Yeah, if positive was clockwise in trig, y = sin x would have a negative slope at x = 0, which I guess Albert Sine found distasteful.

(I made up Albert Sine. I don’t know that there’s anyone specific we can attribute the invention of trigonometric functions to. But I like to imagine him sitting at a desk scribbling right triangles by candle light and scratching his head as to how he’d go about actually calculating the sine, cosine, tangent, arcsine, arccosine, etc of various arbitrary values within his lifetime.)

Yeah, 0F° is close to leave-a-faucet-dripping-lest-your-pipes-freeze weather. Quite a ways below the freezing temperature of water at standard atmospheric pressure.

Lucky.

Back when I took trigonometry, they taught me positive was counterclockwise.

Just think how many pounds he’d have gained if he hadn’t been on Ozempic.

You should run for president. You’ve already got my vote.

If you haven’t seen this, I’m sorry and you’re welcome.

(SFW)

Yeah, I know about the binary repositories. I’m running Gentoo as well (on one box with the intention to expand to other machines), but haven’t had occasion to use the official binary repositories yet.

I imagine I’d probably only ever use them if I wanted to install something temporarily. Install LibreOffice, view a file, uninstall. Just seems weird to have one package compiled with different USE flags than the whole rest of the system.

And, the compiler optimizations definitely aren’t why I use Gentoo. Probably more than anything, I’m sick of SystemD. And Gentoo feels a whole lot more “under my control” than Arch. (Arch is great for the most part, don’t get me wrong. I just like what Gentoo has to offer.)

I’m not RanzigFettreduziert, and I don’t know much about PopOS, but…

• Rolling release is awesome.
• Amazing documentation.
• Helpful user base. (The forums are great.)
• Does pretty much nothing that you don’t specifically tell it to. (Like, very little is installed without your express say-so, for instance.)
• Customizeable as fuck.
• Doesn’t making things harder by trying to hide the “hard parts” from you.
• Doesn’t take days to install Libreoffice like Gentoo.
• AUR is great for software that isn’t available in the official repos. (Always review the pkgbuild, but practically everything is there.)
• Very up-to-date (even cutting-edge) on everything.
• And surprisingly stable given how cutting edge it is. (That said, I’ve never run a keyword-unmasked system.)
• Definitely will teach you a lot.
• Very actively developed.

Downsides:

• Learning curve. (Definitely not as bad as, say, Gentoo, though.)
• You’d definitely have to get really comfortable with the command line. (Arguably as much a good thing as it is a downside.)
• The biggest exception to the “customizeable as fuck” bit is that you’re stuck with SystemD, which is practically a whole OS. (And Artix (Arch but with a choice of init systems) is… kinda janky last I tried it.)
• Support for non-x86 (like ARM, for instance) is abysmal.

It’s kindof the second-most hardcore OS out there after Gentoo. (Nobody actually uses LFS as a daily driver, so I’m not counting that for this.) It’s the sort of OS that will teach you a lot and let you get down in the guts. But also avoids a lot of the downsides of Gentoo by remaining a binary OS.

Shit man. I laughed out loud and my mom is right over there. ->

I had to make something up about what I was laughing at.

Just my guess here, but…

The desktop/laptop sort of form factor is associated in people’s minds with unlocked bootloaders. People expect to be able to install Linux on them if they want to. Tablets, game systems, and other sorts of consumer electronics, not so much. I’m thinking Microsoft will do what it can to push hardware manufacturers and the software industry as a whole more in the direction of the kinds of devices that consumers already expect to be locked down like tablets or game systems that are “streaming” game systems. And that way, the bootloader will prevent folks from switching to Linux.

Didn’t the same thing happen in Pennsylvania recently? Maybe one person is randomly calling in active shooter hoaxes to random universities around the country.

I’m glad I noticed what community this was posted in before I responded.

My employer considers developers, infra, SRE, PC Support, even QA all to be part of the “IT department”. I’ve always used the term “IT” to just cover any specifically “tech” sort of function. As opposed to, say, finance, sales, HR, operations, etc.

Literal shitposts are the best kind of shitposts.

I just got this too. Using old Reddit (the realest Reddit (which still isn’t saying much)) got rid of the banner and allowed loading all the content.

As the guy people come to when they’ve spent days banging their heads against a dependency conflict problem rather than delivering value for the business, I wish the folks on my team would take the proverb “a little copying is better than a little dependency” to heart a little more.

Saying “we can’t in practice reduce the complexity of our dependency tree because we need happy clients and a pay check” is like saying “we can’t in practice turn on the propeller because we need to get this airplane off the ground”.

Be the change you want to see in the world, people. Don’t use any Node (or Rust or Python or Java or whatever) modules that have more dependencies than they absolutely, positively, 100%, for real have to. It’s really not that hard. It doesn’t have to be this way.

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