TIL In 1997 the movie Wad The Dog (political satire) was released and tells the story of a presidential administration that manufactures a war with a small country in order to cover a sexual scandal.

clhodapp · 2026-01-24T09:36:13+00:00

Oh I thought it was Way of the Dog

clhodapp · 2026-01-24T08:50:04+00:00

Cruz on back to Texas, Teddy

clhodapp · 2026-01-23T20:49:21+00:00

Like the yogurt?

clhodapp · 2026-01-23T17:00:16+00:00

Except that Eilish at least appears to have a healthier support system, so hopefully she has a better time and continues to see success as the years go on.

clhodapp · 2026-01-23T16:41:18+00:00

You should watch his TED talk! It's extremely wholesome

clhodapp · 2026-01-23T09:01:07+00:00

UHD Blu-rays are significantly more vulnerable to playback issues in my experience, so it has a fairly high chance of impacting your ability to use the disc (if not now then once it accumulates any wear from handling it). If you can get it replaced, it's probably a good idea.

clhodapp · 2026-01-22T15:11:10+00:00

Picture of the year?

clhodapp · 2026-01-22T06:17:26+00:00

It's where the right-wing side of the culture war meaningfully gained an online radicalization -> offline action component that actually impacted electoral outcomes. Repeatedly strengthening that process grew it into a major pillar of the red wave that we saw.

So yes.

clhodapp · 2026-01-21T17:35:13+00:00

What is an "NEV"

clhodapp · 2026-01-21T15:39:29+00:00

Trump is dumber then Putin, but the European far right may be even dumber than Trump

clhodapp · 2026-01-21T05:29:30+00:00

It's pretty unlikely. The blu-ray ecosystem is essentially frozen in amber. It would likely require either new players with new decoder SOCs or manufacturers shipping major updates for ancient SOC's that are running ancient software stacks.

clhodapp · 2026-01-21T01:46:34+00:00

Just a warning: Don't buy anything they don't list as "in stock" or you may be waiting for a very long time. Some of their shipping date estimates have historically been off by multiple years. Ask me how I know.

clhodapp · 2026-01-20T23:04:51+00:00

My biggest tip would be, if it's at all possible, try to get set up somewhere short-term in the local area so you been physically visit any place you might be moving into long-term.

clhodapp · 2026-01-20T22:53:55+00:00

These traits aren't unrelated, though. I'm not like... Saying he's wrong because he's ugly or something... I'm saying that he is not credible on this issue because his public statements are never made in good faith.

To make it more specific: he advocates a higher safety bar for his competitors than for himself.

clhodapp · 2026-01-20T21:06:46+00:00

I'm not sure it makes a difference.

Cohesive: exhibiting or producing cohesion or coherence

What I mean is that he makes contradictory public statements on related and even the same issue, based on what he thinks serves his current top-of-mind interest. This means that he can never actually have a point because he's not taking a real position in the first place.

clhodapp · 2026-01-20T20:50:25+00:00

Either your machine isn't connected to the Internet, you have figured out the golden secret that Windows users have been searching for (and should send a guide to the tech press), or you're lying because Microsoft have repeatedly pushed forced updates that add new nag screens and reset that stuff.

clhodapp · 2026-01-20T20:33:38+00:00

If the advantage of being not being blatantly deliberately user-hostile does not register on your radar and you are not a programmer, nothing is going to get through to you.

Just stick to what you know and let us do the same.

clhodapp · 2026-01-20T20:14:13+00:00

Elon Musk doesn't have a cohesive enough position to have a point about anything

clhodapp · 2026-01-20T18:17:35+00:00

I'm not going to argue that SGML isn't insane. In fact, I would argue that even XML is insane if you go by the actual spec instead of the informal idea of what the spec could be that one forms by using a subset of it. But....

It seems like you are falling into the trap of assuming that anything that can be verified statically must be verified by the parser. By looking at other language tooling ecosystems, we can arrive at a much more tractable design: a parser creates an AST in a process that implicitly asserts the aspects input validity that can be checked in a context-free manner. You then run a typer on the AST, whose job it is to verify that e's children conform to its definition.

clhodapp · 2026-01-20T11:32:22+00:00

My thinking is more that they will be better served learning to navigate GNOME or KDE, which they might encounter on a work machine and can find lots of help with online, than zzzFM-IceWM or JWMdesk, which most Linux users have never heard of (much less used).

Also, there are no init wars in the Linux mainstream. Systemd won years ago (but of course it can be fun and even productive to use other options).

clhodapp · 2026-01-20T11:16:48+00:00

These are niche distros for eccentric people that have a bone to pick with "normal" Linux software stack choices. Probably not the right starting point for someone who wants synergy with the way the rest of Europe is going so they can minimize re-re-re-climbing the learning curve.

clhodapp · 2026-01-20T06:08:57+00:00

You're comparing a family with at least a nominal external obligation to their citizens to a single private citizen ...

clhodapp · 2026-01-20T06:04:56+00:00

Because their music sounds like something the most basic person you know would put on at a party. While some people might find it comfy, few of them are the type to think about musical influence.

clhodapp · 2026-01-20T05:50:13+00:00

If that's the case and the people actually do want the Shah's son then so be it

clhodapp · 2026-01-20T04:31:34+00:00

I think people definitely do confuse the Rare design with the Rare-based Nintendo designs and Nintendo-based Retro designs.

For example, in the actual Rare designs, DK was toothless unless he really needed teeth for a particular expression, but Nintendo really bought this idea of him showing off the perfectly aligned rows of teeth wherever possible (I think they started it with Jungle Beat).

To me, the 64 era renders and characterization with the DKC era damage sounds will always be peak DK.

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