ot1-perplexing-regexing

[pliant nexus]

didnt need to know that piece of info 💀

[distant iris]

soviet

[plucky ridge]

Do not joke about mass animal abuse and torture.

[tardy rain]

I said its fun 😡

[plucky ridge]

Like.... the fuck dude

[distant iris]

um lets talk about USSR

[pliant nexus]

why?

?

[distant iris]

idk

[pliant nexus]

then no?

[distant iris]

yea

[plucky ridge]

https://tenor.com/YgLE.gif

[distant iris]

nvm

nahhh

[pliant nexus]

hmmm

[distant iris]

https://tenor.com/view/drinking-milk-puss-in-boots-puss-in-boots-the-last-wish-thirsty-quenching-my-thirst-gif-27251412

[rough sapphire]

Make sure to filter out the microplastics (and nanoplastics) in that choco gallon

[distant iris]

are yall here

[grave cove]

no

[distant iris]

k

[lament cairn]

i swear these past few days every time i see you in ot you're always telling people obvious things

[solemn tulip]

bad things are bad

[plucky ridge]

And it's insane that I have to

[lament cairn]

is it a moderation policy/etiquette that you don't cban those people instantly?

[glossy niche]

war crime this, can't eat the dry wall that

[plucky ridge]

I'm too nice, it seems

[glossy niche]

kids these days are so hard to deal with

[plucky ridge]

I'd prefer to nudge people back to behaving, but yeah, I'm too kind I think

[distant iris]

am confused

[lament cairn]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N8mEyhE9Wis

clean self. clean baby.

[glossy niche]

this cat probably is really fun to just

[solemn tulip]

god, I forget how annoying it is to not be able to have draft comments in PR reviews

[glossy niche]

https://tenor.com/view/jiggly-cat-wiggle-shaker-thug-gif-25915252

[glossy niche]

what Software u on?

Also fuck bit bucket for making drafts the default not the second option

leads so many accidents

[solemn tulip]

oh forgot to mention github

[lament cairn]

Kanye Test

[solemn tulip]

I want to be able to just write draft comment responses as I edit my code, and then submit all of them when I push my changes

[glossy niche]

I'm pretty sure it supported drafts

hmmmmm

[solemn tulip]

I know draft PRs exist

idk about draft responses to code review in PRs

[glossy niche]

ohhh, responses

[distant iris]

https://tenor.com/view/cat-dance-dancing-cat-chinese-dancing-cat-funny-cat-meme-cat-gif-18059553370350307210

[plucky ridge]

That cat has more groove than I could ever dream of having

[solemn tulip]

right, like commenting "Fixed" and resolving the thread or whatever and then bulk submitting the responses when I actually push the fixed code

[distant iris]

https://tenor.com/view/cool-fun-white-cat-dance-cool-and-fun-times-gif-16435335956387921912

[fallow patio]

This guy looks like he can groove

[plucky ridge]

Sadly that's no my body

With my knees, I'd have a hard time standing back up

[acoustic moss]

seeing yesnt and yoinked in chat together is so trippy theyre the same person in my head

[glossy niche]

AHEM MY CATS ARE YELLOW

[lament cairn]

but yoinked isnt a snow leopard.....

[honest star]

wait they aren't the same person?

[acoustic moss]

idk man theyre both pithinking leopard posters

[lament cairn]

[glossy niche]

i would post more servals if i found more servals in the wild and not being kept as pets

n

n

[acoustic moss]

n

[pliant nexus]

this dogs better

[lament cairn]

i should tag my snow leopard pics so i can find them easier

[glossy niche]

ill tag every serval pic i post with n so people can just search from:yoink has:image n

n

[lament cairn]

they are bigger tahn i thought

[solemn tulip]

why n?

[lament cairn]

or maybe thats a small hand

[glossy niche]

the cat looks like an n

[acoustic moss]

bruh

lmao

[pliant nexus]

nah, that cat looks like an y

[glossy niche]

i think i have the og non flagged pic

[pliant nexus]

thats y cat for sure

[glossy niche]

i have found:

not sure what symbol this cat represents

oh i found another n

🐪

[solemn tulip]

f

or very wonky k

oh, maybe a ψ

[harsh tundra]

That's m, see the legs

[glossy niche]

well

whats this then:

inverted n

[harsh tundra]

п?

[uneven pine]

Too curvy

[distant iris]

https://tenor.com/view/mcdo-cat-meme-cat-hat-gif-4320019723440576113

[quasi blaze]

I am going on vacation next week for one week. So that means my company won’t have an active software developer until I get back

[vale raven]

Aight

Enjoy your backlog

[distant iris]

enjoy you vac

[plucky ridge]

Should quickly whip up a KeezyGPT for them

[tardy rain]

Wont have to deal with the backlog if no one's there putting things in it

Lock it down

[vale raven]

lol

I want to encourage usage of tickets

I'd rather not have a list of emails/teams/etc to deal with

Nice and clean list of tickets that I can prioritize

[tardy rain]

Nop

Marie Kondo that shit

[distant iris]

https://tenor.com/view/calculating-puzzled-math-confused-confused-look-gif-14677181

[glossy niche]

write a cron job that makes a minor inconvinience that only you can fix, like idk, enable verbose logging on something that logs mountains

it will run while you are away, and they will miss you

bonus salary for when you get back

im p sure there was a law abt sth similar in 48 laws of power

[honest star]

Wheee, finally going home today and I don't have to travel for at least a month

[glossy niche]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/emojis/581332806265733135.gif?size=16&quality=lossless

[honest star]

Hm?

[solemn tulip]

I did not get to travel for work 😔

[honest star]

It is so wildly overrated

[thick osprey]

Hotels lose their novelty after about three in a row.

[honest star]

It's come to the point where I have personal beef with specific airports and very strong opinions on which terminals in airports are the best

[young shoal]

what airline

[honest star]

Whatever airline that has a direct flight for where you want to go is best airline

[granite tree]

Oh, I have beef with a few airports too

I'm still angry at philadelphia and ft lauderdale.

[honest star]

O'Hare is top of my shit list

[young shoal]

what happened at philly 🗿

[honest star]

LAX coming in at a close second

[granite tree]

My least favorite was on a small island recently: my 4pm flgith was delayed to 10pm. I showed up at 8pm, to find out that: TSA closed at 6pm, so too bad.

[honest star]

That would drive me to murder I think

[granite tree]

The people in front of me had a cruise the next morning.

[honest star]

At minimum I would start a coup against the TSA

[granite tree]

It was having to change terminals. Its completely impractical to go from one terminal to another.

[honest star]

Was this recently or more in the past?

[granite tree]

Years ago, mrs. bobby won't forgive Philly for it.

[honest star]

In Philly's defense, they've since corrected this and it's not as shit to move between terminals

[young shoal]

do you have a son named robert

[young shoal]

so true they have the sidevator things

[granite tree]

All my kids are named bobby. My daughter too.

[thick osprey]

Ah, a family name.

[granite tree]

moment of truth, will my self-hosted runner run?

[thick osprey]

.8ball

[median dome]

That was a mistake.

Your input was invalid: question is a required argument that is missing.

Usage:```
.8ball <question>

[thick osprey]

.8ball chat, will BillyBobby rizz?

