Pretty bizarre if people do this. I’ve never heard it to mean anything but linoleum.

But a lot of people in the US use the word “turf” to specify not turf (i.e. artificial turf), so there’s no reason for words to mean things.

What? One of linoleum’s benefits is not off gassing and not being made from fossil fuels. Are you thinking of vinyl?

why is there no switch to enable type checking at runtime?

Have you got problems this would solve? I’ve done a lot of type annotated Python at scale and I can’t think of an example.

Edit: given nobody in their right mind allows code that’s not checker clean.

You do know it is absurdist humor, yes?

Reminds me how American English uses the verb “rent” for both sides of the transaction. If someone says “I rent this apartment”, you can only tell what they mean from context.

In British English, the landlord “lets” an apartment that the tenant “rents”, and that are advertised with signs “To let”.

Exactly. I don’t know that it’s just that, but it is that. It’s not like the people are fundamentally different raw materials - a generation is defined by it’s circumstances. And those were the gen x circumstance.

(Edit: except resources. There were fuck all resources compared to today)

Isn’t that crazy efficient? I seem to remember about 0.3mm²?

Way back of you asked Google “38 mpg in mm^-2” it would tell you.

I love that it’s the size of the thread of fuel you would consume as you drive down the road.

Edit: oh no, that’s about right. It’s a diameter of about 0.25 mm. I think that’s what I was thinking of.

I mean this is ludicrous, but he’s not suggesting overthrowing the government. He’s suggesting Charles does what he has the power to do which is dissolve Parliament, forcing an election. To do so would cause a constitutional crisis in the UK and likely the revocation of that power. But it’s clearly nothing more than stupid provocative hyperbole. Musk is a fucking clown but this is something pretty intense spin.

Not at all. It allows you to install and use whole suites of tools and libraries without any pollution of or dependencies on your host system. It also allows you to define the whole setup in a file so it’s trivial to recreate on another machine

Presumable complexity and therefore cost and reliability, but given the simplicity and mature robustness of 2 and 3 speed hubs I’m a little surprised this is truly superior and worthwhile.

Is it though? I’ve found it rock solid for years on end - been using it for 14 years, and Debian before that.

I don’t recognize this myself. I’ve never had trouble with incompatibilities or degradation etc.,

Especially these days my OS can remain very vanilla, as many complex things can be containerized. E.g. I run syncthing and an nfs server and sometimes torrenting over vpn, through docker-compose; I’d never install all that on the host with all the extensive dependencies. Same with some heavyweight apps like darktable - spin them up from Flatpak.

Ubuntu does it very well with minimal fuss. I see little to dislike.

It’s hilarious how uncool it is to suggest Ubuntu but it often just works, including very recent hardware if it’s from Canonical partners like Lenovo or Dell. And the kerfuffle about things like snaps are way overblown.

Different usage model isn’t it? Sway’s mostly manual while hyprland is more dynamic with a focus on eye candy.

Well aerosols are tiny particles, but often created and propelled using pressurized glasses.

Funniest is when a vim user says that, since emacs includes a vim.

All that is not in a text editor. A text editor is in all that. A few text editors actually.

Justice not vengeance.

Our just run sync, which isn’t as completely foolproof, but is easy.

No they are not. That’s not what it means.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proportionality_(mathematics)