What a goofy take. “Having trouble with self control? Have you tried having self control?” Obviously there’s something more going on or life would be a whole lot simpler. Sometimes externalizing a decision through a tool like a timer is part of how a person indirectly exerts self control.

The BDFL model, as it’s called, is what allows large projects to continue to have focused vision rather than devolving into design-by-committee. The kernel is actually already well beyond pure BDFL, but my point is having a single point of overall leadership can be a huge boon for the organization of large and complex projects. FOSS philosophy has literally nothing to do with management structure; it’s entirely about the rights of the end user.

BDFL is not without its own risks. WordPress is a good counterexample these days. But, when someone originates a project and sticks around to steer it, it would be silly to reject their proven successful leadership for such a vague reason as you have presented.

When things do go sideways, people are free to fork the project. That is what FOSS is.

Many many many decades, they sat around until they became coal!

It’s redundant but it still works; doing it that way does not imply they haven’t actually used it.

You fell into the asymptote; even the mighty beanie can’t divide by zero. Try wearing a single thread from a beanie instead.

How do you mean in terms of Unreal?

Captures from an Internet Archive sweep of the web. There are so many captures since the domain has been active since the 90s and was part of a great many scans.

Browse the captures for yourself if you like

Who said anything about capitalism? I’m talking about centralization. Expecting countless individuals to be able to do something as well as specialists can do it just doesn’t make sense to me.

“Personal responsibility” is a red herring used by those in power to try and shift the blame off of institutions with real power. We need institutional change first and foremost.

Off-gridders are primarily dilettantes who have the money to pretend they’re disconnected from the system.

I see what you’re saying. I find it hard to believe vanlifers and offgridders are the vanguard of a more sustainable future though.

I don’t see how all the world’s people individually handling waste can work better than centralized expert processing, especially in more dense areas.

Off-grid living more environmental than proper municipal water treatment? How do you figure?

If you’ve got a complex and potentially nested object, what does the body of this simple function look like? That’s what they mean.

Ugh and that happens a lot if your email domain has an even slightly unusual TLD too.

RIP xtranormal

C is a little older than namespacing and object orientation. C++ wasn’t even a glimmer in Bjarne’s eye when these conventions were laid down.

And yes, having to google it is part of the design. Originally C programmers would have had to read actual manuals about this stuff. Once you learn the names you don’t really forget so it works well enough even now for ubiquitous standard library functions.

And yet, C was an ergonomic revelation to programmers of the time. Now it’s the arcane grandpa that most youngsters don’t put up with.

It’s funny, ‘bukkake’ is not originally a sexual term and retains major non-lewd use in Japan. One of the most common is for dishes where broth is splashed over the entree, as in bukkake udon.

So, gold star for Bobby on this one.

Gentoo or Manjaro are to Arch? What do you mean? Those two are very different from each other especially in their relationships to Arch.

Turns out massively parallel computation has applications beyond video rendering.

It doesn’t read sarcastic to me; the joke is more presenting a fantasy as though it were practical dating advice.

Don’t give Java the credit of inventing bytecode, it’s a much cooler concept than that

Gentoo: not even once.