psycotica0

I've encountered it very little, but when I encounter it it's because I try to do something and it doesn't work. So I check the permissions with ls -l, and it all seems reasonable. Huh, this should work. Try again, nope. Hmm. 20 minutes of trying random variations, strange results. Oh fuck, is this SELinux? Shit. Where do those configs exist again? How do I configure that? Google "SELinux cheat sheet" hmmm, I don't have enough context to use that, Google "SELinux getting started". Read tutorial, try to skim just enough to figure out what's going wrong for me.

So I don't hate it, I just haven't ever had a use for it, but it has surprised me in a bad way before and cost me a lot of time and confusion, but I've never spent the time getting familiar because I've never had a use for it. And it comes up rarely enough I never remember anything about it by the time it bites me. I can't even recall now what I was trying to do the last time I bumped into it.

My useless brain read the title as "Giant Worm", and then I saw the cover and thought "okay, that's clearly the octopus back there, so is she supposed to be a worm? That has got to be the laziest, most fan servicy bullshit worm costume I've ever seen"

Then I read the summary hoping she wasn't the worm, and then was confused about why it didn't mention a worm at all! I figured it out, eventually...

Huh, that's some fun psychology. Donations make me feel guilty and uncomfortable 😛

Good to know someone enjoys them!

To be fair, I have the same problem when my wife is telling a story about her and her friends doing something. It's all "the she told her that she wasn't going to do that anymore" and I have to stop her and be like "wait wait, who told who that who wasn't going to do what anymore!?" 😅

I agree that "they" being plural sometimes too adds another dimension of figuring out what the girls were doing as a group rather than a girl was doing, but it's honestly already a shitshow. And (while I love my wife) made worse by a person who... maybe doesn't have their audience's interests in mind while telling a story. Because a well told story is structured to maintain a consistent use of pronouns and reintroduces by name when required. So, like, if we're talking about Carmen's story, she gets to be "she", and then you tell me how "she said to Joan, that Tabby had blah blah blah". That's a little bit the orator's fault.

New plan, we have first and second person pronouns (I and you), I think we need 5 new pronouns that correspond to "third person", "fourth person", "fifth person", etc.

And those can be gender non-specific, because the same problem happens when a guy is telling a story involving multiple guys. Then it can come up in the grammar that "Johnny was talking to Peter, and A told B that Richard was mad at A because C didn't go to B's BBQ."

Problem solved 😛

To devil's advocate in a different direction, most projects aren't setup to actually do anything with donations. They could be, like if they had a stable income source they could hire people full time as a job rather then relying on volunteer time. And some of the larger projects are already at that point, and so maybe having more money would allow them to expand the team further. And some projects have a particular goal they're trying to fund, like an external security audit, or some kind of certification process.

But for most projects, sporadic donations are like "hey cool, I guess. I'll go out to dinner tonight" gifts of appreciation, because up until they become a solid full time wage, they're not a solid full time wage. And once they are a solid full time wage, any further donations are like "hey cool, I'll go out to dinner tonight" until they're big enough to be a second wage 😛

I'm not saying we shouldn't donate stuff, gifts of appreciation are still appreciated, I'm sure. But they don't produce output.

Hmm. I've been in math, computer science, and computer programming for 20 years in English (Canada) and I've never heard "denary". It's cute, but never once heard anyone say it. So they're not interchangeable to me 😛

Right, but here's the trick: I can't do the same thing twice. So if I write it ugly the first time, that's the best that's ever going to be. What a waste of its potential! 😅

I don't think it's the tickling thing. It's a fair hypothesis, but it doesn't feel right to me. To me I think it's the emotional connection of doing something with another person, and the physical connection of two (or more) people working together. Like, I'd say that throwing a ball up into the air and catching it again just isn't as fun as throwing a ball back and forth between people is, and there's no biological imperative there. There isn't a lust for tossing the ball with the boys. But it's a group activity, and group activities fill a different need than solo activities, which is a different biological imperative.

So I think joinking it fulfills only part of the craving, but leaves other parts unfulfilled, which is why as soon as that part recovers the body is like "okay, let's try again"

Even if they don't change laws, and even if they don't resort to anything outright immoral, a large player can pay an up-and-coming competitor $100k for their thing, and then bury it. A $100k windfall might be a big deal to a new entrant, a difficult offer to pass up, while simultaneously being nothing for the existing incumbent. Or less morally you could outbid them for a critical resource they require just to prevent them from having it, when you don't even need it.

There's a lot of power that comes from being able to sustain a loss larger than the other party's entire operating budget.

A classic I needed to send to a friend:

Water fans explain that it is wet.

It feels like "we have 12 months to cash in on the marketing of Open Source, but then 12 months to weasel out of providing the first shred of source"