Slack is great when you need to make something completely out of the ordinary. It’s right there just one step removed from a system from scratch without GNU.

That said, embedded computers nowadays run full Debian. So I dunno what use it still has.

Yeah, in a serious country, it’s easy to identify the criminal and send them to jail. So this tends to happen in short and localized bursts where people don’t steal a lot.

But it does exist.

It doesn’t matter what time you think it’s the right one, the black hole will get it anyway.

Wow. So I went looking if people actually knew when our codon system appeared.

Turns out that there are 26 slightly different systems on Earth right now, and there are good reasons to expect random alien life to have a system that looks like ours, but is different enough to not be compatible.

It’s extremely unlikely that their DNA has the same translation semantics into proteins.

Half a dozen of them have real cost/benefits trade-offs that make preaching for a single one harmful. The other thousand are just completely useless waste of time not worth mentioning.

I’m deeply sorry. If it’s any consolation, it will eventually happen to everybody.

Or at least everybody that didn’t see the light and adopt The Penguin… But let’s leave religion to another time.

You use it to write programs.

It is. But I doubt they are used by 3 combined people.

The Debian project needs to keep the machines for compiling and testing. And there’s probably no other machine of those architectures available for the enthusiasts to actually use.

That’s what a chemist looks like nowadays. Including the physics undergrad course.

You can push electrons into a capacitor if you don’t connect the other side. A few of them, but more than zero.

There are electrostatic generators that work by pushing electrons on one side and pulling from the other of some insulator that moves between those two. But you can’t sustain a steady state of only one of those actions.

Yes, and maybe we should ban chihuahuas too. But pitbulls chew random people in public spaces all the damn time.

The danger is not they biting you.

they smell bad IRL

They smell about as bad as a feral cat. What they do is they make you smell bad if you scare them.

You don’t have a home remedy for removing skunk smell, removing gum from hair or curing a hangover?

Building a train is a lot of work. But if the last guy is willing to loan it, it would be great.

I think some snakes are known to be poisonous. Snakes are prey to several animals.

Don’t feel demotivated. AI can’t replace developers now, and this current crop of them are just unable to.

The thing is, when you don’t know what you are doing, vibecoding looks like it works. This is either one case of this, or it’s some of the last 30 billion OpenAI raised this week at work.

Yes. It’s newby-friendly, what is great for the time every 2 or 3 years that it opens in my face and there’s no alternative editor installed.

Copy and paste are there too, but there’s no reason to use them instead of the terminal buffer, so I can edit things in an editor I like. I just wish it made it easier to delete several lines at the same time.

Yes. The only times I’ve had any problem with pipewire were when pulse decided to run for some reason and disrupted everything.

Also, I can open a pipewire device, write data there, and not run into C assert faults. I can do this with oss and alsa too, of course, but AFAIK, it’s impossible with pulse and all the Linux DEs ran on pure magic for a decade.