[median dome]

Signs point to yes

[granite tree]

Finally hit the point of: "Why do we keep paying github?

[strange blade]

[granite tree]

Wow. First try. It's actually running

[thick osprey]

imagine paying for github.

[thick osprey]

The 8ball knows all.

[strange blade]

lol

billybobby's rizz skyrocketing

[thick osprey]

[granite tree]

I mean, it still failed. But it mostly ran.

[honest star]

Better than bitbucket

[strange blade]

bit...bucket?

[thick osprey]

I don't know why bitbucket didn't just call itself mug.

[strange blade]

lol

[young shoal]

we pay for ghec

[granite tree]

That's ironic. Githubs self-hosted runner image didn't have... "git".

[honest star]

I think one of my 5-year goals at work is going to be convincing IT leadership to go to gitlab or anything else

[thick osprey]

obligatory git != github

[honest star]

but... but ... it's in the name

[young shoal]

katj9 is a kat

[thick osprey]

We will be migrating from a self-hosted enterprise account to a cloud enterprise account. I'm not convinced it is worth the pain it has already caused before anything is even moved.

[honest star]

factually correct

[young shoal]

oh we just did that

some teams are still migrating

[thick osprey]

maybe related: I spend four hours today chasing down a dumb ssh issue to allow a remote box access to clone a repo.

[honest star]

Hooow is this plane still de-boarding goddamn, it's like a clown car

[thick osprey]

If you never de-board you never need to re-board.

[strange blade]

Have you seen that one cgp grey video about how planes board the passengers?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oAHbLRjF0vo

[honest star]

I know the answer to this one and it's children

[strange blade]

basically... airlines just want your money and they use some of the most inefficient boarding (and deboarding) methods

[granite tree]

It's the people who make zero effort to get ready to leave until the moment it's their turn

[strange blade]

I'm speaking to myself at this point but even just boarding at random would be more efficient than the way planes do it nowadays

[grave cove]

why

[honest star]

There isn't really a method to de-boarding though. It's just a get off the plane free for all

[granite tree]

Random boarding actually is, iirc, the preferred method because it balances human nature with a good-enough solution.

[strange blade]

yes and yes

but since the introduction of points systems and different classes, they have started to play more with boarding groups

and, did you know, they sorta actually use the most inefficient boarding method too?! That's right! First class and business class go first, practically going front to back, which is the slowest method of boarding possible.

[honest star]

1. The most useless cannabis amnesty box to ever exist
2. The seating tries to be "modern" and the result is less usable seating
3. Their food either sucks or is cafeteria-style without cafeteria seating
4. Weather is so shit flights are constantly delayed
5. I had a flight be cancelled because of plane maintenance and had to spend a night here without my checked bag, so fuck that shit
6. You just have to walk a mile between terminals. There's no other option, not even a go-fast flat escalator

[grave cove]

damn

no transportation between terminals?

[young shoal]

"cannabis amnesty"?

[honest star]

Well that's the other thing, O'Hare is terrible at consistent terminology. So the difference between terminals and concourses isn't clear and the signage also sucks.

So there are buses between terminals, but you have to re-enter through security. There is no transportation between concourses and you just have to walk

[grave cove]

but yeah i distinctly recall the food at ord being garbage

[strange blade]

so o'hare airport is just like o'hare lorax. evil

[honest star]

"drop your not-allowed cannabis in this box and we won't charge you with a crime. Except the box is right behind the security check"

[young shoal]

😩

[grave cove]

i don't think i'd enjoy travelling frequently tbh

airports are just not it

[strange blade]

Japanese airports are going to enforce a new tax refund system

[grave cove]

but maybe it's nicer if you do all the pre check in and fast pass stuff or whatever

[honest star]

Without precheck it's just not worth it

I've never had precheck take more than 15 minutes of its worst day

[granite tree]

precheck and global entry are life savers

[young shoal]

do you have one of those fancy travel cards

[honest star]

Also not having to take off your shoes or empty out your bag >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

[strange blade]

maybe just never go international

australia's domestic is pretty bad tho

nvm

just don't travel

too much effort

[low chasm]

dude the airport vibe is so based

but only for international flights

domestic stuff is just a pain

I totally need to travel once I'm in college

[granite tree]

You're in us right?

There's a bunch of schools where you can apply for freshman year abroad

[rocky prawn]

[low chasm]

mhm

[low chasm]

exchange programs and stuff, right?

I'm thinking about it

[granite tree]

Some schools, like northeastern, send 50+% of their freshman class to other campus internationally

[low chasm]

oh huh, 50% is a lot

[granite tree]

Other schools ask you during the application process if you're interested in an international freshman year

[low chasm]

I'm not sure how I feel about an entire semester abroad, though

traveling to some random place with friends would probably be fun in general though 😌

[granite tree]

Yah. Most schools have semester abroad programs. Have a friend who did a semester at sea

(I don't understand how it worked)

[low chasm]

huh

oh I think I've heard of that

my sister mentioned it before

https://www.semesteratsea.org

[granite tree]

My advice: every school has a 'pitch'. Make a short list of schools just to hear their pitch (not because you want to go there, but just to hear how they differentiate)

[low chasm]

hmm, I see

[hard imp]

anyone know something similar to cloudflare tunnels that supports streaming?
and http 1.1 / 2

[low chasm]

I'll be applying later this year

[granite tree]

One school in my area has a 'no fail' policy, for instance: a fail is just a drop

[low chasm]

I've got a list of colleges on a spreadsheet that I want to apply to

we'll be touring a few schools this summer

[low chasm]

oh rip

[granite tree]

(He visited other schools, but decided not to apply)

[low chasm]

hah, I see

I've got...11 I'll be applying to, iirc

[granite tree]

My advice would be ED as much as possible, it's nice to have some acceptances before January

And the thing that killed him was the stupid 'why us' essays.

[low chasm]

I got the opposite advice from my counselor, actually 👀 he said my chances would be marginally better if I applied regular decision for most of my choices

[low chasm]

😩

[granite tree]

Most of the schools wanted a highly customized 100-300 word essay on why he wanted to go -there-

[low chasm]

I'm already stuck on the general college board essay 😭

[granite tree]

Yah, he was editing until the last minute

I don't recommend

[low chasm]

I have like a notes page with 30 different things I want to write about, but nothing is fleshed out and I can't decide

[granite tree]

What? That sounds backwards

I've always heard ED is preferable to regular, and EA has an even higher rate

I would get a second opinion on that recommendation, it's contrary to what we paid someone a lot of money to hear 🙂

[low chasm]

apparently it's generally inflated, most people applying ED have more competitive stats, so most of the "great" candidates will apply early and that conflates the application pool, and makes it look like the acceptance rates are higher for ED

[low chasm]

I see, I'll consider doing that

[low chasm]

I was essentially told that whether I applied early or not wouldn't severely affect my chances, and I'd get an extra semester to bump my GPA if I apply RD

[granite tree]

I dunno, I don't stress the stats. A few of my sons friends got their dream schools off waitlist (ie: had to wait until June)

[low chasm]

oh that's cool to hear

waitlist is better than a rejection 🥺

[granite tree]

Oh fair, that was a consideration. Still, might be nice to pick off a few safety's early.

