The fact that some paper straws perform as well as plastic suggests that the bad ones are just cheaper and are used by companies that don’t care. When I used to drink the sort of drinks that use straws I carried a steel straw to use in places that didn’t supply good straws
Right now I’m wearing a wool shirt under a linen shirt. I’d count the local weather as “warm”
My decade old plastic shirts have faded, the linen ones last better, but yeah, they stain (and I’m not going to test them with plastic coatings to improve stain resistance!). I only get bold colours, so my pastel shirts are very faded
Of course the 2% contributor has been addressed, personal care products now aren’t allowed to have plastic “abrasives”, which is a good change anyway as plastic is useless for improving scrubbing
No other sources have had any work done to mitigate the problem
Why do you use Lemmy, given the politics of its own source creator? Bit hypocritical.
So you won’t buy the most user maintainable and repairable laptop, that also comes with Linux and probably worth open source firmware in the not too distant future because you don’t like the politics of the owner of an open source project the company supports?
That really feels like cutting off your nose to spite your face
I really like the fact that if most of the lanes in the bottom picture were replaced by rails and trains, the cars would be able to travel faster
1985
Nearly 20 years into the Unix epoch
“Ed is the standard text editor.”
Ed, the greatest WYGIWYG editor of all.
ED IS THE TRUE PATH TO NIRVANA! ED HAS BEEN THE CHOICE OF EDUCATED AND IGNORANT ALIKE FOR CENTURIES! ED WILL NOT CORRUPT YOUR PRECIOUS BODILY FLUIDS!! ED IS THE STANDARD TEXT EDITOR! ED MAKES THE SUN SHINE AND THE BIRDS SING AND THE GRASS GREEN!!
When I use an editor, I don’t want eight extra KILOBYTES of worthless help screens and cursor positioning code! I just want an EDitor!! Not a “viitor”. Not a “emacsitor”. Those aren’t even WORDS!!! ED! ED! ED IS THE STANDARD!!!
TEXT EDITOR.
When IBM, in its ever-present omnipotence, needed to base their “edlin” on a UNIX standard, did they mimic vi? No. Emacs? Surely you jest. They chose the most karmic editor of all. The standard.
Ed is for those who can remember what they are working on. If you are an idiot, you should use Emacs. If you are an Emacs, you should not be vi. If you use ED, you are on THE PATH TO REDEMPTION. THE SO-CALLED “VISUAL” EDITORS HAVE BEEN PLACED HERE BY ED TO TEMPT THE FAITHLESS. DO NOT GIVE IN!!! THE MIGHTY ED HAS SPOKEN!!!
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Nb WYGIWYG* is a play on WYSIWYG†
*What You Get Is What You Get
†What You See Is What You Get
I’m pretty sure every distro lets you pay if you want to. Many beg you to
If you came to my place, I’d give you free beer - I’m a home brewer but not much of a drinker
Mint upgrades have been pretty smooth for my partner and myself
Quite so. Catenary wires work best in dense areas
There may be more than one way to do it, but that really isn’t the best way of doing what perl is best at
Just old style SMTP. That’s nearly extinct on the wild internet now
Round is the safest way of using decimals for money as it corrects 10.499999999 (decimal fractions can’t be stored precisely in floats as binary can’t precisely represent all 2 digit decimals) to 10.50, where floor would take it to 10.49
It is safer to count in cents and have a policy to handle fractions of cents from divisions
That’s how mainframe programmers at my workplace do SQL. I think they do it due to long table and field names and narrow mainframe COBOL files
Create a moderately ok password, hash it, use the hash as your nice unique password, as a private joke for when the database leaks and yours is the only password that’s hashed and you start getting spam saying they know your password hunter2 (because they incorrectly dehashed the password) or 2ab96390c7dbe3439de74d0c9b0b1767 (md5 sum of hunter2; because they correctly read it as plain text)
I wonder if they would have bought it had the dev priced it at $10k/year
Thinkpads are more expensive and far far less user serviceable