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“Pissing in the soup” doesn’t really work here unless you’re adulterating the software with something malicious.

To be fair, there are important differences between open source and closed source software.

I’m curious how it’s considered a “layoff” if it’s based on performance rather than the job itself being eliminated.

Case/chasis: 15 years and counting

Motherboard/CPU: ~5 years (currently: 6.5 years)

RAM: ~2 years until maxed out (currently: maxed out)

GPU: ~3-6 years (currently: 3 years)

I had hoped to do a new build last year, but it’s just too expensive. For now I’m planning to use what I have until it breaks.

At first I thought this was an announcement from Microsoft.

Reminds me of the old trick on HTML forms where you use CSS to make one of the form fields invisible to humans and reject any submission that filled in that field.

E099: PROGRAMMER IS OVERLY POLITE

Man it sure is crackers to slip a rozzer the dropsy in snide.

A paperclip maximizer driven by self-preservation? What could possiblie go wrong?

The problem is that you’re using Windows 95.

Are there examples of censorship or prior restraint you’d like to highlight?

Force feedback codpieces.

A .tar archive is basically only the files cat’ed together, with a header and index added, right?

Tar does not include an index. It’s just the headers and data cat’ed together. You have to read from the beginning of the archive until you find the file you want. This is exacerbated if the archive is also gzipped, since you have to decompress all the files leading up to the one you want, as opposed to skipping over them as you could do in an uncompressed tar archive.

So why is there no archive format that just cat’es the compressed files together?

That’s essentially what a zip archive does. Each file is compressed separately and cat’ed together with uncompressed headers in between. Also zip archives do have an index which is what allows for random access and easy changes. The downside is that the compression ratio of a zip archive can be worse than a tar.gz archive.

There is no such thing as an innocent billionaire.

Pfft. Real programmers use butterflies

I’ve still got my Nintendo 64, and I sometimes boot up Goldeneye for old time’s sake.

Try HTTrack: https://www.httrack.com/

The GTX1660 I bought in 2023 for $300 is still running fine.

That detail is conspicuously absent from the announcement itself.