[low chasm]

another problem for me is that at the school I go to (and my district in general) grades are very inflated, we offer like 72 APs classes, and most everyone has a very good GPA, so standing out academically is very difficult

since with the sheer amount of APs people are taking, the GPA boosts are pushing their GPA a looot

so I'd want to stand out either with my ECs, SAT, or essay

[granite tree]

Yah, we figured it's just a random dart throw

[low chasm]

so I am kind of stressed as to whether I'll get into anything except my safeties 🥴

[wicked haven]

This information is also useful to me in around a year :)

[low chasm]

good luck 😩 it's stressful

[wicked haven]

Well, it's not around a year anymore... it's this year :|

[granite tree]

Tbh, even his safeties were solid, we visited his acceptances and all of them were contenders.

[wicked haven]

AAAA

[low chasm]

I have one real safety lol

[wicked haven]

or early next year; I'm actually not entirely sure; I should probably know this

[low chasm]

GMU, but that's like twenty minutes away, and while it has a decent CS program, I really don't want to go there

[solemn tulip]

probably

[granite tree]

One of his was a huge state school with very generous acceptance policies: and they had a really great story

[low chasm]

my other is Rutgers, which I'm faiiirly confident I'll get into without much fuss

[low chasm]

my state school has gotten incredibly competitive in the last few years for whatever reason 😭

[granite tree]

Rutgers has a nice campus, I like that school

[low chasm]

yeah I'd be fine with Rutgers

[granite tree]

Same here, son couldn't get into the CS program here... super competitive

[low chasm]

mine overaccepted during Covid, compensated for that the next few years, and overaccepted again last year 🥴

[granite tree]

Yah, that's happened to a lot of schools, plus the state u's haven't grown their CS programs fast enough

[solemn tulip]

what is your list?

[low chasm]

uhh, I have it somewhere, let me fetch it

[low chasm]

but add UVA to that list

(university of Virginia)

VTech is my state school

[granite tree]

BU's has gotten quite competitive

[uneven pine]

Homie wants to go to watermelon school

[low chasm]

yeah, figured it was worth a shot, though

apparently my school has a "relationship" with BU, so they're more willing to accept from us

[granite tree]

But: why nothing warm climate?

[low chasm]

further south, or like, California?

[uneven pine]

Half of those are in hellhole hot humid climates the fuck you talking about billy

[low chasm]

California would be a bit too far for me

[uneven pine]

Georgia? Second only to Florida and Louisiana for heat and humidity

[granite tree]

New England winters? At least aboo doesn't have Rochester or Syracuse

[low chasm]

I considered San Jose state, but that was too far for me

[uneven pine]

I don't know where carnival watermelon is

[granite tree]

ASU is a good safety: they have an automatic acceptance based on SAT

[low chasm]

oh huh, I'll look into it

but Arizona is quite far

[granite tree]

It's massive, but massive = lots of programs

[solemn tulip]

I do know about a handful of those, I know some people who went to ICPC for purdue

[granite tree]

There's also multiple UNCs, I'm not sure if it's a single application?

[low chasm]

ah, I'll be applying to unc chapel hill

[solemn tulip]

I can't remember why I remember rutgers

[low chasm]

Rutgers is rising in prestige, apparently

so it's a good time to apply

[formal wyvern]

Stanford is the university of office character, automatic good school

[honest star]

Have you visited rutgers yet?

[drowsy rose]

This is why i stopped playing BTD 6. I will not keep a program on my cell phone, let alone a GAME, that I PAID for, that commands me to update it. It should be illegal to disable a working piece of software in order to force people to update it, especially when that software was purchased with the intention of OWNING it.
https://www.reddit.com/r/btd6/comments/kcqe32/is_there_a_way_to_skip_the_forced_updates/

extremely based

[warped sentinel]

CMU when?

[warped sentinel]

That would put you right in the heart of the silicon valley and a prime location to bootstrap your career

[low chasm]

we're planning to this summer 👀

[honest star]

You need to visit before you apply

[warped sentinel]

Am not gonna lie, I cannot fathom the case where someone would not even entertain any west coast university, especially around the bay area. It's such an opportunity and career miss

(at least for driven people)

[low chasm]

hah, I will

the campus can't be that bad >.>

[low chasm]

it's just too far 😔

I'll probably be fine career wise regardless

[warped sentinel]

💀 Missing on huge opportunities because it's too far

[warped sentinel]

"fine" is all relative. It's like saying people will be fine without a degree. Sure, they will get a job, just not necessarily the same

[formal wyvern]

Cali bad. No college there

[low chasm]

I'll concede that I'm leaving some degree opportunity on the table, but there's enough career opportunity on the East coast that I'll likely be successful regardless, and at least for me, I'd prefer prioritizing being closer to family over heading to the west coast.

[warped sentinel]

I still can't fathom it though. But sure

[karmic gust]

...what's wrong with west coast universities?

[low chasm]

they're great, just too far

[warped sentinel]

probably further than 2h of flight from east coast

[formal wyvern]

West coast is a shell company for Ohio

[thick osprey]

Nothing, at least I don't think.

Just need to pick a path and walk it. Making impact and change where you go. Living your life.

[warped sentinel]

I wonder if you would still benefit from visiting one of the universities. For the sake of the minimal regrets framework

I could also arrange for you to visit some of the startups

[low chasm]

I wouldn't be against it

[low chasm]

👀

[drowsy rose]

im doing freeplay on btd6 lool

uh

hold up when did i leka

first ttier 5 down yay

anddd im de

d

i cacn never get further than >140

i can beat 140 sometimes

but

i cant get any further

[strange blade]

on btd6?

...

I would play btdb2 with you but I'm busy watching my anime

about me

[solemn yacht]

Oh wow I like how people also play btd6 in this server

[strange blade]

tbh it's boring

- osu player

[drowsy rose]

btdt6

[drowsy rose]

okay osu's just clicking buttons

[strange blade]

what

[strange blade]

better than some tower defence

osu practices muscle memory

btd6 practices... dragging monkeys so that they can work as your slaves popping balloons

[harsh tundra]

Tower defenses are strategy games. Osu is rhythm and reaction time.

Both have their place in this world

[glossy niche]

@lament cairn this channels top shorts are all snow lepards https://youtube.com/shorts/yX4ThqelG4M

very little serval content, highly discriminatory

[strange blade]

... serval?

[glossy niche]

serval cat

[thick ore]

server cat?

[glossy niche]

long yellow creatures

[strange blade]

racist, we have names

[lament cairn]

recent ones have a few servals

they changed..

[wanton delta]

almost there boys

[glossy niche]

zellij :33333

[wanton delta]

:3333

[thick ore]

a tiling browser? nice

[wanton delta]

nah it's not going to be that advanced
i literally just want a youtube player

but now that you mentioned it, it doesn't sound like a bad idea

my original goal is simply to have youtube search on the left and an embed version of the video on the right ||did you know that embed videos does not show ads||

[thick ore]

can't you just use ubo

[wanton delta]

well yea

but this is more fun

and i have an excuse to try pyside

[thick ore]

nice

learning is always good... i think

[strange blade]

learn how to make mustard gas w/ NileStygianBlue

[wanton delta]

one of my goals day to day is simply to know at least a tiny bit more than yesterday. takes out the impostor syndrome out of the gate too since im mainly just comparing me to me the day before

[strange blade]

Couple of jokes in that sentence there

[wanton delta]

im basically coping

[solemn yacht]

Aren't we all coping.

