echindod

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Oh! Don't forget they also funded the Islamic State by buying stolen antiquities. Some of these were even looted from the Iraqi State Museum.

I was thinking about this. JKR is really a terrible writer. All of the later ret-conning to fix the plot holes is worse than just letting the plot holes lie. (like breaking all the time turners so they don't get used again).

But it is amazing how captivating these books are inspite of the fact of how poor they are. It's an imaginative world with exceptionally clear flaws, but one I want to revisit regularly.

But fuck JKR and her shitty politics.

Edit: maybe it's not technically ret-conning. But the whole two book gap or whatever is just so lazy.

I am curious why you think that. I download Bandcamp files and place it on a home server, and I have never had any problems. It is conceivable that they have a tracker or some bull shit connected to it, but more than a little unlikely.

Bandcamp files play fine on non bandcamp-approved playing devices. This is a big win on my book.

Python is powerful because it easily wraps C libraries that do real work! Just kidding mostly.

But yeah, js isn't a language I would describe as powerful. Ubiquitous? More capable than you would expect given it's history? Bloated?

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I worked in an excavating company for a bit. One old crochety guy worked 12 hours every day running an excavator. A younger guy who had stake in the company (also drove an excavator), who never worked more than 8 in a day, looked at him and said: "Why do you only get half as much done, but it takes you twice as long?"

The young guy wasn't wrong. Being tired does slow you down. But yeah, a four day work week in construction, might slow the project down a bit. But they should just hire more people. And on top of that 6 hour days with additional staff would make the work go a lot faster.

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Your not wrong. But hot take: it's better than slack.

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HP sold he DevOne, it had PopOS on it. Dell sells an XPS developer machine that has Ubuntu pre installed. System76, Entroware, and Tuxedo computers have all been selling Linux hardware for a long time. So there are viable commercial options. I wish the DevOne were going to get refreshed, it looks like a nice machine but alas, I don't think it will.

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Fish? I like fish.

Oh gawd. That would be so horrible! Is there a project o compile JavaScript to bytecode? With like LLVM? There must be, but I haven't heard of it. I shouldn't even say anything because I will be better off pretending it doesn't exist.

Oh! I didn't know about this! Thanks for posting it

Same. Same. I know some people use their phones, or GPS devices, but when I'm backpacking, I want a paper map and a compass. I bought two a few months back for planning a trips this summer.

Yeah. Standard rejection emails are good. I have gotten some really nice rejection emails. I haven't dwelt on them long enough to know what sets them apart.

I have gotten a couple of rejections and thought: huh, I forgot I applied there. I have been wanting to do a diagram like this for my current job hunt, but I think I am getting a higher percentage of rejections than OP.

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Just out of curiosity: which do you think is closer to Python? Kotlin or Swift?

Not knowing wither, my hunch would be to say Kotlin. But I am curious.

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I wanna hear about your metal project! Atmospheric, progressive black metal? Send links!

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This album, An Oath to the Void is fucking amazing! I really like it. This is awesome, and I'm still a sucker for those long intros. Bring 'em back I say! This is definitely going into the cart for the next bandcamp friday.

Any chance you will re-release any physical media? (and I am eagerly looking forward to any new music!)

Waaaay out of your proce range, but I absolutely love the Keyboardio Model 100 . https://shop.keyboard.io/products/model-100 it's a really freaking amazing keyboard. The palm key makes typing the brackets and braces and others so much easier.

Great keyboard. I love it.

Pine64's laptops are ARM, but not not RISC-V. they do sell a RISC-V soc (the Star64), but the Rockpro64 chip is ARM.

I want an ARM laptop, but the PinebookPro was a little underpowered for me to use. Some day.

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I'd probably use selenium. But that depends.

Using an LLM to come up with function names for transpiled code would be a good idea, but other than that. Nope.

What is it about go that doesn't feel good? I have this feeling myself.

I didn't enjoy parsing JSON with Go, and I the documentation sucked. But it was really really easy to stand up a simple API endpoint. I would have reached for go for the project I am currently working on, but it didn't have the libraries I needed. It's interesting.

The lack of advertising is a big one, that's for sure. And Dell isn't spending any of their advertisement budget to brag about Linux.

Maybe that's what canonical should spend it's money on rather than snaps :-) (half joking...maybe )

And sometimes coding habits are obtuse to people with different coding habits. These habits aren't bad per service, but can be difficult to grok.

On the one hand, I think you are right, people who know can find a Linux computer if they know where to look. And they should be easier to find. On the other hand, I don't think many people by laptops at Best Buy any more. Maybe if BestBuy had one people would try it and see, but I feel like best buy is the place you go to buy a TV or a charging chord for your phone.

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You can go to the Dell website today and filter by Operating System and select Ubuntu. Through Project Sputnik, Dell has been selling laptops with Ubuntu for over a decade. It's a pretty interesting story, but I couldn't find a summary of it online easily.

This guy's got tiger blood.

And as Teams continue to downgrade it's markdown support, it is becoming less and less appealing. I hate that I can't add language tags to code block with the triple back ticks, but it turns some of my code snippets to emojis. What the fuck man?

Maybe it's because I have only ever been in free plan slack channe's, but I have never understood the appeal. Maybe it's the bots? I looked into making a teams bot, and it was a horrendous experience.

Bidet or washlet? I have a toto washlet that has a built in air dryer. Love the damn thing, but I still use a few squares of toilet paper to make sure it's completely dry.

Lonely Starbucks lovers for the win.

This is an interesting article. I don't know anything about kernel development, but I wonder if it's still true?

I have had a paper map direct me through a gated community. Thankfully the tools in the truck unfastened the hinges. Still bugs me. It was a county road!