Pinterest is the scone of the internet.
Day: October 8, 2019, 3:48 PM
Hate To See It
When you talk about too much socialism online your account gets suspended.
Discussing urbanism under the socialist spectrum, they going to be coming for us like Dr. King. Giving poor people rights to the city that is political third rail republicans push the democrats on.
— Jibreel (Union) 🇺🇸 🇭🇰 (@jibreelriley) October 8, 2019
And the “progressives” told me that certainly only the bad people — the Nazis and such — would be banned. Of course! Now the Nazis are still here, but many of the left accounts I used to read are banned, gone, kaput.
I don’t hate to say I told you so, but I fucking told you so.
We Asked For It
Globalization is exporting Chinese authoritarianism rather than American democracy.
Huh! Another thing “progressives” assured me absolutely could not happen, absolutely happening.
Another case of a U.S. corportion canceling an individual for offending China: https://t.co/mJDRo4VkPU
— Noah Smith 🐇 (@Noahpinion) October 8, 2019
We are now allowing China to censor American speech, proxied through corporate entities. This is the world we want?
Tiny B
BASIC on an Apple ][+
Cause I'm old. https://t.co/i9zp1fhOT5— Dogs Don't Have Thumbs (@MorlockP) October 8, 2019
Mine was Level I Basic, a Tiny Basic derivative, on the TRS-80, approximately 1981. The first program I wrote was something like:
10 PRINT MY NAME IS MIKE
20 GOTO 10
To be fair, I was five years old.
Urge
You have never seen a system that swapped eth0 and eth1 because of a kernel upgrade. On a router.
There are very good reasons for the new naming, the most basic one is hardware replacements.https://t.co/qa1CLxQ545
— rtreffer (@bashlog) October 8, 2019
But I have been on a systemd system where just turning it off and powering it up again caused it to swap NICs — no kernel upgrade required. This had never happened to me under the old init system.
I will never understand the moronic geek urge to make computers more difficult to use for humans with only very nebulous benefits for marginal use cases that no one really even cares about, and that most of the time don’t work correctly anyway.
And the funny thing is, this naming scheme actually isn’t consistent at all. Systemd calls it a consistent naming scheme, but it’s only consistent relative to devices in your system. If you add a NIC, or any other device, it’ll change the name of all the fucking devices in the system. Really, it should be called an “inconsistent” naming scheme as it does exactly the opposite of what is claimed.
Straw Poll
I already have thousands of plastic straws, but looks like I need to buy more as this insanity shows no signs of stopping.
It’s hard to find information about how long the plastic in the straws will last. It’s pointless buying them if they’ll just decay in 10 years to unusability.
Lepton Head
I would personally love to see a Prize awarded to Aspect, Clauser, and Zeilinger for their efforts to turn difficult philosophical questions about the meaning of quantum mechanics into extraordinarily exquisite laboratory experiments. https://t.co/xiqSr0thnS
— Jim Baggott (@JimBaggott) October 7, 2019
Agreed. Their work is brilliant. After all, the point of philosophy is in part to formulate questions that we might one day be able to answer. Not that all of philosophy needs to be or is concerned with such questions, but large parts of it are, contra its perception and how it’s demeaned by useless numpties like Neil deGrasse Tyson.
Sconus
Scones are fucking terrible. Just why, why do they exist? Every few years, I try a scone, thinking, Maybe I’ve just gotten bad ones, people must eat these for a reason.
But NOPE. They are always Sahara-dry lumps of tasteless cardboard. Why do people eat those?