[wanton delta]

🥛 copium

[solemn yacht]

[gritty zinc]

https://github.com/mpv-player/mpv/ :p

[wanton delta]

how tf does it play on the commandline

why is there swift code in it

[gritty zinc]

how tf does it play on the commandline
it doesn't? it opens a window

it's just controlled from command line

[wanton delta]

oh

ooooh

[gritty zinc]

though there are also TUI players I think, but that's rather esoteric

[wanton delta]

oh okay so the toolbar part of VLC

i thought its playing every frame on the commandline
i'd want that though

[gritty zinc]

more like a stripped-down VLC, sure. literally just a player and some basic UI.

it's very capable under the hood, though, and you can write plugins for it. very nice.

[glossy niche]

arent those called "GPU accelerated terminals emulators" or something?

i think kitty and alacritty are likethat

[gritty zinc]

that's not what I meant - i meant showing videos in a console

[glossy niche]

[gritty zinc]

either by resizing the video to a pixel-per-character, or... you could in theory cheat by having a terminal that can show videos. I think kitty supports showing images in the terminal, say.

[fringe rain]

does it do the former? seems like it just does the latter with the expectation of a terminal that supports it

[gritty zinc]

what does?

[fringe rain]

theres a protocol for it, kitty probably recognizes a standard too

[fringe rain]

mpv

[gritty zinc]

it does neither, it opens a window

[fringe rain]

oh

lmao

[gritty zinc]

it's CLI because you control it primarily by CLI arguments

anyway, the way I configured my mpv, I get a lightweight picture-in-picture player that's also capable of showing youtube stream chat as on-screen subtitles. very nice.

[timid latch]

It can actually play it in the terminal directly using supported protocols

[solemn tulip]

scripting it can be very useful

[timid latch]

Tho the fps is rather low when you do that

[solemn tulip]

I've written stuff for going through frames, hitting keys to select start/end, for later exporting of frames in that interval as images

[gritty zinc]

oh, I see, there's a kitty image protocol. cool.

ah, and tct

[timid latch]

Could be rather useful if you are trying to find a specific video file over ssh or something

[gritty zinc]

--vo=caca sure looks weird

[solemn tulip]

yeah, I'm guessing these will be choppy as hell 🥴

libcaca is old school fun

[gritty zinc]

--vo=tct is actually fine

hmm, looks like my Konsole version is too old to support kitty's protocol

[glossy niche]

kitty or alacritty

hmhmhmmhmhmhmmmmmmmmmmm

alacritty works on windows so that might just cut it for me

OH TOML SUPPORTS JSON SCHEMA

VERY NICE

https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=tamasfe.even-better-toml#completion-and-validation-with-json-schema

[wanton delta]

mypy is so mad:

it's going to school me

[thick ore]

windows terminal smh

[thick ore]

skill issue shouldve followed SOLID

[glossy niche]

tbh

configuring aan extra terminal seems more work than its worth rn

im just gonna stick with whatever comes with my OS until i see a feature i really need

du -sh .config/discord/
332M    .config/discord/

ffs why is discord taking a 300mb dump in a CONFIG DIRECTORY

dude its full of caches and PNGs

[open fern]

Yeah, it's annoying when applications dump their cached data in a configuration directory

[rough sapphire]

why in configuration directory tho in all places?

[open fern]

Laziness, I dunno? ¯_(ツ)_/¯

[vocal oyster]

.config/discordcanary for me is 1.3G :3

no I did not

they just use ~/.config/discord*/ for the location to put anything browser related - all the storages (local storage, ...) and config files

eaiser and nobody really cares about it, I'd rather they spent time on the actual app instead of worrying about partitioning their config and cache into the correct directories

[glossy niche]

hmmmm i was hoping id check my .config file into a git repo or something

[quasi blaze]

My laptop keeps accumulating more MBs and I don’t even install any new applications nor download anything

[glossy niche]

try windirstat if its windows, i think you can save a snapshot from it

run it periodically and the folders that grow will become easy t osee

linux has like 10 similar tools

[quasi blaze]

windirstat on the command prompt?

[glossy niche]

not really, put it on your calendar llol

[tardy rain]

I'll rsvp

[glossy niche]

i personally have a monthly check for all things cybersecurity

backups etc

[quasi blaze]

Ahh it’s a software

[glossy niche]

i prefer to call that stuff a "GUI"

[eternal depot]

Softwhere?

[cobalt remnant]

Please sign my petition for ${XDG_CONFIG_HOME:-$HOME/.config}/ssh

[pliant nexus]

the vote pool for the petition is too small, theres no way to prove that it is not biased

/j

[uneven pine]

I heard a great one on a podcast today

In regards to a website they were trying to figure out how worked
"The code has characters that shouldn't even be possible, some parts in are in binary even though the majority is Rich Text"

(Referring to the backend, which makes it even more cringe than it already works)

[soft violet]

May it eventually become unnecessary.

Until then, however...

https://tenor.com/view/glitter-gif-24035134

[carmine apex]

the previous, now removed, "happy pride month" message was possibly insincere. this one is not

[wicked haven]

@foggy jungle

Discussing obfsucation and its affect on the broader open-source supply chain.

I see two typos here.

[foggy jungle]

You know... every time I read this I find a typo.

If you ctrl+f5 in about.... however long it takes the code runner to pick this up seconds, it'll be fixed lol

[glossy niche]

brick it

[thick ore]

r/unixporn has been slacking lately

3 years ago was its peak

oh i miss you u/woowak01

[lament cairn]

its not the year of the linux desktop :(((( ( ( (( (( ( (

[thick ore]

unfortunately 😭

no actually, very fortunately

i love windows

[uneven pine]

Honestly

Linux needs about 90% of distros to die and one actual good desktop experience to come out

Give it like 10 more years in the oven

[fringe rain]

doesnt ubuntu have a pretty good desktop experience

its the kind of thing that wouldnt be scary to install in school cs lab computers instead of windows imo

infact ive been told by someone here that their school does this

[uneven pine]

It's good as long as you don't try to do anything more than browse the web and write a word document

The edges show up fast and are very sharp as soon as you care to do something actually interesting

Ubuntu repos are too outdated to have all the modern niceties for Linux gaming

Or any real development work unless you want to add a dozen PPAs and enter dependency hell

(or manually compile your entire toolchain)

Picking a Linux distro is a game of "where do you want the sharp edges"

I normally go with Tumbleweed for desktop because it's rolling release that's actually functional. Updates don't just break your entire OS like arch for example

The edges come in the form of it not being one of the "big 3" so package availability is smaller, support is less, and you generally need to know what you're doing on a Linux system. Community is great though

Fucking

Pikachu reaction

Pikachu reaction

Pikachu reaction

[fringe rain]

we really spamming pikachus with this one

[warped sentinel]

it's such a bad take that, yes

it's meme level take on linux

[eternal depot]

[glossy niche]

what kind of development work?

