Ebooks.com often sells drm-free ebooks, depending on if the publisher allows it

I guess I tend to use data as a mass noun when referring to computer data (“there’s a lot of data on that drive”) and as a regular noun when referring to data in the scientific sense (“these data show xyz”)

have they tried graham crackers

I’m pretty sure that’s the design for the enterprise from Star Trek Phase II, a series that never got made; this design was then developed further into the now familiar refit from TMP

Melllvar doesn’t give up, does he?

When I was in grad school I would split the difference with 25 slides and 57 backup slides clicked together frantically 15 minutes earlier

Edit: It seems I may be wrong after all.

Original post: Between this and Johnson saying Biden should resign as president, it makes me think they are trying to limit Harris to one term. If Biden were to die or resign then Harris would become president for a few months but that would still count as her first term, so she wouldn’t be able to run for reelection in 2028 if she won this time. That’s my theory anyway 🤷‍♀️

Things got a bit weird before the invention of the pencil sharpener

Brain getting bigger, I think

That does tend to simplify the aerodynamics modeling

fork()

Horses evolved this way so they could forever be giving you “the finger”

Hmm, thinking about it, I think maybe the direct CO₂ exhaled during exercise may not be the most useful metric for human-powered travel. Every atom of that carbon was recently removed from the atmosphere by the plants you ate or that went to feed the animals you ate. It isn’t carbon that was underground for millions of years as is the case with fossil fuels.

Unfortunately, growing the food does involve carbon emissions from fossil fuels. Taking this page’s number of 2.5t/yr for the typical American diet which they assume to be 2,600 kcal/day that works out to 2.6g of CO₂ / kcal (2.5t / 365 / 2600 = 2.6E-6 t = 2.6g), or 52.7 g / km for cycling, or similar to an electric car if the chart is at all comparable (I don’t know the chart’s methodology; for example for the fossil fuel transport options does it count the carbon cost of producing and transporting the fuel or just the tailpipe emissions?). Changing one’s diet looks like it would improve this; the best-case would be a vegan diet which would result in 31.6 g / km.

Now that’s just based on numbers from that one source, so I don’t know how reliable they are. It does say it includes the large amount of wasted food in the final number, and I don’t know if the numbers in the original chart are that level of conscientious. Regardless I think the takeaway here isn’t that cycling is bad, it’s that our food production system is terrible and it badly needs to become way less carbon-intensive.

Deep underground, near the earth’s core where it’s still warm

Fun fact: soccer has no official rule against manipulating the ball with your eye lasers

It’s definitely not always done with general anesthesia in the US, unless standards have changed in the last couple decades? I had all mine taken out in the 2000s with just local.

For me (I use Kavita) it’s because I want to be able to just pick up whatever device is in front of me at the moment and pick up the book where I last left off even if it was on another device

“Hostage negotiations now entering their fourth week between the U.S. and Hamas over the release of hostage Elon Musk, however in spite of intense diplomatic overtures and offers of significant concessions the U.S. still refuses to take him back”

I also use SponsorBlock for YouTube, which skips sponsor segments in YouTube videos (and optionally other kinds of segments like intros, self promos, etc.) it’s crowd-sourced for identifying the segments but for almost all the videos I watch someone has already marked at least the sponsor segments

I ran into just this problem literally yesterday 😅. It turns out that many Linux distros (not sure which ones exactly but I’m on fedora and it does this) will ignore the suid bit on shell scripts because apparently they’re too easy to exploit for privilege escalation. Sure enough I tried it again with a c program instead of a shell script and the suid bit worked; I was able to write to a file I didn’t have permission for normally. I’m not totally sure exactly which kinds of executables are allowed and which aren’t; it might be binaries only.