Ephera

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Ephera,

I’m guessing, because the circles inside the box look kind of phallic…

Ephera,

Objection: Sweet potatoes.

Their name says they’re clearly potato, but:

Sweet potato is only distantly related to the common potato

Source

Ephera,

You’ve got some of the cheapest gas prices in the US, so I’m not sure anyone needs to import your complaints…

For reference, here in Germany, it currently costs around 1.70€ per liter, which is $6.97 per gallon.

Ephera,

Does this help?

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Switcheroo

It’s kind of an internet culture thing to respond like that…

Ephera,

That’s an existential crisis I’ve had after starting to eat vegan. Suddenly everything in your cupboard is a plant, with the exception of salt and sometimes mushrooms.

It’s just like: I’ll now eat this noodle-shaped plant with this pureed plant and this protein-rich plant and I’ll also throw in some tasty plant shreds. Maybe I should also have some plant leaves with a dressing out of plant oil, fermented plant juice and this plant seed paste.

But then I realized that meat, eggs, cheese, milk, and even mushrooms, they’re all just processed/digested plants, too. So, there’s only plants and salt. Which really didn’t make the existential crisis any better, but at least we’re all in it together. 🙃

Ephera,

Yeah, it’s a bit of a stretch here. The comment is intentionally mixing things up for comedic effect, but it’s not a direct switch of anything…

Ephera,

Personally, I just don’t think pregnant women need legal restrictions here. I imagine, ultra-conservatives think that more liberal women just have tons of unprotected sex and gladly risk getting pregnant, because they can just get an abortion.

But I’ve never seen that actually being a thing. Women will generally use some form of contraception to avoid getting pregnant in the first place. And if they do get pregnant, I have never heard of any woman, who took the decision to get an abortion lightly.

I believe that no woman will apply a lower moral standard to her unborn baby (or not-yet-baby, whatever) than our moral standards for human life in general.

Outright prohibiting abortion is not a higher moral standard, because you’ll have many cases where the outcome is worse for everyone involved, e.g. when the baby is already dead, but cannot be removed.

Ephera,

I don’t think posting to the linux-netdev mailing list is a terrible idea. For example, here’s someone who did post a question: marc.info/?l=linux-netdev&m=170628444014400&w=2

But well, you might also be running into a bug or something that could potentially be exploited, or maybe just into a lack of documentation (which is also a bug). Either way, some devs might be interested in knowing about this.

Ephera,

I had to read up on it just now. The abbreviation stands for “Young Men’s Christian Association” and apparently, it’s about as gay as it sounds, which the song celebrates.

Ephera,

Uhoh, I’m using the LV2. Do you guys really run the VST through WINE? I was glad, I didn’t have to look into that…

Ephera,

Ah, I didn’t know more modern versions of the VST standard specified a Linux interface. I thought, they were still just basically EXEs with some metadata attached.

Ephera,

You might be able to play Minetest. It’s an open-source engine/launcher for games similar to Minecraft, but it’s better optimized.

If you want a very Minecraft-like experience, you can install the MineClone2 game (from within Minetest).

Of course, if you’re attached to specific game worlds or friends on Minecraft, those may be more difficult to migrate…

Ephera,

…a.k.a. suckers. 🙃

Ephera,

Because spicyness isn’t really a taste, it’s rather just pain. The various spicy chemicals (capsaicin, piperine, curcumin etc.) essentially just irritate your skin.

Ephera,

I’ve heard before that it helps a lot, if you eat a lot of fiber…

Ephera,

Personally, I feel like it has most resemblance with empirical science. So, not really much to do with programming or software engineering…

Ephera,

It’s rather about changing things randomly.

Ideally, you work out the requirements. Then you formulate those requirements in code, via the static type system and/or automated unit+integration tests. And then you implement your code to match those requirements (compiler stops complaining and tests are green).

Ideally, you don’t have to actually run the whole application to feel confident enough about your changes, although obviously you would still do that eventually, for example before publishing a release.

Ephera,

• Firefox for Android can now be set as the default PDF reader.

Tried this just yesterday and was disappointed that it doesn’t work. Timely update. 🙃

Ephera,

It annoys me that this isn’t just a funny comic. I know some 60+ year old folks who pretty much only talk like that, thinking they’ve eaten wisdom with a spoon, purely based on life experience. Except that they’re not actually saying anything.

Ephera,

I have a very unusual workflow. In addition to not stacking windows, I don’t minimize them either. Instead, I spread them out over many workspaces. Per workspace, I usually only have 1 or 2 windows, but I ‘group’ workspaces to keep semantically related windows together.
And I do that, by having all workspaces in a column and just placing windows in neighboring workspaces + leaving workspaces empty between the groupings. I also have a minimap for my workspaces in my panel, to just keep track of all of this.

I like this workflow a lot, because it maps semantics to location. It feels like a desk where you just place related documents next to each other and might place some documents more in the middle, others in a faraway corner.

This is in contrast to the traditional Windows workflow or the workflow that many tiling folks use, where the first workspace is for web browsing etc…
Those use groupings based on the kind of task you do in them (often effectively being tabs in an application), like web browsing. They don’t group by the topic, e.g. you might frantically research ants and use a separate browser window, separate text editor etc., all grouped up for ants.

Now, traditional use of workspaces does allow this grouping by topics, by just assigning each workspace a topic. But personally, I found that too static.
Like, yeah, I have some larger, completely distinct topics, but often I’ll just quickly research bees and that’s kind of ant-related, but doesn’t need to be fully mixed with that either. I’d rather just place it to the side of the ant stuff.

Ephera,

Back when I was a toddler and my brother not much older, my parents were visiting relatives across town and so we were home alone for a bit.

I think, I missed my mommy or something. It must have been not enough of an emergency for us to call at our relatives.
Instead, we took the logical not-an-energency step, which is to say many, many steps, because we decided to walk across town to our relatives.

It’s a 20 minute walk with adult feet, so I imagine, it would have taken us at least twice as long.

And so many things could have gone wrong. From us just being barefoot, to someone calling the police, to our parents driving home in the meantime not knowing where we were, to just straight up kidnapping.

But not this time. We just rang at our relatives’ door out of the blue, with our parents still there. 🙃

Ephera,

This summer, my car wasn’t worth repairing anymore and I decided to try living without one for a while.

And well, as it turns out…

me going on a stupid little daily walk for my stupid physical and mental health

…does actually work wonders. I just had to be forced to do it consistently.

Except I completely missed another factor:
Christmas Eve rolled around, my dad picked me up from the train station. It was just a ten minute drive home, but of course, some asshat had to tailgate us. My dad pretty much just routinely became angry.

Which I get. That shit used to stress me out, too.
But well, used to. I had not experienced that level of stress for multiple months. I felt like some monk, checking in on what the normal people were dealing with.

And man, I did not like what I saw…

Ephera,

Now we just need to someone to package it and upload it to NPM.

Ephera,

Well, it’s not like more advanced distros are built to not work. Rather, they work better for different focus points.
So, I would encourage people, especially those with a techy background, to take a look around eventually, but yeah, your conclusion to that journey may as well be that Mint was nice, actually.

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