I guess the singularity is coming in the ugliest way possible.

I was wondering why my AUR packages won’t update, just my luck.

For those who tried it, how good is the Calc (Excel equivalent) and Impress (PowerPoint equivalent)?

I have to use MS products at work and use Collabora (on Linux) at home. Sometimes, I have to edit the same spreadsheet at home and at work and that usually works flawlessly, besides automatic coloring. Now, I also don't try to code in Excel, so that might be one reason. Excel graphs are also nicer.

Here is a comparison by the Document Foundation for spreadsheets [1]. I think it speaks for itself.

Regarding Powerpoint I can't say. I can't recall when I last used Powerpoint for anything. We have an in-house system where I just select slide type, enter my text and attach pictures in a form and it builds a CI-styled PDF for me. I think its basically a LaTeX front-end, but I never cared.

HTH

[1] https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Feature_Comparison:_Libr...

I can fill in my opinion of Impress <-> Powerpoint.

It's atrocious primarily due to MS not following open ODF. Everything is out of wack, dot point have different shapes, and spacing is wrong.

Impress is also not all that great. It's defaults are generally ugly, its auto sizing breaks and the animation pane is buggy.

Calc is much better. Writer is decent compatibility with MS

That’s just describing wealth.

Yup, which is why I have more faith in the US than the rest of the world.

Never thought about the possibility that I AM the Boltzmann brain.

I never thought about the possibility that my Boltzmann brain simulates other entities thinking they're the real Boltzmann brain. What arrogant solipsists I imagine into existence. :p

The book Saturn Run has an interesting design utilized for a spaceship.

The AI bubble bursts when he stumbles to get that money.

With the arccos it would be uniform. It only bunches towards the poles when you pick phi as pi v.

Are they going to pay tax on the withdrawal? No way to avoid it, right?

Depends on the fund’s structure and its performance. For all we know the investor was in the red.

Question from a peasant: what does this YC GP do everyday otherwise, if he needs to save minutes from replying those emails?

Seriously. To be in such a privileged position and be wasting time bending a computer to do all the little things which eventually amount into meaningful relationships.

These guys are min-maxing newgame+ whilst the rest of us would be stoked to just roll credits.