My first question would have been “is the fifth grader boss the entire fifth wave, so after 40 first graders, or the end of the fifth wave, so after 50 first graders?” Followed by “how much time do I get to prepare?”

Read their license. It does not meet the definition of open source.

Across a lot of media, impressions are so cheap now they don’t even charge for them, just the clicks cost ("CPC” is the charge type, “cost per click"). They track impressions to give advertisers metrics on conversion rates, but they don’t charge for them.

I’m significantly allergic to pine. I wonder if this means I would no longer be able to take these medications if industry switched to this method.

Not OP, but I personally would like to see a mesh-based low-bandwidth HTTP alternative, like Gemini. A tool set for sharing things more persistent than text messaging (or ideally building other digital services with) while being compatible with the underlying lower performance hardware and wireless medium.

The article discusses that IP-based limiting doesn’t work as well as it used to. Because of NATs, proxies, etc., IP addresses are a lot more ephemeral and flexible, so they’ve seen the same big perpetrators adapt and change IPs when rate-limited. I expect we will start to see support for anonymous downloads go away in the next several months in many major OSS registries.

This looks like someone took regular expressions, expanded them to a full programming language, and used Unicode to deal with the explosion of required symbols. I have a hard enough time reading my own regular expressions. I can’t imagine writing full programs like this.

The result of all this may be catastrophic. Should a worst-case scenario ever occur — a cyberattack, a natural disaster, an internet outage — there may be no human workers left with the skills that once kept food on the shelves.

Very nerdy of me, but this reminds me of a Stargate SG-1 episode “the Sentinel.” The team travels to a planet whose civilization relies on fully automated technology. The people don’t have to operate or maintain it (normally), so their society has completely forgotten how. In the episode, one set of antagonists comes in and sabotages their defense system, and another set sees the opportunity and invades. The protagonists have to then figure out the defense system and fix it.

We don’t live in a TV series. There aren’t benevolent outsiders who will swoop down and save our systems in the nick of time when they break down. We’re headed in a bad direction.

The decision stems from a lack of clarity regarding how prominently the religious text would be displayed, whether teachers would reference the Ten Commandments during lessons, or if other historical documents, such as the Mayflower Compact or the Declaration of Independence, would also be exhibited, the majority opinion noted.

This is absurd. The legal standard is to assume the government will abuse vagaries in the law to violate the constitution. So the lack of clarity/specificity is itself sufficient reason for an injunction and ultimately striking down the law.

Change the problem from 3 doors to a million. Kids pick a door, and the host opens 999,998 doors, leaving theirs and one other door closed. One of the closed doors is the winner. Do they want to switch now?