no honor among grifters

I’m sure he has lots more candy in the back of his van

no worries, I do hate you for who you voted for

when they aren’t directly obstructing him

Utilities Have Been Lying to Us About Gas Stoves Since the 1970s

aimed at beginners who confuse “hasn’t been updated for a year” with “hasn’t needed to be updated for a year”

once you have some experience under your belt, these are non-issues:

• deciding to “learn Linux” the hard way by starting with a specialized distro (Slackware, Gentoo, Alpine)
• switching to unstable or testing branches before you’re ready ’cause you want bleeding edge or “stable is too far behind”
• playing around with third-party repositories before understanding them (PPAs in Ubuntu, AUR in Arch)
• bypassing the package manager (especially installing with curl | sudo sh)
• changing apps for no other reason than “it hasn’t been updated for a year”

BSD community seems to like snac2

TIL: “desperation” = “ambition”

Shantanu Narayen’s still not giving you a free license

Let’s Talk About Thalidomide

cell phone providers can, they just won’t (would eat into their profits)

and most of the home internet sold as “unlimited” was a scam – if you started to get too close to some hidden value, they would start throttling your connection

“Itty Bitty Baby Hands and the Skipping Dipshit”

after a 14 hour plane ride, the existential threat of transporters seems a lot less important …

considering how much Finland loves rally racing …

• with the year being 365.24219 days you don’t get a lot of factors to work with (365 ⇒ 1, 5, 73, 365)
• there have been various proposals for perennial calendars – in a perennial calendar, months always start on the same day, have the same number of days, no worries about “last Thursday of the month” calculations for holidays
  • if you deal with the year as 364 days + filler, you get more factors to work with (364 ⇒ 1, 2, 4, 7, 13, 14, 26, 28, 52, 91, 182, 364)
    • fiscal quarters are always the same length and you get an extra day during the winter holidays
  • the easiest being something like a 13 month calendar (each month being exactly 4 weeks, 28 days) = 364 days + 1 year day + 1 leap day – this gets a lot of flack from religious groups because they don’t like the extra days messing with a 7 day week cycle
    • this keeps the 365 day year and uses the same calculations for adding in leap days
  • leap week calendars get around that by doing a 364 day year and then adding in a whole leap week to bring things back into alignment (you can do this yourself using ISO week dates and looking for week 53)
    • calculations for leap years are a bit more elaborate and don’t fit as easily into a simple mnemonic

• at the full-featured end, VSCode (OSS Code, VSCodium) has pretty much captured the market
  • for a while, Atom was a popular competitor until MS closed it down, you might have some luck with its successors: Zed or Pulsar
• mid-range, Kate and Geany have their fans
• deluxe text editors, join the Emacs / vim holy wars
• plain text editors, give up on extensions, plugins, etc. and just edit text

Olauncher

the parts that are tainted with E.coli probably don’t have listeria …

Elon decided Microsoft’s Tay chatbot was a guidebook …