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oswalkon The origin of the cargo cult metaphor

It never sat right with me. Every time someone used this metaphor, an argument ensued over whether it was accurately applied or not.

oswalkon Floating megabomb heaves to near the English coast

Is it unfeasible to ship these kinds of things in smaller loads? Why would you put any kind of dangerous material that would "obliterate the center of any port city" in the same place without strong guarantees that nothing will go wrong? A boat does not seem like that kind of place.

oswalkon Things I've learned serving on the board of the Python Software Foundation

> It works too quickly and seamlessly for a free service

In what sense? Linux distribution package managers work just as well, if not better.

oswalkon Linux: We need tiling desktop environments

> what do you do when you briefly need to look at your browser and your terminal at the same time?

I'm surprised anyone would want a non-tiled window for this. I'm always annoyed at having to manually drag the windows to a corner each when following instructions on systems not my own.