There is, it’s controller and peripheral

I looked at the replies as soon as I read Linus and laughed out loud at this

I’m not sure if this is the right setting for technical discussion, but as a relative elder of computing I’d like to answer the question in the image earnestly. There’s a few factors squeezing the practicality out of this for almost all applications: processor architectures (like all of them these days) make operating on packed characters take more operations than 8 bit characters so there’s a speed tradeoff (especially considering cache and pipelining). Computers these days are built to handle extremely memory demanding video and 3d workloads and memory usage of text data is basically a blip in comparison. When it comes to actual storage and not in-memory representation, compression algorithms typically perform better than just packing each character into fewer bits. You’d need to be in a pretty specific niche for this technique to come in handy again, for better or for worse

Taking claim validity away from the doctor that’s actually in charge of the patient’s care is already fucked. AI cost cutting doesn’t belong in medicine full stop. It shouldn’t be a for-profit “industry” in the first place. We’re so fucked nobody can even think about this without insane, anti-human framing coloring everything

Graphene has locked itself to google hardware, and google can cripple them at any point by stopping bootloader unlocks. We need to go deeper, or aim higher as it were

I think this is all extremely variable from person to person and can’t really be generalized, including the libido thing. Transition brings unusually deep change, including to sexuality, but the way it plays out is extremely individual

It sounds like for you to understand the existence of trans people you probably first need to accept that other people experience gender and sexuality differently than the way you do

All bodies contain the ability to differentiate into what we know as male and female, to varying degrees and in various mixtures. Transgender is just a medical variation in how this normally plays out and spans times and cultures, whereas these other things don’t really have a similar basis.

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I still work with bash scripts from fish (to interoperate with bash users), but it’s more like how I use python: the interpreter is specified either in the shebang or explicitly on the cli command invoking the script. It works quite well actually

I appreciate your response!

how do you book software work so far out? for some reason my software clients seem to all want their stuff yesterday

I’ve been all over the place tech-wise for at least 15 years now and I keep coming back to debian. Simple, reliable, and impressively enshittification-proof. I was on team xfce but got hooked on i3wm at some point and haven’t seen fit to look back.

I use Sublime for editor - it’s not free which I normally can’t tolerate but it has most of the functionality of vscode without being on the old corporate enshittification slide (and styles on vscode by feeling snappier too)

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ITT: “I agree they’re systematically fucking us over (and don’t get me started on their horrible politics!) but will continue to enable them because it’s convenient and saves me a few bucks” this defense doesn’t make you look reasonable it makes you look like a clown

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I would argue that that particular insistence of theirs is precisely why they’re still relevant today and seemingly immune to the enshittification and churn that plagues the rest of the ecosystem