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  • For a powerful and resilient LaTeX experience, having used many editors and IDEs, I really feel nothing comes close to a properly configured Emacs with the right packages installed (there are various blogposts and walkthroughs online for that).

  • I think some of the expandable GenAI "made-up explanations" and "images" on that page are the icing on the cake.

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  • ...which are all layers on Debian.

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  • For the same reason this baseball causes an expanding plasma-ball disintegrating everything. Fusion with air molecules that can't get out of the way fast enough https://what-if.xkcd.com/1/

  • Well, you must be a real fungi at parties.

  • In reality, we are actually farming jpegs, by posting reencoded versions of them daily, until they all eventually decompose so we can merge with them.

  • Humble-brag number-plate, too.

  • I remember having a bit of fun playing things like Stunt Car Racer on MS-DOS back in the early 90s for a few days. Yeah, that's about it. That's the best I can do even when I'm trying to be charitable. As soon as I owned my first computer (late 90s) I bought a Linux magazine, installed a distro from a cover CD-ROM, and never looked back.

  • Kanye -> Hitler -> Shopify -> Spotify -> Arrested Development -> ...

    Anyone else experiencing whiplash, or is it just me? I think I need to lie down for a bit.

  • ...and you just gzipped it.

  • Very cool, thanks for finding that. I must admit that factlet (which turns out to be a factoid after all) always hovered in a grey-area part of my brain between "interesting enough to remember" and "urgent enough to actually research/verify" (hence why I wisely added the "not verified" parenthesis).

  • Although I think Patriot is such a loaded, dangerous word and would usually doubt there is ever an appropriate time for actual grown-ups to use it, I think I have found one use-case: it would be interesting to form a pan-European collective of actually sane, grown-up, people-before-money leaning Europeans (i.e. not the emotionally stunted, tribalism-fuelled morons obsessed with the accumulation of trinkets and perpetuation of endless persecution sprees in service of their hate/anger/stress-based adrenaline & cortisol addictions), and call that new collective "Actual Patriots for Actual Europe". Then just sit back with popcorn and watch the pompous outrage chain-reaction from the PfE kiddies unfold in realtime.

  • In my case not so much "lagging behind" as "stopped caring, ignoring, life's too short for so much churn over nonessential filler".

  • EDIT: This turns out to just be a folklore factoid after all, see the comment replying to this one

    Forgive the tangential side-note: Although I get that "news" vs. "olds" was justified punning, I still want to mention what I think is interesting about the term "news", and seems to be in danger of being forgotten. I remember learning in school (pre-internet so I couldn't easily verify) that the origin of the word "news" was "North, East, West, South".

  • Tangential nitpick:

    s/Australia/Oceania/

    (shoutout to New Zealand, Hawai, New Caledonia, Papua New Guinea, Indonesia, Samoa, etc)

  • The Twelfth of Sevigintber, Fourteen AD. It must have been a strange time. Oh, hang on, they were just indicating 2014-12-28 in USAian.

  • And Brexit as wordplay was just a rehash of the prior Grexit moment Greece had...