Arghblarg

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[–] Arghblarg@lemmy.ca 8 points 1 hour ago

Let's just start a campaign to donate funds to the core developers, on the condition they resign immediately and move to the LibreWolf project.

Get the people who really hold the reigns (the knowledge of how the code works!) and give them the power and an escape route to make user-friendly software.

[–] Arghblarg@lemmy.ca 21 points 1 hour ago (2 children)

Mandatory overtime? The games industry is slavery, unionize NOW for fuck's sake.

[–] Arghblarg@lemmy.ca 6 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago)
[–] Arghblarg@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 hour ago

Good historical context, thank you. I'm not American so I wasn't aware of these nuances :)

[–] Arghblarg@lemmy.ca 7 points 15 hours ago (2 children)

To be fair, yes, it was originally the Dept. of War. It actually is more honest. Even a broken clock is right twice a day, yadda yadda.

[–] Arghblarg@lemmy.ca 49 points 16 hours ago (9 children)

Someday the US will hopefully do an ancient-Egypt style cleansing project, where his disgraced name will be chiselled off of every edifice and building, save one, where a plaque sits below, spelling out the sheer disaster of his legacy; where people may read of his misdeeds, but never again need to otherwise hear or see his name again.

I hope in his last days he is told of how the world is already working to utterly erase his stain on history, to be forgotten save for its use as a cautionary tale.

[–] Arghblarg@lemmy.ca 1 points 16 hours ago* (last edited 16 hours ago)

She says that the original architect and contractors who do ballroom-type projects were quietly replaced after the initial announcement by ones who have a long history of designing military datacenters, far underground, for governments such as the US and Israel. Also no contractors for things like chandeliers, gold-trim etc. are on the project, which seems strange if the main point is the ballroom. The budget quoted is almost, dollar-for-dollar, the same amount as for a recent underground datacenter project recently completed elsewehere in the US.

As well, the East Wing was blocking access to add onto a pre-existing underground bunker complex beneath the West Wing, so demolishing it would allow for additions to that...

Oh, and some emergency orders for huge modifications to the DC water supply in order to increase availability to the WH property. Data centers need lots and lots of water.

[–] Arghblarg@lemmy.ca 8 points 1 day ago (3 children)
[–] Arghblarg@lemmy.ca 40 points 1 day ago (4 children)

My bet's on airstrikes on Venezuela -- they already announced a full sea blockade ...

[–] Arghblarg@lemmy.ca 8 points 3 days ago

TL;DR google maps is the new Yelp I guess?

This isn't new -- if a place isn't on 'the map' with full info and a good star rating, it's going to be at a disadvantage vs. other high-profile destinations.

[–] Arghblarg@lemmy.ca 1 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

Can't be.. No one has ever seen a Grue. Grues hide in the darkest places, waiting to eat foolhardy adventurers who have no light source in their inventory.

Edit: Explanation

 

I see links to 'that site' owned by 'that billionaire' all the time, be it in posts or comments...

Is it possible to auto-suggest using xcancel.com instead, if direct links are in posts or comments, or even auto-fix them?

 

No comment other than the phrase in title is prominent on the hats intentionally shown behind the young man being interviewed here. I'll let everyone reading this decide for themselves whether this is a problem or not.


EDIT: For the record, perhaps my original commentary on this post was attempting to be too 'clever'. I was most definitely * not * trying to promote these chuckleheads. It was posted in order to ensure people know the enemy -- there are some scary forces working in Canada to instill the horrors we are seeing down south, right here, right now.

 

As most have predicted and feared, the US Administration appears to now be testing if they can push one step further towards enforcing an authoritarian ethno-state: threatening a full-on US citizen by-birth with detainment and deportation (to where, exactly, if they are a born US citizen?). Someone who, "coincidentally", is an immigration lawyer, someone who might defend other targets of their deportation agenda.

First they came for ...


EDIT: a thread indicating this has been a mass email to others https://bsky.app/profile/reichlinmelnick.bsky.social/post/3lmljpkrdj22h

 

While GNU APL has, as its primary focus, adherence to the APL2 ISO 13751 standard, it is open to enhancements which do not violate compatibility with APL/2.

So, as of SVN 1847M:

      s ← 'Mississippi'
      ≠s    
1 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0
      (≠s)/s
Misp
 

In response to suggestions by a lunatic in the US Oval Office, Green Party Canada's leader Elizabeth May suggested Canada should invite western states Washington, Oregon and California join B.C and split from Canada to form the 'Cascadia' eco-state.

(Note this article is from Jan 8, 2025 and Elizabeth May has since become co-leader of the party alongside Jonathan Pedneault).

 

Would be a darn shame if tariffs applied to it for the US... oh wait

 

I was searching online for quite a while this evening, chasing a half-remembered bit of trivia, that trilobites were supposedly unique in their use of calcite for their lenses, composing the ommatidia of their compound eyes.

It must be so obvious to scientists in the field of studying insects that they never mention it in their papers...

So, what compound(s) do modern arthropods use in their compound eyes. If it isn't calcite, what do modern 'bugs' use?

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submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by Arghblarg@lemmy.ca to c/APL@lemmy.ca
 

Whether you are an old hand at APL, or someone just discovering the language, having the symbols in the standard layout right there on your keyboard is a great help... dedicated APL keyboards are pretty expensive, so consider these stickers that let one adapt any standard desktop or laptop keyboard!

APL keyboard sticker set on Tindie

To set up your keyboard for APL programming on Linux, see here.

 

If you haven't heard of it, this island has a population that the world has collectively decided to leave alone, mostly because they have proven, on multiple occasions, that they absolutely do not want visitors. Like, arrow-to-death anyone attempting to land or even visit near their shores.

This probably cannot go on forever... but maybe, it could. Essentially, we are already implementing a 'Prime Directive' of sorts here. Would the 23rd, 24th, ... centuries in Star Trek canon still have this little island on Earth, isolated from not just from Earth's own unified Federation society, but from the greater Federation races? What steps would the Federation and Earth take to maintain their isolation and the ecosystem on which they depend?

Would make for an interesting episode, or at least a cool side-note reference in one :)

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submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by Arghblarg@lemmy.ca to c/APL@lemmy.ca
 

For Funtoo users, simply sudo emerge dev-lang/apl :)

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submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by Arghblarg@lemmy.ca to c/gmecanada@lemmy.ca
 

Normally I avoid linking to the old sh$thole here ('cuz you know, f*ck u/Spez), but this is an exception.


DFV posted DIRECTLY to 'stonk: https://www.reddit.com/r/Superstonk/s/8TNza7V2IN

Discussion over on the 'stonk sub: https://old.reddit.com/r/Superstonk/comments/1d6r84q/roaring_kitty_theroaringkitty_on_x/

Twitter post tonight: https://x.com/theroaringkitty/status/1797418617908154621

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submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by Arghblarg@lemmy.ca to c/APL@lemmy.ca
 

GNU APL is easy to build on your own Linux machine, though the steps aren't detailed on the website.


Benefits of building yourself locally:

  • One can customize how many cores GNU APL has access to
  • Customizing optional extensions like PNG image, SQLite, GTK support etc.
  • Having the latest bugfixes

  1. Obtain the latest source

  2. Configure using autotools

    • cd trunk
    • make clean
    • ./configure CORE_COUNT_WANTED=3 RATIONAL_NUMBERS_WANTED=yes --with-ctrld_del

    Use ./configure --help to see other options, adjust to taste

  3. Build and install

    • make -j && sudo make install
  4. Set up your default workspace

    • cd ~
    • mkdir -p GNUAPL/workspaces

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