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A third alternative, to quote Dirty Harry, is "A man's got to know his limitations." https://youtu.be/CG2cux_6Rcw?is=44LjSt5DpEhY6BWr

It's not impossible that everything in the universe can be explained within the scope of human reason.

Life just seems to exceed that scope, is all.

"The Gästeführer would like a word with you..."

Can confirm for some dumb joke subs.

You want to blow off some steam, and there is a laundry list of rules to read through.

Yeah, not bothering with all that.

I went to a party in Germany some years ago.

It was a birthday for someone.

What was fun was that people all offered jokes or poems or whatever.

I remarked at the quality of the offerings, and was told that there where books of content to choose from. No one has to do all the labor from scratch.

But they do have to interact, and put a bit of themselves in there.

It's an 80/20 problem, and if ine is enough of a genius to be going much past the 20% individual effort, then Bravo!

Just don't phone it in with some 99/1 AI sloppery and look an ass.

Why hasn't AI proposed the ultimate "fair" taxation scheme?

Same vibe.

Plus, there is a very "community" spirit in successful distros.

The Linux version of TempleOS is of clinical interest only.

Case study: Turso[1]

Rewrite the open source SQLite in Rust under an MIT license[2].

Of course, once you complete the core product, there is the extended ecosystem to consider.

[1] https://turso.tech/blog/introducing-limbo-a-complete-rewrite...

[2] https://github.com/tursodatabase/turso

And it’s not like there’s anywhere to go. The real world is strip malls and axe throwing and escape rooms.

While the ersatz realms of AI regress to the mean, religious traditions chug on, bringing joy to adherents.

Find your community of faith.

Nice.

I'm going to go through https://github.com/emacs-tw/awesome-emacs as well as https://www.masteringemacs.org/

I've been on spacemacs.org for a while, but since I've got a Keychron G6 Pro where I can reprogram the caps lock, I'm going to try out some hard-core init.el stylings.

Suggestions welcome.

Really? One more way in which I'm just not a representative sample, I suppose.

I went with feedly whe Google reader died.

The author wants tau=2*pi, but in the Greek alphabet, tau has one vertical stroke, and pi has two.

So, visually in Greek, pi=2*tau would seem an improvement.

Oh, well.

Your reply was as substantive as my original, but I'll upvote you anyway, because there is no point in being a jerk.

Well, there's always

https://grokipedia.com/page/Odin_programming_language

In 1980, 38 percent of private-sector workers had defined-benefit pension coverage. By 2023, that number had fallen to 11 percent. [15] Government workers, who have the political power to maintain the old arrangement, still have pensions at a rate of 75 percent. [15] The private sector abandoned the model because it could. I wish I’d known when I was young what I know now about government jobs.

I wish I'd had better tools for budgeting and retirement accounts.

This argument would have much more heft if it discussed 401k accounts and financial planning.

Everybody's "Blatantly Obvious To A Casual Observer" (BOTACO) solution is somebody else's "Scam Amounting to Large Amounts of Dollars" (SALAD).

I just got a really great keyboard...except that the space bar and my Linux distro don't get along at all.

So now I have a surprise deep-dive to make this thing usable.

It's a Nietszchean Bargain: that which doesn't kill you makes you stronger.

C99 isn’t a compiler.

Sure, but the pojt here is that if we say "Write in X" we generally understand it to mean "Treat X like a standard and don't get too colloquial with the stylings."

Pedantry is worthwhile, but it can be a diminishing returns game.

The whole discussion consistently fails to acknowledge that, in a day where we have a Supreme Court Justice who cannot define "woman", education devolves into anarchy.

Surf the chaos, bro.

Open Source puts the onus on the user to know what they are doing.

The learning curve is not too vertical on the established components, but stand by on the New Shiny.

Not sure how to vote for it, though.

As I am fond of saying: "The good news about Open Source is that you've got the source code; the bad news about Open Source is that _you've_ got the source code."

That is, you may well get sucked down a rabbit hole in order to accomplish a simple task.

A montage is a fantastic device in a movie.

But a montage about weight lifting does not a body builder make.

I read PyNomo as "Py no mo' " and was overcome by a feeling of loss.

I'm generally encouraging my two high schoolers toward:

- trades

- military service

...or some blend of the two, i.e. SeaBees or Army Corps of Engineers.

White collar/tech chops are fine as far as they go, but know how to swing a hammer or turn a wrench, say I.

Eschew debt; remain sober; stay married (not in the modern, ersatz sense); be a productive member of the community of faith.

Ain't no magic.

I didn't know what WEB was, but I thought the dots were related.

This is the conundrum: do the chemicals enhance or detract?

Would Coleridge have delivered "Kublai Khan" without dope?

The answer is ambiguous, but I'll take sobriety, thank you.

No, and it's not KJV. Maybe NKJV? I searched

Eccl7:13 "Consider the work of God: for who can make that straight, which he hath made crooked?"

and it came back with:

Ecclesiastes 7:12-15 For wisdom is a defense, even as money is a defense; but the excellency of knowledge is that wisdom preserves the life of him who has it. Consider the work of God, for who can make that straight which he has made crooked? In the day of prosperity be joyful, and in the day of adversity consider; yes, God has made the one side by side with the other, to the end that man should not find out anything after him. All this I have seen in my days of vanity: there is a righteous man who perishes in his righteousness, and there is a wicked man who lives long in his evildoing.