Jamie

joined 2 years ago
[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

I had a teacher send me to the vice principal's office who tried to scream my bad handwriting into good handwriting. Like, I didn't do anything actually wrong, I just had bad handwriting. I would say the screaming she got in return was deserved.

[–] [email protected] 44 points 2 years ago

I had a teacher in third grade send me to the vice principal's office because my handwriting was, and is, terrible. His idea of dealing with a 9 year old whose handwriting is bad was apparently that if you scream at them hard enough, their good handwriting will just come out. They apparently decided to not inform my parents of this event, so they were quite surprised when I came home and started apologizing because I got in big trouble at school.

Well, my dad went up to the school and showed them he could scream, too. Sent the teacher to the staff room in tears, and the vice principal suddenly lost his volume when he's faced up against a 6'2 farmer instead of a 9 year old. Neither of them tried anything like that again.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 2 years ago (2 children)

The user never had much choice to begin with. If I write a program using version 1.2.3 of a library, then my application is going to need version 1.2.3 installed. But how the user gets 1.2.3 depends on their system, and in some cases, they might be entirely unable unless they grab a flatpak or appimage. I suppose it limits the ability to write shims over those libraries if you want to customize something at that level, but that's a niche use-case that many people aren't going to need.

In a static linked application, you can largely just ship your application and it will just work. You don't need to fuss about the user installing all the dependencies at the system level, and your application can be prone to less user problems as a result.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

Subscribers to the paid plans can enjoy deeper interactions with Lain, witnessing an increase in intimacy levels and evolving facial expressions as they engage in conversations.

tl;dr: People are gonna pay to e-sex a virtual version of Lain.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 years ago

My instance is currently at 19GB after running for about 3 months.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Weird

Edit: I guess I can't post the HTML even in code blocks. RIP.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago (4 children)

The only thing I really miss is doing data calculations in Google because I have shitty Internet and I want to know how many hours I've gotta let this thing download before I get my bandwidth back.

[–] [email protected] -3 points 2 years ago

As a guy that watched a rich Norwegian friend become a crackhead and get disowned, yeah.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 years ago (1 children)

A lot of my dreams "zoom out" and turn out to be me playing a game, usually if too many fantastical elements are happening in it. Most of my dreams are relatively grounded, so my brain tries to explain itself when they aren't, I guess.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 years ago (1 children)

It's not the popular authors that would be getting ripped off, it'd be the small ones. Corps would have people scouting books en masse, find one worth taking without a reputation to back themselves up, then present their own version and crush any momentum you might gain against their millions of dollars in marketing.

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