philluminati

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 3 weeks ago

I’d smash that baby out the park. One way ticket to see Jesus.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago

I’ve used Debian stable daily for 20 years.

When I was young and passionate about Linux there were lots of things that were behind and noticible. Notably big things like KDE with obvious graphical features that I could see I was missing out on.

After a few years I stop finding any excitement in upgrading at all. I became critical of pointless features and rewrites. KDE is worse if anything.

In the last 5 years there has been stuff I’ve wanted that’s existed outside the project. Docker when it came out, Wireguard. I just ended up waiting.

The only software I run outside the repositories atm is neovim and that’s because I want to use the latest Scala-metals IDE tool. That itself is becoming more stable though.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago

My favourite is when god says “let there be light” a couple of days before he creates the sun and stars.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago

Yeah basically.

Without knowledge of good and evil how can you avoid evil acts? You can’t.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 month ago (3 children)

A leap year is every 4 years, but not every 400 years. If you could only vote on Feb 29 you’d have gone 8 years without a vote between 1996 and 2004.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

I wonder that billion pounds are to do with AWS Services because the only alternative is Microsoft lock in.

[–] [email protected] 26 points 2 months ago

This is so believable. You copy a few examples out of a textbook using cout and cin and it seems reasonably inline with other languages.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Batman in an interrogation room pins joker to the wall.

Batman: “I’ve only got one rule”

Joker: “Then that’s the rule you’re gonna have to break to get what you want”.

Now I hate Marvell and all super hero movies but I do find that quote applies to a lot of things.

If you’re truthful or law abiding then law breakers have an advantage on you. They’ll try and undermine free and fair elections.

If you’re a pacifist then people will use violence to try and control you, such as terrorism, or simply ignore your laws.

If you have socialism then people will pour in from other countries or try to exploit the system in whatever they can.

If the police or strict or lax in either direction it causes upset.

Whatever you say is a law, or a line you won’t cross, is something that people will exploit.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 months ago (7 children)

I used to work in Amesbury very near this site and I can tell you this completely unnecessary.

Sure fix the potholes but 2bn for 2 miles of duel carriage way that ultimately won’t speed up journeys between London and the shitholes on the A303 (eg. Salisbury) just aren’t worth it.

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

You gotta walk your own path.

Most people know exactly what they have to do to obtain a skill, start a business, make a friend, experience and adventure but simply don’t out of fear of the unknown.

The Internet is helpful but you got to put stock in your own lived experience.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 months ago (2 children)

I got a message earlier today saying my subscription would now include ads. I immediately cancelled the subscription out of principle.

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