elint

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[–] elint@programming.dev 18 points 2 months ago

The real Linus Tech Tips (now with 100% less sexual harrassment).

[–] elint@programming.dev 1 points 3 months ago

Miles O'Brien.

Is that what he's called in the US? Over here he is called Kilometres O'Brien.

[–] elint@programming.dev 3 points 6 months ago

Anime and cartoons are the same word, just different languages. If you are speaking Japanese, it is always proper to refer to cartoons as "anime".

[–] elint@programming.dev -1 points 7 months ago

You think that's absurd? Have you never gotten married? Wedding photos are extremely important and while "she almost vomited" may be hyperbole, I can definitely understand being very pissed off if that was the only version of the photo. Our wedding photographer whitened our teeth in our photos and we requested that they undo that so we look like ourselves. The sentiment was nice, but we didn't want that. I would have been pretty unhappy if they hadn't held onto the originals and were unable to revert our teeth back to their normal shades. Photos of our bridal showers and dress hunting were nearly as important as the wedding photos themselves. I can understand being upset with this undesired result.

[–] elint@programming.dev 1 points 7 months ago (3 children)

Do you really work with memory, storage, and bandwidth? If so, have you EVER run across an instance where memory, storage, or bandwidth were referred to in millibits? Memory, storage, and bandwidth are extremely important in my job, though not my direct focus, and I can say over 50 years as a sysadmin and coder, I have never encountered "mb" and had it actually mean "millibits". Literally not once. Now "Mb" definitely has some ambiguity (in bandwidth, it's used for Megabits, and in memory/storage, it's more often than not a typo of MB), but "mb" actually meaning "millibits"? No, friend. Just no.

[–] elint@programming.dev 33 points 8 months ago

They're pretty fonts and they're released under SIL Open Font License 1.1. I dig it.

[–] elint@programming.dev 10 points 8 months ago (9 children)

Detroit Michigan, "motor city", is home to a lot of car manufacturers and also much crime.

[–] elint@programming.dev 5 points 8 months ago

If you're near the cusp, pick whichever makes you feel better. Generations are a sociological construct and are appropriately applied in the aggregate, not to individuals and they're always fuzzy around the edges. Much like Hari Seldon can't predict specific individual events, sociological generations don't always apply exactly the same to individual people.

If you're born anywhere between around 1978 and 1984, you will likely find at least one sociologist who draws the line on either side of you.

I tend to go with Strauss-Howe, who consider GenX to be 1961-1981 and Millennials to be 1982-2005 -- mostly because I like their idea of turnings and cyclical archetypes.

[–] elint@programming.dev 4 points 8 months ago

Sounds like he read The Veldt

[–] elint@programming.dev 2 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (5 children)
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