wvstolzing @ walthervonstolzing @lemmy.ml

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No, because he has already sent the beast with wrath.
\ — because he knows the time is short.

In any case, let him who have understanding
\ reckon the kernel of the beast;
\ for it is a human number;
\ not a semver number. So don't worry about it. \

yieeeeeeaaaaaaaahhh

This can't go on, I must inform the Hurd,
\ Can this monolith be real, or just some crazy dream?
\ But I feel drawn towards the GPL-2,
\ Seem to mesmerize, can't avoid Tivoization!

Those are Stimpies though. Stimpies of the Ren faire.

My Mac died, at which time I was already a commandline enthusiast, & unable to afford a new Mac.

You must be kidding; Yoda was one of Morrowind's key characters, alongside Teela, Master Bindo, Mister Rogers, and Maiq the Squid (complete ensemble pictured below).

Thanks indeed; but I think I'd be more impressed if it were actually true.

(but yeah, the first draft of Star Wars was called 'journal of the whills'.)

I thought... well... nevermind...

Little known fact: A Stanford mainframe kept logs of the activities of the 'wheels' in a journal -- the 'journal of the wheels'. Young George Lucas, who briefly attended the university, found that journal, and became fascinated with the 'Wheel Wars'. He later drafted a document that he called 'Journal of the Whills', based largely on what he read on those logs; this is the draft that later became 'Whill Wars', and ultimately, of course, 'Star Wars'.

This was on the 'Linux Action Show' on Jupiter Broadcasting; Lunduke used to be a very annoying co-host before getting replaced by Matt Hartley.

Somewhere im the bowels of youtube, there's the footage of Stallman quarreling with B. Lunduke on this very question. It was a micro-scandal some 15 yrs. ago, I think.

Yeah, I'm sure that was the intention; but the wording is off, so I wanted to take a little jibe at it.

'should have' -- but didn't? What happened then?

I tend to agree with this take; as a pedantic side note, though, I'm not sure that OS X was ever based on FreeBSD -- they took the unix userland, sure; but from the very start (NextSTEP), the kernel was derived from the Mach kernel, which itself was a fork of the 4.3BSD kernel; and the core libraries were written from scratch, all in the interests of marketing "quick application development" capability to Next's customers. (Actually there's an interview with S. Jobs somewhere where he lays this out very clearly; it was the late 80s/early 90s, the heyday of object-oriented toolkits & VMs after all)

I'm sure they've helped themselves liberally to the FreeBSD kernel for features; though still, OS X never was 'based on' FreeBSD (let alone a 'FreeBSD with a pretty coat of paint', as people like to say).

Wayfire brought back the compiz self-immolating window.

Actually I wonder if they named 'wayfire' after that fire effect.

OK, but are they taking into account the energy expenditure of the programmer's brain while writing the program? The amount of calories his/her brain has to burn in order to produce & debug the code?

NAND and XOR aren't equivalent, though

    
| X | Y | X NAND Y |
| 0 | 0 | 1        |
| 1 | 0 | 1        |
| 0 | 1 | 1        |
| 1 | 1 | 0        |

  

    
| X | Y | X XOR Y |
| 0 | 0 | 0       |
| 1 | 0 | 1       |
| 0 | 1 | 1       |
| 1 | 1 | 0       |

  

& XOR can be reduced to NAND; not sure if NAND can be reduced to XOR

You mean NAND gates?

(Trick NAND Trick) NAND (Treat NAND Treat) <-> Trick or Treat

You mention 'the settings'; though it's ambiguous whether you looked at the desktop's, wm's, or panel's settings -- the relevant settings are the panel plugins' own little settings widgets, which you can call from a right click menu on the panel plugins themselves.

It's a bit convoluted; though that's the so called 'trade-off' for Xfce's modularity.

-- because it's not an argument; it's a vague association of imagery with no explanatory content.

What does Poett.'s current employment have to do with anything, though? Guido van Rossum (Python) & Simon Peyton Jones (Haskell) work at M$; I believe the guy who started Gentoo went on to work there likewise. Same with the lead dev of GNOME. I despise M$ as much as the next man; but correlations like these reek of guilt by association.