syklemil

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[–] syklemil@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 3 weeks ago

I've heard of the year of Linux on the desktop, but I've never really heard of the year of BSD on the desktop. Apart from OSX, maybe.

I guess this is the kind of stuff POSIX could've helped with, but it seems to be busy mandating buggy behaviour.

[–] syklemil@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 3 weeks ago

I think most of us would consider that an eclipse bug, but yeah, until it's fixed it'd make sense to work around it.

Kinda similarly, I have a mostly identical setup on several machines, and on one of them Firefox has a memory leak, which even showed up just recently. It also seems to manifest if I have certain pages open, the most noticeable of which is Reddit.

It's the kind of stuff I could dig into, buuut it's just a PITA.

[–] syklemil@discuss.tchncs.de 6 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

Oliven, Norwegian. For some reason it's an uncountable noun.

[–] syklemil@discuss.tchncs.de 135 points 1 month ago (9 children)

Ah yes, traditional urban cores, historically entirely without any good food options, either delivered, on the go, or even sit-down at odd hours

[–] syklemil@discuss.tchncs.de 12 points 1 month ago

I think some of the stuff you worry about as a kid will just arise naturally. Ideas like not stepping on cracks, or imagining monsters in dark places are likely produced spontaneously and naturally by an underdeveloped ape brain.

But it'd be nice if we didn't tell kids about old superstitions, yeah. Wait until they're old enough to react with dismissal about the stupid stuff people used to believe.

[–] syklemil@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 1 month ago

I think it's far more likely that the article that doesn't know what "sweep under the rug" means also got other stuff wrong.

[–] syklemil@discuss.tchncs.de -5 points 1 month ago

There's nothing probable about the combination of a Nordic country and a 9-hour workday.

[–] syklemil@discuss.tchncs.de 20 points 1 month ago (7 children)

How does a 36-hour workweek work out to a four-day workweek?

Here in Norway everyone in sneezing distance of a union deal has a five-day workweek at 7.5 hours a day, for 37.5 hours in total. (The law says six days at 8 hours; the half-hour difference is in practice lunch, which is your own time with a union deal and the boss' time without. I think we could go down to 7h a day and get an hour of lunch like our neighbours.)

[–] syklemil@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 1 month ago

No, we shouldn't, and yes, you're overthinking, but I am finding myself inching closer to the GNU argument for the desktop/server OS, as I now not only use phone/Linux, but also a bunch of Kubernetes/Linux, with distroless images. It's all using the Linux kernel, and possibly glibc, but it's not Linux as we know it. The desktop/server OS meanwhile might not have GNU coreutils in some years.

But realistically we've been using Linux as the name for the family of desktop and server OS-es for decades now, and if you need to refer to the Linux kernel you call it "the Linux kernel" or just "the kernel".

Earlier GNU wanted HURD as an alternative to the Linux kernel—same GNU OS, different kernel. What instead is happening is that we're keeping the Linux kernel but replacing the GNU part of the OS.

Generally you just need to give as much information as the recipient needs to understand your message. Excess signals that don't add information are what information theory calls noise.

[–] syklemil@discuss.tchncs.de 5 points 1 month ago

I thought we were calling the thing you speak Strayan!

[–] syklemil@discuss.tchncs.de 10 points 1 month ago

Wer braucht denn eigentlich Jon Oliver, wenn wir Jan Böhmermann haben?

Alternatively: Finally I can practice my school German!

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