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Excrubulent

@ Excrubulent @slrpnk.net

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  • I've been sleeping on decaf

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  • What movie is in your top list despite its absolute shit rating?

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  • Oh my god I saw that a long time ago, I just checked the trailer and it is what I remember.

    Even as a teenager I remember thinking that the final race was absolutely unhinged. Like what about the enormous pile of dead or maimed teenagers that the camera cut away from just in time to maintain its G rating?

    In the trailer there's a bunch of kids that slide under a moving semi trailer but lose too much momentum to make it out the other side, or it looks like they do. We never see what happens to them. Main character even looks back at them for a second, just long enough to see that they're still on the ground and not moving but fuck them because our hero made it and he's on his way! Huzzah!

    I mean the movie is memorable, it's fun and all, but that scene just lost me so hard. Like actually maybe fuck everyone who thinks this race is a good idea and worth winning. They can have their race, and I will win the broader game of natural selection.

  • What movie is in your top list despite its absolute shit rating?

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  • I've been sleeping on decaf

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  • I'm fascinated by this because I recently stopped having coffee in favour of tea. For a day or so I got the worst withdrawal headache, but now I'm sleeping better and I feel more settled during the day.

    I miss the flavour of coffee, but also the problem is obviously not just the caffeine, since tea also has that. Does anyone know if decaf coffee removes whatever it is in coffee specifically that causes these withdrawals?

  • Calm down Satan

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  • You're probably right.

  • Calm down Satan

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  • What the fuck is that stock image? They really said "contemplating suicide but make it corporate".

  • Am I wrong for feeling cringe and ickiness when looking at my country flag?

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  • I was gonna say the same thing. The members of my family that wave that fucking flag also have the most reprehensible boot-licking attitude.

    I hate the goddamn thing. Atrocities of every kind have been committed under it, we're just a little more sheltered from it, because its part in the global imperial project is smaller, and it gets less coverage than the US's blaring parade of shame.

  • Am I wrong for feeling cringe and ickiness when looking at my country flag?

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  • Am I wrong for feeling cringe and ickiness when looking at my country flag?

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  • I'll tell this story as often as it's relevant - I was made to recite the pledge of alliegance in school at 5 years old. I wasn't a citizen, I should have had no reason to swear fealty, and our family was denied green cards, so the allegiance was not reciprocated.

    Kind of dodged a bullet if I'm honest, but still, I remember it verbatim to this day, because I was indoctrinated when I was too small and naive to know any better. Not reciting it was not an option I was presented with. I don't think anybody in charge would've thought twice about it either.

  • Laws only matter if you're not rich.

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  • They know that liberation is a threat to them.

  • Specifying file paths

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  • I'd just like to interject for a moment. What you're refering to as Linux, is in fact, GNU/Linux, or as I've recently taken to calling it, GNU plus Linux. Linux is not an operating system unto itself, but rather another free component of a fully functioning GNU system made useful by the GNU corelibs, shell utilities and vital system components comprising a full OS as defined by POSIX.

    Many computer users run a modified version of the GNU system every day, without realizing it. Through a peculiar turn of events, the version of GNU which is widely used today is often called Linux, and many of its users are not aware that it is basically the GNU system, developed by the GNU Project.

    There really is a Linux, and these people are using it, but it is just a part of the system they use. Linux is the kernel: the program in the system that allocates the machine's resources to the other programs that you run. The kernel is an essential part of an operating system, but useless by itself; it can only function in the context of a complete operating system. Linux is normally used in combination with the GNU operating system: the whole system is basically GNU with Linux added, or GNU/Linux. All the so-called Linux distributions are really distributions of GNU/Linux!

  • I have a 64-bit gender

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  • My gender is a null-pointer.

  • I have a 64-bit gender

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  • Only if it's performance sensitive. Otherwise you're wasting programmer time both writing and reading the code, and you've made it less maintainable with more complexities where bugs can creep in.

    The vast majority of the time you can afford a few wasted bits.

    Honestly though I don't quite understand why a compiler couldn't optimise this process. Like it knows what a boolean is, surely it could reduce them down to bits.

  • Rule

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  • I hate it, but as a person with a lot of technical requirements on my software and system, there are use cases that I simply cannot use linux for. I'm developing a mod for Satisfactory right now, and a conversation I saw in the community was about how nobody has ever gotten the dev environment running in linux. That and other use cases make it virtually impossible for me to switch.

    And dual booting is a non-starter. I'm not going to reboot my entire system just to check my email because I don't trust windows with my login details. That's absurd. I need access to those things all the time and I'm not going to keep a second high-maintenance system on hand out of a sense of principle.

    Virtualising is also a non-starter because I need every little bit of performance I can get out of my machine, and again, operating a second high maintenance system which the original system now sits atop an extra stack which itself requires maintenance... yeah, no, I have things that need to be done. If one day I can afford to have a second gaming machine set up to tinker with then maybe, but that's asking a lot.

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  • The user unfriendliness of linux is not a selling point. If you want to make an actual difference to our technological ecosystem and break the windows monopoly then it should matter to you that most people aren't technically proficient enough to use linux without extra help, because that guarantees it's never going to succeed at that goal.

  • rule

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  • Well as pointed out elsewhere in this thread, this person is very much not working class.

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  • What would make the British especially immune to having shitty upper classmen? They had a world-spanning empire and they still have an actual king.

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  • Sorry, but for a just world, you need a class war. The rich & powerful need the system to oppress almost everyone on the planet so they can continue to profit. No class war would be great, but they are already fighting it, and we will never be free of it until we win.

    Musk & Bezos, if you could ever get them in a room, would have no patience to hear you out. They are committed to the notion that they are special and you are a worthless peon because they have all of the money & power and you don't. They would rage at you for even suggesting a change that makes the peons less poor, because they don't think we "deserve" it. They think we need them to rule us.

    They have to think this way, because it's the only way they can maintain their position and not be crushed by the guilt.

    That's why it's a war.

  • Generated "art" does not rule.

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  • I lnow you're joking but it's honestly quite sad.