Here's a decent quote from Linus semi-regarding the topic of people debating over tiny things
One final note: the reason I'm so negative about this all is that the random number subsystem has such an absolutely horrendous history of two main conflicting issues:
People wanting reasonable usable random numbers on one side,
And then the people that discuss what the word
"entropy" means on the other side.
yo honk honk am here to help. Right click the back button to bring up a menu of several previous pages select when it was the search engine or whatever you used before. For Firefox. If you're on chrome, you can cry. Honk honk, goose out.
hmm, seems like that has to have a name where you try to simplify something but you slowly realize why each piece was needed. Best I could find is "Chesterton’s Fence".
There’s an unwritten rule in the remote Australian Outback. When traversing vast cattle farms on endless gravel roads, every once in a while, you might come across a seemingly random gate. The rule is to leave the gate as you found it. If it’s open, keep it that way. If it’s closed, shut it behind you. The reason is simple: You shouldn’t make assumptions about the gate’s purpose. That’s essentially the idea behind Chesterton’s Fence, a principle everyone in the business of enacting change should know.
I saw a meme that was the trolly problem where voters could let the train continue and hit LGBT, racial minorites, [bunch of other stuff here], and Palestine (alluding to trump). or they could pull the lever and only hit Palestine and leave the other people alive (alluding to at the time Biden).
The bottom pannel was the voter saying "I refuse to participate in a broken system" as all the minorities got ran over by the train.
the kids are also incredibly stupid. I saw about 15 of them throwing open sizzers 20-30 feet up a brick wall so they could catch it with their bare hands not even a week ago
installing minecraft mods are what got me to where I am today, I approach tech stuff with a "I'll learn how to do this" (fiddling) rather than a "oh i'll just call the PC guy" that my mom would do.
I disagree for the term "tablet-fed" as it classifies anyone who used a tablet growing up and not specifically people who stayed within the cushy UX bounds. A lot of the future programmers & tech savvy people are going to have grown up from using tablets. Example, installing mods for minecraft PE when i was ~7 was my first experience actually doing something with tech.
I'm not far enough down the tech rabbithole to use Arch like a lot of people here, but compared to the rest of the population who can't find powerpoint that's right infront of their faces I'd be considered tech-savvy to them.
my highschool has 1,500 kids and 2 IT guys. We have over 100 broken laptops rn. They're overworked minimum wage workers like everyone else working at public schools. They don't even look at what kids do. I've seen only 1 story in the 4 years I've been in HS where someone actually got in trouble for messing with stuff on the computer and it was because they were trying to brute force a network password they didn't have access to.
hmm yes, talking to this person who has differing political options from me is going to literally kill me