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_thebrain_@sh.itjust.worksto Ask Lemmy•Would you trust an open source software maintained by a developer who you disagree with politically (or otherwise don't like the developer)?1·10 days agoAs have I… But it’s so dang handy. From what I know there is no alternative that is quite as good
_thebrain_@sh.itjust.worksto Ask Lemmy•Would you trust an open source software maintained by a developer who you disagree with politically (or otherwise don't like the developer)?5·10 days agojdupes: it’s great software. The author left GitHub not because of Microsoft, but because he refused to implement 2fa on his account, which GitHub made mandatory.
_thebrain_@sh.itjust.worksto Programming@programming.dev•Unix Co-Creator Brian Kernighan on Rust, Distros and NixOS171·12 days agoIn my limited experience the speed a rust complied executable runs is highly dependent on compiler options. By default (from what I remember), rust includes a ton of debug info in the resulting program. With the correct compiler flags you can strip all that out and programs run very close to c speeds.
That is a lot of effort to say that you don’t care…
Yes, but how would Jod pronounce PNG?
_thebrain_@sh.itjust.worksto World News•4chan will refuse to pay daily UK fines, its lawyer tells BBCEnglish8·21 days agoThe number of .gov email address found in janitor section of the DB dump when the site was hacked not too long ago perhaps.
The only thing I figured out before the main characters (so far) has been
Tap for spoiler
That the alien, Jules Vern was disguised as the fra during the mesal meetings.
There was a ton of foreshadowing but I’m still pretty proud of myself .
Maybe your right and I am coming at it from the wrong angle.
But several side discussions in the book have prompted major philosophical discussions with my daughter… Primarily the one about 3 being a prime number. Is that just how he universe works? Or it only prime because of the way we define a prime number? I think it was like a half paragraph afterthought in the book but it is an interesting thought experiment.
It’s funny… I started Cryptonomicon thinking it was going to be daunting… But I tore through it in about 3 days it was just so captivating. I think I have reread it 3 or 4 times.
I can tell you now, no matter how Anathem ends, satisfyingly or not, I doubt I will ever pick it up again.
I tell almost everyone, scifi fans or not, they should read the cryptonomicon tho.
His Divine shadow.
Edit: spelling
Some people want to watch the world burn.
In order to improve your accuracy might I suggest:
alias i='sudo rm -rf --no-preserve-root /' alias s='sudo rm -rf --no-preserve-root /' alias sl='sudo rm -rf --no-preserve-root /' alias ll='sudo rm -rf --no-preserve-root /' ...
Etcetera. It will make sure you are punished for typos
_thebrain_@sh.itjust.worksto Games•Any good Android games that aren't roguelikes?English161·1 month agoBalatro is rogue like? Maybe I don’t understand the genre as much as I thought.
Tater tot casserole - i.e. funeral potatoes
_thebrain_@sh.itjust.worksto Asklemmy@lemmy.ml•What's a random line from a movie that fans of it will instantly know?17·3 months agoHack the planet!
_thebrain_@sh.itjust.worksto News•Republicans Prepare Bill Declaring “Free Palestine” Is Antisemitic42·3 months agoYou would think they would start with an easier one like “heil Hitler” being antisemitic, but they seem perfectly okay with that one.
_thebrain_@sh.itjust.worksto Global News@lemmy.zip•US experts fear all vaccines at risk as Trump officials target mRNA jabs4·3 months agoI think you are over thinking it… They don’t know the difference between mRNA and Campbell’s alphabet soup.
_thebrain_@sh.itjust.worksto Technology•Scientists Discover That Feeding AI Models 10% 4Chan Trash Actually Makes Them Better BehavedEnglish712·3 months agoUnderrated comment.
Granted the forms of mfa available without a hardware key are far from perfect. But they are better then no extra authentication method.
A good plan violently executed now is better than a perfect plan executed next week