josemanuel @josemanuel@qoto.org

@coolboymew Try to get a variable rate mortgage, if you can. I don't know how it is in Canada, but, in Europe, rates are pretty high, so they're bound to go down sooner than later.

I'm not fond of people who say: “Don't reinvent the wheel.” I say: “Yes, reinvent the wheel! Maybe yours is better. Maybe your work leads to some awesome, unexpected discovery on roundness or friction or aerodynamics.”

Regardless of your opinion on its outcome, this is how a referendum should be presented to the people:

https://www.electoralcommission.ie/referendums/referendum-information/what-are-you-being-asked-to-decide-on/

#Ireland #IrishReferendum

I'll believe an LLM is on the road to AI when, instead of bullshitting its way through the conversation, it asks: “What do you mean by that?”

@convexer What about it?

@convexer I'm going to assume his distro installs stuff on /home, which is a big no-no for me.

@convexer Never happened to me in twenty five years. How did he managed to do it?

Whenever someone tells you: “Why do you need so many partitions? There's no reason to have more than a root one, another for /boot and a third one for swap. And even that may be overkill.”, just reply: “I know this guy whose ass has been saved many times by having separate /opt, /usr/local, /var/log, /var/www, /root and /home partitions, so, when things went wrong and he was forced to reinstall, the data on those partitions was always safe.”

Seriously, it makes no sense to me to have essentially _no_ partitions. That seems to me like Windows thinking.

#linux

@sendadeapolo Me alegro de verte por aquí de nuevo. En cualquier caso, siempre es bueno (incluso necesario) tener una alternativa por si acaso.

@BitBun I had a boss who once said to me: “Always play dumb. It's worth it.”

I didn't follow her advice, tried to be competent and all I got was a meeting on Monday with somebody else's client outside my working hours. FML.

@noyoushutthefuckupdad I would argue that it never became really popular. It was just transformed into something pallatable to normies, and ruined in the process. Think about how normal people react, even today, when confronted with a command line.

Nerds used to be artisans (left to our own devices, we created great things), but bullshitters like Bill Gates or Steve Jobs wanted to turn us into a chain gang, and they're succeeding.

@coolboymew @mangeurdenuage

@iron_bug I was half-joking. Of course what I said was only true on a very superficial level, but my point was that, even though both disrupt the control flow, one is generally seen as a good thing with no visible influence on program verification, and the other is not, even though both can be misused (as @pkw pointed out) and used acceptably (as you mentioned yourself).

Thrown exceptions are just socially acceptable gotos.

#programming

@eSheep A couple of weeks ago we were seriously discussing setting fire to the other company we were working with, and how we could get away with it.

@eSheep I feel your pain.

@LibrosdeBabel Sí, porque _El gran Gatsby_ o _Las aventuras de Tom Sawyer_, una mierda en comparación. O _Matadero cinco_, _La conjura de los necios_ o _Catch-22_. Todo basura. Por no hablar de _Fookner_. Supongo que en este pueblo ya nadie siente adoración por Fookner.

@juanfr I find it funny that the price tag is bigger than the headlines.