z500

joined 2 years ago
[–] z500@startrek.website 32 points 1 year ago

Look, I had a busy weekend, okay

[–] z500@startrek.website 6 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I liked how Star Trek: Discovery had a snippet of C code with a reference to Windows NT. I wonder if we'll still be on x86 in the 23rd century.

[–] z500@startrek.website 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

It's a reference to a copypasta.

I'd just like to interject for a moment. What you're referring to as Linux, is in fact, GNU/Linux, or as I've recently taken to calling it, GNU plus Linux. Linux is not an operating system unto itself, but rather another free component of a fully functioning GNU system made useful by the GNU corelibs, shell utilities and vital system components comprising a full OS as defined by POSIX. Many computer users run a modified version of the GNU system every day, without realizing it. Through a peculiar turn of events, the version of GNU which is widely used today is often called “Linux,” and many of its users are not aware that it is basically the GNU system, developed by the GNU Project. There really is a Linux, and these people are using it, but it is just a part of the system they use.

Linux is the kernel: the program in the system that allocates the machine's resources to the other programs that you run. The kernel is an essential part of an operating system, but useless by itself; it can only function in the context of a complete operating system. Linux is normally used in combination with the GNU operating system: the whole system is basically GNU with Linux added, or GNU/Linux. All the so-called “Linux” distributions are really distributions of GNU/Linux.

[–] z500@startrek.website 1 points 1 year ago

I always used to smoke at work when I worked as a janitor in my 20s. One time my manager grinned at me as I was coming back in from my break and asked if I was feeling tired. I can keep it together, but the droopy eyelids are a dead giveaway lol

[–] z500@startrek.website 10 points 1 year ago (2 children)

At least his eyes point in the same direction

[–] z500@startrek.website 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I've noticed the same thing with cool ranch Doritos. A while back they seem to have realized they went too far making them practically naked. They were heavily seasoned for several months but now it seems like the level of seasoning has been creeping down again. No idea why they single out that one flavor. Does it have silver in it, or something?

[–] z500@startrek.website 4 points 1 year ago

Red Hat 6.1, that was my first Linux distro.

[–] z500@startrek.website 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Also fat guy fall, finally.

[–] z500@startrek.website 9 points 1 year ago

From what I understand, you are always travelling at the speed of light through space/time, but when you move at high speeds through space that shifts the proportion of your speed out of the time dimension. And a photon travels only through space, experiencing no time between the time it was emitted and the time it was absorbed. What I just can't wrap my head around is the concept of travelling at some speed without involving the time dimension at all.

[–] z500@startrek.website 45 points 1 year ago (3 children)

In the 2000s women were straight up having orgasms in shampoo commercials.

[–] z500@startrek.website 3 points 1 year ago

I had to scroll back up to upvote it after it clicked

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