I think I read that the studio insisted on changes that annoyed Mike Judge. Pootie Tang met the same fate. They should have just let professional comedians release whatever but some studio executive didn’t get the jokes and was like, “This movie won’t appeal to suburban fathers over 45.” or whatever.

In my experience, it often comes out that all of the shitty parts of comedy movies are not the fault of the creators. But comedians aren’t given creative freedom like Scorsese or whomever and also are like, “Make whatever edits you want. I made a stupid movie with my friends. You got my check?”

It affects other in-bed experiences but whatever. My wife can complain all she wants. Subscribing to brilliant dot org helps support my favorite YouTube channel and it’s important to be brilliant.

And people make fun of me for being an alchemist. My science shed may not be as big as the LHC or FermiLab but I have over seven buckets and 2 balloons and there’s over 100 elements. It’s only a matter of time. (I know what matter and time are. I’m not being irresponsible.)

It’s probably less about making the kernel smaller and more about security and reviewing code. The less code you have to maintain, the fewer vulnerabilities even if it’s old code.

I would doubt almost 20 year-old code is taking up a lot of space or presenting new vulnerabilities. And it’s obviously open source so if anyone needs it, they can always use an older kernel or maintain it. Sometimes, your oldest code is insane. I wish there was a budget for every company and government to pay retirees part time to go back over their oldest code that’s still in use. A lot of retired programmers would do it for fun and nostalgia. And to be horrified something they wrote 20 years ago hasn’t been updated or replaced.

If you’re using IQ as a measure of intelligence, you probably already know.

Honestly, this is a nice feature of macOS (or at least iTerm 2; I don’t use the official terminal). I know CTRL-C is used to kill processes and we all have that muscle memory but I usually try to change that on my personal Linux installs because I’ve hit it by mistake before.

I used to use CTRL+INSERT for copy and SHIFT+INSERT for paste but there’s usually no insert key on laptops or even small keyboards. It’s probably time to just adapt.

When I was still hiring, I barely even read the education section except out of curiosity or to come up with interview questions. The only thing disqualifying would have been if the school was fake (like a Trump University MBA or whatever). It matters for “prestigious” white shoe law firms, major investment banks, grad school, etc. but not really anyone else.

Don’t half-ass your cover letter and interviews, though. For people without experience, especially, I, personally, was always trying to make sure we had a good match. I read every cover letter in part to make sure (a) people were literate, (b) knew what the job entailed, and © could be put in a position to succeed. You don’t want to hire someone who doesn’t match. A person applying to a non-profit working with schools and a person applying at a rocket launch start-up aren’t equally qualified regardless of skills and that’s fine.

I know needing a job sucks but there are always qualified people who just aren’t a good fit. So, don’t take it personally if you get rejected. I’ve been to third interviews because I got along with someone and then not chosen for jobs that, in retrospect, I really shouldn’t have been hired to do. I would have been miserable and left. Maybe it was a culture mismatch or maybe I’d didn’t care about the product but thought, “I could live in that city and get another job in a year.” There’s always “finalists” and sometimes, it comes down to a coin flip.

That smells like oil lobby horseshit. It’s probably a real, but extremely minor phenomenon that we’re going to have to hear about for fucking ever.

Don’t forget Bitcoin mining (and especially that they pay them some absurd amount to not mine when at peak load.) That presumably all gets passed on to consumers.

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I would recommend installing a fairly vanilla Gnome distro (like Fedora or something) and then a KDE version (most major distros have a KDE spin) in a virtual machine. Gnome Boxes is a really easy way to do that. And then just customize the shit out of both of them and see what you like best.

Gnome is more of a macOS-like experience so to me, it feels more trackpad driven (though keyboard shortcuts are plentiful). Install some extensions if you don’t like something. Someone else probably also didn’t like something.

KDE is more like Windows. I’m less familiar with it but it’s on my Steam Deck so I use it a decent amount. It’s more mouse and keyboard driven, as far as I can tell. So, that’s why I think it would be fine to evaluate in a VM.

They’re both high quality, though, so it’s really about what you prefer. I like Gnome, obviously, but I prefer to code on a smallish laptop (for portability/travel reasons) and a dock whereas a lot of people want an elaborate multi-monitor situation and a different interface. Everyone has their own workflow. Both work equally well so it’s just a matter of taste and preference. (Most Linux decisions are like that and people get weirdly angry about it but that’s part of the fun. Choose your own adventure.)

It just makes it easier to backup your customizations. I copy a lot of my settings in there. I use Vim (which isn’t necessarily the best choice but I’m old) so I just put my .vimrc stuff in my folder. Then you just have to backup one folder and, if nothing else, your CLI will stay the same.

People argue over emacs and vim (as text editors) and systemd vs init but it’s your machine. That’s part of what makes Linux fun.

It’s just alphabetical so the scripts run in the right order. The numbers serve like “A” or “B” except you can add new scripts between one and ten if it comes up and your “10-whatever” file is a mess. It’s sort of a convention on Linux but not everyone does it.

Then you just add

for FILE in ~/.shellrc.d/*; do
    source $FILE
done

To your ~./bashrc (or your preferred shell). Replace shellrc.d with whatever you choose. I use shellrc.d on servers and stuff because the dot d is also kind of a convention for naming folders. People have their own opinions about that but don’t worry about it until you have strong opinions.

Personally, I put a ~/.get-going or whatever you want to call it and put all my scripts in there. Name them with numbers first like “10-first.sh” “20-second.sh” and then just put a line in .bashrc or .zshrc or whatever you like. Aliases and any critical stuff last. Then one line in your rc file can include them all.

I made some bash scripts for distro-hopping that are now [undiscloded] years old so I can basically backup a few folders — the second being ~/bin where I put AppImages and stuff and sometimes ~/Development (I don’t always need the dev one because backups of those exist as repos) folder if I need to reinstall. A lot of people backup their whole home directory. But I prefer my method and that’s why we use Linux. I don’t want my settings for every app coming with me when I go on a new journey. Choose your own adventure.

Honestly (and unfortunately), the Financial Times or something like that supplemented by regular media. I’m not endorsing paid financial news sites as your only source of news or anything. But rich people pay for those newspapers specifically because they filter the signal from the noise. It’s more like a hack to see what’s important since they don’t report on drama and intrigue and their whole raison d’être is giving investors facts, quickly.

Bonus fact: basically all their paywalls are permeable. But if you need to check if a story is “important,” see what’s being covered — or more importantly, not covered — for people wearing fancy pants. Bullshit is free so free media often shovels a lot on top of the real story.

I built a really cool stool once. Both kinds, actually.

Having dreams. :(

This is a joke. I’m fine.

Lawsuits pending. Democracy pending.

I guess the 2019 coup backfired on Tesla if the contracts went to China and Russia. Or maybe he paid off enough people and will get a cut?

And people say he only recently went nuts.

I don’t normally read local newspaper comment sections because only insane people post there but I kept scrolling thinking there’d be more text and saw the comments on that article. The NY Post commenters seem uniquely insane in specific ways.

I almost think they’re bots. Most local news sites have people saying random crazy shit like, “It ain’t even safe to go to the Circle K no more!” but there’s no theme. NY Post commenters are still obsessed with Hunter Biden. It’s like Rupert Murdoch had some people set up a bot farm for the election and they all forgot to turn it off when Biden dropped out.

Or maybe Staten Island residents are just like that?