> Someone like Bartosz Ciechanowski is still operating at a level I can't touch. His work reflects years of accumulated craft and a visual intuition that I don't have.

Seems like you’re contradicting yourself a bit here- is it actually possible to make the sort of explainers from TFA, or is the author operating at a level you can’t touch?

> The vets successfully castrated 10 out of 10 hippos with their method, losing only one of the animals to postsurgery complications

Yeah those are not good numbers.

According to a related article: https://www.discovermagazine.com/why-its-nearly-impossible-t...

The death was caused by an "unknown pre-existing condition" but doesn't elaborate further.

The main difference, in my opinion, is that to set up Linux one doesn't need to work around the expected behaviours of the OS.

And why would anyone put so much effort into making Windows usable now, when there is not knowing what Microsoft will do next?

The opportunity to get rid of non-state sanctioned people and get free organs

Hard disagree. I am not and would not use an AirTag for stalking, and yet I am being punished for others doing it. It’s not fair to me.

It's wild to see someone this forthcoming with their selfishness. You literally said "It’s not fair to me", as if a just world would prioritize your inconvenience over the safety of others.

I personally wouldn't use a rocket launcher for anything nefarious. It's super unfair.

I'm sorry, but that's silly. The argument is the other way around: would you like to be stalked by an airtag?

You can be stalked by 100 different devices on the market though. Not like this is the only possible way to track someone.

This is like nerfing knifes because they can kill people.

Have you even considered the possibility that you or someone you love could one day be the victim of stalking?

I don't think you understand what the word "fair" means.

Honey there ain’t nothing new under the sun.

Umm excuse me. Are you going to use an LLM to plagiarize or are you going to cite that?

Are those feelings serving you?

What consideration do you choose to afford to those feelings?

This kind of “oh everybody does it” dismissiveness towards cultural appropriation comes off as possibly ignorant but awfully insensitive. What is your understanding of the term? What does it describe, and when people use it as a negative, what legitimate issues are they concerned about?

Everything Is A Remix.

Producing something entirely novel in an act of pure creativity is essentially a tall tale - like Newton and the Apple - possibly some truth to it, but definitely mythologized.

I don’t think this is entirely correct mutants exist. Everyone while in nature something goes wrong. Something random happens. You get something novel and new. This happens and creativity as well so most things are remix but entirely new novel things do exist because the world is not static it is random