Seems like John was trying to.. cut some corners

This reminds me of the large road signs I've seen that warn against distracted driving

A bonus is you can invite your dental hygienist over and have your teeth cleaned while you work

It's 2024 and we're still doing king and queen stuff apparently

Is IsSlackDown down? This link isn't working for me for some reason lol

To whom it may concern... No too formal

A once in a lifetime experience!

I second the recommendation of giving Linux Mint a shot. I didn't use XP extensively but Mint is low hassle and gets out of your way.

I'm not sure it has quite the same feel, but closest I can think of that is also approachable coming from Windows. Obviously a lot of other distros also satisfy the "built by engineers" vibe.

I just tried and got "about 40,000 billion kilometers". Also the references are completely different from the ones in the post, so I guess it was a ranking issue

AI is just too unpredictable, hard to know what's accurate and you end up doing the work yourself anyways

I think it helps going to the source material on this. Most of the administration's moves have been pretty aligned with Project 2025, and it's written in an accessible enough way:

Federal education policy should be limited and, ultimately, the federal Department of Education should be eliminated. When power is exercised, it should empower students and families, not government. In our pluralistic society, families and students should be free to choose from a diverse set of school options and learning environments that best fit their needs. Our postsecondary institutions should also reflect such diversity, with room for not only “traditional” liberal arts colleges and research universities but also faith-based institutions, career schools, military academies, and lifelong learning programs.

I don't think it's in the administration's interest to make this seem like a prepared plan and part of an ultimately elitist philosophy, but if they actually explained it they would probably say that education should be subject to competition like other markets should be, with limited federal funding to states for excess expenditure, with the intention that education improves according to local (Christian) culture and parental involvement. The Department of Education currently tries to maintain federal standards for (more equitable) schooling, which is too general and prescriptive in this approach.

Probably not an ELI5 answer exactly, and I'm definitely not intending it as a supporting argument for this policy (it's very elitist and inequitable), but just wanted to share that at least there is written material that outlines some of this.

I thought those were blobs of nacho cheese

I don't have prime any longer and I don't miss it, it's overrated really. I don't need stuff within 2 days all the time

I generally agree and like this strategy, but to add to the other comment about catching reimplemented code, there's just some code quality reviewing that cannot be done by automating tooling right now.

Some scenarios come to mind:

• code is written in a brittle fashion, especially with external data, where it's difficult to unit test every type of input; generally you might catch improper assumptions about the data in the code
• code reimplements a more battle tested functionality, or uses a library no longer maintained or is possibly unreliable
• code that the test coverage unintentionally misses due to code being located outside of the test path
• poor abstractions, shallow interfaces

It's hard to catch these without understanding context, so I agree a code review meets are helpful and establishing domain owners. But I think you still need PR reviews to document these potential problems

And B must be for Body of course

The other command could just be printf '' >> file to not overwrite it. Or even simpler >>file and then interrupt

I was promised more moss

Is that Frieza? DBZ is real?!

My anecdote, granted I'm no Linux master: I recently went into a distro rigamarole, installed openSUSE, Manjaro, etc, before arriving to Mint, because I could not find one that handled my CPU and graphics and drivers setup without significant effort.

Then I installed Mint (avoiding Ubuntu and its Canonicalness), and setup was very simple and everything worked out of the box. I could run Steam with external GPU without going through many workarounds or setup using nvidia prime and launchers and so forth

Stylistically I also like cinnamon, but Mint mainly was just so low hassle and simple I have to give it props for that

Hacker news still going strong, you get the drama stories here and there but the focus is on the technology