wonderingwanderer

What license is FreeBSD under?

Makes sense. Thanks!

I see. That makes sense.

So if the kernel were written in a language licensed under GPL, for instance, Ubuntu would either have to ditch their proprietary blobs or make their own kernel?

If I had to guess, the only reason Rust might be controversial to some people is probably because they’re used to C and likely set in their ways. Someone who’s been programming since the 80s and doesn’t want to learn a new language cause maybe they’ll feel like a newbie again and can’t be smug about knowing every possible command in C anymore. Just a guess…

What’s the advantage of GPL? As far as I’m aware MIT and Apache are both FOSS. But I’m new to this and still learning.

I don’t know what the big deal about Rust is. It seems like a cool language to me…

NOOOooo!!!

Joke’s on you, I’m meager and aware so either way would be an improvement!

I has a bucket

How about we build O’Neill Cylinders at Lagrange points L4 and L5? Made entirely with ISRU from asteroid mining, of course…

Well if you can fill an ocean on Venus by the the time the cyanobacteria makes its atmosphere lose density, or even a great lake, then the cloud cities have somewhere to land safely.

You can’t take this away from me.

Teef!

It’s chomping, referring to the bit that goes in a horses mouth. If it chomps, it means it’s eager. Hence, chomping at the bit means someone is eager.

You’re the one nitpicking. You didn’t have to reply to my comment, so it seems you’re the one who can get lost.

Omega 3s and 6s ftw

If you’re boiling rice, you can add an equal serving count of lentils to the same pot and increase the amount of water, it cooks for about the same length of time and then you have two macronutrients in one, all you need is some vegetables for a full balanced meal. Peas and carrots are easy, or broccoli is good and adds some iron which is important for vegetarians.

Also, peanut butter sandwiches are a good cheap option for handling cravings. Opt for whole grain bread if it’s in your budget. Real whole grain, not white bread with just enough whole grains thrown in so they could include it on the label. The bread itself should be brown. It’s more filling and has more nutrients.

They didn’t know what it was, so my point stands.

Humans have known the sun exists for as long as humans have been around. That doesn’t mean cro-magnan man believed in nuclear fusion.

Or move the cloud cities to one of the gas giants (presumably where the water is coming from anyway, or at least one of their moons, so the interplanetary transport infrastructure would already exist at this point.

Bright flashes and jagged bolts of light doesn’t necessarily lead one to intuitively believe “Oh, look, there’s a source of energy in the sky which can somehow be generated and harnessed to power machines and light bulbs.”

We think that way because we have the scientific knowledge of what it is and how it works, but that’s all retrospective. Prior to the discovery of electricity as a concept, lightning simply appeared to be some divine weapon wielded by angry gods. Even atheists of the early-Enlightenment era wouldn’t have understood it.

That’s like saying “Humans have observed fire since prehistoric times, so they must have understood chemical bonds and exothermic reactions.” It simply doesn’t apply.

If it takes thousands of years, monitoring air density can probably give you at least a couple centuries heads-up, like “we expect in 150 years from now that the atmosphere will thin to the point our cities lose buoyancy. That gives us approximately five generations to think of a solution.”

Maybe land in the water that you plan to introduce? By the way, where’s that coming from?

But the cyanobacteria will take time to work. What about the thousands of years in the meantime?

It really tied the whole room together…