For reproduction purposes, many parasites require a specific host to reproduce in. An interesting example is a worm that mind controls a snail and gets itself eaten by a bird, and then reproduces in the bird. Surprisingly, both the snail and the bird survive this process. (Granted, the difference between this and a virus is the virus uses the RNA decoding infrastructure in the infected cell to reproduce itself, while a parasite just is adapted to reproducing in the environment of the hosts body, but uses its own cells to do the reproduction).

However, there are many, many examples in nature of some essential task (often some part of the energy production/absorption process) that are done by a different organism. Some particularly interesting examples:

• there are a handful of animals that eat plants, absorb the chloroplasts, and use those to do photosynthesis

• In most animals, even in humans, a lot of the digestion process is done by bacteria living in your digestive tract. Some illnesses are caused by issues with the digestive tract bacteria, such as them dying out.

There are other animals adapted to living in environments or using things produced by other organisms. Hermit crabs get their name from their behavior of borrowing shells created by other organisms.

Really the only organism that can truly live “by itself” would probably be something like algae.

That’s fair. App Store as the GUI equivalent of a package manager makes sense.

There are plenty of organisms we generally consider “alive” that can’t replicate or do other key functions without other organisms.

You need a browser to install a packages manager on Windows or Mac.

(Unless you’ve memorized the urls you need and can use curl)

I’m on an airplane or a train

Protecting your network from internet-bound threats is one of the most important jobs of a router, and that involves receiving security updates. Once your router no longer receives security updates, you should stop using it.

I used to do that but using eating out as an excuse to walk ends with me spending a lot more money on eating out than I should.

Survey people who are likely to have that information, such as parents or doctors.

I once messed up something I was writing by hand and instinctually wanted to press ctrl+z

With the purchase of any ship (the cheapest ones being $45) you get to play the game and fly the ship(s) you bought in-game.

TLDR it’s a $45 game with microtransactions

Those billion dollars come from people buying the game and playing it in its current state.

You can go buy it right now, where do you think the 700m has come from?

This will be useful if you are trying to let multiple people share your computer remotely. If you are trying to set up personal game streaming for one client at a time, try Moonlight and Sunshine (more mature, easier to setup, works on any hardware).

While conflicts of interest can and do exist, a lot of, if not most, science is done by grad students who are just trying to get their degree and are really there because they are passionate about discovering new things more than anything else.

Not voting for either is a statement that they are equal. That you wouldn’t prefer one over the other.

Nvidia game stream is no longer being maintained, although it’s still present in the current versions of GeForce Experience.

The Moonlight/Sunshine projects are open source implementations of Nvidia’s Game Stream protocol and they support non-Nvidia cards.

And those who didn’t expect the joke to be in base 3

The A button is already the largest button so it had to be stopped

It’s worse than that, actually. They made the damage buff last 8 seconds after you leave well so it’s going to be more viable in encounters like Rhulk where well previously wasn’t viable because you had to move. With the update you just have to touch the well every 8 seconds to refresh the buff.

Well + bubble changes are going to make both mandatory in most raids, which is not what warlocks wanted.