Reads like a non-story: There is no quote with praise for Russian imperialism. The only real quote is one not endorsing imperialistic notions.

In general, the Vatican appears to support Ukraine.

Not a good answer, but I would try to reschedule the interview.

Otherwise a power nap and/or a cold shower. Plus no food.

Ah, yes the memories. I followed it pretty closely, happily forgot most of it. I’m somehow reminded of Groklaw.

A case could probably be made for either side. Russia supposedly has done this before in Georgia

A lot of speculation, uncertainty and hypotheticals. The west will continue to support Ukraine against Russia.

My favorite is The Fifth Element. Love it. Another great movie is The Apartment with Jack Lemmon and Shirley MacLaine

Voyager 2 is one of the coolest achievements of all time. Are there any efforts under way for anything similar with modern tech?

RIP. A legend.

How so? More essential than the Earth?

Why? I would rather have preservation on earth, than on the moon.

We probably should be training the students to use the AI as a tool

A job with very low responsibility, and very high salary.

I used NixOS for a couple of years. My experience is like this:

1. It is a rolling release (mostly)
2. You write a declarative configuration for your system, e.g., my config will say I want Neovim with certain plugins, and I can also include my Neovim configuration
3. It is stable, and when it breaks it is easy to go back
4. Packages are mostly bleeding edge