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[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 weeks ago (4 children)

The good news: I don't drive anymore

The bad news: I did that shit because I grew up on an intersection with a real bad angle, so the only way to see both directions was to angle the car flat with the road I was turning onto. Then, even after moving, I did it because it gives better visibility.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago

Yo, the Elder hot sauce is great, though. I went online to buy more a few months after I saw them, lol

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 weeks ago

Hmm, perhaps I got lucky with my one work shirt - it was already a light red, and I didn't notice any dimming when I used a bunch of hydrogen peroxide on it to get a handful of blood out. Maybe it's just darker things?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 weeks ago

There never was, all the way back to day one. Any given "operation" may or may not have overlapped in membership. The name is literal, and always has been; but with it comes a set of meanings and tropes (the mask, "we will not forgive, we will not forget, we are legion") that a given actor taking the name can invoke as a call to action for others, or use to simply mask their identity.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Most recent they passed the Inflation Reduction Act in '21, which gets me 30%* off my solar panels among a bunch of good moves for the country re: medication costs and the world re: global warming, and was voted against by every Republican.

Because of the level of polarization we have today, Republicans that vote with Dems worry about being primaried out of their seat, so the Republicans are against everything the Dems do anyway. It's impossible not to be defined by the phrase "not that guy" when "that guy" does the opposite of what you do on purpose.

Edit: bump from 20-> 30% Thanks Dempf!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

Pretty much incapable of visualizing, even the simple apple experiment, but have loved reading since I was a kid. I've found myself when reading skimming a lot of the description sections and mostly following the dialogue, where most of the meat in books actually happens. I actually don't think I'd be able to write a book for the reason that I couldn't do the description section.

In my case I was read to sleep every night before bed when younger, so perhaps it was positive association that made it stick with me?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

I do this for the same reasons - and also, snooze emails until two weeks before an event, then a week before the event, then a few days before the day of the event in order to keep reminding myself it's going to happen.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

That's most of what we do today.

Every web app you use right now - which is most of your day for most users - is just a dumb terminal UI hitting some API on some foreign computer.

Plan 9 uses the file system as a way of interacting with apis. Linux took this idea directly by copying in the/proc filesystem from 9, which are not bytes on a disk but are instead the kernel presenting its running processes in the format of files and directories in your file namespace, and with which you can interact to control those processes.

It also took this idea and created FUSE - file systems in user space - so that you can do the same thing on Linux as a user, but with not quite the same ease you have on plan 9 - and notably, fuse file systems are not naturally network file systems, and so you can't export them as easily to the network as you can with nine machines, where it's implicit.

Last, Linux took the idea of per-process namespaces from 9, setting the stage for all of the docker, snap, etc. tools we use today.

In short, a lot of nine already is mainstream because it's been adopted by Linux. However, using plan 9 and then returning back to Linux feels like putting on bulky gloves, because Linux did not start with these concepts in mind, but bolted them on after.

/Tinyrant

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

Looks sharp. Definitely link some sounds when you've got things running

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago

Grab the pills when you get a chance. The whole milk only has enough vitamin d to offset the amount used by your body to use the calcium in the milk, so it's net zero additional vitamin d in your diet to drink fortified vitamin D milk. If you're like me, you'll feel a significant difference.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 3 months ago (2 children)

As an old, learning the new slang is a wonderful chance to learn words of power that will make everyone around you flinch under their force.

Utter a "that's bussin for real," and watch those around you fall to their knees, and add a "poggers" to hear them wail and grind their teeth. Sprinkle a "skibidi" in to really drive things home.

You're missing out on true power here.

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