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  • cerement@slrpnk.nettoLinux@lemmy.mlTinkering and Stability
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    17 days ago

    once you have some experience under your belt, these are non-issues:

    • deciding to “learn Linux” the hard way by starting with a specialized distro (Slackware, Gentoo, Alpine)
    • switching to unstable or testing branches before you’re ready ’cause you want bleeding edge or “stable is too far behind”
    • playing around with third-party repositories before understanding them (PPAs in Ubuntu, AUR in Arch)
    • bypassing the package manager (especially installing with curl | sudo sh)
    • changing apps for no other reason than “it hasn’t been updated for a year”





  • need to educate drivers

    this is one of the big ones that shows up in our car-centric worldview – just sticking to motorized vehicles: truck drivers are expected to know truck rules, car rules, and motorcycle rules – motorcyclists are expected to know motorcycling rules, car rules, and truck rules – car drivers are expected to know car rules and that’s it

    when the majority of our population doesn’t know about (and subsequently doesn’t care about) anything else sharing the road with them … car drivers that are just as aggressive towards motorcyclists as they are towards bicyclists, car drivers are completely oblivious to stopping distances and momentum of big rigs …



    • with the year being 365.24219 days you don’t get a lot of factors to work with (365 ⇒ 1, 5, 73, 365)
    • there have been various proposals for perennial calendars – in a perennial calendar, months always start on the same day, have the same number of days, no worries about “last Thursday of the month” calculations for holidays
      • if you deal with the year as 364 days + filler, you get more factors to work with (364 ⇒ 1, 2, 4, 7, 13, 14, 26, 28, 52, 91, 182, 364)
        • fiscal quarters are always the same length and you get an extra day during the winter holidays
      • the easiest being something like a 13 month calendar (each month being exactly 4 weeks, 28 days) = 364 days + 1 year day + 1 leap day – this gets a lot of flack from religious groups because they don’t like the extra days messing with a 7 day week cycle
        • this keeps the 365 day year and uses the same calculations for adding in leap days
      • leap week calendars get around that by doing a 364 day year and then adding in a whole leap week to bring things back into alignment (you can do this yourself using ISO week dates and looking for week 53)
        • calculations for leap years are a bit more elaborate and don’t fit as easily into a simple mnemonic