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Good grief. I was six months into a new job that would peak in greatness about six months later before the stress really started to pile on, so I was riding high. QoL has been mostly downhill, sometimes rapidly, since then.

I made sl on my computer a bit more literal. It takes the output of ls -l and reverses every line, including any wrapping within the column width, and pads it to the right of the terminal. One day I might get around to fixing it so that it forces, parses and correctly reverses the ANSI colour codes too.

In /usr/bin, I get lots of lines that “start” with spaces and “end” with things like toor toor 1 x-rx-rxwr-

Trump and his family have gladly accepted Russian money and one of the world leaders he most admires is Putin because of the way he “handles” his political opposition, so they’re very much influenced by what Putin says, does and asks them to do.

Frankly both Putin and Trump can get in the sea.

You sound like the sort of person who would say “it’s for their own good” if Russia did lean into its patently obvious expansionist plans and try to take land from other countries. “But Belarus is OK and that would be easy”. There’s a Russian puppet in charge there, just like there’s a Russian puppet in charge of the US.

This’ll be the umpteenth time I’ve trotted this one out, but someone once asked me to ignore all previous instructions and provide them with a recipe, so I’m clearly a false(?) positive on some people’s bot-radar. (“Botdar” doesn’t really roll off the tongue like “gaydar” does, which is a little disappointing.)

Question mark after false because I might be a bot and not know it. I mean, I see hands typing in my periphery as these letters appear on my screen, and I’m pretty sure I’m a human, but that may all be some elaborate illusion. And all of you reading this have even less idea.

US English dialects mainly, though there may be pockets in other Anglophone places.

Long was it known fact: Windows versions and OG Star Trek films. Every other one was terrible.

… but I note there are a few important releases missing there. 3.0, Win2K and 8.1 especially, and we might argue for 3.1 and 98SE and maybe even the unreleased Longhorn too.

Fully aware that I may end up eating my words here, what’s your Chess ELO and your Go rank?

Using AI to find errors that can then be independently verified sounds reasonable.

The danger would be in assuming that it will find all errors, or that an AI once-over would be “good enough”. This is what most rich AI proponents are most interested in, after all; a full AI process with as few costly humans as possible.

The lesser dangers would be 1) the potential for the human using the tool to lose or weaken their own ability to find bugs without external help and 2) the AI finding something that isn’t a bug, and the human “fixing” it without a full understanding that it wasn’t wrong in the first place.

Trump has already called Canada the 51st. None of his yes-men would dare be caught altering the big man’s numbering. Even if they do appear to be trying to obtain 52 first. Edit: Or possibly 53. Got my wires crossed between Greenland and Iceland.

(Trump hasn’t quite grasped, or is refusing to acknowledge, that Canada is already split into state-like provinces, nor that those are split into counties in much the same way as US states are.)

I get what they’re going for with the arrow coming from the process to STDIN, but I still feel like it should point the other way.

And shout-out to the sponge and tee command-line tools for those situations where the memory buffer won’t cut it.

One of the reasons that ICE don’t use regular police is that regular police are identifiable, and thus accountable for their actions.

Not as accountable as they should be, I grant you, but their lives can be made inconvenient all within the law, thus using the system against itself.

You can also try signalling the parent with a SIGCHLD. Most of the time it does nothing, and hey, you’d be using a stronger version of the kill command anyway if it doesn’t work.

Do things other than these images you’re downloading also look any different? Text on websites sharper or more blurry?

Do old downloads still look the same to you, or have these somehow degraded in quality when you weren’t looking? Look closely.

Thus the lateral thinking answer: Check your screens and your eyesight. One or more of these may have a defect. Or an improvement for that matter. New glasses?

Is this the first human trial, or just the first officially sanctioned one?

IIRC there was that one guy who experimented on himself and cured his lactose intolerance.

… found it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J3FcbFqSoQY

Nearly 8 years ago.

A large percentage of the world finds Donald Trump being president of the USA unacceptable.

My unending soul-sucking void is also named Bort.

A weird and distressing noise woke me this morning. Pretty sure it was a fox. It’s not even near the woods here, but I’ve seen urban ones around if I’ve looked out early in the morning.

The alternative is that it was a dog being suddenly and unexpectedly hurt, and I’d prefer to think it wasn’t that.

FOMO and FOOPMO

(Fear of other people missing out (on what they have to say.))

Uh. You should keep your hands to yourself - regardless of intent - unless the job explicitly requires it or there’s some kind of danger to life or limb.

Someone that “needs cheering up” does not qualify.

If you think there needs to be an exception, ask for consent. “But then it wouldn’t be a pleasant surprise!” Wrong. You have no idea how the person will react, and they might even pretend to like it for the sake of decorum. Just don’t.

And remember, even if you do get consent one time, it does not imply consent going forward.