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part of the multifaced aspects of fungi – cordyceps is both the zombie fungus and a performance enhancing drug
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they can’t move around and communicate with us
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- with the year being 365.24219 days you don’t get a lot of factors to work with (365 ⇒ 1, 5, 73, 365)
- there have been various proposals for perennial calendars – in a perennial calendar, months always start on the same day, have the same number of days, no worries about “last Thursday of the month” calculations for holidays
- if you deal with the year as 364 days + filler, you get more factors to work with (364 ⇒ 1, 2, 4, 7, 13, 14, 26, 28, 52, 91, 182, 364)
- fiscal quarters are always the same length and you get an extra day during the winter holidays
- the easiest being something like a 13 month calendar (each month being exactly 4 weeks, 28 days) = 364 days + 1 year day + 1 leap day – this gets a lot of flack from religious groups because they don’t like the extra days messing with a 7 day week cycle
- this keeps the 365 day year and uses the same calculations for adding in leap days
- leap week calendars get around that by doing a 364 day year and then adding in a whole leap week to bring things back into alignment (you can do this yourself using ISO week dates and looking for week 53)
- calculations for leap years are a bit more elaborate and don’t fit as easily into a simple mnemonic
- if you deal with the year as 364 days + filler, you get more factors to work with (364 ⇒ 1, 2, 4, 7, 13, 14, 26, 28, 52, 91, 182, 364)
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- at the full-featured end, VSCode (OSS Code, VSCodium) has pretty much captured the market
- for a while, Atom was a popular competitor until MS closed it down, you might have some luck with its successors: Zed or Pulsar
- mid-range, Kate and Geany have their fans
- deluxe text editors, join the Emacs / vim holy wars
- plain text editors, give up on extensions, plugins, etc. and just edit text
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if I’m curious, I’m going through https://archive.today – not only are your ads not getting seen, you’re not getting my page views either
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the parts that are tainted with E.coli probably don’t have listeria …
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can join the ranks of the other zombie brands like Atari …
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only for the low! low! price of a PhD in Hegelian philosophy
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how many musicians sending in cease-and-desist letters again?
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www.cio.com
> “Many developers say AI coding assistants make them more productive, but a recent study set forth to measure their output and found no significant gains. Use of GitHub Copilot also introduced 41% more bugs, according to the study from Uplevel” study referenced: [Can GenAI Actually Improve Developer Productivity?](https://resources.uplevelteam.com/gen-ai-for-coding) (requires email)
> To go in the dark with a light is to know the light. > To know the dark, go dark. Go without sight, > and find that the dark, too, blooms and sings, > and is traveled by dark feet and dark wings. —Wendell Berry, *The Selected Poems of Wendell Berry* (1998) (via Paul Bogard, [*The End of Night*](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_End_of_Night_(book)) (2013))
theconversation.com
“Okinawa in Japan is one of these [blue] zones. There was a Japanese government review in 2010, which found that 82% of the people aged over 100 in Japan turned out to be dead. The secret to living to 110 was, don’t register your death.” “Regions where people most often reach 100-110 years old are the ones where there’s the most pressure to commit pension fraud, and they also have the worst records.”
https://social.hails.org/@hailey/113081760374774478 from the replies: - > “Piracy already has a definition, and I don't have a boat. Now it's just independent archiving.” - [If buying isn’t owning, piracy isn’t stealing](https://pluralistic.net/2023/12/08/playstationed/)
[Piped](https://piped.video/watch?v=QqzOAyXSJMI) / [Invidious](https://yewtu.be/watch?v=QqzOAyXSJMI) Arresting Paul Watson: “Wanted for the crime of being a fucking legend.” 🐋 Free Paul Watson: https://www.freepaulwatson.org
(I have now spent more time scrolling through fonts than I have on the new system that the final choice will be used on … )
There’s a lot of detailed information if you’re dealing with running a git server (/srv/git) or dealing with development (follow your company’s policies), reams of information about how to organize files inside a repository, and some apps will handle their own repository location (chezmoi), but not much about just keeping your personal git repositories organized without cluttering up your home folder: - a lot of Youtube videos are just grabbing a couple files so end up cloning into ~/Downloads and cleaning up later - GitHub and GitLab tutorials just mention clone into the folder of your choice - Codeberg’s “Your First Repository” has you cloning into ~/repositories - so, what have you found to be the cleanest/simplest/most comfortable? - “top-level” folder like ~/repositories or ~/repos ? - move down a level like ~/Documents/repos ? - (make use of an unused XDG folder like ~/Public ? (doesn’t seem likely)) - something else that everyone adopted ages ago ?
