Actually one of my most favorite memories because the simplicity of the solution using recursion blew my little mind. It was like discovering a magic spell.

I found that retyping from a programming book helped me truly incorporate what I was learning more than simply reading it, in the same way that copying a painting is a deeper study than just scrutinizing one. When you’re forced to physically go slow it gives your brain extra cycles to really chew on what it’s doing. The translation from physical paper to computer was somehow more helpful too. Whenever I cheated and used the enclosed CD that chapter wasn’t as solid in my mind.

Flipping back through a book has never been fully replicated electronically either, I think because you can’t associate some info’s location with its physical thickness in your fingers. We aren’t just visual creatures, our brains constantly weave associations with all kinds of sensory input, and physical objects offer more.

I don’t miss the price of those books though. I could never afford all the books I was interested in, and in those days you were lucky if your library had anything computer related at all.

You can probably rig up something similar using firefox settings depending on what your needs are for convenience and granularity.

Yeah, you can manually whitelist domains (including expressions). I do this for sites where I don’t mind keeping cookies around (like lemmy).

I use Cookie Autodelete. Doesn’t matter what I choose, it’s getting nuked when I close the tab. Handy to clear out IndexedDB and localStorage too, for sites that only let you read one or two pages before putting up a paywall.

Rubens’ signature is different than I remember.

I don’t actually think that software is necessarily neutral, and that for this sort of thing to be successful in the current landscape it MUST be Marxists who make it. Take Bluesky, for example. Or OpenAI is perhaps a better example. Maybe this breaks some people out of the “Elon bad -> Dorsey good” cycle of analysis as to why lemmy exists and maybe leads them to question the use of the “tankie” perjorative in general.

Aside from journalists and people like MoistCr1TiKaL buying one for the yuks, how many purchases are actually MAGA rubes? Because it could have just been another way to bribe Trump. Just a different kind of Trump NFT, basically.

Gnutsak

I had no idea Matthias Wandel had an older brother. Looks like the whole family is smart.

I feel (maybe hope) that countries doing this would face significant challenges with currency substitution and private currencies. Ultimately if I want to buy something and my neighbor wants to sell me that thing the government becomes the, “Is there someone you forgot to ask?” meme.

It’d be metal af if I bought something from my neighbor and paid him in Yuan, lol.

all those bills you have are worthless.

That’s the tricky thing is technically the government doesn’t actually control what is worth stuff, its all just vibes. By undermining faith in their currency the government could actually lose a bit of control, not gain it. This was actually a huge fucking problem early in US history.

To your point, here are two adjacent “parks” in Washington DC. The park on the left is fully open and walkable. The park on the right has a low fence and shrubs surrounding it. You could technically hop the low fence and walk there, lots of people let their dog do that so it can crap there, but both practices are discouraged.

Also, if you are mobility impaired, or its muddy, or whatever, you wouldn’t want to walk in the park on the left either. So it makes sense that OSM wouldn’t try to shortcut you over it.

Hiring an actual company is way too complex. If they wanted to fake this they would have some intern from Bob Jones University use his personal Gemini account. The fact it hasn’t been tied to some crypto-scam or hawking a collectible geegaw is pretty good evidence the admin isn’t involved.

If you pick a FOSS license then your project is FOSS. The number of developers doesn’t matter.

I moved all my (meager bullshit) personal projects to Codeberg awhile ago. My stuff was already open source, but I did explicitly add some license files I neglected to add before just to make it clear. So far so good.

Before you archive your Github repos make sure to update them with one last commit explaining that the repo has moved to somewhere else (and potentially why). Once you lock the repo you can’t make changes. If you straight-up delete them then this isn’t an issue.

There’s no way they want to eliminate bot traffic, it would kill 2/3rds of their traffic instantly. So this just means, “bots that aren’t paying us.”

I had a dog who developed seizures. Low dose phenobarbital solved the issue thankfully. It was a little inconvenient because he required regular liver tests and also, phenobarbital being a controlled substance, I had to buy it at a regular pharmacy. But other than that it was fine, much better than the seizures. He had no issues until he died (years later) of unrelated problems stemming from old age.

I’ve actually been there. This is hilarious, but the serious side is that their county doesn’t have the money to spend on this kind of shit.

When people say the USA doesn’t have “real poverty” I always think of the two barefoot kids I saw carrying buckets to the creek. Or the partially collapsed rat’s nest/lean-to “cabin” that I was sure had been abandoned for decades, but then had smoke coming from the chimney in winter. Half the walls were plastic tarp and scrap metal. That’s Adams County.

The town of Portsmouth is right next door in Scioto County, and it was ground zero for the opioid epidemic in the USA. The first pill mill was right there. Last time I was there on any sheltered stretch of the river you could find addicts living in tents. The librarians carry Narcan.

But they raid Afroman’s house looking for weed.

“A guy who likes to keep an empty stomach until the hard part of the day is done.”

“Garlic”

“Sapper Morton”

That’s why I hate the “give the government a master key” metaphor for weakening encryption. You aren’t making a master key, you’re making every lock worse. The “master key” is just knowing how to exploit the giant flaw you’ve now created in every lock, and if that knowledge escapes every lock is now worthless.

Knocking “shave and a haircut” now opens every door, let’s hope nobody else figures that out! I know! we’ll lock that information inside this “shave and a haircut” safe!

I was thinking Khorne wasn’t appropriate for the USA because Khorne cares about honorable combat. Then I thought Nurgle because we’re all fat and sick and because of the ivermectin brain-worms shit, but no, Nurgle is actually an avuncular and loving god in his own way. Tzeentch actually plans stuff and thinks ahead.

I think its a Slaanesh cult. The elites are all pedos, the propaganda is obsessed with genitalia, the populace doesn’t give a shit as long as the treats flow.