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b5n··on Rising rates of colorectal cancer found in nearly all age groups
I have no idea if it makes a difference in reference to the study, but plant based diets are significantly more common there.
b5n··on Imposing Sanctions on the International Criminal Court
The picture is much clearer when you accept that they are never jokes.

"They're trolling" is simply a juvenile defense that provides the cult and its members with plausible deniability.

The world might be slightly better off if we'd all taken them seriously from the start, but taking clowns and the accompanying circus seriously is unintuitive to most.

b5n··on Sharing AI progress in mathematics
> The work & knowledge this is trained on is public.

That's an incredibly generous take. If I'd pulled a fraction of the shenanigans prominent companies have to obtain data I'd be thrown under a prison to the thunderous applause of those who have, and are, doing much worse.

b5n··on US sanctions force The Netherlands off Microsoft and toward alternative NixOS
Taking issue with accountability is a long lived American tradition enjoyed predominantly by those with wealth/power.
b5n··on Supreme Court permits states to use SAVE database for citizenship checks
Implying that this administration and its sycophantic accomplices act in good faith is itself a bad faith argument.
b5n··on Heretic removes restrictions from language models
https://github.com/p-e-w/heretic/blob/3521f8648a0dccf6e12a92...
b5n··on .gitignore Everything by Default

  strict_ignore() {
    [[ -n "$1" ]] || exit 1
    local repo="${1%/}/"
    local ignore
    ignore=$(find "$repo" -path "$repo".git -prune -o -print \
               | sed "s|$repo||g; /^$/d" \
               | awk '{print "!"$0}' \
               | sort)
    printf "*\n%s\n" "$ignore"
  }
b5n··on Headlong: A Microharness for Persistent Agents
> no one actually does read these scripts

I do.

b5n··on Oceans hit highest temperature on record
Until the incoming administration declares that safely storing nuclear waste is woke and allows their close friends or maybe even their own companies to just dump it in a desert at a premium because the bible never mentions the associated hazards.

Or it says facility inspections cause autism and transgenderism so they have to deregulate for their pals.

Or that nuclear safety itself is a symptom of low testosterone and turns the frogs gay.

...

b5n··on MS Paint and Photos inivisibly watermark even locally generated output with GUID
Most of these links weaken your claim rather than support it. The lkml links are patch submissions in a _development_ discussion, not ordinary users running a stable distro. The f2fs bugzilla links are the same issue we already discussed, a regression in the brand-new 6.9 kernel released only days earlier, with the fix landing in 6.9.3. The suse bug is an upstream e2fsprogs issue. This is precisely the kind of issue distro package maintainers can catch, patch, or avoid before it reaches ordinary users on a stable release. The launchpad link is another development discussion, not an example of ordinary users experiencing a bug in a stable release.

Linux does experience regressions, but your argument conflates upstream development, bleeding edge releases, and stable distro releases. Those distinctions are fundamental to how linux distributions work, and these links don't support the claim you're making.

b5n··on MS Paint and Photos inivisibly watermark even locally generated output with GUID
This supports my initial reply. This was an f2fs bug in a bleeding edge kernel released only seven days earlier. The thread suggests perfectly reasonable mitigations, especially for an arch user: use the lts kernel or downgrade to 6.8.9.

If you're not familiar with linux and/or don't want to deal with trivial issues periodically, don't hang out at the bleeding edge. There are plenty of boring and/or beginner friendly choices out there.

I'm not saying linux is perfect, but your conclusions in this instance appear to be uninformed rather than supported by the facts.

b5n··on MS Paint and Photos inivisibly watermark even locally generated output with GUID
Why have you linked a bug report for a niche userland application that may be causing disk corruption as evidence against linux reliability? That seems like a pretty uninformed conclusion.
b5n··on Canada will match US tariffs 'dollar for dollar' as trade talks break down
*100k per month
b5n··on Solo – a .so loader for static Linux binaries
While I don't disagree with some of the pain you describe, you conveniently gloss over the fact that gnu developed a system that worked, and then made it free to everyone to consult and use.
b5n··on The Art of 64-bit Assembly
The most pleasant is the one you're most familiar with. I still use gas with at&t syntax.
b5n··on 45°C cooling design cuts data center water use to near zero
How dare those nasty, dirty, unemployed live their lives under likely desperate circumstance. They are so much worse than corrupt oligarchs pumping and dumping their way into the greed hall of fame.
b5n··on Emacs 31 is around the corner: The changes I'm daily driving
Why even use `emacs` if you're not willing to learn the basics? There are plenty of alternatives that cater to that preference.
b5n··on Emacs 31 is around the corner: The changes I'm daily driving
These are all trivial to implement?

`treesitter` grammars _are_ easy to install.

`eglot` is available OOTB, `lsp-mode` is easy to install and configure if you prefer.

`gptel` is easy to install and configure.

b5n··on Put the zip code first
All the extra steps serve as some type of verification + data collection.

The devs know how to make the experience better, but they get paid to implement some mbas mining scheme.

The future is ok but mostly sucks.

b5n··on What does " 2>&1 " mean?
&>
b5n··on Claude Code IDE integration for Emacs
`use-package` has pretty much simplified everything:

  ;; c
  (use-package c-mode
    :ensure nil
    :defer t
    :mode "\\.cu?\\'"
    :config (setq c-default-style "gnu"
                  c-basic-offset 2)
    :hook ((c-mode . lsp)
           (c-mode . bmacs-ide)))
b5n··on Matt Godbolt sold me on Rust by showing me C++
There's a bit more nuance here than 'basic errors', and modern c compilers offer a lot of options _if you need to use them_.

I appreciate that there are guardrails in a tool like rust, I also appreciate that sharp tools like c exist, they both have advantages.

b5n··on Matt Godbolt sold me on Rust by showing me C++
> -Wconversion ... assumes converting 1000.0 to 1000 is ok due to no loss in precision.

Additionally, `clang-tidy` catches this via `bugprone-narrowing-conversions` and your linter will alert if properly configured.

b5n··on Perplexingly Book-Learned Emacs
`gptel` supports perplexity, among many others.

https://github.com/karthink/gptel

b5n··on How to add a directory to your PATH

    (use-package exec-path-from-shell
      :demand t
      :config
      (exec-path-from-shell-initialize)
      (exec-path-from-shell-copy-env "PATH"))
b5n··on Llama.vim – Local LLM-assisted text completion
Emacs has had multiple llm integration packages available for quite awhile (relative to the rise of llms). `gptel` supports multiple providers including anthropic, openai, ollama, etc.

https://github.com/karthink/gptel

b5n··on Red Hat Woos VMware Shops with OpenShift Virtualization Engine
The majority of vmware customers could get by with qemu/kvm + pacemaker/corosync, but that requires hiring people who can read a manpage.
b5n··on Test if a number is even
Now try `!(n & 1)`.
b5n··on Orca that carried dead calf for weeks appears to be in mourning again
Do you and a lion possess the same degree of executive function?

Plant based diets are:

- more affordable

- better for the environment

- healthier

- avoid/reduce cruelty (livestock and human)

If you want to eat meat, fine, but the comment you replied to is innocuous and not "guilt-tripping" anyone.

b5n··on The Making of UEFI NYAN 80x25
Interesting approach, I initially assumed they'd be using gop blt.
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