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[–] tetris11@feddit.uk 10 points 6 days ago

Really nice analysis, thanks for this.

I didn't realise that Obi had romances -- for anyone who wants to read more:
https://disney.fandom.com/wiki/Obi-Wan_Kenobi/Relationships#Romances

[–] tetris11@feddit.uk 6 points 6 days ago

The Sky Cat Knows All and Sees All

[–] tetris11@feddit.uk 8 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

I tend to exhibit ADHD-type speech patterns when I'm overwhelmed by a new task that I'm trying to explain, inadvertently letting random facts and emotions creep haphazardly into the dialogue.

I hear myself do it and think "huh, this must be what ADHD people feel like all the time"

[–] tetris11@feddit.uk 5 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

"tetris, can you come over? it will just take 10 minutes because I cant shift because of my back, and you were the one that put the bed there if you remember, and your aunt is coming on the third..."

vs.

"tetris, can you move the bed if you've got 10 minutes? My back hurts and your aunt will be visiting."

[–] tetris11@feddit.uk 6 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

2009 was only 6 years ago, so I'm not sure what 1999 has to do with it :P

No joke -- Debian is a treasure trove of archival releases. Ask any other distro if they still have stable tarballs from kernel v2, and the answer will simply be "no".

https://cdimage.debian.org/mirror/cdimage/archive/

[–] tetris11@feddit.uk 3 points 1 week ago

https://cdimage.debian.org/mirror/cdimage/archive/

In the days of Woody (3.0), we started producing DVDs reliably for every release from r5 onwards. Later releases included both CDs and DVDs as a matter of course.

Starting with Etch (4.0), we started making multi-architecture CDs/DVDs which would boot and allow for installation on more than one type of computer.

Starting with Lenny (5.0), we added Blu-ray (BD) images, downloadable only in jigdo format for the sake of mirror space and bandwidth. We also regularly produced live images - bootable images that run completely from the CD/DVD/USB stick and do not need to be installed to your hard disk. (More details...)

Starting with Squeeze (6.0), we started building CDs and DVDs for kfreebsd-amd64 and kfreebsd-i386, marking the first released non-Linux port of Debian.

[–] tetris11@feddit.uk 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Ah okay -- as in, he seemed to like it(?) but he was also way too young for it to have been having it

[–] tetris11@feddit.uk 3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Apologies - it was not my intention to paint those who have difficulty communicating as non-teachers. I myself am not a great verbal communicator, and construct thoughts far better in text than on-demand with sound.

"Verbal" was a poor choice of words in my original comment. I only meant that if you are asked to explain a task you do often through whatever means are available to you, and you are unable to in your own mind create an analog of it to something else, then that is a sign of overtraining

[–] tetris11@feddit.uk 10 points 1 week ago (3 children)

“My momma cleaned hunter’s cabins and those hunters were real nice men if you know what I mean.”

I'm a bit dense. They were "nice" to each other, or "nice" to him, or they were actually nice looking, or...?

[–] tetris11@feddit.uk 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

I feel like it's more than that though. Some researchers go too deep into their field that an adjacent one tied to the same goal becomes alien to them (e.g. developmental biology vs pharmacology)

Techies are very good because they own a thorough understanding of the low-level implementation of a tasks requirements, they can tell you exactly how they converted an input to an output down the finest T. But they do not necessarily know how to generalise, they've overtrained and specialised on that specific task that taking it into another context is foreign to them -- i.e., they've learned a task within a specific environment but do not know what the task means outside of it, and in a way... haven't actually learned what the task means.

Project managers (and, in theory, CTO's...) have a high level overview of the task. They might not know how to implement it directly, but they know enough from a conceptual standpoint to extrapolate the task and apply it to different situations and understand the bigger picture that the task takes place in.

My whole argument is that neither the Techie nor the Project manager are masters of the task, because they see the task in different isolated scopes; one from a high level overview and one from a low level implementation.

A Teacher understands both -- what the task is, how to extrapolate it to different situations, and how to implement it

[–] tetris11@feddit.uk 2 points 1 week ago

oh right true, that's the issue -- stock android

 

The ones that inspired you, or left a positive influence in you

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Mine is literally being held together by two rubber bands.

Suggestions for a new one would be most welcome. Though to be clear, I'm not asking for an idealised wallet, I'm asking for the specific one that you have now that has lasted you X years without complaint

The more worn and frayed, the better

Edit: the above image is just a stock google photo

 

If you were going to sell your house tomorrow, what would influence your decision the most?

Assume that the difference in money offered isn't that wide, and it comes down to personality.

Who would you want living in your house right now?

  • Married couple?
  • Same religion or beliefs ?
  • Ties to the area?
  • Type of work (Banker? Social worker?)
  • Same cultural background?
  • Has physical skills?
  • Asks a lot of questions about the house?
  • Wears formal attire?

I need ideas guys, I've got my first house viewing tomorrow and I'm pretty low on the ideal candidate ladder.

 

A haunting re-imagining of William Hope Hodgson's The Night Land, with themes of prophecy and reincarnation.

https://web.archive.org/web/20090524012412/http://www.thenightland.co.uk/nightawake.html

The above website itself has fan-drawn maps of the landscape of the Night Lands, and I love looking at it from time to time

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neil_Buchanan

Buchanan was in a heavy metal band called Marseille which formed in 1976: they were part of the new wave of British heavy metal scene, releasing four albums and six singles, touring America and performing with Judas Priest, Nazareth and Whitesnake. The band reformed in 2009 with a performance at The Cavern Club, Liverpool.

 

They brought them out front and center at my local supermarket, and either they are selling like hotcakes that are constantly being replenished.... or literally no one is buying.

 

Investigating this further, I looked at events that were occurring in 1899 in Portugal and noted the following births:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1899_in_Portugal

  • 6 February - Jaime Gonçalves, footballer (deceased)
  • 25 February - António Pinho, footballer (deceased)
  • 21 April - José Ramos, footballer (deceased)
  • 30 April - Fernando António, footballer (deceased)
  • 10 May - Artur Paredes, guitar player (died 1980)
  • 21 August - António Leite, fencer (died 1958)
  • 26 August - Francisco Vieira, footballer (deceased)
  • 24 October - João Francisco Maia, footballer (deceased)
  • 8 November - Manuel António Vassalo e Silva, Governor-General of Portuguese India (died 1985)
  • 19 December - Fernando Santos Costa, army officer (died 1982)
  • 30 December - José Pimenta, footballer (deceased)
  • Armando Machado, fadista, guitarist, "viola" player (died 1974)
  • Jesus Muñoz Crespo, footballer (died 1979)
  • Sarmento Rodrigues, naval officer, colonist, professor (died 1979)

Coincidence? I think not. I reckon Queen Victoria new exactly how shot our chances would be in any subsequent World Cups against Portugal, and sought to minimize the damage.

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