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Anyway anyone who feels attacked by the whole I’d rather a bear thing needs to stop being a pansy little shit.

I mean, the casual misandry stung a bit. Not sure why that’d make me a “pansy little shit”, lmao.

Anyway, the whole thing was ragebait and a big part of the internet fell for it (me included, at least initially).

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Bears do not want to kill you. They want to be left alone.

I’m not a bear, but same.

NostraDavid,
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“Gedeelde smart is halve smart” (shared sorrow is half a sorrow) is a classic Dutch saying. I’ve never thought of the positive form. Good to learn.

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Not very RHELAIable, you say?

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Huh? Did someone claim that???

NostraDavid,
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That’s obviously a randomly generated string.

A bot-ass username would be FirstnameLastnameFourdigitnumber. Sheesh.

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I find it refreshing to write, not generate, HTML and CSS, and then sprinkle some JavaScript for interactivity.

I’ve found hugo to be rather amazing in generating static HTML and CSS (converting either HTML or Markdown templates into regular HTML).

I started out my personal website as:

PS: Have you ever seen TheNet (1995)?

PPS: All the HTML is pretty much all Semantic HTML, instead of Twitter’s div>div>div>div>div

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Too bad you haven’t seen it - my site has a little easter egg from that movie :3

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Only Hugo; I didn’t want to try anything JS based and hugo is faaaaaast in its generation. Sub 1 second fast. It’s so nice.

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Here’s what I remember from Haskell (around 2018):

I love the language, but hate the tooling.

Used it for Uni (did a minor where I learned Haskell, recursion, parsing and regex - probably the most information dense part of school I’ve ever had. Half a year of minor also burned me out, so I never went for my masters; I’m OK with my Bachelors :D ), but never felt like picking it back up.

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Oh wow, looks like the Haskell devs have been hauling ass! Nice!

I remember the language server being a thing already, but it was in some alpha stage back then. Good to know it’s usable now! :D

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Nix(OS) has been leaving Arch’s AUR in the dust too! repology.org/repositories/graphs

It’s pretty wild how many packages are available. Somewhat curious if that includes variants (be it architecture, be it version) and how “few” they would have without those “duplicates” :p

What're some of the dumbest things you've done to yourself in Linux?

I’m working on a some materials for a class wherein I’ll be teaching some young, wide-eyed Windows nerds about Linux and we’re including a section we’re calling “foot guns”. Basically it’s ways you might shoot yourself in the foot while meddling with your newfound Linux powers....

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en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serial_port

Because there’s going to be kids around here who have never seen this port (other than maybe on a Point Of Sale (POS) system?)

'Vortex Cannon vs Drone' - Mark Rober shows off tech from a "defense technology company that specializes in advanced autonomous systems". That seems bad

I’ve enjoyed Mark Rober’s videos for a while now. They are fun, touch on accessible topics, and have decent production value. But this recent video isn’t sitting right with me...

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I just checked his Wikipedia page for his credentials. Worked for 9 years at NASA, of which 7 working on the Curiosity rover (yeah, the one that’s on Mars now).

I’d say that’s credentialed enough.

I too wish he did more complex stuff.

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These claims sound like fantastical conspiracy theory, but they are not. They are proof of conspiracy

That’s not how claims work, buddy.

Lastly, we string these major discoveries together: Cryptocurrency is an economic doomsday device; our government is a secret kleptocracy; The Simpsons exists to brainwash us. From there, the only research we need is critical thinking and we’re able to piece together the true story of our circumstances.

Wait, I thought we were supposed to use that all throughout, not at the very end!?

TL;DR Yeah, the guy clearly had a screw loose. Jumping from unfounded (conspiracy) theory to another. At least he was not a Nazi, I guess - he hated everyone* equally.

  • everyone being “the government”, “Crypo-anything”, even a few billionaires!
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About 2 years ago I wondered the same, so I collected a bunch of data (of ‘who worked on which game’) and used D3.js to make a graph thingy:

https://i.imgur.com/iuCG7wy.png

Downside: It’s up to Shadowlands, not Dragonflight; Also, the few little circles pulled more left are mentioned multiple times in the same Credits, just under different roles.

The thick green circle is Customer Support (though this was before the mass-layoff by MS).

Live version here, but it’s SUPER janky - changing selections will generate a new graph lower down the page.

Raw JSON data here - I had to install Retail WoW (F2P is good enough), dig into the game files to find the .html files that contained the credits and then convert that whole pile of doodoo into JSON.

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The most recent expansion for WoW has been really good.

Vanilla good, Wrath good, or Legion good?

NostraDavid,
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Not really, since those have been the most popular expansions. It’s easiest to measure up to, no?

NostraDavid,
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Have you found appdata/local/Application Data? It’s a “conjunction point” that you can only find via the command line, and only exists for backwards compatibility. It points to appdata/… Do not EVER try to gain access over all your files in appdata/. It’ll break due to that conjunction point.

NostraDavid,
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I just learned the Faroe Islands is connecting all their islands (Exploring New Road Tunnels and Power Generation in Faroese Islands). Even to islands that only have 500 people living there.

I don’t see why the USA couldn’t increase its railway (hell, you can learn from Japan if it needs to be earthquake resistant) starting today.

NostraDavid,
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1 Season, 15 Episodes; Mr Bean is Eternal.

NostraDavid,
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Multiply by Phi (1.6) / the Golden Ratio (still 1.6) to get km.

Typically, this is what you need to know:

100 miles = 160 km 60 miles = 100km

NostraDavid,
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It’s Saturday Night Live. It’s an American Humour* channel by the corpos.

  • the cringy type of humour - I do not understand why people like it. Oh well.
NostraDavid,
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Learn some proper English, you cappie

NostraDavid,
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What infra?

Sorry, I should’ve been explicit that I meant the power grid. You can generate all you want, but if the power grid can’t handle it, you’re shit out of luck :)

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