they smell bad IRL

They smell about as bad as a feral cat. What they do is they make you smell bad if you scare them.

You don’t have a home remedy for removing skunk smell, removing gum from hair or curing a hangover?

Iran has been out of the petrodollar system since the maximalist sanctions the US imposed in 1995. Sanctioned countries don’t have a use for dollars.

The Second World War was pretty much all done on drugs.

You were not born when the decoupling began.

As recently as the 1970s, the world was getting unambiguously more coupled. As recently as the 1990s, it was ambiguously so.

And decoupling only started to really happen last year. Before that it was going in a glacial pace.

I wonder if this is the final nail that will decouple the world economy from the dollar.

But then, I suppose the plan was to decouple the world from the dollar all the time. Trump is clearly playing 5D connect-4.

You mean they trying to end the world is distracting people from the time the cartoonish villains tried to take over the world?

Yeah, it’s kind of a safe bet.

I mixed up the people.

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It will make you go faster. It only makes any difference at all if you are competing for something, whatever level you are.

But if you like cool bike stuff, great, go get it.

Don’t feel demotivated. AI can’t replace developers now, and this current crop of them are just unable to.

The thing is, when you don’t know what you are doing, vibecoding looks like it works. This is either one case of this, or it’s some of the last 30 billion OpenAI raised this week at work.

Ford paid their employees well because he created a factory that needed competent people, and he couldn’t afford those people leaving work all the time.

That line about they affording the cars is bullshit.

Yes. It’s newby-friendly, what is great for the time every 2 or 3 years that it opens in my face and there’s no alternative editor installed.

Copy and paste are there too, but there’s no reason to use them instead of the terminal buffer, so I can edit things in an editor I like. I just wish it made it easier to delete several lines at the same time.

They won’t all close at the same time. They don’t operate under the same business conditions.

They operate under very similar business conditions, and any small difference will dictate which one will close first.

Yes. The only times I’ve had any problem with pipewire were when pulse decided to run for some reason and disrupted everything.

Also, I can open a pipewire device, write data there, and not run into C assert faults. I can do this with oss and alsa too, of course, but AFAIK, it’s impossible with pulse and all the Linux DEs ran on pure magic for a decade.

Technology does empower or disempower those people depending on the details it has.

We are in a moment when it seems to be doing both. So those people are working very hard for their power. It’s up to us to change it to only disempower them.

The one time it’s completely appropriate to tell people you are vegan is when they ask what you want to eat…

Help! I’ve looked at the Sun and it’s white instead of yellow. What does that mean?

I imagine Linux can run most of those. Odds are the OP just didn’t try hard enough.

What is completely understandable.

Many people don’t believe in it. It’s easy to understand why.