Time to sell Tesla to xAI

Do programmers actually like bash?

I’m not a programmer and I really don’t like bash. Not because I don’t like shell. In fact I do like fish as a shell. But bash always feels super weird. Unfortunately that’s kind of the compatibility baseline on Linux (I don’t think any relevant system needs strict sh compatibility). But better bash’s weird arrays than none at all, plus process substitution is handy.

Most bash scripts are nasty, except for the most simple ones.

In its defense, it’s not a programming language.

And there’s no record that they did. Talk about missing a great opportunity

Tariffs in my opinion can be a way to protect a given national industry against price dumping, especially when subsidies are involved, or if you have a specific capability in mind that you want to build nationally, but then I think subsidies are a better way, maybe in combination. But putting blanket tariffs against countries is in most cases not the best idea

What about tortoisegit

The equivalent to Plex is Jellyfin I think, Plex can be used as a media server for Kodi.

The CD wasn’t really suited to be played Mobile (though I did have a portable CD player). It should rather be compared to vinyl in that regard.

I think tapes are great because no portable audio player ever came close to the Walkman regarding its cultural impact. The fact that anyone could record tapes opened up a lot of creative options.

For properly mastered music to be enjoyed at home on a potentially expensive setup, the CD was very close to perfect.

careful there buddy

This is what people always seen to ignore about YouTube. It’s not just another database frontend to use generated content. That is definitely part of it, but behind that is probably the largest public facing content library on the Internet with a full video recoding infrastructure attached. YouTube is the platform for which I understand that they need to monetize.

Sure, nowadays there’s also tiktok as another big video service. But I like to think that YouTube is way bigger in most metrics.

SSRIs and SNRIs helped a lot of people, going after them is a recipe for disaster.

Sure, I’d prefer if fewer people needed them, and they do have downsides. But in my opinion, the reasons for the mental conditions that require treatment are mostly societal, and there are no signs of these improving.

What’s the alternative going to be? Tricyclics? Therapy for everyone? I suspect it’s a “fuck you” to everyone affected.

My only hope is that he’ll actually push for legalisation of psychedelics which in some cases might offer an alternative, though they come with their own downsides (e.g. a friend of mine is on SSRIs but probably couldn’t replace them with psychs for his depression because he had panic attacks and could be at risk for psychosis).

Luckily we aren’t US citizens.

But think about the 5 MB they saved!

I think SW Republic Commando sounds were stored in Vorbis. Back then.

Unreal Tournament also used Vorbis starting from either 2003 or 2004.

You can use the model yourself on your own hardware, offline, no Indians required.

One day, the tables will turn.

That day will be a test of character

Why some people are like this? Don’t know and trying to make sense of it is often futile, especially if you’re caught in the relationship yourself and as such have only a limited / warped perspective… all I can say is that his behavior is extremely sickening.

Everyone deserves love, empathy and compassion from their parents - I’m sorry that your father seems incapable of that, but none of that is your fault.

Why would you be a coward for avoiding a conflict where if he was a normal person wouldn’t be any issue whatsoever? There is nothing to gain in that situation

Play the game along on a minimal emotional level, get out as soon as possible and let it be a lesson how to never turn out.

Using this for future family scam attempts lol

Also sorry that your father has no empathy

The iced latte incident. Just like back in 'Nam

If smart people love libreoffice, then I must be dumb. Working with it always seems weird and I never like it.

Fortunately, I can use LaTeX for work; it is far from without issues but while being arcane sometimes (especially when tables are involved), it never really upsets me and the result looks very good. I can say neither for libreoffice or MS office. But at least the former doesn’t charge for the experience.

I hope typst gains more traction; it seems really intuitive compared to TeX and you don’t necessarily need a macro package. And while it doesn’t produce the quality of TeX-based systems yet, it is already good. Then again, Knuth’s goal first and foremost goal was quality (and it shows); the system just had to be usable by him.