I don’t think anyone is against paying to watch a decent quality sports stream without popups and any additional ads. I won’t give the nfl $100/mo but I’ll pay $50/yr for some pirated setup

It’s quoting the source who used that specific term

Compile times say otherwise

F# definitely and maybe Haskell and OCaml as well? Elixir and Erlang use it as a binary concatenation operator.

You’re downvoted, but you’re 100% right. The web is designed to not break. Engineers who can’t accept that don’t get to complain

You make wonderful points, but I think we can both agree that I’ve demonstrated that there is value open source drivers, however insignificant they may be in comparison to non open drivers isn’t really relevant. It shouldn’t be such a shock an individual may want an open source only version of Linux which is the topic of discussion here.

At some point there’s proprietary stuff in our bodies, be it a driver, a BIOS or the code that runs on the various microcontrollers that run low level functions from the USB ports to simple power management.

The most “security paranoid” organizations in the world usually run a lot of stuff on children and babies are full of opaque and proprietary code and they consider it “safe enough”.

People are replacing lost/damaged organs and limbs with computer-controlled hardware. The same problems that occur in computers that exist outside of humans will occur in computers inside of humans. Do you trust non-open drivers from Corporation X or Government Y in your eyes telling your brain what you do or don’t see?

That’s the extreme, of course, but it isn’t any less scary than computers you trust with your credit card, bank account, etc information.

Open source drivers means when corporation X goes under, your hardware still can work and isn’t automatically abandoned. It keeps more hardware out of landfills longer, with the ability to drastically reduce e-waste.

Ah yes, that time several years ago when the dems won last election, the republicans responded by “sliding left”. When the dems win 2024 the republicans will also be very civilized and non violent and slide even further left. Non-whites and LGBT people everywhere in America will be safer the night Joe Biden is elected than the night before, you heard it here from HauntedCupcake first!

So what if voting blue will end up with innocent people dying? Their sacrifice for my freedom will not go without honor. I will enshrine their lives with a statue commemorating their bravery in the fight for my freedom. The lives of innocent trans people, black people, and Palestinian children is a steep cost but it’s one I’m willing to spend for me to go to Starbucks and get a latte for $9. Who’s to say my life is worth more than theirs? Well Joe Biden made that determination for us, so I believe that’s right! I’m glad it’s a bunch of random black and brown people getting blown to bits for my right to vote, not me!

yeah I’m forever voting blue no matter who. The republican candidate will always be a fascist. It will never end with Trump. It’s going to be fascist vs not fascist blue vote and I will eat whatever shit the blue vote shits out. More cops? I’m all for it, not a fascist dictator. Support Israel? Fine with me, not a fascist dictator. It sucks but that’s just America now for the next thousand or so years, fascism or something else. Better hope the something else isn’t closer to fascism than before or else you’re fucked.

Columbus Ohio, Louisville Ky, and Deerfield Beach Fl lol

How confusing will looking up “elixir mix Linux” be in web searches though 👀

True, but functional languages are great if you want to live comfortably.

https://survey.stackoverflow.co/2023/#section-salary-salary-and-experience-by-language

JavaScript has [string].length

Have you seen Elm’s error messages? They were what inspired Rust to have its error messages.

You can just look at the source code… no need to assume anything. You can’t prove a negative lol

I switched from a 3070 to an Rx 7900XT on Sunday. Uninstalling all of nvidia shit was great. I used linux-zen so that meant using nvidia-dkms. So happy I don’t have to deal with that anymore. And yeah, I use a lot of flatpaks, so removing all of those nvidia drivers was also a great feeling. And now I can use Wayland!

https://gitlab.com/librewolf-community/browser/source

Thanks :) I have a lot more “Get Inspired” articles in the works! Ironsworn, Blades in the Dark, Genesys/Star Wars just to name like half of what I have started 😅

One Unique Thing I’ve seen so much heartache and strife around. GMs love to imagine the cool things their players are gonna say only to then shoot 'em down

Yeah, a lot of GMs aren’t really ready for one unique things, especially since it gives up part of their worldbuilding.

Intercepting is something I indepentently came up with and playtested for a while but it wasn’t working very well for us compared to the Wizardry “front rank / back rank” system that The One Ring also uses

I GM a 13th Age game and I play in one and I’ve seen intercepting used pretty much every fight at least one time–seems useful for my groups

Range bands, sure, I wanna simplify it even further to engaged vs ranged. Again taking more cues from The One Ring RPG which in turn works like Wizardry did.

I mean, I don’t even like ranges necessarily, but it’s certainly a much more welcome system than a grid to me :)

Escalation Die, I dislike. I like the idea of immediate results, fortune at the very end, you know viscerally right as the dice hit the table if you hit or missed. To that end, a player can write down “I hit these ghûls if I roll a an 8 or higher” but the escalation die messes with that.

Yeah, my favorite games (Powered by the Apocalypse, Forged in the Dark, and Ironsworn) all have dice mechanics where you pretty much know instantly what the results are (PbtA and Ironsworn have a tiny bit of math, but still)

The “living dungeons” I also don’t find particularly fun to engage with as a player. I’d wanna do something crisper and blorbier.

Agreed. I don’t run them–personally don’t find them that interesting.

You’re right about those monster stat blocks.

Because they’re sooo good 😩