bitcrafter

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 weeks ago

You do not come across as clever as you think that you are when your central point is that you personally are not capable of understanding code written in a different programming language.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 weeks ago (4 children)

I am sorry that you have had this much trouble, but I cannot agree that this experience is as typical as you are making it out to be. For me, the experience has always been that I install Linux and it Just Works out of the box, save for some things like printer/scanner drivers which you generally also need to download on Windows. Furthermore, it is far more pleasant as a desktop experience than Windows.

(In fairness, though, I completely agree with you that Windows has more capabilities than Linux, given all of the advertisements it insists on showing me.)

[–] [email protected] 21 points 3 weeks ago

C makes it easy to shoot yourself in the foot; C++ makes it harder, but when you do it blows your whole leg off.

- Bjarne Stroustrup

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 weeks ago

I for one appreciate it when the AI let us know up front that we are conversing with a machine.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 weeks ago

Clarification: it is actually The Ten MM Socket.

(In Middle Earth they do not exactly have machine shops, so they were only able to make one of them.)

[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago)

Oh, so the picture is showing that One Ring! Makes sense now.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 4 weeks ago (3 children)

The first law has always pissed me off: why are you wasting that elderly scientist's time when you already know in advance what answer you want to hear and will only accept that response as being true?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

In my work environment (in the US), people have roughly this much paternity leave, and it is taken for granted that they will take it because this is viewed as important even if their absence during this time inconveniences the rest of us. They often split it up, though, instead of taking it in a single contiguous chunk.

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

Yeah, let's throw this poor person a bone already so that they do not have to dig their buried one up.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

Wow, it is impressive the lengths people are willing to go to vandalize Musk's property as a form of political protest!

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

Okay, so just to be clear: the article did not actually say what you claimed it said, but rather you are conjecturing the basis of the FSF's decision not to assist this person based on quotes describing this person's own inferences from a conversation they had with the FSF rather than based on anything the FSF has actually said.

You may be right about this, but it is still conjecture.

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

I am unable to find that in this article. Could you quote the paragraph you are referring to?

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