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uncletaco··on A clip from Stray got me banned from Twitter
It wasn't "illegal" for Bull Connor to use dogs and hoses. The problem was that it was legal and for most white people in the south, encouraged. Again this is another example of having a convenient lie ready made to fit a strongly held belief.
uncletaco··on Gnome Turns 25
> Not sure why static tilers are so rare, but Gnome offers static tiling and is very polished, so I guess that's why I like it.
uncletaco··on A clip from Stray got me banned from Twitter
> A public square, in the united states, has typically been an area where people can shout out their concerns or whatever they want to anyone who can listen and the government cannot stop it.

Growing up in Birmingham, AL I had a couple teachers who had dog bites and remembered the hoses from when they tried to shout out whatever they wanted in public squares. It's always interesting how people have such a rosy view of history when it comes to forming a much beloved but not well thought out belief.

uncletaco··on Lin Zexu's Letter to Queen Victoria (1839)
I think he meant opium war in the same sense that Americans say war on drugs.
uncletaco··on How Google got to rolling Linux releases for Desktops
NixOS users are socialized to not bother reading
uncletaco··on Stop Interviewing with Leet Code
And a height.
uncletaco··on Women Who Ran Genghis Khan’s Empire
I think Robert Moses is a good modern example of an unelected bureacrat who accumulated lots of power and used it in pretty sinister ways when he all but ran New York City.
uncletaco··on Behind the Pretty Frames: Elden Ring
It’s very much playable on top of the line rigs. My 6900xt chews up and spits out its console level graphics at 4K60fps with no frame drops. I have about 250 hours in game.

The only time it stutters is during some cinematic cutscenes.

uncletaco··on Invade Haiti, Wall Street Urged. The U.S. Obliged
Florida is 3rd largest state in terms of population. That means 3rd most electoral votes, third most house representatives. It’s also home to an important port of entry (Miami) numerous trade ports, offshore drilling, and many large companies have a significant presence there (Walt Disney World is its own county and Disney has special status to practically govern this county and provide its civil services like police, firefighters, etc).

While it’s only one state in the US it cannot be downplayed that it has an outsize influence compared to, say, Wyoming.

uncletaco··on Invade Haiti, Wall Street Urged. The U.S. Obliged
I wonder if they’ll be more willing to revisit sanctions now that Florida is all but a red state. Given that bloc isn’t in a swing state anymore it makes sense on the surface.
uncletaco··on TurboTax to pay $141M in agreement reached by all 50 states
There is: GNUcash, ledger, and beancount.
uncletaco··on The Game: A continually-run D&D campaign, since 1982
This was me except with Vampire: The Masquerade. I had binders full of characters, all of the clan novels and trilogies, and held a repository of V:tM lore knowledge in my head. Used to doodle shadow tentacles onto little characters I made in notebook margins. I would argue on forums about what clan characters would be that borrowed liberally from the game’s aesthetics and settings (Blade and Underworld being the most egregious)

This was when I was in middle and high school. I’m 34 now and I’ve still not played a single game lol.

uncletaco··on Show HN: Warp, a Rust-based terminal
What a sad person.
uncletaco··on How True Are Your d20s? (2013)
One thing I like about the psychology of random is you can tell what numbers are true random vs what numbers are human generated if you know what to look for. For instance humans will avoid closeness (1 next to 2) and runs (1 next to 1 again). They will also usually avoid starting with the lowest and highest number in the range (asking for random numbers between 0 and 10 will almost never result in the first number being 0 or 10).

If they are aware of this and try to compensate they’ll start creating patterns that give them away.

uncletaco··on Why We Banned the Word “Ethnic” (2019)
The holocaust wasn’t an ethnic cleansing it was a genocide.

“Ethnic Cleansing” is when you force the ethnic Germans out of Kaliningrad (née Königsberg) and replace them with ethnic Russians. Genocide is when you round up the undesirables and systematically murder them.

My sincere advice is go learn a thing or two before commenting on topics like this again.

uncletaco··on Why We Banned the Word “Ethnic” (2019)
Interesting enough “racial bias” and “religious conflict” are more precise descriptors of ethnic tension.
uncletaco··on Why We Banned the Word “Ethnic” (2019)
Bold of you to assume they’ve read it first.
uncletaco··on Why We Banned the Word “Ethnic” (2019)
No they are not because phrases like forced relocation, Catholics, and sushi are more accurate.
uncletaco··on John von Neumann thought he had the answers
It’s possible. But what’s more possible is spending the latter half of his life working on nuclear weapons and observing bomb tests took their toll.

It’s interesting how you guys are latching onto this man’s lack of sleep to speculate why he died young instead of the more obvious possibility, given his background.

uncletaco··on John von Neumann thought he had the answers
Y’all know he died of cancer, right?
uncletaco··on Reproducible Builds in February 2022
A verification step. Download the binary of a package as well as its source and build the source, if the resulting binary matches the hash of the other binary then you’ve just reproduced it and can consider it verified.
uncletaco··on Anonymous takes down websites of Defense Ministry, RT and Kremlin
Aren’t all British papers tabloids?
uncletaco··on GNU Doesn't Care About Your Agency
Why did you flat out lie about the risk of getting banned from the guix irc channel for talking about nonguix or nonfree software?
uncletaco··on I would like a job writing Haskell
Nah this rings true. There's a reason Haskell's killer app is a mobile astrology reader.
uncletaco··on Gen Z Kids Don't Understand How File Systems Work
When I was a TA for computer science the students with tiling window managers had the worst grades in class and talked exactly like this.
uncletaco··on Spotify deletes 70 Joe Rogan episodes
1. This sale was made before NFTs existed.

2. They wanted to sell an album like a piece of physical art. It isn't digital content and there's no digital version of it as far as I know.

uncletaco··on Building a modern home in the woods
When those kids get older they will probably need attention from a therapist having lived in the woods alone with their parents. I hope their schools are good.
uncletaco··on The Curse of NixOS
> its pretty slow

Would love to see benchmarks of this if you have them.

uncletaco··on The Curse of NixOS
I think it's worth pointing out that guix will not package proprietary or binary software in the main channels but nonguix exists for those needs if one absolutely needs to have those packages in guix. At the same time guix packages flatpak which allows one to install most, if not all, of the proprietary packages they may want to use. I think the compromise from the guix maintainers is to develop and distribute free software but at the same time being silent on how a user goes about adding proprietary packages to their system. Which is fair IMO.
uncletaco··on Common Lisp ASDF maintainer considers resignation
But isn't "breaking compatibility" here emitting a warning that the downstream is treating as an error (because they've chosen to treat warnings as errors)? I feel like emitting it as a warning doesn't break compatibility but the downstream complaining (sbcl?) happens to be high profile enough that they can raise a stink about it.
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