5. set it on fire again in 90 days

should just be a matter of saying “AI can’t do this job because it can’t properly do any job”. could even make that your email signature.

i’m going to start saying this at every thanksgiving. if anyone questions me i’ll just say i’m the acting thanksgiving director.

Freedom is ethical — it minimizes coercion — and practical — it drives creativity, invention, and prosperity.

this is a very interesting sentence to find in a post that outlines the ways in which the opinion page will be losing some of its editorial freedom.

Despite polygraphs’ unreliability, DHS insists they are necessary for national security.

in keeping with tradition, “national security” continues to mean “because i say so”.

damn, google+ wasn’t even mentioned

god it is going to take forever to rebuild the government, if we’re even given that opportunity. it’s going to be years of finding out just how terribly trump messed things up.

if OP is using gentoo then there is a very real chance they aren’t able to take screenshots yet.

back in my gentoo days it took a while to get that set up. although it wasn’t exactly a top priority

everything is simple once you know how to do it. i think a lot of the arch recommenders likely don’t realize how difficult some of these things can be the first time. it’s the same with any kind of specialized knowledge i think. it’s one of the reasons why teaching can be difficult. but the arch community has been super helpful in my experience

could pringles be the new face of gaming?

i feel like ubisoft has been having really cool ideas for games pretty consistently for the past decade. (in the sense that every game has a cool elevator pitch.) but then, every time, they ruin those ideas by making the most bland and generic open world game with the most boring stories, dialogue, and gameplay systems imaginable. it’s like the creativity behind their games is forbidden to develop past the elevator pitch.

this is particularly noticeable with the assassins creed games i think. super cool ideas for settings, time periods, and main characters, etc. but every time, they find a way to turn the games into the most boring and generic slop imaginable. there’s just so much wasted potential.

god, what a beautiful language. it brings a tear to my eye

i will never forgive C for making the type syntax be

char* args[]

instead of the much more reasonable

&[char] args 

it also bothers me that char* args[] and char c are “the same type” in the sense that the compiler lets you write

char c, *args[5];

with no problems. i think the C languages would be way easier to learn if they had better type syntax. don’t even get me started on C++ adding support for

auto fn_name() -> ReturnType { … }

Trump says he will announce 25% steel and aluminum tariffs Monday

it sounds to me like he announced them today

my microwave beeps if you hit the cancel button. it makes me avoid using it.

a 10 second warning is not a mercy i would bestow upon him

even if something like this doesn’t pass, who would stop trump if he tried to run for a third term? i thought that there was already good reason to disqualify him on the grounds of treason this past election, and nobody stopped him. it seems to me like the government will be much more openly corrupt in 4 years. so i’m not hopeful about there being anyone to enforce these sorts of laws by then.

No crawlers ever go there.

if it makes you feel any better, i would go there if i was a web crawler.

i think that’s fair point. language does work both ways, and i am certainly not in the majority with this opinion. but what bothers me is that it feels like they’re changing the definition of the word and piggybacking off of its old meaning. i know this kind of thing isn’t all that uncommon, but it still rubs me the wrong way.

it’s 120gb which is less than i was expecting but still way too much. i have no idea what the call of duty games could possibly be doing to justify 240gb. its utterly insane. that’s more than like 4,500 times the size of quake 1.