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  • after a 14 hour plane ride, the existential threat of transporters seems a lot less important …

  • considering how much Finland loves rally racing …

    • with the year being 365.24219 days you don’t get a lot of factors to work with (365 ⇒ 1, 5, 73, 365)
    • there have been various proposals for perennial calendars – in a perennial calendar, months always start on the same day, have the same number of days, no worries about “last Thursday of the month” calculations for holidays
      • if you deal with the year as 364 days + filler, you get more factors to work with (364 ⇒ 1, 2, 4, 7, 13, 14, 26, 28, 52, 91, 182, 364)
        • fiscal quarters are always the same length and you get an extra day during the winter holidays
      • the easiest being something like a 13 month calendar (each month being exactly 4 weeks, 28 days) = 364 days + 1 year day + 1 leap day – this gets a lot of flack from religious groups because they don’t like the extra days messing with a 7 day week cycle
        • this keeps the 365 day year and uses the same calculations for adding in leap days
      • leap week calendars get around that by doing a 364 day year and then adding in a whole leap week to bring things back into alignment (you can do this yourself using ISO week dates and looking for week 53)
        • calculations for leap years are a bit more elaborate and don’t fit as easily into a simple mnemonic
    • at the full-featured end, VSCode (OSS Code, VSCodium) has pretty much captured the market
      • for a while, Atom was a popular competitor until MS closed it down, you might have some luck with its successors: Zed or Pulsar
    • mid-range, Kate and Geany have their fans
    • deluxe text editors, join the Emacs / vim holy wars
    • plain text editors, give up on extensions, plugins, etc. and just edit text
  • the parts that are tainted with E.coli probably don’t have listeria …

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  • Elon decided Microsoft’s Tay chatbot was a guidebook …

  • only for the low! low! price of a PhD in Hegelian philosophy

  • how many musicians sending in cease-and-desist letters again?

  • more of a miracle he didn’t copy Johnny Cab …

  • ’80s (new wave, synthpop, post punk) – unadulterated nostalgia

    “We don’t search for old songs,
    we search for old memories.”

    • the cool kids use Sourcehut
    • I use Codeberg
  • comparing a distro release to a new game release

    • pay a LinuxGem each time you open a terminal
    • Flatpak is only available as a paid DLC
    • use your LinuxGems to purchase randomized LootContainers with a chance of winning a Jellyfin install
  • (Chris Titus Tech getting blowback last year marking a whole group of distros as “Pointless” when they did nothing more than a reskin or pre-install a couple in-repo packages)

  • why have menus covering stuff up when you can just use keybinds?

  • 2022 USA military spending: $812 billion

  • plot twist: it’s a Jenny Nicholson video