[pliant nexus]

its not fun when you dont have monthly explosions from your OS tho

[pliant nexus]

i agree, desktop experience and gaming experience has improved greatly in the recent years

[graceful basin]

Being better than nothing doesn't make it good

[pliant nexus]

fortunately its not "better than nothing"

[glossy niche]

https://tenor.com/view/nixos-nix-install-nixos-jetstream-sam-i-should-install-nixos-gif-15494073126937262681

[pliant nexus]

anyway, seiously though, just because you may not agree with with the direction arch has decided to take, but that doesnt mean it is a bad distro

its just not for you

[warped sentinel]

it's not even a question nowadays. It's just taken for granted

things just work

[pliant nexus]

yeah, nowadays you can go and install a hands off distro like linux mint for your grandpa and have him use it comfortably.
that is a massive change compared to before

[warped sentinel]

that was already the case 20 years ago.

The main predictor of success is your social network, not the OS in use.

[pliant nexus]

?

i didnt get that

[graceful basin]

Ye, for the simple things Linux desktop works

[warped sentinel]

complex stuff too

[graceful basin]

God no

[pliant nexus]

for most things linux work

[pliant nexus]

maybe you could elaborate?

[graceful basin]

I've broken so many installs to Linux package managers being broken by design

[pliant nexus]

seems like a skill issue /j

[warped sentinel]

the main predictor of success if what OS your friends use because that's whom you go for help.
So I know plenty of people who started with mac and have friends who use mac and they can't use any other OS. Same thing for GNU/Linux or windows

[warped sentinel]

linux package managers aren't broken by design

[graceful basin]

The second you need 2 versions of a thing, the entire paradigm breaks

[pliant nexus]

i'm the only one who uses linux in a 100 mile radius 💀

[graceful basin]

And now you're using docker

[warped sentinel]

so now you introduce security and maintenance issues

[graceful basin]

Nix is a solution, but so is windows

[warped sentinel]

other OSes don't have any solution for that

[pliant nexus]

windows is a solution to some of linux's problems i agree, but it has wayy to many downsides compared to its upsides

[graceful basin]

Linux has a solution for that, it's flatpak/snap/appimage and it's worse than software management on Windows or mac

[pliant nexus]

its not?

what issue does flatpak have?

besides, there are version managers for most things that you might need

[warped sentinel]

Not really.

• Neither windows nor mac have a solution for that
• Linux package managers do have solution for that (ex: how they maintained both python 2 and 3 at the same time). They just don't want to deal with multiple trees
• It introduces security and maintenance issues
• Static linking and containers are ways to address these, but do not prevent security and maintenance issues

this is a strange hill to die on

[graceful basin]

Flatpak consumes such an absurd amount of disk space and updates so aggressively that it is actively unusable on any system you don't update on a regular basis

[warped sentinel]

any static linking or container will duplicate bits

[graceful basin]

I had a machine I took to lan parties with flatpak installs on it and it took 1-2hrs to update every single time

[pliant nexus]

i have flatpak, never had the issue

[graceful basin]

If you update on a regular basis it's fine

[pliant nexus]

i didnt update for 2 months due to network issues? never had a problem

with flatpak that is

[graceful basin]

Weird

[pliant nexus]

flatpak isnt pacman, you can go a pretty long time without updating

[graceful basin]

It doesn't break like some systems,.yes

[warped sentinel]

either way, that does not make linux not working for the lay person on the desktop

it's way too niche to matter

[graceful basin]

I don't care about the layperson

I care about complex things

[warped sentinel]

we aren't talking about complex things anyway

[graceful basin]

A system that works in 95% of cases is useless

[pliant nexus]

? windows is the same? it works 80-90% od time

[graceful basin]

I want something that works in 100% of cases, and windows with wsl covers that

[pliant nexus]

no it doesnt, it just doesnt

[warped sentinel]

windows and wsl are a problem, not a solution

such a shit show

[graceful basin]

It's not ideal, but it can at least run all software on all hardware

[warped sentinel]

can't even handle simple cases

[pliant nexus]

linux can run most as well

[warped sentinel]

never had a hardware issue with Linux in 30 years

[pliant nexus]

linux has much better driver support than windows

[graceful basin]

You clearly don't use weird enough hardware

But printers are way better on Linux, yes

[warped sentinel]

same could be said about not using mainstream hardware enough on windows :kek

[pliant nexus]

edge cases exist for every os, even windows would struggle with that

[graceful basin]

When Linux does work, it is usually more ergonomic than windows+wsl, but e.g. Linux drivers which aren't part of the main tree can't support every kernel version

[pliant nexus]

dont about that one 💀 /j

[warped sentinel]

it works on my machines

[graceful basin]

So now you have to figure.out which specific distro they set up their compilation for

Because the kernel breaks them with version changes

[pliant nexus]

it almost always works, the same is true for windows, it almost always works

[graceful basin]

Which is a fine choice

[warped sentinel]

if you are a beginner, you should stick with fedora and ubuntu

don't try more advanced distributions

[graceful basin]

I don't care about almost always

[pliant nexus]

windows is "almost always"

every os is

i dont wanna say it, buut this seems like a slight case of skill issue

[graceful basin]

There was admittedly one incident where I would've had to build a custom WSL kernel and I just installed Linux

Or well, a too custom WSL kernel

[warped sentinel]

none of these make GNU/Linux unfit for simple or complex use cases

these are all about preferences

and that's okay. We all have different tastes

but we should not conflate taste for facts

[graceful basin]

I've had Linux break on me way more than windows, even when I was using RHEL

[pliant nexus]

yeah, some people actually like gentoo

some

[warped sentinel]

that's not the normal or mainstream experience. Something wrong was being done

[graceful basin]

I don't do exclusively normal and mainstream things on my computer, yes

I don't think that's unusual

[warped sentinel]

maybe you were not ready for it yet

[pliant nexus]

most of us here dont

we are all away from the mainstream one way or another

[warped sentinel]

just use whatever makes you happy

but that does not mean other solutions aren't practical

[graceful basin]

The second you run out of "driver in main tree, software out of packages", Linux starts sucking a lot more.

[warped sentinel]

not really

[graceful basin]

Windows lets you build with just about any toolchain that has ever existed, albeit with difficulty, and the executable will work. On Linux, glib alone makes breaking changes on a rather regular basis.

[warped sentinel]

not at all

that's factually wrong

[graceful basin]

There's a reason every distro has to build its own packages

[warped sentinel]

that's not how things work

[graceful basin]

By breaking changes I mean changes that break binary comparability

[pliant nexus]

why do you mention a "issue" with linux and then isntead of defending it, just move to another "issue"?

[warped sentinel]

I understand. And that's still wrong

[graceful basin]

Oh, does glib not break ABI? I remember running into that before, but it could be a different library

[graceful basin]

Hm, have I been doing that. If so, apologies

[pliant nexus]

no worries, it was just somewhat frustrating

its like moving the goal post away at the last second or having a 5th phase in a boss fight

[warped sentinel]

it does not. There are binary guarantees made.
See for instance the LSB

In addition, a lot of issues are placed upon linux when it actually comes from skill issues from the vendor of a specific hardware

they can either specify to an existing spec/driver, provide their driver in linux, or provide an external module. In addition, there are issues related to whether or not their driver is open source or not

but the issues of that vendor do not mean linux is bad (or not). It's just a reflection of the market of users for that vendor

As a whole, Linux probably still handle far more hardware than windows

[graceful basin]

Sure, Linux can't magically force all vendors to make drivers on Linux, but that still means that if I have such a piece of hardware, I can't use Linux. And I can imagine some hardware exists that never got windows drivers, and doesn't work over something common enough that you can pass it to WSL somehow.

