Some middle-aged guy on the Internet. Seen a lot of it, occasionally regurgitates it, trying to be amusing and informative.

Lurked Digg until v4. Commented on Reddit (same username) until it went full Musk.

Is on kbin.social but created this profile on kbin.run during a week-long outage.

Other Adjectives: Neurodivergent; Nerd; Broken; British; Ally; Leftish

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Cake day: June 4th, 2024

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  • It’s complex I guess. There’s a stereotype that doing a good deed in China usually ends up backfiring on the doer of the deed.

    Here she died and was praised, but then, the backfire had already taken effect.

    We could conclude from this that the only correct way for a Chinese citizen to do a good deed is to die in the process.

    Then note that the praise could be not for doing the deed but for saving whatever other forces are at play from having to provide the backfire.

    The hard part is determining the shades of truth of all the various aspects here.








  • anaemic* (Sorry, that bothered me for some reason.)

    As for capture groups, you’ll have to find another way. Perversely, perhaps BusyBox continues to be included on certain systems because they know that the extra space is required for the code that works around BB’s shortcomings. That sounds asinine until you realise that “solving the problem properly” most likely leads to that one XKCD comic about the proliferation of competing standards.

    At worst, multiple sizes of BusyBox itself.





  • I’ve said this before and I’ll say it again: There are better things to attack Trump for than how he looks, what physical conditions he has or how he smells.

    At face value, those sorts of things have little effect on the ability to run a country well.

    Even his hair is a better target because how he wears it would appear to show vanity, a quality that might actually interfere with stable management. That’s still a relatively big stretch without other evidence (of which there would appear to be plenty) though.

    Attack his ideas, his intents, his politics. He makes this easy enough, right? Start there.

    “LOL u smel” is something you expect in the playground. Something Trump himself might use, perhaps.

    We have to be better than that.