Hendrik Boom @hendrikboom3@qoto.org

@foxhkron Is Devuan one of the options?

@foxhkron A foot in the door. for Microsoft, anyway.

@freemo It's still absurd, but killing them wouldn't help. And it's not Bernie Sanders saying to kill them. A violent revolution is dangerous to all, and often just yields a dictatorship worse than the old regime.

@peterdrake Inspired by Fermat's ghost, presumably.

@mngrif Yes. Some websites are terrible. They completely overload the user's machine with tracking and performance monitoring code.

@mngrif So my obvious next question is ... what apps delay processing like that? ... or ... What file system is so fragile

@dcvoter It wasn't the Jews. They are as much victims as the rest of us. It was the lizard people.

@percy One of the interesting events took place among the Greeks -- when mathematicians started proving obvious theorems.

@percy Make an outline to break the project into a series of subprojects of manageable size. Don't worry if your writing deviates from the outline; just adjust the outline as necessary.

And finally, you will have to revise several times over. If you can get someone knowledgeable to read it and point out where it's obscure, that's golden.

If you can find a word-processor that's compatible with software-style revision control, that can be good too.

@mngrif Why all my serious computing id done on a GNU/Linux laptop. In command line terminals and emacs.

@buckket@social.buckket.org It's not clear to me what capacity or performance indicators this chart represents.

@mngrif before I commit to tgat huge download, what *is* unifactory?

I'm pretty new here too.

@Anarkat
I know you go by the name The Anarcat.

@freemo I view truth like a directed set. Lots of different views. But confront different views (assuming they are views and not dogmas) and you can often look at their differences and evidence and come to new understanding that subsumes them. Like we hope quantum mechanics and general relativity will unify. Keep doing that. And in the unattainable (we are finite) limit maybe there's some ideal Truth. But constructively, Truth is a hope, not a reality.

@freemo @twdockery We occasionally get some sane politics here in Canada. Perhaps that's because everything has to compromise between Quebec and the West. But Canada isn't really a counterexample because it's not really English-speaking, being about a third French.

Quebec itself, no not that much sane politics.

@freemo Which brings up, I suppose, whether any method of reasoning, any approximate understanding, can ever be considered 'true'. That's a philosophical quagmire I don't want to get into, because I suspect there ix no way out.