[warped sentinel]

Let's flip the problem. At my $JOB, we only support mac and GNU/Linux. Does that make windows bad?

[graceful basin]

No, I can use WSL and use your software.

[warped sentinel]

not really

that would require a lot of tinkering

because of WSL issues

[graceful basin]

That's fine, everything on windows requires absurd amounts of tinkering

[warped sentinel]

I guess that answers my question 😉

[glossy niche]

static linking here is like, putting everything in one executable that you can just yeet around?

[molten crown]

for a CS student, im thinking I may get a mac (2022 macbook air m2)
But for the storage, would 256 gb be way too little? Considering how much space you have after the OS install sizes of course and basic apps

my university website doesn't specify and specs so generally from where can I found out from?

[jaunty wraith]

I have a 150 GiB disk on my macbook, and I've yet to fill… 93% of it

buy storage according to your needs

[molten crown]

well this is probably a dumb question but how would i know whether its enough

i don't plan on gaming or anything so not much unnecessary apps

[jaunty wraith]

do you have any contacts that are already in the uni?

[molten crown]

just for programming and notes and stuff for university

[molten crown]

nope

[jaunty wraith]

I don't think you'd need much then

if your uni uses Google Workspace or provides you a GMail account, it'll also come with Google Drive space

I suggest making good use of that too

[eternal depot]

You can always download more anyway

[quasi blaze]

What do you call it when you are in act of doing something because you messed up somewhere previously?

[thick ore]

rectifying?

[young shoal]

well you could be making it worse still

there's not enough information

[thick ore]

fixing?

[quasi blaze]

The act is supposed to make up something from a previous error

[jaunty wraith]

then yeah, rectify

.wa s define rectify

[median dome]

Wolfram Alpha

math: determine the length of

[jaunty wraith]

of course

rectify
/ˈrɛktɪfʌɪ/

verb
put right; correct.

[young shoal]

could still be making it worse

what it's supposed to do is different from what actually happens

[jaunty wraith]

that doesn't matter

[barren chasm]

determine the length of

wtf wolfram

[young shoal]

yes it does

[jaunty wraith]

I was rectifying it, but worsened it instead

[young shoal]

I was attempting to rectify it, but worsened it instead

[jaunty wraith]

the answer to Keezy's question is still rectify

[young shoal]

nah

[jaunty wraith]

okay. get rekt… ified

[quasi blaze]

Bars

[young shoal]

you can say you are rectifying it, if you think you are actually doing that. but if you aren't actually rectifying... then you aren't

[barren chasm]

woah

but that doesn't matter

[quasi blaze]

Okay i think “it’s supposed to” in the sentence can throw people off

Let me rephrase:

The action of saving something from a previous error or mistake or any wrongdoing

[strange blade]

rectifying

nice job

you rectified your little mistake there, didn't you

[tardy rain]

Whats wrong with "fix"

"correct"?

[young shoal]

true tbh

[tardy rain]

Dont need to sound smart if you just are

[jaunty wraith]

rectifying isn't much of a snob word

[primal herald]

@umbral breach re: #python-discussion message
I didn't mean to imply that, my point was that if it happens to you then you're at least partly to blame because you're the one who sent the message in the first place

[quasi blaze]

When you are fixing something, that doesn’t imply that you made a mistake or a wrongdoing

A mechanic is fixing a car but that doesn’t imply that they made a mistake

So it matters

Rectify wasn’t even the word I was looking for

It was redemption

[tardy rain]

Rectify doesnt mean to fix a mistake tho either

It means to set right

Wind blows, your antenna gets moved
You rectify its position

[brazen ingot]

is this designed by a set theorist

[narrow pecan]

It actually was designed by famous mathematician George Cantor and based on the notation of set theory. Frank Herbert and he were close friends at the time of writing the first book

That is as true as Python having gotten its name from the snake

[brazen ingot]

oh i thought cantor only dealt with the diagonalization arg and sizes of sets not with notations

herbert space filling curves? do they look similar nah

[low chasm]

eid mubarak :)

[glossy niche]

EID MUBARAK

https://tenor.com/view/happy-cat-cats-kitten-kittens-gif-8881271268885160153

[fringe rain]

i loved dune

its like they made it with the intention of getting phonk edits

[narrow pecan]

This is above my level of historical math knowledge, but if it wasn’t clear I was just messing around (except for the fact that Python wasn’t named after the snake. It was named after Monty Python)

[quasi blaze]

Etymological word of the day: Cycl

The Greek root word “cycl”
means “circle.”

Examples:

Bicycle
Cyclops
Cyclone 
Encyclopedia

[honest star]

"circle of learning" aka a complete learning

[young shoal]

somehow i think this is a downgrade from fallacyposting

[quasi blaze]

Well again, the fallacy posting doesn’t fit with the demographics of this server

[honest star]

you're misunderstanding the "cycle" bit. It's not a cycle but meant as a circle, as in a complete thing you are encircled by'

[young shoal]

just post about python

📈

[honest star]

I'll take etymology over fallacies. At least it can't be weaponized for frustrating conversations

[glossy niche]

r u etymology posting now?

[quasi blaze]

English classes in elementary school don’t teach the etymology of words

[young shoal]

because it's not necessary

[young shoal]

frustratingentertaining 😎

[honest star]

let me break out the greek.
encyclopedia comes from "enkyklio paideia"

"enkyklio" can mean circular but in the greek days it also meant "general" and was intended to be mean as something all encompassing.

So "all-encompassing/general learning"

[quasi blaze]

You learn what a word means right away when you haven’t heard or read it before

[young shoal]

not really. there are tons of counterexamples

[tardy rain]

Shush psv, this is better and cooler

[glossy niche]

tbh that kinda does work for some fields like medical

[tardy rain]

But keezy you should include the original word in the post

[quasi blaze]

For example:

Trisect

You know what it means and you guys probably never heard it being used before

[glossy niche]

medical has SOOOOOOO many words that my med student friends have a whole ass medical terminology course

[honest star]

I have absolutely seen the word trisect being used before. Chem phase diagrams be wilding

[glossy niche]

that said, i am in favor of butchering english and simplifying it if it makes it easier to undestand

like

"shud" makes way more sense than """"""should"""""""

you can make and argument for should but that L can take the L

[tardy rain]

English is already pretty simple

[glossy niche]

e.g. some ppl spell "mould" as "mold"

WAIT I MEAN VICE VERSA

[glossy niche]

is it your mother tongue?

[tardy rain]

No

[glossy niche]

ohh, interesting

it is simple, but it could be simpler

[honest star]

I feel bad for non-native english speakers because we draw from several different languages, so pronunciation is a bitch. Like we have "he wound the wound"

[glossy niche]

i think we should butcher english until its completely phoneticised (wow etymology look at this new word) :333333

[young shoal]

the roots of "archaic" and "monarch" are very similar, and you would not be able to figure out which unless you actually knew which root it was

i ran into this when studying for the GRE

[thick osprey]

I might have to read up on more of these pronunciation issues after I have read my current book.

