I’ve had the joy of working on a python project with strict type checking enforced in CI and wow is it a different experience. Am a big fan.

The mac comes with 256 GB though, and 256 > 1

Support for M1 and M2 is pretty good now but M3 is not quite there yet and it’ll probably be years before everything works nicely on M4, sadly

Just start wearing a “make fascists afraid again” hat and let him do the escalation (or something more subtle if necessary in your workplace)

It is, to within 5%, just make the equals sign squiggly and you’re good

Wow, I guess cryptography is just fraudulent, who knew

Don’t worry, people here yell at you for not using profane language because “you can swear on the internet”, they’re a weird bunch.

Your approach and understand seems realistic and solid. Go with any of the beginner-friendly distributions, as people have said, Mint or Ubuntu are good choices, because most of the support information online is available for them. Because Mint is based on Ubuntu, instructions for Ubuntu will almost always work on it too.

https://linuxmint-installation-guide.readthedocs.io/en/latest/

The Linux mint installation guide is IMO very clear and easy to follow, so I’d start there, and for the first time you can just go up until the “the live session” section and play around with it before deciding to install. The guide for Ubuntu is very similar.

Good luck and have fun!

Sure, I agree

Agreed with the privacy concerns but

So, 15s saved per person. Which is handy, but 25 seconds fits squarely in the “blazing fast” category anyway.

This is huge when there are five 787s worth of people in line for ten passport control machines, it’s the difference between waiting half an hour in line or five minutes.

It is the standard means of passport control in Europe and UK, just with the passport added, but all by machine. Once they are convinced the biometrics are good enough they’ll do this too to speed things up.

Paris has pretty good food but it’s below average for France, the south is where it’s at.

Another Brexit success story

*structural biologists

The crystallographer is sitting in the beamline control room at the synchrotron swearing about how this person mounts their crystals right against the metal pin

“just”

Yeah it wasn’t meant to be a knock, just an observation about onion size really. I haven’t tried them enough times to judge if I think they’re good or bad. But they’re definitely big!

Yeah in normal countries but in America they have huge onions

4 large onions

So, like, 6 tablespoons of caramelised onion?

They have replaced the H in the chemical formula for water (H2O) with a C to represent “coconut”. However, C already stands for a chemical element, carbon. That implies this product is a compound made of two carbon atoms and one oxygen. If such a thing exists, it would be incredibly unstable and react with anything it touches; you certainly would not want to drink it.

This is satire for sure