Laser tanks are impractical. What if the enemy wears mirrored shades? That laser goes right back and kills you instead. You don't want your 100 million dollar tank to be taken out by a pair of Ray-Bans.

has dust changed

Dust. Dust never changes.

Also, Ubuntu is moving towards using snaps for everything so they're pretty much the successor to PPAs.

Notable for being a class of substances that freaks out Erowid, a website that otherwise thinks that just about every drug can be used safely if you know what you're doing. If it freaks them out it freaks me out.

Ah, comic book subtlety.

Obviously untrustworthy person: "Hey, kids whom I've never met before. Wanna go do something obviously stupid and not in your own interest? Something transparently harmful to you with no stated benefit? For no other reason than because I said to do it?"

Kids: "Do we?! C'mon, let's go already!"

Narrator: "The alien commie nazis were so clever and subtle that nobody could see through their devious ploy!"

Soon they will launch their new product, Copy of New Teams Classic (work or school) (2).

CUDA was there first and has established itself as the standard for GPGPU ("general purpose GPU" aka calculating non-graphics stuff on a graphics card). There are many software packages out there that only support CUDA, especially in the lucrative high-performance computing market.

Most software vendors have no intention of supporting more than one API since CUDA works and the market isn't competitive enough for someone to need to distinguish themselves though better API support.

Thus Nvidia have a lock on a market that regularly needs to buy expensive high-margin hardware and they don't want to share. So they made up a rule that nobody else is allowed to write out use something that makes CUDA software work with non-Nvidia GPUs.

That's anticompetitive but it remains to be seen if it's anticompetitive enough for the EU to step in.

"One of them is responsible for unspeakable atrocities and the loss of millions of lives. The other made some tweets that negatively affected stock prices. It's hard to tell which is worse."

Ah, good old Book of Erotic Fantasy. It's so gloriously stupid that everyone should own a copy. That table is by far not the silliest part of the book.

It's only bested by the official sex rulebook for The Dark Eye, which is an April Fools joke that spiraled out of control and has actual rules for intercourse – deliberately bureaucratic and unsexy ones included purely as a "you asked for it" joke at the reader's expense.

monkey's paw curls

Okay, nicotine is now a Schedule II drug. You need a prescription to buy anything with nicotine in it.

It depends

some people

don't even send

whole sentences

sometimes

just single words

gotta find

out

where the sentences end

no punctuation either

y'know

so

that's kinda annoying

Also, we load the JavaScript from five different CDNs, some of which are horrifically slow today. We also make sure to only load some of the scripts after others have been successfully loaded so uMatrix users have to refresh the page a dozen times.