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    4 days ago

    The concept of a bloodline is incoherent.

    Since the number of direct ancestors doubles every generation you go back, individual lineage is closer to a bowl of spaghetti than a family tree.

    Every generation you go back, you share less and less genetic markers. You share exactly 50% of your DNA with each parent, about 25% with each grandparent etc. Eventually you’ll find a direct ancestor with whom you share no DNA markers. It’s 12 generations back, on average.

    So, go back a few hundred years, and you’re not genetically related to anybody. Go back a thousand, and everyone’s list of ancestors is indistinguishable.










  • It’s funny that elevation of permissions is something handled elegantly in Linux since forever, but M$ just can’t make it happen.

    UAC is slow, ineffective, and inconsistent. But even when you turn it off you find some directories are off limits still. Even while you can vandalize regedit and gpedit all day long.

    The “hello Windows” system of pins and bio-metrics may be an improvement, IDK. I liked using a PIN for logins and stuff right up until I needed the real password for something.

    Or maybe that’s the problem: the fact that M$ handles elevation of permission in 6 different and contradictory ways that all have to be backward comparable.