Novelty is a significant driving factor here. Gen Thumbnails are eye catching because they are new and viewers haven’t adapted to skimming over them like they do with everything else.

Thumbnails, same as everything that is supposed to attract attention, have styles that change over time due to saturation and fatigue.

It’s the current iteration of the red arrow with a (staged) surprised face and as you’re saying we will all learn to just skip it as well. These things are always an arms race, and given LLM’s can only generate facsimiles of things I don’t see how it can stay ahead of it

AOO became a thing after LibreOffice essentially won. Before that it was OpenOffice.org owned by oracle, forked into LibreOffice in 2010, with LibreOffice getting significant traction and Oracle throwing in the towel and donating OO to Apache Foundation in 2011.

From the article, it seems they using a clause allowing them to terminate the contract after transfer of ownership.

This clause probably has a expiry date and they are saying “we are trying not to be jerks here by waiting until the last second to trigger it”.

As long as you are not running a paid bounty program. Otherwise now you are getting 40 per day.

It doesn’t make sense to do that, hardware deprecates in 5years (it used to be 3) and is currently very expensive. So by using this approach you double the average cost of hardware per unit of compute completed.

If there wasn’t such a hardware squeeze and electricity was a higher percentage of the cost, yes, it would have made sense.

There are rumours that Polish GROM has been taking “vacations” in Ukraine. As in “we cannot officially approve your presence there but we won’t stop you either”, from the government.

Because Shahed 131/136 are large, way larger than surveillance drone/quadcopter. We are talking 2-3m wingspans and 130-200kg launch mass.

One other reason, Shahed drones are preprogrammed with their target, they're not being flown by an operator who can quickly change their course. They're basically a cruise missile with propellers.

I use SQLite history to have context aware line suggestion in my shell. So the command that gets ghost displayed (and can be expanded with right arrow) depends on the current working directory, its parents and recency. This is fast enough using SQLite to just dump all commands into it and query on each typed letter.

The DB is at this point 10years old. I use it to evaluate my work habits and patterns. More recently I have started transitioning to a different shell and I used it to move only the functions and aliases I still use, instead of the full collection.

Microchip also wants money for license to their design suite.

The parts were considering are available under their free tier IIRC

> So you read an article "China disappears random person" and then at the end you click a button and bet whether that person is alive or dead or whatever.

Congratulations, you just created a murder market. Create “Is person X dead?”, and put a large limit order buying No. Anyone with means can capitalise on it by fulfilling the physical obligation of the market and buying up the limit order. Don’t create the murder market.

---

It would be a stupid thing to do given the trail, bit it gives the person ordering it sort of plausible deniability.

The state can make it unprofitable to murder. Meaning that the existence of such a market is not a source of potential profit.