D'ya know, I did, and I was assuming the convention that asterisks wrapped in non-white space wouldn't mark-up, and only now that you mentioned it do I see how it rendered. Thanks! I'll edit
Agree here. I feel like Elon Musk and his ilk shouldn't be allowed to enjoy any of Iain Banks's works, since they are ideologically so opposed to everything he's demonstrated himself to be in favour of. But really I'm probably making excuses for myself -- I just don't like it when people I think are cs enjoy things that I enjoy, whilst remaining cs
Yeah, sure, but it's obviously a matter of degree. Ketamine is illegal to use in certain scenarios and also a front-line medical treatment. Chocolate, OTOH, has absolutely no restrictions that I'm aware of. I admit that I'm just nitpicking language choice here, though, and there was no need for me to say anything
Are they completely legal though? They're age-restricted everywhere I can think of, and you can't drive or operate heavy machinery under their influence. So they're, like, legal but with a couple of caveats?
If you don't add chlorine to your water supply, it has a tendency to harbour some much worse stuff. Like cholera. And the level to which water is artificially fluorinated is much lower that it is naturally in many places. Just 'pure' water would be a terrible idea
. philosophy is important, but implementation is importanter
Yes. This is the key
The only reason I give the slightest slightly green toilet-bowl-staining shit about this is because it upsets him and he deserves to be upset
As I want you to be
Yeah ok fine this is a pretty contentious point and you make the other side well. I was thinking more 'being aggressive' and such rather than 'revealing bigotism'.
I'd be fucked because I work on and use OSS multiple times a day, and have no idea what a distributed maven central looks like
No idea why this is such a common belief. If you're masking being a belligerent cunt, then you're not being a beligerent cunt. The only people whose behaviour I trust are those who care about their behaviour being as such - at least you know they're fucking trying
I don't mind a bullshit meme, most memes are bullshit. Sometimes the bullshittery itself is the funny bit, or to put it another way, there are times like this where the absurdity of it is what's funny to me. Like, Linux's kill levels operate, as they must, as advice to the running process, because the os has no insight or capability as to how to gracefully close a process - nor should it. It's an impossible task to know what safe cleanup looks like. But I like the image of the Linux penguin shooting Firefox tbqh
One task lifecycle management tool to bring them all, one tool to find them. One tool to rule them all and in the darkness bind them.
German, for example, uses them
Thank you for mentioning the purge
Stupid, sexy memes. Throbbing memes. Nostalgic memes. Memes about nostalgic meme, deep fried to jpg crispness. Demotivational memes. A dead baby joke, from a GeoCities site in 2001, hosted by a 12 year old. The face of your late grandmother, with a penis on it. Some really good nine inch nails live recordings. Your first wank at the family computer, late at night, discovering porn. Your friend half a world away, who to this day you've never met and can't be sure wasn't a catfish. Half Life 2, downloaded from limewire, with some shady crack that edited your registry.
Memes.
They're not though are they. Remember the pain of the last time you tried to write a portable sed then just gave up and used a `perl -pe'? That's real. We've all been there.
Jesus Christ, shots fired over here