>> falsify election results

> This is something that is extremely hard to accomplish in the US.

Yet I seem to remember Al Gore winning an election, still Bush became president. Right? EDIT: link https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2000_United_States_presidentia...

Plus they are building coal plants as backups for when other sources fail.

That doesn’t make a whole lot of sense, coal plants take at least 10 hours (but can take up to 48 hours) to start, warm up and synchronise from cold. That’s why hydro, gas, and increasingly large batteries are generally used for peaking.

That is legacy coal plants. The ones China are building are specifically built to complement renewable while keeping the energy security domestic.

It makes sense for China because of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malacca_dilemma

The modern coal plants they're building support faster changes, and they have enough indigenous coal but they don't have gas.

My doctor said "you have to earn your sleep". I had the same problem until:

- two pieces of fruit per day

- two portions of vegetables per day

- half an hour of outside sunshine per day

- twice per week exercise until you sweat

- no sleep during the day

- get out of bed every morning around the same time

- no processed food!

Kinda funny seeing this reply side to side with the "I just took LSD" one

I wish your doctor's advice worked on me. I'm in the same boat as the person you're responding to, and I follow all this advice as well.

I have recovered files several times after fsck on a failed partition. I may have a 75 percent success rate with this... did not keep statistics obviously.

Though it could be less, cause I also remember recovering files with foremost on a dd copy of a disk.

You'll still be able to recover files - fsck will just recreate the directory. There is a slight chance that if the free list is fucked that this will loose you a couple of more blocks of data but then you're already well into fubar territory anyway.

It's at the root level, no user came near that back then so it was kinda hidden.

> In a couple of decades running Linux installations of all flavours, I have never seen anything in lost+found!

I saw it often. Running fsck on a crashed/failed partition usually does put some files in there. Maybe I kept using old hardware too long...

NT 4.0 did not crash that often if you rebooted it weekly (not uncommon at the time). And it had a simpler menu.

But I agree about W2000 being peak Windows.

Same with iOS 18, "Windows 2000" was great, then Apple went downhill with iOS 26 "Windows ME"

> I'm not in that city.

Same, it claims Brussels, but I'm in Antwerp. It also got my screen resolution wrong.

What I remember mostly from working in that era, was that managers let engineers make the technical decisions.

I can't speak for all managers obviously, but that's what we want. Now though, suddenly we're expected to contribute code again and C-level is completely ignorant about the tradeoffs they're making. Compounding this is the fact that the feedback loop for the tradeoffs is likely still a year+ away, far longer than their incentives take to materialize.

Thinking of problems before falling asleep does sometimes help me in finding solutions in a dream. Though I may still be half awake when doing this.

It's a well known technique. I first heard about it from Barbara Oakley, so there is probably some neuroscience research done about it.

That may be related or not to the article but Feynman for example wrote a lot about the miracles that the brain can do in the small moments between being awake and being asleep. He thought it unlocked some extra juice and tried to force himself to stay in that moment longer and then to wake up to take notes. You should look into it.