All of my friends joke about going in together on buying some property and starting a commune. It’s a passing joke but in the back of our minds I think we’re all seriously considering it. Logistics is the only reason it hasn’t already happened

Or debian stable, for all the reliability of ubuntu without the drama

Yes, on both platforms.

I wrote some open source software and looked into how to make that not happen. It’s not easy on Microsoft, and on Apple it costs more than a $100/year!

This attitude is exactly WHY the US failed to actually convert back in the 70s

interestingly enough, there is an incident where a unit conversion cause a spacecraft to crash.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mars_Climate_Orbiter

NASA specifies that companies who work with NASA should use metric units as a part of the contract. Lockheed produced software that output in imperial units and it caused the orbiter to flame out.

Why are you bringing the British into this? What did they do to you?

As an American, anyone who claims the Imperial system is better about anything is lying or stubborn. An argument could be barely made for Fahrenheit and even then it’s not worth it.

I definitely thought “hmm, this one feels very out of character for Rembrandt” but would never have thought there were any other painters with that name—thank you for pointing this out!

Also apparently and unsurprisingly the Peale Rembrandt was named for the van Rijn.

I’m not as familiar with the regional variations of ramen! This looks delicious. Mind sharing what some of the distinctions of it are compared to other tonkotsu-style broths?