Oh, look, it’s the president and some random guy with a fake tan.

These are all great adjectives. It also looks eminently stealable. They’ll need some sort of standardized locking integration, like a battery version of a Kensington security slot, for it to be a good general standard.

Or, maybe it’s because to drive a car you’re supposed to be an adult, have had lessons, taken tests, and be licensed; whereas none of these apply to e-bikes.

Edit: to be clear, I’m not implying that all, or even most, drivers are good ones, only that The State has performed a basic litmus before allowing people to operate motor vehicles.

Keeping my eye out for the class action on this one.

No worries. I use “actresses” all the time, and “stewardess”, too, although I think nowadays you’re supposed to say “flight attendants”. The hard part is that some women actors want to be called “actors”, and some “actresses.” You never know.

In my story, it was “actor” because that’s what my wife wanted to use. It’s not a hard rule - it’s a difficult one, but not set in stone. It depends on the individual’s preference.

Community theater is the best, although K-12 can be pretty fantastic, too.

Depends on who you ask. Many people in acting prefer “actor” to be non-gendered.

If you’re anti-PC, then you probably prefer the gendered terms. In my wife’s case, she was a female actor, and I respect that. So, “actor.”

Nope! My observation has nothing to do with murder, but with a tenancy for FS developers to have personality traits - and outsized egos.

Completely agree. I guess it’s a perk of being Benevolent(?) Dictator for Life.

I don’t hang out in microblogs. I use Lemmy, not Mastodon.

The dark side of Federation is that, as a user, you’re often in the dark about which platform you’re communicating across.

I don’t do CoCs. But I was reading LKLM when Reiser was working on ReiserFS and was using it myself. Same vibe, over email at least.

The internet tends to exacerbate narcissism, but still.

I do, and I was around before ReiserFS was released and watched his interactions on the LKML, and I stand by my statement: they have the same vibes over email.

I do think there’s a difference. It’s an established communication rule: criticize the behavior, not the individual. But, I don’t disagree that Linus is an abrasive personality, because he is.

Man, I really want bcachefs to do well; it’s so nice, and while I’m happy with btrfs, I would really like to be able to have more RAID options in it.

Years ago, I used to do the LVM + FS dance, but after a couple of incidents I discovered it’s a kind of jenga tower that’s difficult to rebuild of things go really caterwumpus. Since then, I avoid LVM and have been waiting for stable RAID5/6 support in btrfs, but have come to the conclusion that it may never arrive; it seems to be either not a priority, or impossible (or exceedingly difficulty), because the years creep by with no apparent progress and the RAID warning increasingly looks as if it’s written in stone.

So bcachefs is really interesting to me. But I’m getting Hans Reiser vibes from Overstreet; what is it with filesystem developers and oversized egos?

Yeah, I wonder about this.

There’s being blunt, and there’s abuse. Linus attacks code, not people. Maybe it’s seems like a distinction without a difference, but Linus would say “stop submitting stupid patches,” instead of “stop being stupid.” Or maybe, “the quality of your patch is dumb” versus “you’re dumb.” But, I don’t follow the LKML so maybe he does ad hominem attacks.

I do know he’s mellowed over the years and the CoC was introduced after his daughter called him out about abusive behavior, and he seems to have listened to her. So you may be right: if the CoC had been introduced 20 years ago, maybe he’d have already been kicked out.

My final thought is that there’s a bit of “rules for thee, not me.” Linux can probably now survive without Linus, but he’s still a guiding force and probably the foremost authority on the core kernel, and I have a hard time imagining his lieutenants kicking him out.

Have they tried pulling the pin before throwing the grenade?

Obliquely related story.

My wife was briefly an actor, and they were running The Cask. During one rehearsal, the guy playing Montresor was doing the brick laying, and he started going:

“One brick… ah, ah, aah!
Two bricks… ah, ah, aaah!”

I don’t know if you had to be there, but I almost died laughing. Now I can’t read or see a reference to The Cask without thinking about that.

Threeee bricks… ah, ah, aaaah!

Also, he’s kind of written as a nerd in a bad way; not bookish or introverted, or almost autistically passionate about one or two topics, but a sort of do-gooder ass-kisser. The kind of guy who’d rat you out for hacking the holodeck to have a booze-fueled orgy with a bunch of simulated women designed from an adolescent’s ideal of unrealistic expectations.

Enterprise crew are supposed to be the best of Starfleet, having worked their way to the top of the lists to get there. Wesley’s there because his mom made it on the list; there’s no reason to expect he’d be any different from other teens: hormonally driven, prone to bad judgment and still figuring out life as a young adult. But that’s not how he’s written.

Put the Wesley character into any high school, and he’d be bullied. Even nerds wouldn’t like him.

I mean, what you said: he’s written as if by someone who’s forgotten what it’s like to be a teenager.

It’s always amazing to me how much difference eyes make to my base reaction to animals. The more human the eyes look, the more instinctively sympathetic my emotions.

It’s not just bats, although this illustration is really great for comparison.

And that breaks the processor and you have to reboot your listener and it’s such a paaaaaiin.

Bottomless but not topless? Eden was a wild place!