nyan

joined 3 years ago
[–] nyan@lemmy.cafe 1 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

Slip a pointless easter egg into the code. Make sure that if you don't know it's there, it can only be found by careful examination. Then sue any company whose code displays the easter egg and didn't follow the terms of the license, and you're set for life.

[–] nyan@lemmy.cafe 8 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago)

"American man" is all the explanation you need here. If you have to pay for doctors, of course people who can't pay are going to turn to a free alternative that seems to offer some hope. That's one of the reasons why you don't have to pay to see a doctor in civilized countries.

[–] nyan@lemmy.cafe 11 points 1 day ago

But ya, the car the Edsel was a dud.

From what I understand, it was less of one than the Cybertruck, though. Lots of marketing issues, lots of QA issues, but the only serious design flaw seems to have been the weird transmission setup, whereas the Cybertruck . . . actually, let's not go there.

[–] nyan@lemmy.cafe 27 points 2 days ago (5 children)

Trump's understanding of science is on a par with that of Flat Earth and Hollow Earth believers. It's hard to foster what you don't understand.

[–] nyan@lemmy.cafe 3 points 4 days ago

Might be usable as a compose key for typing accented characters and such. It wouldn't need to be held for that.

[–] nyan@lemmy.cafe 24 points 5 days ago

Because "compared to the US" is a very low bar to clear these days.

[–] nyan@lemmy.cafe 6 points 5 days ago

Sounds like a simple swap error to me. Probably the nurse who was affixing the bracelets got distracted and got the two mixed up, so each baby ended up with the other's bracelet. North Dakota and only two babies born that day makes me think it was a small hospital where a lot of things were being done by hand, and not a lot of checks were being made.

[–] nyan@lemmy.cafe 5 points 1 week ago

Legally, yes. I'm pretty sure a pilot is still responsible for their aircraft while the autopilot is engaged, too.

[–] nyan@lemmy.cafe 1 points 1 week ago

Relatively smart people believe boneheaded things all the time, and have done so throughout history. Extreme case: Kary Mullis, winner of the 1993 Nobel Prize for Chemistry. "In his autobiography, Mullis professed a belief in astrology and wrote about an encounter with a fluorescent, talking raccoon that he suggested might have been an extraterrestrial alien."

[–] nyan@lemmy.cafe 4 points 1 week ago

Probably better just to run the original Masters Of Orion in dosbox, if that's what you're looking for. GOG will quite happily sell you both MoO 1 and 2 at a reasonable price.

[–] nyan@lemmy.cafe 3 points 1 week ago

My distro's package manager will quite happily install all of those. From the main distro repo, even. I don't see any reason why I would mess around with flatpaks or other distribution methods.

I can literally count on one hand the pieces of non-game software I use that are installed from outside my distro's package manager (there's three if you include the inkscape plugin to drive my vinyl cutter).

So I repeat, this is either a distro issue or related to how you, personally, prefer to manage your system. It is not a general Linux issue.

[–] nyan@lemmy.cafe 4 points 1 week ago

Oh goody, we might have a real use for the "Printer on fire" message in the Linux kernel again!

view more: next ›