Some middle-aged guy on the Internet. Seen a lot of it, occasionally regurgitating it, trying to be amusing and informative.
Lurked Digg until v4. Commented on Reddit (same username) until it went full Musk.
Was on kbin.social (dying/dead) and kbin.run (mysteriously vanished). Now here on fedia.io.
Really hoping he hasn’t brought the jinx with him.
Other Adjectives: Neurodivergent; Nerd; Broken; British; Ally; Leftish
Tea. Specifically, what’s known in other parts of the world as “English Breakfast (Black) Tea”. Because I’m British and grew up with it.
Although I vary quite a bit from average. Mine’s usually decaffeinated with sweetener and soy milk for health reasons.
It’s also my experience that KPatience doesn’t skip unwinnable games. It also occasionally generates one where it can’t determine whether the game is solvable or not, which is probably due to search space limitations. I’ve won a couple of those, but they’re risky to start in the first place!
I can see the logic for not skipping unsolvable games.
KPat uses a seed system (called “Numbered Deals”) to “shuffle” the cards before a game. The seed can be generated (pseudo-)randomly, which is the default, or entered manually. In theory, a manually-entered seed could be unsolvable, and there would then need to be completely different logic flow for random and manual seeds after the shuffle and deal.
It’s way simpler to just generate a new game seed randomly as necessary and then have the rest of the program be clueless as to whether it was typed in or not.
This is one of those things that’s going to depend heavily on the sort of people the parents are, and to some extent the (adult) children.
I remember the first Christmas I woke in my own home rather than my bedroom at my parents’ house and I was simultaneously devastated and glad that my parents hadn’t broken into my home (I lived across town) to leave gifts in a pillowcase. The tradition was that it was put at the foot of the bed (or outside the door as I got older).
I was well into my 20s before I moved out, so I have no idea how long that would have continued if I’d never left. It might have required me to ask them explicitly to not do that any more.
Now I go over at some point over Christmas and we exchange gifts during the main day, or as close as possible to it.
in America
And you can almost cross out “with monopolies” too because there’s a lot of tacit price-fixing in industries where there is competition.
You do not want to see an old-school greybeard dressing like this.
You might think you do when you first imagine the concept, but no, you really don’t.
Source: Am at the very least greybeard adjacent.
This. Anything that’s recognisably from a previous era, even if it’s just a hairstyle or a fashion trend, can be a re-enactment of that era if someone knowingly and willingly chooses to style themselves that way.
There’s a version of the game out there that someone made after the fact (well after; we’re talking 2020), but I couldn’t get it to accept my commands. Not even the ones it suggests in the intro screen. I’d post a link, but it might be someone’s idea of a sick joke.
If I had spare cash I’d definitely be donating to Archive.org (The Internet Archive), so instead, I try to mention them when topics like this come up.
I’d probably also donate to Linux Mint, who I assume are also non-profit, because I’ve been using their offerings for a long while at this point.
This makes me think you’re doxxing someone else by pretending to be them. All we need now is one resourceful idiot and that person’s life is going to be hell.
This was surprisingly kind to all users mentioned.
The GPL doesn’t control how guilty I’ll feel if I don’t.
Most of my stuff is badly hacked together “runs on my machine” code. If I released any of it onto a public repository, I’d then be on the hook for maintaining it and making it run on more than just my machine, or else examining, deconflicting, and merging pull requests where other people have done the work. I really don’t have what it takes for all that.
man locate
How common it is across distros I couldn’t tell you, but it’s been a staple on Mint for a good long while and ought to be available everywhere. Basically wherever I’d use find I try locate first, unless it’s for a file that’s expected to be very new and hasn’t been indexed by the daemon yet.
“What would ‘palindrome’ look like if it was a palindrome?”
Two. kbin.social and kbin.run (which was actually an Mbin by the time it vanished).
Untrue. There are plenty of people who don’t have the means to break pseudonymity but who would gladly torment, abuse or seek retribution for some real or imagined slight from someone they can easily identify by face and name.
And it’s always worth making the truly scary ones work for it, because they’re far more likely to go for easier marks first.
Note that the same logic applies to locking your doors at home. You don’t leave your doors unlocked, right?
Wrong question. It’s “Who would I need to hide from?”
Well, no, it wouldn’t. The bods that make these decisions still live like it’s 1950 and dream of an authoritarian future of masters and slaves.
What good is The Google or The AI when you’re sipping champagne up an ivory tower or out on the ocean being waited on hand and foot on a gleaming yacht?
4’33" by John Cage
Preferably with me as far from the stage as possible. In fact, I’m staying home. Enjoy.