Of course once they arrive and population expands we can expect random mutations to build up over the next 100k years or so. If you can last that long.

There are lots of options. Honest jeweler buyers (likely including your local jewelry store and pawn shows - which might be dishonest in other ways but not that) are notified by the local police when jewelry is stolen and they consult the latest description list when buying and inform the police if anything is on that list.

So as a criminal your options are: use it yourself (either wear it, or as gifts to friends); sell in a different city where hopefully it isn’t on the list; sell it to someone who doesn’t care that it is stolen; sell to a fence (who will in turn sell it to someone); melt it down for the metals (gold and silver) and jewels.

Note that buyers of metals are also on the list of those watching for stolen goods. If you bring “a lot” of something to anyone buying metals expect questions. Metals are easy to melt and hard to trace, but if you are selling more than the average person is likely the police will be told to check you out. Often the point of a “fence” is to mix your illegal gold with legal gold and sell to locals jewelers who think everything is legal.

As other have said jewels are cut.

You lose a lot of value in all of the above. Jewelry is already way overpriced in general (that is the value is much less than you pay), and hiding your tracks is hard. It is really hard to make this type of crime pay because the police are good at their job.

FreeBSD - it won’t be easy, but I’ve been a BSD guy at heart for decades… You will learn a lot and eventually be able to create better systems, but it will be years before you should risk putting anything important on a system - as a noob you have a lot to learn the hard way. Once you think you know FreeBSD you should try the other BSDs, and things like gentoo linux: you will really learn how this works.

You can follow the advice of the others and get a system going sooner. It isn’t a wrong choice, but you won’t learn as much and if something doesn’t work the way you want you are stuck since you can’t dare change anything. As such I have to advice against it despite all the time/effort my advice will cost you.

The typical cop will never use his gun except during the mandatory training exercises. When they don’t need lethal force there are better tools for the job. Their uniform alone is often enough, in more difficult cases their baton is used regularly - while it could be lethal it is a lot easier to control the force to ensure it isn’t, once in a while a Taser, though the cops I’ve known never needed their taser outside of exercises.

We need cops to have all the tools they need on hand for their job, but each one adds weight and so limits their ability to the the job. Since there are already several good non-lethal tools they use, adding one that isn’t going to be used often isn’t worth it. They still should have the last resort lethal force tool - but typically it is a backup they never need. (TV shows do not show the reality of being a cop)

You can start with used but modern x86 - the n100 line - has very low power usage and will long term be a better investment. A pi is about the same cost once you get the accessories needed and uses as much power to get work done, but can do less work. (If the computers are idel the pi wins)

I had found that. A lot of projects are early releases that have not been touched in years - is that because they are stable or because the author gave up before making them useful? Which is why I want not a list but an opinion from someone else doing this.

That depends on exactly what you hit. Some things are quick and cheap, some things are expensive and slow. They are often located near each other.

I have enough of a machinist background to doubt the threads are anywhere close to perfect. However if you are saying more than good enough I will agree.

It can go on for a long time as Russia has a lot of bodies they don’t care about. Ukraine could bring the numbers up, but only through the death of their own people as well: they currently judge this is the best for them. What we really need is Russian Artillery - once that runs out Ukraine has a larger advantage (particular if EU plans to deliver artillery start happening - ideally in vastly larger numbers than current plans)

i have never heard of that. Which doesn’t mean much as there are thousands of differet christian churches and they disagree on many things.

They seem to have run out of tanks about a year ago. They of course have thousands left, but they now have to consider the risk that a tank might be destroyed today and thus not usable tomorrow. They still use tanks, and lose a few, but they no longer take risks with tanks without considering the costs and so they don’t use nearly as many as they used to because they want to preserve those they have left.

We generally expect the same is happened to artillery about now, though we don’t know exactly when. They get to choose how many they will risk.

If we can hit it when enough leaders are in meetings there and kill them that would be useful. If we hit it at night when nobody (except janitors) is there there is no value.

Or is it better to save a few bucks now and save it for next year when something new comes out that is faster anyway. Maybe there is a new codec that matters in 3 years but nothing today supports: so either way you are forced to replace your server.

There is no right answer, you are taking your chances when planning for the future. There are many computers more than 10 years old still working just fine in the world, and it is possible that whatever you buy today will be as well. We get enough press releases that we can predict what will happen next year close enough, but in 5 years we have much less information. There is no way to know if saving money is a good choice today or not. I can come up with scenarios either way.

Look at power use. Often last generation hardware uses more power for the things you do today and so the few dollars you save today are made up with in the power bill over the next couple years. (though if you use that new hardware to do something the old couldn’t do the new will use more power!)

If there is only a few dollars difference in price go for the best. However when there are hundreds or even thousands of dollars it becomes a harder decision.

EU has more people than the US and similar levels of wealth. They could choose to spend as much as the US on winning war if they wanted to. They don’t because you can’t just spend on everything you want, there are always trade offs and compromises (inflation and standard of living are the most likely to be compromised if you don’t think about them). The EU is now faced with the likelihood that they must spend more on defense and in turn compromise something else - this is a hard problem.

I’m not sure. I get the impression the factory is just an easy to setup assembly line, attack it and a new one will pop up elsewhere quick. The real target needs to be the sub assemblies that need complex machinery to make and are done in a different factory.

Note that the above is just a guess based on what I know about manufacturing and the few pictures we have seen of the factory (which might not even be the real factory!)

A casualty is not always a death, it just means that someone is no longer able to fight. Russia has been sending people with a broken arm back to the front at times, so some people may be counted twice in that million. Traditionally one 1/3rd are death, but Russia has often been much higher. I’m not aware of anyone publishing data on how many Russians are dead. 1 million causalities is a large number, and it is the best data we have (at least public data): when other sources publish numbers it is generally close (or we have reason to think the other source is making up numbers). However it doesn’t mean what it appears to.

Fiber makes a big difference with fruit. it slows down absorbtion on often sugars are locked in fiber needing time.

Glucose affects the gi it is absorbed directly into the bloodstream. Futose cannot be used directly and so the liver processes it - no gi index applies.

Sucrose generally implies no fiber and so the simplification works fine. With the added constraint that only half of the molecule is glucose and influences the gi index.

that is as far as I know things so I need to stop. Even then I’ll stand corrected if an expert weighs in (though it is more likely the ‘expert’ is self proclaimed and really knows less than me so I place a high burdon of proff for correcting me despite this not being where I’m an expert)

Sugar - sucrose - is split into frutose and glucose in the stomach. your whole thesis is not how digestion works. Frucose is processed in the liver, but all other claims are something I’ve never seen real science back up

Posix combatibility should be the goal, and breaking GNUisms isia good thing. BSD and GNU have always been slightly different. (Once upon a time I’d talk about sysV but that seems dead now). Either write posix or be clear that you dependion GNU - depending on something without being clear is a bad thing.

i don’t think rust coreutils are posix compatible either, but that is the bugs they should be working on first (ane they are clear that they have a lot of such bugs so I can’t blame them)

There is a lot of great music that I’ve never heard. (there is even more bad “music”) Once in a while I want to hear something different, and streaming does that for me. Not well, but I have a hard time finding something better.