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TheTechnician27

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"Falsehood flies, and truth comes limping after it, so that when men come to be undeceived, it is too late; the jest is over, and the tale hath had its effect: [...] like a physician, who hath found out an infallible medicine, after the patient is dead." —Jonathan Swift

  • Cracker Barrel gets welcome

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  • Say what you will, but those 84 people stayed because there's no better place for microwaved insults to Southern cuisine this side of the Walmart frozen dinners aisle.

  • In SpongeBob, Sandy Cheeks is way more closely related to Pearl and the fish than she is to anyone else in the main cast

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    • A bee is more closely related to a hermit crab than it is to a spider (both arthropod subphylum Crustacea).
    • A spider is more closely related to a horseshoe crab than it is to a bee (both arthropod subphylum Chelicerata).
    • A deer is more closely related to a killer whale (order Artiodactyla) than it is to a human (order Primates).

  • In SpongeBob, Sandy Cheeks is way more closely related to Pearl and the fish than she is to anyone else in the main cast

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  • I did think of it and visualize this image in the shower, for what it's worth. The gorgeous illustration(TM) and written explanation are there because 99% of people are sane and therefore have no idea what the fuck any of this means.

  • In SpongeBob, Sandy Cheeks is way more closely related to Pearl and the fish than she is to anyone else in the main cast

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  • He's probably the reason I have any interest in marine biology.

  • In SpongeBob, Sandy Cheeks is way more closely related to Pearl and the fish than she is to anyone else in the main cast

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  • Oh, 100% true. Sandy needing a suit to breathe would be seen as very "alien". I just thought it was funny phylogenetically. Maybe a funnier question given this setup is why Gary is a pet (see: "why is Pluto a pet but Goofy isn't?")

  • In SpongeBob, Sandy Cheeks is way more closely related to Pearl and the fish than she is to anyone else in the main cast

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  • What do you mean? I remembered there were humans in this show. See, just look at the image! I totally didn't think of the narrator and the pirate portrait and then give up.

  • In SpongeBob, Sandy Cheeks is way more closely related to Pearl and the fish than she is to anyone else in the main cast

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  • Haha, for what it's worth, I knew what this tree structure looked like in my head and just had to map it out in an image so this post wasn't nonsense. The one thing I added that I didn't think of in the shower was how much closer the crustacean characters are to the nematodes. (Edit: also Mermaid Man and Barnacle Boy now.)

  • In SpongeBob, Sandy Cheeks is way more closely related to Pearl and the fish than she is to anyone else in the main cast

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  • Yup! You'll be happy to know, though, that amphibians (class Amphibia), mammals (class Mammalia), birds (class Avia), and reptiles (class Reptilia) all have their own pigeonholes.

    What you won't be happy to know is that a lot of things that are called "shrimp" aren't actually shrimp. Shrimp are specifically the decapod infraorder Caridea. Anything else – presented in order of decreasing relatedness – like prawns (decapod suborder Dendrobranchiata), amphipods (order Amphipoda), or mantis shrimp (order Stomatopoda) are not shrimp.

  • Made a fresh icon pack for Breezy Weather, a FOSS weather app

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  • OP, you say "free, open source, and fully attributed", but it's really not fully attributed. I know Google will live, but you need to be more attentive to licensure and credit. Here are some major problems (in no particular order):

    • The weather icon pack is licensed under CC BY 4.0, yet you never mention this license. It's not sharealike ("SA"), so you can relicense, but it would be nice for users to know that you are, in fact, allowed to do that.
    • You never link to the weather icons page so users can easily find the original icons.
    • You say "inspired by Google's Weather Icons v4" but then never say what you changed or how. Did you modify them? Build these from scratch using Google's as a reference? You don't have to say for the license; this would just be nice. If it can't be summed up in a sentence or two, then fair enough.
    • In "Credits & Acknowledgments", you never mention the Google Weather icons – which are the entire reason this repo exists. Given the only requirement of CC BY is proper attribution, something needs to go here.
    • You don't even link back to the third-party repo where you got them from.
    • Under "License & Legal Notice" and in your LICENSE file, you call the copyright status of the icons "uncertain". This confuses the hell out of me, because on the icons pack page for Google, it clearly reads at the bottom: Except as otherwise noted, the content of this page is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License, and code samples are licensed under the Apache 2.0 License.
      • This to me indicates you did minimal research and didn't actually care about the license but called it "open-source" anyway and happened to get lucky. It seems like instead of finding the official source, you got them from this repo which is similarly sloppy.
      • One of the lines reads "No official Google documentation has been located that confirms these specific icons are released under an open source license". OP, for the love of actual god, this would've taken less time to find than it took you to type that sentence; below is the second result on DuckDuckGo for "google weather icons pack" after your own repository:

    Now you have all your research done for you, and Cunningham's law is proven right again.

