Well, it’d be highly contingent on what set of packages one has installed, but it’s an interesting question.

No, it’s just meaningless greeble with some chromatic aberration slapped on it.

In the wise words of Sol Robeson to Max in Aronofsky’s Pi:

You want to find the number 216 in the world, you will be able to find it everywhere. 216 steps from a mere street corner to your front door. 216 seconds you spend riding on the elevator. When your mind becomes obsessed with anything, you will filter everything else out and find that thing everywhere.

Stop looking for patterns where none exist. It’s a great way to drive yourself crazy.

“Yes, but after you do, it’ll be blazing fast in the twenty minutes before you’ll have to recompile due to software updates.”

“So, you’re saying that it would have been really efficient if all my eight cores weren’t constantly pegged building software?”

“…Uh, yes.”

“And that optimizing software for the native architecture could have enabled power savings, if those machines weren’t all burning oceans of kilowatt hours building the same software over and over again redundantly?”

“Ah…”

Nods head.

Seriously speaking: Why is anybody still using any of their sites?

And that would have been bad enough before Oracle started running the show. With Larry Ellison (a.k.a. Satan wearing a poorly tailored human meat-suit) deciding what people should be reading, it’s downright terminally moronic.

Personally, I love (some of) the content of YouTube, but it’s been a long time since I’ve liked the site.

A… dating site? Given the state of youtube comments, it’s probably for the best that plan didn’t pan out.

Yeah, that’s fair.

Now I am considering reevaluating whether evaluating the option is viable for me.

…Have you ever considered a career in the Civil Service?

Or, and hear me out, you could maybe reevaluate whether you really need the very marginal compression improvements offered by multi dimensional quantization.

“I’d like you to to give me a time estimate, including the time taken to define the task and it’s exact scope.”

“You want me to do that before telling me what you want me to do or letting me think about what that’ll entail?”

“Look, I just need you to pull an arbitrary number out of your ass and give it to me in writing, so I can hang you out to dry when you inevitably get it wrong.”

Russia? Russia.

And that’s one more reason why hard- and software not fully under the users control is completely worthless.

We used to have an occasional visitor who was an avid Trump-proponent. He didn’t have particularly nuanced views on politics, economics, civics or… pretty much anything other than comic books, computer games and internet memes.

It will probably not surprise you that he was also a massive troll. He’s no longer welcome on the premises.

Og det er godt at høre at I nyder livet. Det er til syvende og sidst pointen med det hele :)

Quite seriously. When the neighborhood’s largest collector of guns (and self-proclaimed ‘leader’ of the neighborhood watch they founded) develops a sudden case of rampant frothing fascism and starts loudly ranting about the benefits of committing armed burglary, people tend to take note.

Thanks for the added perspective! To synthesize the media landscape of an entire country a pretty tall order, so it’s nice to know you think I wasn’t completely off.

In any case, it’s good to have you with us. Probably not the worst place to be when this shit show inevitably ends in tears.

Denmark: If I had to average it out, we are getting pretty fucking tired of their shit in a relatively quiet sort of way. And very wary of the logical conclusion of a process we’ve seen happen before, right next door.

There are of course some people who are still stuck in the eighties and are unable to adapt to rapidly changing circumstances. I would characterize them as “confused”.

Ultimately though, we can’t bring the US’ house in order for them, and when that rubber band finally snaps under the tension of stoked civil division, Denmark’s going to have other concerns of its own to attend to, many of which will be a direct consequence of America turning completely inwards (and hopefully staying that way, frankly). Fortunately, there’s enough people who can see it that there’s a fair amount of focus on strategic decoupling and preparation.

What were they even charged with? Light pollution?

Die from asphyxiation, presumably.