“I never thought the leopards would eat my face!”

Whoever made this needs to redirect their efforts to the energy sector.

If there’s another January 6th, hopefully the folks who want to participate in the insurrection travel to Washington State, not DC.

Israel is The Combine from Half-life 2, and Gaza is City 17, gradually being destroyed and taken over.

I seriously don’t understand how anybody is OK with this whole “Israeli settlement” bullshit.

What a fucking tragedy. A complete lack of justice.

I am reminded of TST tenet 2: The struggle for justice is an ongoing and necessary pursuit that should prevail over laws and institutions.

Tail up!

Face in the grass

That’s the way I shoot

Stank funk from my ass

Two morally confused egotistical millionaires (billionaires?) scheming together in a jail cell? This can not be good.

Why on earth would they need to excavate a balloon?

This is my go-to reading light https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08GG42WXY

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“Short enough to finish in a day” seems pretty tough for me, but maybe I read slowly.

Short story books are good for casual reading in short sessions. Robot Dreams by Asimov, or Welcome to the Monkey House by Vonnegut. I used to carry each of those around and read a short story while waiting at a restaurant or at the DMV or whatever.

I really liked Altered Carbon. Approachable sci fi with drugs, violence, sex, politics, and of course high tech ideas like flying cars, AI hotels, digital consciousness.

Asimov is so, so good. I first got into him by reading his collection of short stories Robot Dreams. It’s really approachable, and because it’s all short stories there’s no long term commitment or sense of letdown if you decide to stop reading halfway through the book.

Sally was particularly interesting (though not the best story in the book). I was working at a self driving car startup when I read it, and it was amazing that in 1954 Asimov predicted robotaxis that we were trying to build.

This is something I’ve played a little bit with in Forza Horizon, and after reading these comments, I think it would be cool if they added emissions as a metric in their engine simulations. Of course I’m sure that would also lead to folks rolling coal in-game.

Yeah, tell us about foraging for tiny mushrooms.

If it’s anything like the difference between the ten commandments and the seven tenets, political satanism sounds pretty good.

Also it should be a comma, not a hyphen.

You can if you want to increase the average…

“And Türing answered another,” Rudy said.

“Who’s that?”

“It’s me,” Alan said. “But Rudy’s joking. ‘Turing’ doesn’t really have an umlaut in it.”

“He’s going to have an umlaut in him later tonight,” Rudy said, looking at Alan in a way that, in retrospect, years later, Lawrence would understand to have been smoldering.”

I couldn’t even believe Neal Stephenson wrote that.

And yeah, Alan Turing was awesome and he was treated horribly.

It’s really just free the nipple, which highlights how ridiculous it is. Even more so when you see images where male nipples have been pasted over female nipples, which would theoretically make those images ok.

Also, real estate holding funds are going to take a hit when the cost of those towers decreases. All in all it will be financial market value that is lost in exchange for increased human wellbeing. Good for the little guys, not so good for The Man.

BSD is a solid second choice in my experience. For a while I was considering using it as my primary platform, but in the last 10 years all i’ve done at work is linux, so that tipped me into linux. I haven’t used BSD in a long time though, so my answers about what BSD has that linux does not have are outdated, as most of the things I loved on BSD are now found in some form on linux. Though I do love some of the CLI tools like diskutil. In general though, I’ve always found the GNU core utils and the tooling in linux that follows the same patterns to be really user friendly. It also drives me crazy that common tools like awk, sed, date, etc. are inconsistent between BSD and GNU, and I prefer the GNU syntaxes. (Yes, you can install GNU core utils on BSD and other platforms, but that’s nonstandard, and why would I do that for daily driving when I can choose a platform that uses the GNU toolchain as the standard?)

Like @kata1yst@sh.itjust.works said, BSD brought a lot to the table in the last 20 years, zfs being a big one. FreeBSD 8 and 9 were the last BSDs I ran, and zfs was a big part of that. Once we got zfs on linux, I went back to full linux. dtrace was also a huge one, and giving that up was hard, but now linux has strace.

I’m just so over AIX, HPUX, and Solaris. I’m glad I got experience with them and less so a few others like irix and sys-v. Working with Sun hardware was particularly eye opening, like being able to hot swap processors and memory, things I had never imagined. But since about 2012 I have deliberately steered my career away from all unixes except linux, and waaaaaay away from anything windows related, going so far as to take everything windows related off my resumé.