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The chaotic evil way to win this argument is to send the “water” person to prove it.

You might lose or badly maim a (soon-to-be-former) friend and burn your house down, but you’ll still win.

Sometimes they deliberately change it up to deny expectations though. Occasionally it’s “Doctor what?!”

Also, at one point, a major antagonist outright lampshades the whole thing and claims The Doctor named themselves that way precisely so that conversation would always happen.

The Doctor’s use of question marks in the(ir) past certainly lend weight to the argument, but on the other hand, the antagonist in question will say or do literally anything if it they think it will help them achieve their goal.

White lies. Outright genocide. Anything in between. So we have to take what they say under advisement.

I would have recommended WinDirStat myself. I never did like the pie chart style views in programs like Filelight and Baobab.

(I use Graphical Disk Map on Linux. Not quite as full featured as WinDirStat but works in a pinch.)

That’d be great if software still had the same small footprint it had back then.

has the oddest sensation of déjà vu.

Reminds me of one of my favourite nonsense jokes:

Q: What’s white and lives up a tree.

A: A clever fridge.

Stopped clocks and all that.

Totalitarian governments have two aces up their sleeve when it comes to pushing through totalitarian legislation: 1) Child safety and 2) National security.

Any guesses for which they’ll choose to excuse this one?

Possibly. Possibly not. Does Gollum still qualify as a hobbit? Even if he retains aspects of Smeagol, he’s not very hobbit any more.

He’s transformed. Transmuted. It’s a life stage that might exist for all hobbits, but like the axolotl not becoming the salamander it could be, hobbits generally don’t take the path that leads them there.

And then we ask, is an axolotl a salamander? Is a caterpillar yet a butterfly?

And that still doesn’t cover whether Gollum, hobbit or not, would be attractive to the ominous antagonist of this comic.

Permit me to reiterate an idea I had the last time a self-driving car did something illegal:

All of these cars are being driven by the same software “driver”. That driver is in contempt of the law. Thus it needs to be punished like any other driver in contempt of the law. All fines to be paid by its representative human or company. All incarceration to be for as long as is necessary for the driver to be rehabilitated. If no such rehabilitation is possible, the driver is permanently banned from driving.

By which I mean, all Waymos need to be taken off the road until they’re provably rehabilitated and it is certain that this won’t happen again.

And if Waymo the company thinks that would be detrimental to their business, tough. Take some responsibility and fix your damn cars.

Two excellent reasons to not play on that course then. Either out of, you know, respect, or if you lack that, some equally disrespectful pissed-off Vietnamese might have chosen to set up some war-era style surprises.

Would you risk it?

If Putin hadn’t decided to forcibly annex parts of Ukraine in the first place, many Russian sons would still be alive and Zelenskyy perhaps wouldn’t be seeking help from the “wrong” people (not that I think that’s an entirely valid way to think about it.)

And as best as I can tell Zelenskyy is not in favour of the way Israel is going about what they’re doing in Palestine, and I’m sure he very much recognises the parallels with what’s happening to his own country.

Not sure, but we may be talking about different programs. BSDgames’ hack doesn’t seem to have a version number that I can find. There’s nothing in the changelog, and the command doesn’t have anything like a -v/--version command line switch

In fact, the closest to any kind of versioning that I can find are dates in the year 1985, both in the man page as well as in the strings in the executable itself.

The bsdgames package itself has a version number, but that doesn’t strictly apply to the games themselves. (Especially since that’s 2.17-35 for me on LMDE, which is nothing like the numbers you gave.)

The program shouldn’t be any more than internal logic and terminal calls anyway, so I can’t imagine it would be difficult to patch, so either we are talking about different programs, or it’s not considered important enough to repair.

As a hint for where to get the first one, hack is available in the bsdgames package on Debian and derived Linuxes, so I assume versions can be had for most distros. It might even be available for Windows and Mac too what with WSL, and the fact that MacOS is a BSD derivative.

Of course. If you can’t be loud and obnoxious, you can’t compensate for the fact you have a tiny penis.

Which I wish they’d quit because they’re giving the rest of us with tiny penises a bad name.

Both definitely happen, but this is almost certainly a formal writing versus common vernacular thing.

As for why, I’d guess the pronunciation as a word could be mistaken for the actual word “vat” or, worse, “fat”. Most people want fat on their goods almost as much as they want V.A.T., but now there’s confusion added into the mix.

There was a time I’d be wondering why they were talking about the three-legged monster from Quake.

Unfortunately, both Quake and I have had 30 years of Internet since that point to supply other definitions of that word.

Well, I suppose there’s precedent elsewhere in the animal kingdom. Specifically anyone who likes stinky cheese, or enjoys tucking into things like hakárl or lutefisk.

My local buses used to have something on the screens that would occasionally get stuck in a reboot loop between something that looked a bit like BIOS text and then MS-DOS. This was over a decade ago though. The screens were designed to switch between different views from the bus’s various cameras. I think the idea was to discourage anti-social behaviour by reminding people they were being watched.

But I guess the contract ended and things proved too expensive or too hard to maintain because the next batch of buses didn’t have screens in them. The cameras didn’t go anywhere though.

The italic text in Vim threw me for a loop. But I realised it makes sense.

Syntax highlighting already exists in editors. Terminal based ones often implement this in terms of terminal escapes or similar. Most modern terminal emulators support the enable-italic escape. Thus, some combination of these can effectively emulate markdown.

What I do note is that my root Linux consoles (Ctrl+Alt+F[1-6]), and LMDE) don’t support italics, suggesting the Vim instance is running in a full-screen terminal emulator under some windowing system or another.

That seems like overkill just for italics in an otherwise text-only interface, but maybe I’m missing something (patience being one possibility).