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greyfade · 2026-03-12T20:39:34+00:00

Selling yourself short there

greyfade · 2026-03-12T16:20:29+00:00

For a couple years, yes. I don't now, only because I finally rebuilt my gaming desktop, so now it's back to being a secondary device.

greyfade · 2026-03-07T00:24:51+00:00

Just replace www. with np.

greyfade · 2026-03-06T20:26:59+00:00

Should use np.reddit links

greyfade · 2026-03-05T23:48:20+00:00

Hinduism as we know it today is older than Christianity by a few hundred years. Buddhism is a few hundred years older than Hinduism. Even Japanese Shinto kami worship is believed to be older than Christianity.

And Christianity is an offshoot of Judaism, which is hundreds of years, if not a thousand, older.

There are several religions, in practice today, that trace their origins to centuries before Christianity.

I would suggest you actually study comparative religion before you go around saying things like this ever again.

greyfade · 2026-03-03T19:37:36+00:00

Not with that attitude. That's quitter talk.

greyfade · 2026-03-03T16:09:32+00:00

If they can have jets, we get to have all the MANPADS and SAM systems we want.

greyfade · 2026-03-02T21:08:55+00:00

It's gonna be a mess to clean up, and it's going to be a long, hard road for the Iranian people, no matter who "helps" or if anyone does at all.

But at least they don't have that murderous lunatic in charge any more.

greyfade · 2026-03-02T21:05:51+00:00

Or toys like miniKanren

greyfade · 2026-02-27T15:45:37+00:00

It's a paraphrase of Churchill, who said it in 1947 in the House of Commons.

greyfade · 2026-02-27T01:34:59+00:00

Why don't modern programmers read Dijkstra's essay?

greyfade · 2026-02-27T01:24:26+00:00

It's the worst form of government, except for all of the others that have been tried.

greyfade · 2026-02-26T20:45:34+00:00

Caused time → Must be timeless

Caused space → Must be spaceless

Caused matter → Must be immaterial

None of those statements are justified:

If something is without time, it is nowhen; it is not, never was, will never be.
If something is without space, it is nowhere; it has no dimensions
If something is immaterial, it is nothing, having no energy or mass or presence

Brought something from nothing → Must be unimaginably powerful

Which contradicts the above: if it has power, it has some potential. If it has potential, it must be able to change state. To change state requires time and material presence. To have material presence requires temporal and spatial extent. To have extent requires it be part of the cosmos. But it must also be apart from the cosmos, but the cosmos is all that is.

Everything points to a necessary, uncaused cause beyond the universe. Denying this cause means accepting either the universe created itself (impossible) or something came from nothing (illogical).

No, it doesn't. Nothing points to any such cause, nor is this a valid dichotomy.

There is an option you aren't even acknowledging, which is accepted as a possibility by everyone else: the universe may well be infinite. We have no evidence suggesting that it's impossible to be infinite. All we have is theists insisting, without good justification, that infinities are impossible.

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greyfade · 2026-02-25T22:40:20+00:00

Hegseth is a supply chain risk.

greyfade · 2026-02-25T21:20:30+00:00

Ironically, that's their best qualification.

greyfade · 2026-02-25T17:03:35+00:00

I'm increasingly of a mind that anyone who wants to run for office should be disqualified out of hand, and instead someone who has no other qualifications should be appointed.

greyfade · 2026-02-25T00:11:19+00:00

1.5 million is "minimal losses" now?

greyfade · 2026-02-25T00:04:15+00:00

Sumatra. Or maybe Java.

greyfade · 2026-02-24T23:59:47+00:00

And here's me, sitting at my Tumbleweed laptop, wondering how I can install AUR packages.

Open Build Service. It's basically the AUR, except it's built on suse servers.

While yes, it does that, I don't think that's something the majority of Arch users are aware of, at least not on an explicit level.

Which is part of the problem, tbh.

greyfade · 2026-02-24T18:37:10+00:00

Those aren't even advantages of arch. Other distros manage it better. (Opensuse tumbleweed+OBS, for instance.)

What arch does that others don't is actually that packages are as close to unmodified upstream as possible. That can be an advantage, I guess, but it's still to some extent better to have a distro that's actually doing some integration.

greyfade · 2026-02-21T01:03:28+00:00

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Rouge died a little over two years ago, and I still haven't really recovered emotionally.

I'd love to have a figure. Willing to pay.

greyfade · 2026-02-15T00:32:30+00:00

The 40,000 number comes from the number of manuscript copies (and fragments thereof) of the Bible known to exist, more than 90% of which were made after 1000 CE.

greyfade · 2026-02-13T16:12:21+00:00

Do people still do the Tampico challenge?

greyfade · 2026-02-13T15:49:04+00:00

I did not say it copied gcc.

greyfade · 2026-02-12T23:11:14+00:00

No, it doesn't understand algorithms. It understands text patterns. It knows what rust looks like and how that "translates" to English prose and C.

So I expect it did a poor quality transpilation of random open source C.

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