Where are your favorite novels on the Pride and Prejudice – House of Leaves spectrum?

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Just need to learn exactly how it works.

Carbon Offsets: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO) YouTube video by LastWeekTonight

Une bonne occasion de donner le lien sur l'épisode de Last Week Tonight qui démonte les compensations carbone comme l'arnaque qu'elles sont.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=6p8z...

But at least you get to choose: unlike a burnt CPU or, in a completely different domain, a cracked tooth, you decide when you do your dist-upgrade. You can wait until you have some information about how it will suck and select a time where the suck won't cascade.

But still, being not a dummy, you have some latitude to choose how you will get annoyed. And I think Debian stable is probably close to the best choice for you. Yes you will be annoyed a lot and waste a lot of time every two years on average, four if you accept milder continuous annoyance.

Yes, it's annoying when something breaks, but it's just wasted time and effort. It's no worse than any of these other things that make us waste time and effort. If you suffer more from a Libre Software breakage than from forgotten luggage in the subway, you've got your priorities wrong.

Anything involving a lot of humans will suck to some amount. And therefore computers, even in the best of case, suck to some amount. So it's your option ⓒ, except you don't have to derive pain and suffering from it.

and possibly hypnotized into denial by the presence of the image, not even rainbow anymore, of a fruit on your computer. But being not a dummy, you know that computers could work well, and you think they should because you forget a detail: they're made by humans.

I don't have the expertise to answer that, or maybe my expertise tells me there's no answer, so you'll have to do with the friendly sympathy; it will perforce be personal. You are no dummy. If you were, you'd have been convinced by advertisement that it's normal that computers suck a lot,

Annonce des nominés du Prix Hugo 2026.
Si on apprécie lire de la science fiction et de la fantasy, cette liste est probablement d'excellent conseil, elle l'est les autres années. Ne pas oublier d'aller voir la suite, en particulier les romans courts.

I was annoyed by this bug, and spent some time understanding and fixing it. But I was annoyed by this bug only because I use Debian testing rather than stable. Fixing the bug and reporting it was me pulling my weight for the Libre Software movement and I'm glad to have done it.

And if you don't want to pull your weight, well, you can still ask politely for features, including backwards compatibility. But the insulting way you are demanding it deserves only one response, that you conveniently provided for copy-pasting: “f🖕ck you”.

I was annoyed by this bug, and spent some time understanding and fixing it. But I was annoyed by this bug only because I use Debian testing rather than stable. Fixing the bug and reporting it was me pulling my weight for the Libre Software movement and I'm glad to have done it.

The way Libre Software empowers users is by giving them information about software development (even tiny details), the means to fix the bugs, the ability to restore features by maintaining a fork. It's not done by catering for the needs of some (you! how surprising) over others.

Je ne connaissais pas cette anecdote. Il se passait quoi dans cette saison, qui déparait du reste de la série (que je ne connais pas non plus) ?

In this instance, I can very well imagine a security issue caused by the combination of this issue and a server calling su without sanitizing dashes because they're harmless after a non-option argument. Fixing the issue in both places is the right thing to do.

Second, all extra code is also extra attack surface for security exploits, that's very relevant for code exposed to wild data or for code meant for a SUID binary.

On this, I will trust the judgement of the people in the project, who know the code and how much effort it takes to maintain it and how much effort they are willing to spend and what other projects they have, over the judgement of people who do not know that. (Would be different for Open Source.)

I disagree with the second point on two counts. First, Libre Software projects are always understaffed: maintaining legacy code is in direct concurrence with bug fixes and new features, so you need to explain why your want to not have to fix your downstream is more important by mountains levels.

On ne sait pas avec certitude, mais on peut deviner que s'il s'était appelé Leslie Groport, il aurait appelé son jeu de macros GroTeX, non ? 😜

Dans le genre, il y a le « jeu » Umineko no naku koro ni (et ses adaptations) où le but est de trouver des explications réalistes pour tous les meurtres que Béatrice prétend avoir commis par magie.

Je trouve que les interprétations alternatives où tout est imaginé sont un ordre de grandeur moins intéressantes que celles qui postulent que ce qu'on voit est une version extrêmement déformée d'événements réels : dans le premier cas, il n'y a rien à expliquer.

Il y a cinq ans, ils auraient décidé de tout réimplémenter en Rust.
(Je m'intéresserai à Typst quand la Debian où il aura été packagé sera devenue oldstable.)

Leslie Lamport, quand il a implémenté un système de macros par dessus Τεχ, et ce n'est pas un acronyme.

Ah, les interprétations alternatives, c'est toujours un jeu rigolo dans les séries mystérieusement mystérieuses. Ai-je parlé de ma théorie que tous les événements surnaturels dans Suzymiya Haruhi, c'est juste Kyon qui a la mémoire en vrac après être tombé dans l'escalier ?

I'll let you answer first and say on what details I disagree.
But in this instance, let me remind you that any program relying on “su user -s shell” would be broken on BSD (probably, did not check).

Columbo ne harcèle pas « les gens », il harcèle une personne par épisode, et c'est toujours le coupable.

What we need now is a device that presents as USB-storage and uses speech synthesis and recognition to encode the data as a fake family dinner conversation. And voilà, unlimited storage.

https://xkcd.com/1172/ [Changelog for version 10.17 of a piece of software.] One change listed: "The CPU no longer overheats when you hold down the spacebar" Comments: LongtimeUser4 writes: This update broke my workflow! My control key is hard to reach, so I hold spacebar instead, and I configured Emacs to interpret a rapid temperature rise as "control". Admin writes: That's horrifying. LongtimeUser4 writes: Look, my setup works for me. Just add an option to reenable spacebar heating. Every change breaks someone's workflow.

Et le mur en question, il a été construit avec quel budget ?