  • glubby rule

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  • He's glubby – and never glooby!

  • Wikipedia loses UK Safety Act challenge, worries it will have to verify user IDs

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  • Correct, as it has to. In addition to behavior, CheckUsers use IP addresses to help identify sockpuppets. If you could bypass the exemption by just saying "here's a new account; pls exempt", it would quickly become common knowledge among sockmasters that all they need is to quickly ask and be accepted days later.

    At that point, the block on proxy editing near-completely fails at one of its main functions.

  • Wikipedia loses UK Safety Act challenge, worries it will have to verify user IDs

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  • I don't know what you mean by "identify yourself". You need an account with a trustworthy history of editing, at which point you can request the exemption.

  • Wikipedia loses UK Safety Act challenge, worries it will have to verify user IDs

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  • Instagram's new location feature has left users feeling 'sick'

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  • True. Facebook from its inception as Facemash was a way for creepy, misogynist slimeballs to ogle and "rank" women they went to school with against their consent by harvesting public databases. "It was just a prank bro." —Mark 'Real Human' Zuckerberg

  • Hello, Linux Developer

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  • You are actually correct that Wheel11 had 10 other versions. It just happens that those 10 other versions were released before September 1987.

  • Hello, Linux Developer

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  • Not sure how this applies when:

    • X11 was the only standard prior to Wayland.
    • GNOME is dropping X11 in a short time.
    • KDE's telemetry even five months ago showed 80+% of (that portion of) their userbase uses Wayland, and they plan to drop X11 once they have a concrete set of problems worked out.
    • Hyprland and Sway run Wayland exclusively.
    • Cinnamon, MATE, and Xfce are working on Wayland sessions. Cinnamon's is there but, I think, still experimental.
    • Budgie is working to go Wayland-only.
    • There's no sign that Wayland will stop improving from a state that's arguably already much better than X11.
    • X11's actual maintainers barely want anything to do with it beyond bug fixes, and the only person who wants to "innovate" it via a fork is a bigot and a fucking moron who doesn't know things you learn in CS 101.
    • X11's maintainers are majorly involved in developing Wayland and have been since the start. This is their idea.

    It seems like it went from "Situation: there is one standard" to "Situation: there are two standards developed by largely the same people with one set to replace the other", and then soon: "Situation: there is one standard and one translation layer kept around for a decade or so for compatibility."

    Not every single time someone tries to make things better is this xkcd relevant; this had nothing to do with unifying standards and everything to do with superseding one.

  • Hello, Linux Developer

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  • Has anyone so far stopped you from using your outmoded tangle of garbage? Or do you just not like that major desktop environments are switching to more sensible defaults?

    If you're worried about GNOME 50 dropping X11 in the future... okay? Nobody's obliged to maintain your shit. Linux is all about choice, and it's their choice not to spend untold thousands of hours working to keep X11 usable, just like it's your choice to change your Linux to something that does still use it. Switch to any one of the other desktop environments; see if the Wayland Illuminati or whatever gives a shit.

  • Hello, Linux Developer

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  • If "the wheel" is achieved by making literally every application you run a keylogger, I'm very cool with Wayland "reinventing the wheel". X11's handling of user input is a fucking embarrassment.

    Besides just the Steam Deck and Proton, a big reason people are finally sticking around on Linux is because using X11 feels exactly like what it is: a cobbled-together piece of archaic shit that needs to be left behind.

    Wayland by contrast feels fantastic to run, and on my GTX 1070 with proprietary drivers, the only current issue I have with it is how Firefox picture-in-picture popouts don't stay on top by default.

  • Truth

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  • Flip Windows and macOS and I think the meme works again.

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