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The GPL doesn’t control how guilty I’ll feel if I don’t.

Most of my stuff is badly hacked together “runs on my machine” code. If I released any of it onto a public repository, I’d then be on the hook for maintaining it and making it run on more than just my machine, or else examining, deconflicting, and merging pull requests where other people have done the work. I really don’t have what it takes for all that.

Lib Dems to the left of Labour? I would have thought with the Overton window shifting, they’d still be occupying a position between Labour and the Conservatives like they always have… but I guess it’s possible with some of Labour’s suspiciously Conservative decisions lately.

Yeah, you’re right, the downvote was a bit harsh considering that I didn’t do a deep dive on the matter.

I can’t undo the bandwagon, but I can undo mine.

Well, there was a period in the 90s through to the early 2000s where we had a centre-left party (New Labour) running the show and mostly improving things, but then 9/11 and the Iraq war happened and the country went scurrying back to the Conservatives again.

The conspiracy nut that lives in my brain is convinced Putin’s taking control of Russia in 2000 has everything to do with every single bit of the above after “but then”.

We currently have New Labour (now just “Labour”) in charge again, but politically they smell an awful lot like the pre-Thatcherite Conservatives.

Well for whatever it’s worth, you’re welcome.

That “feeling adrift” sounds a little bit how depersonalisation and/or derealisation were described to me when I was trying to get diagnoses. I didn’t feel like they fit my experience of mental illness at all (everything feels real enough (maybe too much), and I’ve never felt adrift), and I’m not a doctor so I’d be the last person to try to diagnose either in someone else, but they might be things for you to look into.

They’ll find a way to launch it. They’ll go back into the old Soviet mindset of throwing blini at a wall until something sticks sending cosmonaut after cosmonaut until they have a success and then pretend the others didn’t exist.

And they’ll fill the minds of young would-be cosmonauts full of propaganda and tell them that there was definitely no-one before them who died up there, especially not in pain or terror. Those were unmanned test missions. Strap yourself in, you’re going to space!

I don’t think this is sexuality, it’s politics. Wario is clearly a UKIP supporter and Waluigi is UKIP / Tory coded.

(all in jest of course. Or is it?)

The NSA and GCHQ have both run their own TOR nodes and presumably already have an excellent understanding of how it works, so there’s bound to be at least one person, if not an entire department, at the FBI who already understands TOR better than most of the people reading this comment.

I can’t say they improved my mood much, so there wasn’t a great deal to notice, but I have noticed a distinct lack in extreme lows since I started taking it.

The trouble with mood-altering and mood-stabilising medications (and behaviours if you count things like exercise) is that they can affect perception not only in the present, but about past thoughts and behaviours too, so spotting any obvious change might require some effort.

Case in point, it took me a long while to notice that I haven’t been having the crushing lows, and part of me still believes that it’s not the Vitamin D that’s responsible.

Best as I can tell there’s no evidence that Vitamin D and kidney stones have anything to do with each other, and in fact, there may even be scientific papers in existence that suggest the opposite is true, i.e. Vitamin D may help reduce the risk of kidney stones.

Caveat: This was based on a quick web search, not deep research, and everyone’s biology is different. If you’re getting kidney stones, check with an actual doctor.

Interesting to compare and contrast with Zimbabwean leader Robert Mugabe who deliberately wore a toothbrush moustache and referred to himself as “The Hitler of our time”.

Also interesting that now Mugabe is dead, there seem to be quite a few potential candidates for that title.

But, as best as I can tell, Uunona isn’t in the running there.

The on-board sound died on my old PC a while back. There was a free slot on the motherboard that looked like it might take an old sound card, so I found one for cheap online.

Installed it. Fingers crossed. Linux (Mint in this case) didn’t bat an eye. It worked fine.

My newer PC is budget and has barely any slots on the motherboard (pretty sure there isn’t one that supports the same card), so I’m hoping I won’t need to pull that trick a second time.

Other potential solutions:

Sound via USB or Bluetooth.

HDMI and DisplayPort carry sound as well as video, and there are ways to tap into that.

Will the war end if he dies?

Hey man, the line’s gotta be somewhere, right? :p

we’re 9 billion people

Either you’re a time traveller, you like heavy rounding up or you know something the easily accessible parts of the Internet don’t. Averaging the first three sites* that turned up in a search puts it around 8.25 billion at the time of writing

* Worldometer ~8.26b, The World Counts ~8.11b and Country Meters ~8.34b

qed was also a line editor but pre-dated and inspired ed, so that’s pico to nano or ed to ex again, just even further back in time.

sed and grep grew out of commands within ed (or equivalent) so I guess you could say they’re each kind of a knight’s move two to the side and once backward from the direction of ex to vi. Backwards because they’re simpler, but two to the side because they’re not interactive.

As to what would be “backward but one to the side” in that analogy, that’d be something like a tool that asked questions about every line in a file and made changes accordingly. I don’t think there’s any such standard tool, but I can think of at least a couple of ways to write one.

Comparison time!

ex is to ed as nano is to pico

That is, it’s an editor that works in almost exactly the same way as the original, but it’s by somebody else.

ex is to vi as vi is to vim, or C to C++.

That is, the latter grew out of and improved upon the former, but you can still use them like their forerunners if you really want, which is why vi has an ex mode and why you can still use pointers in C++ if you’re sufficiently warped.

If your system has vi or a clone, try vi -e, or, if the symlink is set up, ex. Technically that’s vi in ex mode, not ed per-se but it’s about as similar as you’re going to get without a lot of pointless bother.

There are places waste is, by law, supposed to end up and places it isn’t.

You might argue that the law and good environmental sense don’t always agree on where waste should go and how it should be treated, but they’re in clear agreement on this particular dump.

And that means someone is in deep … waste.