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[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 day ago

Meh, sure she was wrong on that, but that doesn't justify taking her into custody and refusing to allow her to go home.

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

But then you have to eat Tillamook cheese... I has no idea cheese could be so bland before I moved to the NW USA. And orange, for some reason.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I thought it was stating that something is God's will for your own purposes. AFAIK it's not just using terms for God as a curse.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 weeks ago

Not sure why they'd adjust. It's mostly urban areas where top speed makes little difference to journey times. Journey times are generally decided by how long you spend waiting at every light and intersection.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 weeks ago

When bzr, and then git, turned up and I started using them, I was told "this is DVC, which is a whole new model that takes getting used to", so I was surprised it seemed normal and straightforward to me.

Then I found out that Sun's Teamware, that I had been using for many years, was a DVC, hence it wasn't some new model. I'd had a few intervening years on other abominable systems and it was a relief to get back to DVC.

Regarding the original post, are there really people around now who think that before git there was no version control? I've never worked without using version control, and I started in the 80s.

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

I'm particular our bodies are good at selecting the cells and organelles that are most damaged and decrepit to be broken down for material and fuel for the rest of the body. Makes sense they'd evolve to do that.

When you refeeding after a long fast, growth hormones are released that trigger replacement. So there's seem to be some rejuvenation and other benefits.

It's difficult to measure key parts of the process on a still living subject so we have to guess and extrapolate for humans. And other aspects aren't well explained or understood. So there's a lot of questionably reliable info and explanations, some of which are plausible. Like this!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago

Figuratively, Street kids do tend to be.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (2 children)

Also "the fucking old people caused this mess and are standing in the way of fixing it. We need them to die off so we can turn it around"

There has never been a young generation not saying this. Many of them have been correct too, but few have turned anything around when it's their turn.

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

And it's Wednesday, so it's Bismuth Time

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

Chips every day!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago (2 children)

It took me an embarrassing number of decades before I realized they were called (silicon) chips after American snack chips. I always thought it was a weird thing to call something that was plainly a carefully sliced thin sliver and not a piece chipped off anything.

As I did with potato chips too, but that was an established term in American English and it took me a very long time to realize one was named after the other.

 

The lack of keyboard interface on Lemmy is killing me, but really what I want is a good client in Emacs. However, it's beyond my Elisp to design and start such a project, but I could probably help. Anyone on it?

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