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Upper management sees staff as their courtiers...

My compliments to your vocabulary and effective word choice.

I don't see why... once you "buy a column" (which you must weigh the trade-off towards readability), subsequent uses of that column on other lines are free (save the line itself, of course).

Ok... just for you, I will extend the saying to be "every line and column is a liability".

Even then, so the theory goes... every line of code is a liability, it is only emergent properties of the system as a whole that makes it an asset. It takes but one line to destroy it's value, and in general a 2kloc codebase is more valuable than a 4kloc codebase, if they do the same thing. QED? :)

I hate that I like this.

Is that suse-on-a-phone just a tease, or something awesome I have yet to discover?

Someone said steam engines are still in use as NYC infrastructure.

By using the software as intended. I guess I could file a bug report, but I think it's hilarious that you think I spent a bunch of time compositing a gimp screenshot to that level of detail, but refuse to believe I would spend even a few seconds compositing the original (with obvious 3rd arm and poorly colored zig-zag join points).

I don't know what you think I'm claiming. I just mashed some images together, I never said I took them with a camera. FYI: The screenshot is legit. Also, you might be interested to learn about "merge down", it really helps with layer management. https://docs.gimp.org/2.10/en/gimp-layer-merge-down.html

Yes, the base images are AI generated, but it will actually refuse to generate such an image (child endangerment or abduction).

I have no idea what that actually proves, as I could just as easily mess with the gimp screenshot in, say... gimp... (or I suppose ask GPT to make a gimp screenshot?) but here you go.

Edit: image removed for privacy reasons.

I wonder if people are mistaking my rough gimp composition for AI giving the guy a third arm...

I guess it is allowed in the sense that moderators won't remove it, without a guarantee against an angry mob razing it with down-votes. :)

I wonder why people downvote this... some kind of brand loyalty/emnity, or buyer's remorse?

The first half of the game plays kinda like a tower defense game, except there is one peculiar enemy that just appears, disappears, and multiplies strategically (eventually forcing a loss), then it switches to you being that character with time-control... complete with seeing previous threads (your own character) sorta like adding another unit each time you rewind time.

The beast and rider vaguely make up the "A" shape of the Arch Linux logo.

Maybe unintenional self-slaughter?

I suspect this is unpopular in the tech community, but if this were truly an unpopular opinion, then phones without a headphone jack wouldn't sell, and they would be replaced in the next generation. Instead, it seems like I get fewer and fewer options each time I look for a phone at the intersection of qualities that matter to me (unlocked bootloader, sd card, headphone jack).

I remember watching this farmer make a case otherwise, that ordinary bramble (?) is specialized to ensnare and trap fluffy sheep, providing chemical nutrients to the bush.

Maybe we need an anti-memes sublemmy...