve never needed release agent with platinum-cure silicone as it’s not stuck to anything except itself unless it was porous. I have needed to lubricate bits of moulds that would have had too much of a vacuum if just pulled, though. Also, when I initially referred to coating the mould, I didn’t mean a release agent but rather something like PMMA (acrylic) dissolved in acetone to protect the silicone from the resin as described here: https://blog.honzamrazek.cz/2022/07/preventing-platinum-cure-silicone-cure-inhibition-in-resin-printed-molds/

If you’ve got a manifold mesh for the object you want, you could make a mould by getting a cube that contained it, using a boolean modifier to subtract the mesh from the cube, then adding one or more cylinders for pour holes at the high point(s) of the mesh and subtracting those, too. If you only need one of the object, so don’t need to reuse the mould, you can stop there and print it, then once you’ve cast it and let the silicone cure, just hit it with a hammer until the mould smashes and the silicone will probably be fine and pull out in one un-scarred piece.

Could you perhaps print a mould and then cast platinum-cure silicone in it? This can be a pain, as lots of resins contain things that stop silicone curing, but some combinations work (e.g. some bbdino silicone I had cured just fine in contact with Sunlu ABS-like clear blue resin I had) or can be made to work (e.g. coating the resin mould with something that it’s more compatible with).

If you don’t need the properties of platinum-cure silicone, you might even be able to get away with tin-cure, which is much cheaper and more tolerant of other chemicals.

Reform got a shitload of votes in this week’s elections, and one of their few actual policies is repealing the online safety act, so it’s not even particularly safe to say that voters don’t want their kids seeing porn if it means it’s any more inconvenient for adults to see porn.

You’ve probably created something that would be considered a DRM circumvention device under the DMCA, so possessing it would be illegal unless it’s covered by one of the exceptions. If you think it might be, then you’re probably in a legal grey area as there isn’t case law settling whether the exceptions override the parts about DRM circumvention, but it’s fairly widely accepted that they probably do - DRM-era console emulators like Dolphin rely on it being legal to bypass the games’ DRM in order to interoperate with other computer systems, and no one’s been brave enough to sue them for that interpretation yet.

If it is illegal, the most likely outcome is just that someone does a DMCA takedown request and GitHub would take it down and that would be the end of that, which is pretty much the same thing as would likely happen if anyone didn’t like it but it was legal, as it’s easy to submit takedown requests, but hard to appeal them if they’re unjustified.

Sometimes, evil corporations want to use a FLOSS tool for exactly the same things as its other users do, so if they give money to the developers to use to do what the users want, everyone benefits. Other times, evil corporations want to buy some of the good reputation of a FLOSS tool and/or infect it with their toxic reputation as a marketing strategy, and only evil benefits.

They issued some shares when their share price was high and didn’t have huge amounts of debt compared to other companies of a similar value.

To refer back to the original post, you are taking things too literally, and in doing so, missing meaning that is present in the symbols. As a rough analogy, DXT1 GPU texture compression has two modes. Both start by storing two colours, then they diverge. They both store a number from zero to three per pixel, but in one mode, zero to three all mean interpolating between the two endpoint colours, and in the other mode, zero to two are for interpolation, and three means that the pixel is transparent. There’s no bit explicitly storing which mode’s being used, but the information is there. The two stored colours should also be interpreted as two numbers, and if the higher one is first, then you use the first mode, and if the higher one is second, then you use the second mode. If the colours were interpreted too literally, they’d only be seen as colours, but an implementation can see that there was a choice to put the colours in a particular order, and read into that. There’s no abiguity, people just need to know about the rule and apply it.

For communicating with the public, there are enough people that are barely literate that asking the simplest version of a question is going to cover more of the population than one that adds all the necessary qualification to ensure someone that takes everything literally knows it’s a hypothetical.