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@ranjit Park slope skunks, spraying drunks, to wash away the pain....

@NanoRaptor I think I found an earlier one...

@mjd Fast and loose

@SuperDicq I heard it, myself, from the person to whom it happened. I have to admit that I forget who I heard it from, but I remember where it was (a book release party for a fantasy novel, in NYC, in either 2006 or 2007). I was either working for, or had recently quit working for, the FSF.

@SuperDicq I once met a woman who RMS had hit on while they were sharing a taxicab. She had been 14 at the time. He was old enough to know better.

@tedu Actually, honk query for you: Imagine that I'm following person A, and person B, whom I am not following, replies to person A. I can follow the link to A's instance and see B's reply, but how do I reply to B's reply without following B? Ideally, I would like a "load replies" button on the convoy, but maybe there's a better way?

@alchemistsstudio https://youtu.be/sfeGaZUHJDY?si=4us4seNqGGV3LaxP&t=377

@mjd OK, but the free trial is still called a "stool sample", right?

@mjd Interestingly, profanity tends to use matching vowels instead (see this study of "shitgibbons")

@mjd Recognizing that this is a specific rather than general suggestion, use Larry Wall's rename.

@b0rk Too bad -- Danielle's brother is going to be giving a talk!

@mjd I don't think of him that way, but I admit it's probably been a decade since I last read the books.

(Also, Gandalf is very quotable, whereas quoting Jackson Lamb is a nearly always a firing offense)

@CStamp Yes, the standard advice is that if you're going to have a baby, take a CPR class.

@CStamp It's fruit juice, as opposed to whole fruit. It's there as a sweetener, but there's no need for a sweetener. (Even the concept of baby food is pretty suspect -- babies can do a surprisingly good job on many ordinary foods despite their lack of teeth. You haven't lived until you've seen a one-year-old go to town on a chicken leg.)

@cscott Also, added sweeteners in baby food seems pretty alarming.

@bekit I pointed out a specific term that I was bothered by.

@bekit Imagine passing a law that said, simply, "Don't be evil." Clearly, that wouldn't work -- no lawmaker would ever write a law like that. And if you visited a place with a law like that, you would be in constant fear.

So your license will succeed in making nobody want to use your software, and if that's your goal, you've succeeded.

Like, I wouldn't use your software -- the supply chain for my current game will include roughly a hundred companies and individuals, most of which I know nothing about, and the license seems to require me to publish this information -- that's way more work than I have time for.

@alchemistsstudio That came out incredibly nice!

@mjd Thanks for checking. I just assumed it was false without checking, but I shouldn't have assumed.

@jmac I think back then memory was expensive, so shared libraries were very important (leading to DLL hell, of course). I think Linux was more of a minority platform then, so there was more emphasis on following the traditional Unix directory structure.

Apt was pretty magical back in the days before anyone else had an "app store", and it's kind of a shame that now instead of one place to get apps, we have at least four (apt, snap, flatpak, and appimages). Back then, of course, one regularly had to build from source, so maybe this complaint wouldn't have happened?

There's also a reflexive neophobia among technologists, for good reasons, although I think that was less of a thing in the Slashdot era.

So on reflection, I think the major complaint back then would have been memory and disk usage.

@mjd Congratulations!

@aysamanra I always feel a tiny bit guilty when I normalize a vector. I think vectors should be allowed to let their freak flags fly.

@jessamyn Nope, for roughly the same reason as Semantle: once I binge a game like this, I lose interest.

@jessamyn And if you're in the mood for an easier game than Semantle, I also made Middles.