Sure, I guess, if you’ve got a distro installed on your PC and use the distro-provided packages to install the Rust compiler, then you can’t be subject to such certificate MitM attacks.

Your comment sounded like you were primarily concerned about the shell script piping rather it just being a program which can be downloaded without going through distro packages.

You’re using that to download a program. If they can MitM the shell script, they can just as well MitM the program that you’ll run right after the download…

Unciv also happens to be 100% off and you don’t need an Epic Store account for it. 🙃

Anecdotal, but I actually stopped liking fictional stories at some point, because I realized there’s such an abundance of cool and real stories I could be learning about, that it’s just like “Why are you telling me of a phoenix/dragon/Lavados when there’s black hawks setting fire to Australia?”.

I guess, it also ties in, though, that I don’t do escapism in general either, so I don’t either get lost in real stories, nor drugs.
I had a rough point in my life where escapism was crucial – I certainly don’t judge anyone wanting to step outside of this world for some time – but yeah, that changed my fundamental world view, so that I prefer to stay in the real world now.

Are these genuinely just screencaps from Star Trek or something?

I guess, it being an identity is somewhat recent-ish…?

You first needed lots of weirdos to make it their identity that they only fuck people from the Champagne region, before it could be an identity that you just fuck whomever’s hot.

My pet theory is that our brain rewards us for interpreting clues correctly, because this is crucial for survival. And patterns make it easy to do this interpretation correctly, therefore triggering the reward system frequently.

But if it is too easy to interpret a pattern correctly, the reward will be lessened, because the challenge you succeeded in was lesser. And it was also crucial to survival to fade out patterns which don’t change, so that e.g. the wind brushing through leaves doesn’t drown out the noises from a predator approaching.

That’s why patterns which don’t change every so often stop triggering the reward system and therefore bore us.

Ich kenne die historischen Beweggründe nicht, aber rückblickend finde ich, dass es den Charakter von der ich_iel Kommune mitgeprägt hat.

Die Regel sorgt im Grunde dafür, dass die Beiträge hier keinen Titel haben. Dadurch kommt man nicht in Verlegenheit, den Beitrag zu erklären, wodurch viele der Beiträge auch etwas kryptisch sein können. Was ja insbesondere relevant ist, weil es den Beitragenden offen steht auch tatsächlich etwas über besagtes “ich” zu erzählen, und wo sie vielleicht nicht näher in’s Detail gehen wollen.

Naja, und es ist natürlich auch immer lustig, wenn bei Beiträgen nicht ganz klar ist, ob das jetzt die Beitragenden darstellt oder nicht. Zu viel Erklärungen würde das auch kaputt machen.

Well, the writing-part isn’t the bad part about duplicated code. It’s the maintaining of it. In particular, if you duplicate logic, it happens all too quickly that you make modifications to one, but not the other, or you make differing modifications to both.

Eventually, you’ll end up with two wildly different versions, where you won’t know why certain changes were made and not applied to the other version. Similarly, if you do need to make a similar change to both, you might now need to implement it two times.

I guess, I do agree that it isn’t *always* worth it, but in my experience, it is far more often worth it than one might think.

That explanation of union types as simply conflating the type checking with the type access does make it even wilder to me that lots of languages don’t (properly) support that. It seems like a no-brainer to want that.

Although, I guess, adding a whole pattern matching system to a language to allow for this type-checked access, that’s probably what’s more controversial…

I guess, they’d have a tendency to look goofy, so they can stick their snouts into ant hills, and then we might’ve named them accordingly?

That is kind of funny, since there is genuinely a decent chance that someone who’s unwell is also obese or unfit or old…

“P/E” is apparently this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Price–earnings_ratio

Being lobster-headed is a turn-on for her. He’s practically the perfect match for her and she’s likely the best, if not only, partner he could hope for.

But yeah, I guess, it’s less of a joke and more of a social commentary that people will forego great partners when they’re not accepted by their tribe.

Conversely, we had a small event at work with three different drinks, of which two were lemonade and the third looked like just another flavor of lemonade, but was actually an energy drink. You basically had to read the ingredients to find out.

I genuinely get headaches from techno. A colleague was recently on a techno festival and that just sounds like the seventh circle of hell for me…

Ich hätte da so eine These zur Umkehr der Kausalität: Du hasst einfach Menschen und das ist der Grund warum du diese Verhaltensweisen hasst.

Krass. Als Software-Entwickler schon echt viele wirren Bugs gesehen oder darüber gelesen, aber dass so ein Problem mit ziemlich direkten Auswirkungen auf die Realität so lange unentdeckt bleibt, das ist schon echt nochmal was anderes…

Nur um den Satz auch zu zitieren:

Bereits 1941 hatte aber ein niederländischer Ornithologe die bis heute gültige Vermutung geäußert, dass – wie bei den Zugvögeln – der Magnetsinn eine wichtige Rolle zu spielen scheint.

Zugvögel haben quasi einen Kompass im Kopp…