Sure, but if the judge thinks its just some shit-ass nonsense suit, like he seems to, technically true, but stupid on its merits, he may well be inclined to deny costs to spank the plantiff for wasting the courts time.

I doubt it'd happen. It'd be a significant concern for the anti-trust cops (and even if the current US admin doesnt seem to have a problem with anti-trust behavior, the europeans are quite capable of raining hell). More to the point, it doesnt sound like Gabe has any interest in taking Steam public or selling it. Its a strangely organized hyper-flat company that seems to run more like a worker-coop than a traditional heirachical company and thats how Gabe likes it. And its making him ridiculous money. He's got no motivation.

Er, word perfect command sequences I mean. ^C ^V ^X etc. Still waiting for that morning coffee to kick in, and this ridiculous website still hasn't got an edit button.

Well yeah, but this is intended for windows where a lot of old timers muscle memory is msedit.

On the subject of good linux ones, check out "micro" if you get a chance. Its in a similar conceptual space as nano , simple editor, not really designed for big coding jobs, but great for quickly editing a config file or whatever, but its got a few modern affordances.Wordpress style command sequences, and works great with a mouse in a way nano never quite managed to pull off well. Sure I'll still use Emacs (and I suppose most folks would use vi) for bigger stuff, but its become my daily driver for quick config file edits on servers and stuff.

Yeah we're putting a stop to it at work. We can't meet our legal compliance requirements if the. company is doing this.

Theres a *tonne* of things in magic lantern though. I was always a fan of the ability to do both black and white balance, as this is pretty essential to flat colour without burnt whites or lost blacks that you need for good grading. Add to that a decent HDR system, HDMI unlocks on the cameras that need it, removing 30min limits, and so on, and yeah it can turn a good prosumer camera into a monster thats competitive with things like the REDs and the like.

That doesnt unfortunately stop trial lawyers, judges and juries from ignoring legal precedent, and the advice of musicologists who study this stuff in excruciating detail (music is *very* mathematical when you break it down, humans enjoy it and tend to write it intuitively, but under the hoods our brains are just giant pattern matching machines, and all the symmetries and patterns in music give it a nice big tickle and combined with the cultural stuff "I like this genre" etc, make music), and can tell you that "yes this tune sounds similarish to that tune but heres 500 other tunes that do too going back to medieval bards, so claiming violation is weird and wrong."

I'll NEVER respect bill gates he is the most corrupt evil bastard in high tech, and MS Windows is a shit tier operating system

"Evil" is a strangely heated term to throw around. The guy has been out of the tech industry for a couple of decades now, and focuses on..... well doing good...... so, you don't have to enjoy windows, I sure don't, unix forever, but try not make your product choices your entire personality, thats a terrible way to live.

It actually is, though god help anyone who tries to use it for something productive beyond decorating web pages. But yes, you could write an entire app in it. It would just.. be a terribly confusing hell to do so.

all the arguments that Dark Matter can't be baryonic? Why did they argue with such certainty? What assumptions were made?

Nothings changed in that regard. We've found missing baryonic matter. Its still not nearly enough to explain galaxy rotation etc.

Dark matter is still a necessary question mark in our understanding.

Yeah a friend of mine at university died from that type of T1 diabetes. Prior to that. he was partly blind, and had damage to various organs.

Diabetes 1 does not mess around, its a serious medical emerhency that *will* kill if left untreated.

This is a potentially epic treatment if it manages to avoid the autoimmunge response, and that could lsave the health system billions of dollars, hundreds of millions per year.

The trial involved getting kids to take a photo and having an AI calculate their age. Needless to say, I'm skeptical

The issue thats worrying legislators isn't so much the disinfo problem (although thats clearly a real problem), its the fact that the kids seem to be spiral eye glued to their little black dystopia phones 24/7 and its showing real psychological harms to socialization and mental health. God knows its been bad for me, and I at least managed to get my social skills in place well before the publically available internet came into being.

I do hope they keep some solid data on effects. If this doesn't work, then I'd strongly suggest reversing the ban would be well in order, and pronto.

Yeah I think the rotating bit is to be taken for granted. It would be *very* strange to find a black hole without any angular momentum (being that its one of only three properties a black hole has, angular momentum, electrical charge and mass, aka the no-hair theorem).

The text of the actual papers is a little terse and mathematical for my brain, did you manage to figure out what that "close to the maximum allowed by physics" speed actually was, the pop-sci article seemed a bit short on details.

I dont think this is whats being argued here. Its a Tort suit, so its going to really be more akin to a personal injury claim.

Thats not to say it won't end up in the Supreme Court as its invoking potentially novel legal theories, nor that there won't be potential constitutional questions, but I dont think they are arguing a constitutional right, rather that its simply "your client hurt my client, and we want compensation", so the legal question will be "what responsibility does the oil company have to actions which harm others".