I too had a decent upbringing, but, after a bit of introspection about why I’m so wary of my own name, it came down to this:

I have two names. One is my given name and the other is “son”.

My parents have always tended to use my given name in negative and neutral contexts and “son” in more positive ones. It’s not intentional on their part, and I expect my father got the same, but I think it’s at the root of it all.

Good upbringing or not, how many of us are still terrified of being addressed by our full name in an irate tone? I’m convinced it’s related.

The only wrinkle that bothers me is when a sonless aunt once called me “son” and it made me very uncomfortable. But, I figure there are other reasons for that.

Identifying this as egg behaviour might be egg behaviour.

A lot of British Pakistanis like to holiday in Pakistan, and I mean, a lot, and like any sufficiently large group of humans, there’s bound to be a handful who bear a grudge.

Which is to say that If I hear that something terrible has happened to him, I won’t be in the least bit surprised.

(Which is NOT to endorse someone doing anything like that. This is merely an observation.)

But if you do decide to do this, and I should stress that this does not constitute a suggestion to do so, make sure to go out in clearly identifiable footwear and clothing and with no head or face coverings so that the camera can get a good look at you before it dies, you filthy, filthy vandal.

The answer is racism and doctrines of cultural supremacy. Also a lot of guilt about what happened to the Jews in WWII as a result of racism and doctrines of cultural supremacy.

(This is overly simplistic, of course, but it covers quite a lot of it.)

Something somewhere was definitely doing the conversion for you, but it could have been your editor, the compiler or something in between like a C preprocessor directive getting loaded in by your configuration.

If you’re talking about applications that can be made to act how their namesake predecessors did 30 years ago, sure. The Unix mindset is all about that.

But don’t be fooled into thinking that anything on a modern Unix-like system hasn’t been modified, patched or rewritten from scratch at some point in the last 30 years. More than once. Even /bin/false has a changelog.

I wonder how much the current US administration being who they are has to do with this.

Previously, North Korea’s line was that the South was occupied or controlled by colonialist America, meaning they’d always refuse to “reunite” with the one true Korea. But, Trumpian politics and government, especially the apparent friendliness towards the Kim dictatorship democracy, if not some level of imitation of it, have removed the last remaining reason to believe that the South is under US control.

Therefore we might surmise that the North have finally accepted that, no, the South have been doing things their own way for a long time and the US influence, if there ever was any, has long since gone away.

And so there’s no need for any reunification in their constitution. The South is too far gone. Written off as a total loss.

OR. This is some kind of double-bluff and they’re hoping the South will let their guard down and they have the concepts of a plan to have the regime take over Seoul.

haha forking processes and killing children

wait

I think you’re mixing up who the holster is.

Linux Mint may be for you. It’s literally Ubuntu stripped of Canonical’s crap, and I expect they’ll make the AI stuff something you have to explicitly install if you want it. They already did that with Snaps, for example.

When your neighbour is a bear, it is wise to be wary of it.

Round coins are less likely to damage coin purses and pockets. No more complicated than that.

Then as technology has moved on, it has proven advantageous for coins to have constant radius so that coin-accepting machines don’t jam on an unfortunate rotation of points.

This is why even when coins aren’t round - thinking specifically of the British 50 pence and 20 pence coins, but there are others - they still have curved sides.

I think the motivations of the 26-year-old are immediately called into question in a way they wouldn’t be for someone of high school age, so in that sense at the very least, yes, it’s strange.

What are, or do you suppose are, the motivations of this 26-year-old? (And note that “because they want to” does not address the actual motivations.)

FreeDOS is a free MS-DOS compatible operating system. EDIT.COM was a commonly used editor on MS-DOS and can be run under FreeDOS. I was making a comparison with Floppinux being a bare bones OS with a basic editor (vi).

Actually, the original incarnation of EDIT.COM was as the alter ego of QBasic, so that was literally a BASIC editor, but that’s more a fun fact than a selling point.

Admittedly, it’s more of a proof of concept. I included it because it’s probably the most extreme example of how small Linux can get.

It does have vi as an editor though and leaves a few kilobytes free on the same floppy, so whatever ancient hardware it runs on could be used as a very basic journaling device.

Personally, I think I might opt for FreeDOS and EDIT.COM instead, but the Linux purist would almost certainly balk at that.

How small do you want? Floppinux fits on a floppy disk.

Tiny Core’s largest image will almost certainly fit on the smallest capacity USB thumb drive you own*.

Puppy Linux has a diverse ecosystem that pulls from other popular distros and their images generally run to around a gigabyte.

* It’s less than 256MB. There are a few reasons you might have a smaller drive than this, but for most people this is true.

I guess that explains why he and Minnie never had kids.

You’ve probably had your chilli by now, but no-one else seems to have mentioned that canned goods are often fine long past their printed expiry date.

Exceptions might include: rusty cans, because rust outside could also be inside; dented cans, because that might have created a weak point that could compromise the contents; and those cans with the ring-pull easy-open lids - ring-pull seals aren’t as good as the full seal of a can that needs a can-opener.

And finally there’s always the look and smell test. Tip them into a separate bowl before putting them in the chilli. If they look and smell fine, then dump em in the chilli, with or without any liquid they might have been stored in.

Other way around. “Moses” apparently came first. It’s basically the last two syllables of “Ramesses” but missing the initial particle saying who (or what) was the cause of the person’s birth. For Ramesses, it’s Ra, obviously. The Semitic peoples took it and applied it to their mostly mythologised forefather.

Since their culture took the meaning of a name seriously - something we’ve started to lose at least in Anglophone countries - you’d expect there’d be a record of that missing particle for Moses, and yet, there doesn’t seem to be one.

This could indicate there there were a lot of -messes all amalgamated into one.

Imagine, if you will, a compilation of stories about the heroic exploits of Celtic men all named Mac-something and eventually a mythos develops around a unified “Mack”, eventually with allegorical and fantastical stories being built up around him. This hasn’t actually happened in Celtic culture as far as I know, but it puts a context on the whole thing.