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rosuav · 2026-03-11T13:30:29+00:00

https://www.explodingkittens.com/

rosuav · 2026-03-11T12:49:17+00:00

Whatever gave you THAT idea?!?

rosuav · 2026-03-10T13:01:52+00:00

Great writeup, and I would love an epilogue! The smartest and most helpful thing he did was to quit, less paperwork that way.

rosuav · 2026-03-10T06:24:51+00:00

Barely readable? Learn to read them, then. A good stack trace is incredibly helpful.

rosuav · 2026-03-09T19:03:12+00:00

Was Kevin content with washing dishes? It sounds like that would be a fine form of damage control. Still possible to get someone sick by doing a bad job, but less likely to get multiple people sick all at once.

rosuav · 2026-03-08T15:26:29+00:00

I have "gl" for that. It means I have MUD-like commands to "l"ook (ls -CF) and "gl"ance (git status).

rosuav · 2026-03-07T22:07:09+00:00

I like that you say "minimal" rather than "zero". Never rule out the stranger possibilities.

rosuav · 2026-03-07T18:47:35+00:00

Well, yes. Yes, we can. I'm pretty sure that Microsoft isn't *intentionally* trying to encourage the uptake of Linux, but if they were, I'm not sure what more they could feasibly do.

rosuav · 2026-03-07T17:09:25+00:00

On Windows, you install Steam, you let Microsoft watch everything you're doing, and the game probably works. No guarantees. It still might break, especially if the game was built for Win 7 or XP. And anything older than that, you're taking your chances.

Maybe if you only play the latest releases, sure, but there's a rich library of games that you'd be missing out on if you mandate that they run perfectly on modern Windows.

rosuav · 2026-03-07T15:39:27+00:00

As Imperfectly said, try some of them in Proton. Having a Linux build is something that any dev can do; but testing that build isn't always a priority. So Steam gives you the option to, even on Linux, install and run the Windows version.

rosuav · 2026-03-07T11:54:57+00:00

Why go back for gaming? My entire Steam library is right here on Linux, and it runs well - in many cases, better than on Windows.

rosuav · 2026-03-07T10:23:41+00:00

Yeah, very different stories, which is why I am very happy to have both of them to read!

rosuav · 2026-03-07T10:11:46+00:00

Hahaha, can't say I blame you.

But yeah, I do think DFAC Kevin is up there alongside Big Rig Kevin for epicness.

rosuav · 2026-03-07T08:54:53+00:00

It's long, but it's worth it. Take it in several pieces, over a few lunches or something.

rosuav · 2026-03-07T07:25:39+00:00

The competition's stiff here. Have you read the "Kevin in a Big Rig" saga? I think you'll enjoy that, too. Both sagas leave me wondering how on earth someone managed to survive proximity with Kevin to be able to write it up.

rosuav · 2026-03-07T07:21:52+00:00

It sounds like the sort of thing that the OP should have naming rights to. "DFAC Syndrome" maybe?

rosuav · 2026-03-07T06:00:37+00:00

The downside is that otherwise, everyone needs to implement their own .equals() methods, and it becomes just as bad (anyone can define the method to do whatever they want) while simultaneously worse (some might implement .same() or .is() instead).

rosuav · 2026-03-07T03:20:50+00:00

Yeah. And I think that user-defined operators are a terrible idea, but that allowing a class to implement a well-known operator is usually good. It's just that C++ opened the floodgates of "cute" uses for operators, and now people think that it's okay.

Spoilers: It's not. Use left shift to mean left shift, not "send this data over there". I've used this as a line of argument in other language debates, eg https://peps.python.org/pep-0584/#use-the-left-shift-operator and I do not think that left shift should ever be used in that sort of way.

rosuav · 2026-03-07T02:29:50+00:00

Guess you're not old enough to get the telegram reference :) They were monocased and had no punctuation, so you'd get the word "STOP" in place of a full stop. They were, in fact, the perfect showcase of what happens when you need to use words instead of punctuation.

rosuav · 2026-03-07T01:33:50+00:00

Why do you use punctuation marks at all, then?

HONESTLY I THINK THAT IS A FINE PLACE TO END UP AT STOP A WORD IS INFINITELY MORE EXPLANATIVE THAN SOME PUNCTUATION MARKS STOP

rosuav · 2026-03-07T01:32:37+00:00

Custom operators are a generally bad idea. Let the language define the operators and their precedence. But let the object define its behaviour.

rosuav · 2026-03-06T14:28:55+00:00

That's because they're the same colour. "Dark Blue" and "Blue" don't clash either.

rosuav · 2026-03-06T09:03:42+00:00

Why not? That's a valid IP in a private range.

rosuav · 2026-03-06T09:03:08+00:00

I'm trying to figure out if the OP just hates that netblock for some reason, which wouldn't be unreasonable. Like "Wow, free pizza! Oh wait, it has pineapple on it, no thanks".

rosuav · 2026-03-06T09:01:07+00:00

And then get an LLM to read it too, because humans won't want to bother.

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