[honest star]

the pronunciation of "colonel" always sends me into a rage

[glossy niche]

ehhhhhhhhhh idk about that

my mother tongue has soooooo many sounds that english doesnt dream of having, some sounds are virtually unique to it

[honest star]

where's that tom scott video about language sounds that could exist but don't

[glossy niche]

ض

basically just exists in arabic

fun fact: its the "d" sound in ramadan

[young shoal]

i think it's on youtube

[glossy niche]

its actually ramaضan but teaching it to everyone would kinda be too effortful

ح خ ض ع غ ق ص

do not exist in english

far too many to teach the avg person

[tardy rain]

Can you guys roll your rs

😂😂

[honest star]

no 😔

[young shoal]

so you can't make cat noises

[glossy niche]

it takes me a while to adjust mr Rs from arabic R to english R

[tardy rain]

Trynna teach the gf greek words has her meowing at me 😹

[young shoal]

😩

oh yeah kat i was able to get the gre rescheduled to this saturday

[honest star]

nice, glgl

[young shoal]

if there's another technical error i'm giving up on the ms

[honest star]

honestly, very reasonable

[young shoal]

or more likely, not apply to schools that require it. which isn't that many, tbh

[glossy niche]

@quasi blaze
etymology channels i like :3
(i did not watch everything they post and they will ofc make mistakes sometimes)
https://www.youtube.com/@etymology_nerd
https://www.youtube.com/@humanteneleven
https://www.youtube.com/@YuvalTheTerrible
https://www.youtube.com/@DrGeoffLindsey

[pliant nexus]

i watch at least 2 of them

[young shoal]

dilettante is a funny word

[pliant nexus]

too bad the embeds disappear

[glossy niche]

tehy r nice

[tardy rain]

etymology_nerd
I too enjoy my etymology shorts at breakneck speed

[glossy niche]

i am the remover of embeds, i work for google, i need you to click those links so that you can go to YouTube ™️

[glossy niche]

boomer

[glossy niche]

guy who covers hebrew

the human something eleven covers a lot of arabic and french

https://www.youtube.com/@LanguageSimp theres also this guy, hes funny

[acoustic moss]

i love etymology nerd

[glossy niche]

what actual'yl got me into linguistics was uhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh too much NLP

[pliant nexus]

technically i know 3 languages, english, hindi, bengali. i know some latin as well

how many languages do you guys know?

[glossy niche]

i know 3 and learning a 4th
arabic
english
<third secret language>
learning german

[pliant nexus]

let me guess, the 3rd doesnt actually exist

/j

[glossy niche]

it does, i just dont like sharing about where im from

[tardy rain]

Its rust

[glossy niche]

yeah i wish

[acoustic moss]

english hindi bengali, and i like to pretend i know french and german

[glossy niche]

i hate that discord hid the notes from the new preview

i need to see those bec i usually record things like where ppl r from

(i am taking notes on you guys)

[acoustic moss]

good

i expect a 3 page report on my desk by tuesday

[pliant nexus]

i know some german words, not much more than that though

[glossy niche]

i will print out my obsidian vault and clog your sink with it

[pliant nexus]

nice, when can i expect a pipebomb at my house?

[glossy niche]

indian delivery services suck and misplaced my package

[pliant nexus]

you are bengali as well?

[acoustic moss]

ye

[glossy niche]

if a random 45yo mom in pakistan explodes, its probably my fault

[pliant nexus]

sadly the only meme i have about west india is this

/j

[glossy niche]

wait lmao

is this real

[pliant nexus]

i hope not 💀

[glossy niche]

only thing ik abt india is uhhhhh

naan

https://tenor.com/view/cat-big-bite-cat-eat-gif-20087133

[acoustic moss]

surely you also know butter chicken

[glossy niche]

we made it last month!

it was good but butter isnt my thing

flatbread with garlic is right up my alleyway tho

[pliant nexus]

Your robber legally cannot take any of your passession [...]
it is true though

[pliant nexus]

most people outside india only know of Western and Southarn Indian food

[glossy niche]

makes sense, india is huge

[pliant nexus]

East indian food is a lot different from my experience

[jaunty wraith]

and also South Indian food

[glossy niche]

what about north indian

[jaunty wraith]

actually, even North Indian

[pliant nexus]

messed it up

[jaunty wraith]

butter chicken and all that

[acoustic moss]

naan and butter chicken is north indian

[glossy niche]

good ol chicken butt

[pliant nexus]

yeah

[jaunty wraith]

chicken butt

[glossy niche]

what

[jaunty wraith]

chicken butt

[acoustic moss]

what do you even include under west

vada pav

dhokla

[pliant nexus]

stuff relating to rice and poppy seeds are east indian

[jaunty wraith]

probably

[pliant nexus]

most "rutti"s

[jaunty wraith]

rice is pretty widely used

[glossy niche]

other thing ik abt indian food is basmati rice 👍

based rice

[pliant nexus]

the only thing we eat in my house is rice

[acoustic moss]

(NE is forgotten yet again)

[jaunty wraith]

sad NE

momos

[acoustic moss]

🗿

[jaunty wraith]

is all I know sadly

what other NE food do you know?

[pliant nexus]

whats NE though?

[acoustic moss]

idk fish

[pliant nexus]

i dont recognies that acronym

[jaunty wraith]

bruh

[acoustic moss]

north east

[pliant nexus]

ohhh

so the seven sister states?

[acoustic moss]

ye

ive been to assam and mizoram

cant say i found the cuisine particularly memorable

[pliant nexus]

i dont think they even have a contact with the sea, its mostly mountainous there

[acoustic moss]

its v picturesque tho

[pliant nexus]

been to assam, not mizoram though

[acoustic moss]

bro

seas arent the only waterbodies with fish 😭

[jaunty wraith]

what

bro forgor about lakes

[acoustic moss]

fake bengali

[pliant nexus]

i couldnt really explore the place though because i was there for a wedding

[pliant nexus]

nope

bengali is a bit too unknown to be faked

have you considered that i may just have skill issue?

its a wonderful thing

[jaunty wraith]

real

[short schooner]

hmm

[young shoal]

how do the fish get into the lake

[tardy rain]

Airdropped

[quasi blaze]

Do we own ourselves?

[stark prawn]

It's illegal to own humans

[quasi blaze]

I was listening to a debate and one of the debaters said ownership is socially constructed. For example, there was a guitar hanged up on his wall and said there’s social constructs in place that makes him own that guitar; He wanted a demonstration from his opponent on how one would own themselves

[tardy rain]

You try to test that social construct and you get fists flying

[karmic gust]

that would confirm the social construct

[glossy niche]

ownership is a very hotly debated topic in philosophy/ethics/politics/sociology whatever

[low chasm]

I wrote an essay on ownership for ap lang

I got a 6 😤

[tardy rain]

Out of?

[glossy niche]

i remember like at least one week on ownership in my computer ethics class

[low chasm]

6

[glossy niche]

tahini + yoghurt + garlic 👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍

[glossy niche]

wheres that guy with the max stirner pfp lol

https://tenor.com/view/max-stirner-georgebailey-gif-25534347

[eternal depot]

[vale raven]

Only in certain countries

[warped sentinel]

yep.
The downside is that it is now your responsibility to maintain it, build it and update it across all your supported platforms.
And given that's rarely properly done, it means that if you have 10 different software statically linking that same library, you can bet that most won't get updated frequently or in case of security issues.
The benefit is that it does give you more freedom and ability to work around the different platforms and communities. For instance each community/platform may provide a different version, or none. That means you would have to either deal with different versions and work with each community. But then the maintenance is done by these communities.

