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by its_magic 8mo ago
On the contrary, it's a way for you to directly control the waiter or waittress's income, without going through a middleman. That's what you want, isn't it? Fair pay for these people? Tipping is your opportunity to make
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by its_magic 8mo ago
It is in fact a quote that I gathered from the internet many years ago. ... Or at least that's what I claim. But it seems you sleuths have uncovered the unsettling reality that I am actually a machine , sent back in time from the year
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by its_magic 8mo ago
Cool project!
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by its_magic 8mo ago
"Granddad was a philanthropist, always interested in the fate of those to whom fate wasn't so kind. He was a legend at the bank where he would throw handfuls of dimes down to the crowd loitering on the street, and this was in the
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by its_magic 8mo ago
Check out http://www.driveonwood.com to see plenty of examples of both. A wood car or truck can be amazingly practical for any use involving long steady state (i.e. highway driving), not so much for city use. A tractor can certa
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by its_magic 8mo ago
You don't run these inside enclosed spaces, because the carbon monoxide would kill you. It's nowhere near as convenient as gasoline--there's plenty of minding and care required--but during hard times it's much more effic
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by its_magic 8mo ago
Thanks for the correction. Yes, I have my bone to pick with the Linux kernel too on many different fronts. #facepalm
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by its_magic 8mo ago
Succinct
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by its_magic 8mo ago
> .. and that opinion is a great explanation of why systemd won. Completely wrong and ignorant. > Turns out, a lot of people are not happy with "Come on man. It's been done for decades." attitude, and they wanted someth
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by its_magic 8mo ago
> I also don't understand the fear around fractions - we deal with halves, quarters and fifths all the time in the natural world. Yes, and a certain fast food company found that their 1/3 lb burgers weren't selling well, b
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by its_magic 8mo ago
> I'm not sure I get it I'm pretty sure that you don't
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by its_magic 8mo ago
Agreed. Metric is stupid. The ancient Sumerians used multiples of 60, as we continue to do for time and angles (which are related) today. It makes perfect sense. 60 is divisible by 2, 3, 4, 5, and 6, which makes it easy to use in calculatio
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by its_magic 8mo ago
Residents of San Francisco ask themselves that question all the time.
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by its_magic 8mo ago
I'm sure that will contribute to the illusion of security, but in reality the system is thoroughly backdoored on every level from the CPU on up, and everyone knows it. There is no such thing as computer security, in general, at this po
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by its_magic 8mo ago
"Obsolete"? Apparently you aren't paying close attention. See this GIANT argument with hundreds of comments? It seems some people believe that SysVinit is, in fact, not even close to obsolete. If Gnome/KDE can't sup
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by its_magic 8mo ago
8/10
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by its_magic 8mo ago
Or to put it another way, systemd has grown to become so large and complex it's like a kernel unto itself.
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by its_magic 8mo ago
> No software is perfect Especially when it's a giant blob of buggy C code written by a known hack who has multiple decades' worth of history of foisting shit code upon a less than enthused public. > At least for me systemd
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by its_magic 8mo ago
You seem to be unaware of the basic fact that government--laws and legal systems--is men with guns . "Government is not reason, it is not eloquence, it is force! Like fire, it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master." - Geo
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by its_magic 8mo ago
> You depend on lawyers either way, whichever license you use No, in fact I don't. Indeed, I go far out of my way to avoid these parasites entirely, and anyone who depends on them. I don't give a damn what anyone does with my s
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by its_magic 8mo ago
We generally aren't in the habit of using "random" scripts to do anything. They're usually carefully developed to do exactly what we need them to do, precisely, and nothing more. Not the giant pile of buggy ass code an
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by its_magic 8mo ago
+1. Some people just have zero standards. They apparently WANT to be abused.
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by its_magic 8mo ago
Systemd is a giant pile of bugs. It's shitware.
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by its_magic 8mo ago
Yes, this times a thousand. If we treat people like slaves, they become slaves. Treat them as if they are smart, and they will become smart. It's as simple as that.
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by its_magic 8mo ago
Except for all those who've accidentally blown their legs off with it, of course. Just ask the guy who bricked his motherboard due to a systemd bug where his firmware wasn't write protected and got destroyed by a 'rm -rf&#x27
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by its_magic 8mo ago
On my system I forked dash to create 'bolderdash.' Right now it's pretty basic, I have changed little (just did some cleanup), but I did add in a couple tweaks to enhance bash compatibility. The goal is a complete refactor, m
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by its_magic 8mo ago
It was never good? Weird. Works fine for me. When will Wayland earn the label "good"? I don't think it currently qualifies.
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by its_magic 8mo ago
It would have never happened. Systemd wasn't chosen because "we the people" chose it. Things don't work like that anymore, regardless of what the marketing brochure might say.
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by its_magic 8mo ago
Could you expand on this comment please? (I don't think your viewpoint should be so rudely dismissed through downvoting and moving on.) What do you mean?
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by its_magic 8mo ago
On the contrary, I much prefer a full Turing complete language rather than trying to shoehorn my ideas into someone else's limited system. The scripts don't have to be complicated, and it doesn't have to be shell scripts. You

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