**slowly** putting together a new system – I didn’t plan on it being a lightweight system, it’s just kinda ended up that way (and probably won’t be by the time I finish) – actually finding it kinda fun building up piece-by-piece - Alpine Linux - labwc (straight from tty, no DM yet) - foot terminal - Fira Sans and Fira Mono fonts - [fog_forest_alt_1](https://github.com/Apeiros-46B/everforest-walls/tree/main/nature) from Everforest Walls - [gruvbox-material-dark-blocks](https://github.com/nathanielevan/gruvbox-material-openbox) Openbox theme - [gruvbox-dark](https://codeberg.org/dnkl/foot/src/branch/master/themes) foot theme
cross-posted from: https://slrpnk.net/post/11931430 > https://www.pcgamer.com/gaming-industry/ultrakill-dev-says-its-fine-to-pirate-his-game-if-you-dont-have-money-to-spare-culture-shouldnt-exist-only-for-those-who-can-afford-it/
> **Media coverage largely sucked** > > When I just looked at my phone, the headlines were about an unfolding Microsoft global IT outage. My first thought, ransomware. So I logged in and started looking around at what was happening — I’m a CrowdStrike customer — and quickly realised two different, separate things had happened: > > - Microsoft Azure had an outage earlier in the day. This was resolved before I got up. Azure has frequent outages (don’t kill me, Microsoft) — this isn’t abnormal. > - CrowdStrike had made a boo-boo and pushed out a channel update that had borked a decent percentage of customers. > > The media connected these two events together and conflated them. They weren’t connected.
> “One thing Myspace had going for it: it was exuberantly ugly. The decision to let users with no design training loose on a highly customizable user-interface led to a proliferation of Myspace pages that vibrated with personality.” > “The most febrile, deeply weird and authentic prompts of the most excluded outsiders produce images that feel the same as the corporate AI illustrations that project the illusion of personality from the immortal, transhuman colony organism that is the limited liability corporation.”
https://todon.eu/@CrimethInc/112782702007709408 > The Trump campaign aims to use today's shooting as a sort of Reichstag fire to incite his supporters to step up street violence while calling for more state repression targeting his enemies of choice. > > The Biden campaign has already paused all outbound communications and withdrawn their television advertisements, ceding the entire field of narrative to Donald Trump, who will have no compunction about using his status as a victim to advance his efforts to victimize others. > > One of the classic mechanics of totalitarianism is that protecting the safety of the leader becomes a justification for violence against large swathes of the population. > > As centrists join the far right in paving the way for totalitarian rule under Trump, we have to organize to defend our communities. If you have been in denial about the challenges ahead of us, this should be a wake-up call to find each other and prepare for them.
[Piped](https://piped.video/watch?v=xisVS_DKpJg) / [Invidious](https://yewtu.be/watch?v=xisVS_DKpJg) originally broadcast in 2009: *Bergensbanen – minutt for minutt* was a full recording of the 7 hour train trip from Bergen to Oslo and became the showpiece for [slow television](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slow_television)
theconversation.com
> Bullshitters, as philosopher Harry Frankfurt wrote in his 1986 essay “On Bullshit,” don’t care whether what they are saying is factually correct or not. Instead, bullshit is characterized by a “lack of connection to a concern with truth [and] indifference to how things really are.” Frankfurt explains that a bullshitter “does not care whether the things he says describe reality correctly. He just picks them out, or makes them up, to suit his purpose.”
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/17078489 > The Government™ has made an ad about the existential threat that AI poses to humanity, and it’s surprisingly honest and informative
www.youtube.com
[Piped](https://piped.video/watch?v=r5M7Oq1PCz4) / [Invidious](https://yewtu.be/watch?v=r5M7Oq1PCz4)
