Amikke @Amikke@qoto.org

@icedquinn thanks for reminding me how much I love NixOS's store functionality allowing packages to have independent dependencies. Program A requires earlier version of LLVM but program B a later one? Sure, here you go, two LLVMs and everyone sees the one they like.

Pretty sure that effort-wise I got full return on investment in the first few days after installing. Literally never had dependency issues for the past ~2 years of using it.

@coolboymew I've seen a story (I think in Derek Lowe's In the Pipeline blog) where during research on the effects of caffeine on muscle performance an intern made an oopsie by weighing out two orders of magnitude more caffeine than was prescribed. Apparently no alarm bells went off in his head while preparing a decent pile of the stuff. The unfortunate athlete test subjects spent ~a month in hospital and left much, much leaner.

@VD15 also I didn't have to follow any thread, using Brave with its built-in adblocker and Enhancer for YouTube (which I use mostly for automatic quality selection and volume boost) I've not had problems worse than "You appear to be offline" in place of a video, which a refresh fixes. I'm not even sure which one of them goes around YT's anti-adblock so well and I don't care to find out.

Google in shambles.

@fribbledom “Everyone knows that debugging is twice as hard as writing a program in the first place. So if you're as clever as you can be when you write it, how will you ever debug it?” – Brian W. Kernighan

I generally try to stay at least a stick's length away from front-end development since everything it touches turns to cancer. So it was today that I learned that TypeScript doesn't even support ignoring a specific error. You know, the feature that's been standard for the past ~30 years in every sensible compiler and linter.

Reason given by Microsoft? "Error codes do not add to expressiveness in a position like such." I'm sure ignoring everything to silence an unknown error is much more expressive.

https://github.com/microsoft/TypeScript/pull/21602#issuecomment-369015655

@freemo @jasonetheridge it would be a beautiful world if meritocracy worked. Problem is, it doesn't. A test is likely to only make things worse since whoever gets into power will try to manipulate the test to favour their voters. Surely not a better solution than mandatory.

Besides, with a $20 penalty it's more of "encouraged" than "mandatory" lol. Just gives a reason to get off their asses and do their sole democratic obligation.

@freemo @jasonetheridge the thing is that it's not the well educated that want to vote the most. It's the radicals and overall maniacs, the people convinced The Bads are out to get them and they need to vote for The Goods no matter what. The less someone is fanatic about a party the less motivation they have to vote. It's like a variant of Dunning-Kruger, except on country-wide scale.

We had this problem in Poland for the past two elections. A shitty populist, conservative catholic and nationalistic party was doing more damage to our country over the past 8 years than any other government before it since the fall of socialism combined. (Including their previous ruling period many years ago.) We're talking nearly Hungary level of taking over all branches of government and media and shitting all over the legal system and public institutions. Because the "normal" people stayed at homes while the fanatic and plain stupid who believed their fear mongering and were getting bribed with their own money voted. We just this weekend had (hopefully, right now we just have exit polls results) a revolutionary election where they finally don't have a majority. Because the voter turnout was much higher then previously, because the people who up until now didn't bother to vote finally got fed up and showed up in droves to vote for the opposition.

It's beautiful, but it's sad that they needed that bad of a situation to finally do it. If we had mandatory voting, that shitshow might've never taken place.

@wonziu dzięki, akurat szukałem <3

@icedquinn huge rel. I sometimes use it for stupid shit like a single-threaded Fibonacci sequence calculator just cause I like it, but never have a reason to actually use it for something bigger. I don't think I've written multi-process Erlang code since I've been learning it, and that's most of the whole point of the language lol

@icedquinn tbh the EU has been taking massive W's until now, with GDPR and now DMA doing more for global netizens rights than… any other organisation or country since the advent of the Internet.

They do need to be kicked in the ass every time they attempt shit like this one tho, but in the past they've been kicked every time. (ACTA and whatever its second attempt was called come to mind.)

@VD15 @coolboymew @adiz the xbox OS is a virtualised abomination based on Windows Core, which is a slightly stripped down version of plain desktop Windows. You could probably run linux on it without issue if the system wasn't super locked-up precisely to prevent that.

@ZachWeinersmith in between Milk and Fresh cheese there's also curdled milk. Processed cheese might be the winner.