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Russian's economy is in the dumpster, yeah? Like, they're a few years ahead of us on the falling-apart scale?

Have we seen big, shitty countries before? Russia and the US being shitty, non-globally competitive countries means neither one is likely to be a winner.

I'm not trying to be like some HOLY MOUNTAIN that no unclean things can ever touch.

I'm just trying to keep myself free. I'll use people's stuff. If that starts becoming bondage, I'm out

I feel like a good illustration would be a bicycle.

1. My bicycle works fine, a little slow, but it beats walking, and requires little to no outside resources or upkeep.
2. My neighbor, Joe Microsoft, slaps an 80cc motor on my bike. It's a lot faster, and less work for me, and Joe keeps it full of gas and tuned up, and fixes it when it breaks.
3. I need Joe now to support my biking. I no longer have the resources to do it at this level, but Joe does.

Is that about right? Are we selling open source for speed and convenience?

Bill Gates stated: "One thing we have got to change in our strategy – allowing Office documents to be rendered very well by other people's browsers is one of the most destructive things we could do to the company. We have to stop putting any effort into this and make sure that Office documents very well depend on proprietary IE capabilities. Anything else is suicide for our platform. This is a case where Office has to avoid doing something to destroy Windows."

That Wikipedia is a gold mine of evil.

What are we, North Korea? We can't accept information from certain countries? I can understand being wary of state-sponsored information terrorism, but "Hey, here's a Cuban road? A good place for a guava and cheese pastry?"

Come on. This was really the trigger?

I'm retired and doing hobby projects in Python and java, so I get choices (including not playing) but wtf, big tech figured out how to take over open source?

That's particularly evil.

Ding ding ding ding ding!

Like, just BRAND NEW, leaning baby programmer!

Nope, not that. Haven't earned the name 'programmer' at all.

Just a guy who is starting to learn and is probably going to abandon learning but is going to try anyway and is trying not to fuck up in the beginning! Guy.

Plus I'm 63. So learning anything at all is like nailing boards to sand.

Maybe I learned it, but that was last week. Can't expect me to remember last week shit.

I think (absolutely IMHO) Reddit commenting is more confrontational. Sure, we have that here, but on Reddit I would get slapped down often, because I'm not that smart and I make mistakes. My clumsy way was chum in the water for the sharks.

Not here. I feel like people here, EVEN WHEN THEY GET MAD, can be spoken to, even apologized to, and together you can be okay. Not agree necessarily, but not ugly or unkind.

I've seen a few new people here try the "smack em for being stupid" technique, and mostly it gets them downvotes and criticism. I really love that about being here.

It feels much safer for the sensitive.

Don't care what she says. Next please.

So wait.

GitHub is Microsoft?

EDIT: Okay, fuck that. I was just getting all set up there but not now.

I am trying to decide between PyCharm and VS Code for my Python IDE. I was leaning toward VS Code, but they're Microsoft too, aren't they?

BUY THE DIP!

I BELIEVE DIGG IS VERY INEXPENSIVE AS WELL!

That's it. They want to kill us

How? Arm Greenland?

"Mumble mumble mumble, turtle turtle, empty political statement...om-nom, good samwidge..."

NO, motherfucker, this is not a game anymore! Get the fuck out of the way, because we need some people DOING things around here! Trump isn't killing the United States, it's the lack of opposition. These old-money-party Democrats are fiddling around while Rome burns.

Absolutely. The National Assembly voted the guillotine, “the most gentle of lethal methods.”

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC9930870/

A couple of observations from the schematics:

1. Wheels on the side of the blade mechanism! I thought it just slid!
2. Springs? There are springs?

I choose...sideways. I'll make faces at some kid in the crowd. And when the blade comes down, my face will be stuck that way!

His mom will be proved right! Don't make faces or your face will get stuck that way!

If you're guillotineed.

Lolz

Calm down, calm down. I didn't say it was ineffective. Quite the opposite actually.

As to "technically challenging," you had to build the damn thing; as opposed to throwing rocks at someone, or tossing them off a building.

I don't think the 18th century was the idiot-land you think it was.

It takes an engineer making calculations? Thanks for helping make my point ☝️