weights connoisseur @alice_meows@awoo.space

@jk oh wow this is great

@jk like rly I wish more stuff could just be statically linked and just have self contained executables that can run anywhere, but I appreciate that this is so fucking hard that we came up with a whole wrapper to set up a virtual filesystem to dynamically link shit in from to work around this.

@jk it's a shame the linux ecosystem doesn't have room for "folders full of DLLs and EXEs" consistently working, too many weird assumptions about where stuff should be on a system. In theory /opt provides some clues how to do this, I think you could make a folder with bin, lib, share, whatever subdirectories and have a script that sets some environment variables?

This problem is why appimage is the most promising of the newfangled packaging stuff out there, to me at least, even if it's a hack

@jk "tamagotchi mode" is a perfect description of why I switched from Arch to Debian many years back. I inherited the very active "set everything up yourself" attitude from arch, but applied it to a distro that has stability. But I also don't run a full desktop (so i have no idea how broken stuff like icons is), and it didn't solve this problem, just mitigate it

Moves on to your game cube controllers

Unplugging the HDMI cables from your TV one at a time and eating them

@CarlMuckenhoupt but 2 doesn't always mean "two", if it immediately precedes a 3 it means the " twenty-" part of "twenty-three"

@codl this doesn't rly change the main point of what you're saying, but worth mentioning that "having datacenters" doesn't necessarily imply as much scale as it sounds, companies love sounding like they're a big deal when actually they just have like, a storage bucket and a handful of VMs in the EU region of cloud_provider_of_the_day. (Or iirc even digitalocean at least in the past has referred to "a cage at a colo" as a "datacenter")

the main problem with the bourne identity is that their foley artist clearly hasn't seen spy kids

I can't rly imagine how an act of surfing ends that doesn't involve falling over, and I feel like the fact that they always cut away before that happens in videos is evidence that this is a fundamental problem with the sport that nobody wants to acknowledge. There is no legitimate success criteria that involves falling over

What's the endgame of surfing? Like what are the success criteria

they should've made the power point installer cd rom dual session, and stored all the sound effects in the red book portion, as a little treat for if u put it in your cd player

i mean, they love going to a fancy gym to try out their house weights. but if they're just meeting up with the boys to lift some pounds, they can just go with the flow and use the machines

the handle feel probably has a lot of dimensions. the balance of the weight too. smell? how does it smell when gripped with sweaty hands. a weights connoisseur is moderately string, but abolutely NOT jacked as shit, that would be like a wine connoisseur getting wasted. they do a few reps of each weight, just enough to capture the essence while leaving room for the other weights. they have a collection of their favorite weights that they'll do occasionally a short set with to wind down for the evening, but when they go to the gym they lift the regular gym weights like everyone else

weights connoisseur goes to a weight lifting, to lift the a variety of high quality weights from around the world. judging things like weight, and... like the feel of the handle?

movie studios should be required to seed their movies for at least a month after posting them. like you're telling me u spent a hundred million dollars on this movie and you can't afford a fucking seedbox

@jk I'm imagining it as chaining off an if...else statement. But I guess that would get complex and ambiguous pretty fast

@jk an "unless" keyword basically, right? I'm guessing that would be hell to parse, especially for an interpreter or JIT, but maybe in proper AOT compiled languages it could be done?