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Look, if you aren't putting salt on your watermelon, you’re basically eating flavored water. It’s the only way to actually wake up the sweetness. People who think it’s "weird" are the same ones who still buy 2-in-1 shampoo.

Anyway, I saw a guy at the park today trying to teach a cat to walk on a leash. The cat looked like it was being interrogated by the FBI, just dead-weighting it across the grass while he whispered "encouragement."

Physical books are vastly superior to Kindles solely for the ability to judge a stranger's taste from across a coffee shop. You can’t get that hit of elitism from a matte gray plastic slab.

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This was with a prompt telling it to skip Reddit-style analogies.

I haven't looked deep into it, but my impression is that most system recovery images target just x86_64 and maybe 32-bit x86 if they're cheeky.

> If more than two elements are missing (or duplicated), then analyzing the individual bits fails because there are several combinations possible for both 0 and 1 as results. The problem then seems to require more complex solutions, which are not based on XOR anymore.

If you consider XOR to be a little bit more general, I think you can still use something like the partitioning algorithm. That is to say, considering XOR on a bit level behaves like XOR_bit(a,b)=a+b%2, you might consider a generalized XOR_bit(a,b,k)=a+b%k. With this I think you can decide partitions with up to k missing numbers, but I'm too tired to verify/implement this right now.

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Glossary/Percent-en...

Same for me. It looks like the POSIX folks accepted the author's suggestion in 2022 and system() in glibc was updated in 2023.

https://sourceware.org/git/?p=glibc.git;a=blobdiff;f=sysdeps...

  #include 
  int main(void) {
      system("-x");
      return 0;
  }

> [pid 172293] execve("/bin/sh", ["sh", "-c", "--", "-x"], 0x7ffe221d2f58 /* 76 vars */) = 0

Now that I've recognized the pattern, I've decided to stop scrolling through shorts; watching a short without scrolling is fine. I also setup a systemd service to pause media and lock my screen every 30 minutes after bedtime. The screen lock may be overkill, but I have a bad record of digging too deep into subjects at night, so I think it will still be beneficial.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_eServer

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IMac

Compared to their other actions of censorship, this is such a small thing, but for some reason this in particular makes me distressed. Possibly because it shows how paranoid they are about letting out any information that goes against their narrative; that they're willing to do stupid, reckless things to control the narrative; that they enforce obedience to their ideology at all levels. It just seems like the entrance to a dark future.

It feels like they're trying to rewrite history... Which is a term I searched the Internet for, and funnily enough the first result was a blog post from the current White House administration. https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/03/rest... (My other worry is that everything they accuse of others is a projection of their own intentions onto others. This seems less absurd every passing day. Otherwise this would be laughable.) So I guess the White House is explicit in they they're rewriting history to the True history. Thank you so much. Finally, we can be united under ONE Nation, ONE Truth, and ONE God. Sorry, I got a bit over-excited there.

For time travelers: searching for "gender" just directs you back to nih.gov, instead of directing you to the search results page.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_Bamba_(song)

My suspicions:

* The normie barrier has continued to lower, so more traditional and progress-reluctant religious people are now connected to social media.

* Some sects may be intentionally targeting online communities, just like they target IRL communities for converts. Beliefs that don't require a devotion of forcing the belief itself upon others will naturally fade into the background. Beliefs that don't claim to solve your problems will also fade into the background.

* Social media algorithms prefer religious posts. Religious posts often invoke some sort of emotional response. Religions are some of the oldest memes after all.

All of this is just a gut feeling based on the religious material I've been exposed to on the web. I think it's fairly consistent with how religions have spread throughout history. Secularism is squashed unless you specifically fight for it, which itself may require a kind of religious fervor.

This is possibly the natural result of any human community growing large enough. There will be those who ask unanswerable questions, and there will be those who have the answers to those questions. Those who need order, and those who need to order.

Maybe splitting the words by weight class would help with this. Maybe by character count, maybe by sentiment analysis.

  vi
  Invokes gvim on your workstation,
  passing it an scp://... URL of
  the file(s) you wish to edit

suvi is neat, and bcp seems like something that I'd actually use.

You might think that this isn't a very satisfying answer for those who aren't already onboard.

I'm not saying that this is a steel-man rational argument for Republicans, but I think it is a popular narrative to quell cognitive dissonance within their ranks (applied to other issues as well).

The pain is easier to endure if you truly believe that the pain is for your own benefit.

From IMDb:

  The 11th Hour (2007, Documentary, 7.2)
  The Wind and the Lion (1975, Adventure Epic, 6.8)
  Mr. Nice Guy (1997, Martial Arts Dark Comedy, 6.2)
  City Heat (1984, Buddy Cop, 5.5)
  Michael Collins (1996, Docudrama, 7.1)
  The Adventures Of Pluto Nash (2002, Space Sci-Fi Comedy, 3.9)
  Chaos Theory (2007, Comedy Drama Romance, 6.6)
  Mutiny on the Bounty (1962, Historical Globetrotting Adventure, 7.2)
  Dungeons & Dragons (2000, Adventure Fantasy, 3.7)
  Return Of The Living Dead Part II (1988, Zombie Horror Comedy, 5.7)
  The Bonfire of the Vanities (1990, Dark Comedy, 5.6)
  The Accidental Tourist (1988, Comedy Drama Romance, 6.7)
  Critters 4 (1992, Horror Sci-Fi, 4.1)
  Murder in the First (1995, Legal Thriller, 7.3)
  The Year of Living Dangerously (1982, Drama Romance War, 7.1)
  December Boys (2007, Drama Romance, 6.5)
  Waiting for Guffman (1996, Satire, 7.4)
  Lionheart (1987, Adventure Drama, 5.1)
  Oh, God! (1977, Comedy Fantasy, 6.6)
  Crossing Delancey (1988, Comedy Romance, 6.9)
  Price of Glory (2000, Drama Sport, 6.1)
  Flight of the Living Dead (2007, Horror, 5.1)
  Deal of the Century (1983, Dark Comedy Satire Crime, 4.6)
  Deathtrap (1982, Dark Comedy Suspense Mystery, 7.0)
  The Mission (1986, Historical Epic Jungle Adventure, 7.4)
  SubUrbia (1996, Comedy Drama, 6.7)
  Hot To Trot (1988, Comedy Fantasy, 4.5)
  True Stories (1986, Comedy Musical, 7.2)
  The Science of Sleep (2006, Quirky Comedy Drama Romance, 7.2)
  The Big Tease (1999, Comedy, 6.1)

The bug is that osh leaves the script fd open for the child process when executing a command, allowing the child command to mess with the parent script. I don't see this as a huge issue for everyday interactive use, but I'd prefer my shell to not do that. If I were executing programs with limited capabilities, I'd consider this a possible vector for security bugs. That is to say, I wouldn't use osh scrpts if I cared about security.