I’m so far beyond the point of caring how people look at me, and so far past the point of wanting to talk to anyone.

What you’ve just described would be considered total victory.

My strategy for overcoming this is to congratulate myself out loud so they know not to answer until I’m done.

Curious if it’s for gaming applications specifically, or if people want the extra memory for things like stable diffusion

Not a loophole. Ambiguous and subjective criteria are designed to give decision makers cover to ultimately do whatever they want, unbound by the rules. When the system permits, the system is flawed.

It’s not even close

This.

This was the standard for years. Matchmaking kinda killed it.

There were 3rd part server browser services that could fill the gap, though. I wanna say GameSpy or something was a popular one in the late 90s

This is why as much as I appreciate the philanthropy of the ultra wealthy, it’s NOT a substitute for taxation

I think it’ll strengthen everyone’s nuclear resolve. Strategic ambiguity (with the common knowledge that you are a nuclear state, like Israel) is pretty much the only option now.

Iran was playing the game of “we aren’t a nuclear power, but we COULD be” wasn’t enough. Everyone sees that now. The only real deterrent is a literal nuke, now.

Shortly before he started signing his name after that.

It’s crazy to me how he’s been on Twitter for decades but is somehow regressing to more geriatric patterns. This is what I’d expect an 80 year old to do when first joining Twitter.

But this motherfucker has been tweeting for years. WHY NOW?

I forget how old I am sometimes. I think it was generally missed, which is on me.

It’s the first, iconic line from “The Godfather”.

A man tells his story to Don Corleone, about how he can to America, made his fortune, and did his best to be a “good American”, to trust the police. To trust the system of justice.

He tells how his teenager daughter was savagely beaten by some men who tried to rape her. He went to the police, the men stood trial, but the judge suspended the sentence.

“Suspended sentence? They went free that very day! I stood in the courtroom, like a fool.”

The whole scene is brilliant. The whole exploration of the failures of Western justice systems, the alternatives…

The resolution really is, he DOESN’T believe in America anymore.

I understand Toronto isn’t “America”, but I think the parallels in the events, and the story from the film are uncanny. A teenager was brutalized, the sentence was suspended, and the fury brewing in the stomachs of everyone has no legal outlet. The film, a work of fantasy, the father could appeal to Don Corleone. Who do we have?

Maybe I underestimated the cultural impact of The Godfather.

I believe in America.

Edit:

For clarity, I’m referring to this:

https://youtu.be/eZHsmb4ezEk

Guess we doin rockets now

Cakes predate the Earl of Sandwich so really a sandwich is a subset of cake

Poinignant illustration of a flux capacitor

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It isn’t about the achieving the stated results (deportations), it’s about putting on a circus for his base and building himself a personal army built entirely of members of his personality cult.

At work whenever we need to build little command line tools, my team is always vexxed by my guideline to have the meat+potatoes in a script that reads well-formatted data off stdin , and outputs well formatted-data to stout. They always wanna have some stupid interactive prompts and saving to files baked right in.

This is exactly why. You wanna save to a file?? > file

You want to read from a file? cat |

You want to save to a file but swap commas for colons? Sed.

You get so much FOR FREE w/ the GNU toolkit, even for what you build yourself, by thinking in streams.

GOOD FOLLOW UP!!

I was about to shit a brick that you went from “go to the official trusted source” to “just trust me: curl [x] | sudo bash”

https://youtu.be/dT7X2IxBDjc

Directly from my ass, it’s my assumption that the primary maintainers just don’t have an incentivize the cost of supporting older devices and the disparate hardware configurations.

Like, planned obscellesance or not, smartphone churn is going to happen anyways. People lose them, smash them, fall into a pool with them, decide they NEED the newer camera soldered into them, etc…

It’s not like there are old phones in a closet somewhere propping up business critical infrastructure like with computers.

The cost vs utility of maintaining forward features and security patches for a massive catalog of hardware configurations just isn’t there.