Also to support multiple versions, there are initiatives like https://docs.pagure.org/modularity/

[grave cove]

bro wanted to fight 💀

[signal canopy]

people be thinking too much

[solemn tulip]

🦀 🦀 🦀

[thick osprey]

Enterprise co-pilot update:

GitHub Copilot can now search Bing within chat conversations in VS Code to answer questions and find information outside of its general knowledge or your codebase.

Neat, now the AI search engine can call other AI search engines to answer a question.

[wanton delta]

sounds, fun

[pliant nexus]

Bing
💀

[lament cairn]

and get results with cited sources all being from ai generated articles

:)))))))))

[glossy niche]

I see, so it's kind of like having a lower level of abstraction where you have to care about which libraries you have linked statically?

[warped sentinel]

Not really a lower or higher abstraction.

Either you rely on a library provided and maintained by the system, or you bundle your own version.
In the first case, the benefit is that you only need to update it once for all the software to benefit from it. The second case means you are responsible for updating it

[glossy niche]

ah isee, thanks

[quasi blaze]

Trilingual 

Is another example

[young shoal]

"trite"

[stark prawn]

triton shorestalker

[eternal depot]

tristicular

[tardy rain]

trichomonacidal

Keezy you should include each word's scrabble value

[young shoal]

tripe

[hexed sierra]

trip

triumph

not to be confused with umph umph umph

[jaunty wraith]

trivago

[crystal spruce]

hotel?

[tardy rain]

Biumph

[acoustic moss]

uniumph

[hexed sierra]

ununoctiumph

[tardy rain]

Whats that

18-umph?

[hexed sierra]

118-umph

[tardy rain]

So weird to mix latin and greek numbers

[quasi blaze]

Etymon of the day: Hydr

Hydr– comes from Greek hýdōr, meaning “water.”

Examples

Hexahydrate
Carbohydrate 
Dehydration 
Hydrophobia

[jaunty wraith]

is etymon a new type of pokemon?

[hexed sierra]

sounds more like a digimon

[young shoal]

keezy are you gonna address the counterexamples or just etymologypost

[hexed sierra]

btw, chad german moment. "hydrogen" is too mainstream. call it "wasserstoff" instead (lit. water stuff)

[tardy rain]

What counterexamples

[young shoal]

also@hexed sierra what textbook should I use to learn diffeq

[jaunty wraith]

what's this? etumon evolved into etymon!

[quasi blaze]

What counterexamples?

[hexed sierra]

i'm afraid i don't have any suggestions there, i disliked the ones i used in undergrad. maybe try asking in the maths server

[young shoal]

I mean keezy's whole point is that etymology helps you understand words if you don't know them, but it just doesn't

[young shoal]

"trite", for the last one

[quasi blaze]

What about it?

[young shoal]

what does it mean from the root "tri"?

[quasi blaze]

Three

[young shoal]

I meant trite

[quasi blaze]

Well etymologically the “tri” means three in “trite”

[jaunty wraith]

.wa s define trite

[median dome]

Wolfram Alpha

repeated too often; overfamiliar through overuse

[harsh tundra]

Wodór in Polish is quite similar

[jaunty wraith]

so, does bite mean repeated twice?

three is too often

[tardy rain]

unite

[jaunty wraith]

repeated once

[tardy rain]

Truly

[young shoal]

no, it has a completely different etymology

[jaunty wraith]

.wa etymology of trite

[tardy rain]

Its french 😔

[median dome]

Wolfram Alpha

View original for a bigger picture.

[jaunty wraith]

thanks

"used till so common as to have lost its novelty and interest," 1540s, from Latin tritus "worn, oft-trodden," of language "much-used, familiar, commonplace," past-participle adjective from terere "to rub, wear down" (from PIE root *tere- (1) "to rub, turn"). Related: Tritely; triteness.
also from 1540s

[quasi blaze]

Well i guess they are exceptions then

[tardy rain]

tri meaning three is not a general rule

triage

[jaunty wraith]

tring-tring

[young shoal]

so you can't use it at all

[quasi blaze]

You know “cycl” means circle and “tri” generally means three in most words so “Tricycle”

Assuming you never heard the word “Tricycle” before

[hexed sierra]

"appeal to probability" is a logical fallacy

[tardy rain]

🗿

Is that just common sense?

[hexed sierra]

the what?

[tardy rain]

Appealing to probability 😔

Appealing to street smarts

[hexed sierra]

no, people are terrible at statistics anyway

that's why games rarely show or use true stats when doing things at random

[harsh tundra]

... The opposite. There's no word "cycl", only prefix cycl-. And cycl- prefix comes from "cycle"
Tricycle is tri+cycle. No "cycl"

[marble bay]

explain this

[hexed sierra]

things like a 70% accuracy rate in a game, for example, are often closer to 100% after applying an expansive map

[quasi blaze]

Encyclopedia

[tardy rain]

😭😭😭

[harsh tundra]

Which one?

[quasi blaze]

It has “cycl” in it and it’s not used as a prefix

[harsh tundra]

... Nope

[tardy rain]

It'd be fairly simple to get all the words that start with tri and their etymologies and see what % of them is the "tri=three" type

[quasi blaze]

Cycl is not a word but it’s an etymon

[jaunty wraith]

gotta catch 'em all, etymon

[young shoal]

if the point is to get the meaning of a word using only etymology, then it's not possible. the existence of exceptions means that you need to know the exceptions, which is the thing you were trying to avoid in the first place

[quasi blaze]

FYI: I never said “only etymology “

[thick osprey]

Etymology is the study of both the origins and meanings of a word, is it not?

Somewhat baked into the act itself; there are multiple meanings to most words.

[young shoal]

not in the way keezy has defined it

but yeah

[young shoal]

it was clearly implied

[jaunty wraith]

words weird
return to symbols

[hexed sierra]

since this is pedantic o'clock, i'll add to what preocts said. if you know the history and origin of the word, then you do get the meaning

[quasi blaze]

Where? Point it to me

[hexed sierra]

if you mean just by looking at it, then no

[harsh tundra]

Nope. Encyclopedia is not a word created in English, it has evolved as a whole first in Greek and then in Latin. It came from ἐγκύκλιος + παιδείᾱ ➡️ encyclopaedīa / encyclopēdīa
Basically a direct translation from Greek enkuklios into Latin as encyclo. Not "cycl", not even "cyclo", but whole "encyclo"

[young shoal]

right. keezy has only been posting word roots

[thick osprey]

This is ot1, the pedantic pool.

[quasi blaze]

But the “cycl” in “Encyclopedia” is there for a reason

[harsh tundra]

...

[young shoal]

[jaunty wraith]

encyclo–ne

the circle of ne

[quasi blaze]

You know that “Octo” means “eight” and a “syllable” means a unit of pronunciation having one vowel sound, with or without surrounding consonants.

So now that you know those two meanings, you know what an octosyllable is already even when you heard of that word for the first time

[harsh tundra]

... It has cycl because that's literally a substring of (en)cyclo. Doesn't mean "cycl" is a word.

I could say "cy" is there for a reason and it would mean as much as your "cycl". 🤦