Fun fact: you can email authors of papers and ask for a PDF. Authors don’t get paid when you buy a paper (in fact it usually costs money to publish) and they’ll generally be happy to send out their work to anyone interested.

Source: a friend of mine personally telling me what happened the last time he was in mainland China.

Friends of mine who have moved away from China. One of them had police at their door in China for social media posts that were friendly to Uyghurs (not even anything to do with the genocide, just general friendliness as a “we’re all Chinese” kind of message). Being taken to police stations for even slightly questioning the state narrative is terrifying.

D&D monks be like

Docs are good, but the main thing is that there are just fewer steps due to good tooling.

As an application author, Snaps are much easier to create than Flatpaks.

BG3 has couch co-op, which is pretty neat

It uses other signals too, like what other sites you’ve visited with that checkbox on it, what CloudFlare has seen your IP address doing in the past, etc.

The google one is able to see if you’re logged into a google account and take that into account.

There’s even a new variant of the Google captcha that is invisible and doesn’t even bother to show a checkbox.

This reminds me of a great video about this sort of principle in reverse: https://youtu.be/wBBnfu8N_J0

I enjoy OpenMW and I’m happy to host if you want, although my instance is basically just me and a few friends right now.

I’ve used a number of different Linux distros (including Debian) on laptops over the years. Although most recently my XPS 15 was running Arch.

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Gotta get those five stars

I think they’re lawful evil, more devils than demons.

I use Alpine Linux quite a bit, which is a Linux distro that doesn’t use the GNU coreutils or glibc.

Also even giving GNU such a high level in the name on a distro like Arch makes little sense imo because other components like systemd are arguably much more important than one of many libc libraries you can optionally use and a bunch of coreutils you can also optionally use.

In my experience I haven’t had an issue because usually the refactorings are small. If they’re not I just hop on a call with the person who wrote the MR and ask them to walk me through it.

In theory I’d like to have time to dedicate solely to code health, but that’s not quite the situation in basically any team I’ve been in.

You should refactor as needed as you go because refactoring cases are never gonna be prioritised.

There’s a markdown entry thing in the drop down menu that’ll convert your MD to their formatting.

Yeah, I’m not justifying the annexation.

Technically only some of HK was under the lease, some was indefinitely controlled by the British. However, you’re still right because of the military force difference.

I attempted to boot Mandrake/Mandrivia on an old laptop once and failed, then I mucked around in Slackware’s live CD for an afternoon. The first thing I actually installed and used daily was Ubuntu 10.04.