That’s an argument ad hominem. That bad person endorses this thing, therefore that thing must be bad.

Screenshot from https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/fucking-austria because they’ve changed the spelling to “Fugging” after the village got famous.

I don’t know if you’re sarcastic or don’t know, and either way it doesn’t matter. Here’s the README from the first commit in git:

"git" can mean anything, depending on your mood.
 - random three-letter combination that is pronounceable, and not
   actually used by any common UNIX command.  The fact that it is a
   mispronounciation of "get" may or may not be relevant.
 - stupid. contemptible and despicable. simple. Take your pick from the
   dictionary of slang.
 - "global information tracker": you're in a good mood, and it actually
   works for you. Angels sing, and a light suddenly fills the room. 
 - "goddamn idiotic truckload of sh*t": when it breaks

To be honest, I’ve been using GIMP for more than 10 years before I learned of the slur.

Similarly, git.

Indeed. I never said I liked it :D

Much obliged.

Is “Can’t do the steam day.” slang I don’t know or a typo I can’t decipher?

If you like stories: I recently fell in love with Oxenfree, and you should, too.

If you like RimWorld, you could give Oxygen Not Included a go.

My company dabbles in AI. A hardly abridged conversation with a bot I’ve read recently:

Hallo, Ich bin ein Bot. Wie kann ich Ihnen helfen?
(Hi, I’m a bot. How can I help you?)

Speak English, please.

Gerne antworte ich in Englisch. Wie kann ich Ihnen helfen?
(I’m happy to speak English. How may I help you?)

Caller disconnected

Yep, AI definitely is the future.

If you’re iterating over a whole array and need the index, like in ll.15f., you can instead write

particles.forEach((particle, i) => {
  // loop body
})

There may be a performance hit (I haven’t tested it) because you’re invoking a function on each iteration. And it’s mostly a stylistic choice.

Line 10: indentation

Is “syntax” a bad word now? Don’t dumb things down for students, elevate the students!

try a new distro if you’re having that many problems with Mint

I’ve had problems across all the “beginner” distros: Ubuntu, Mint, Manjaro. The biggest reason why I tried so many is because two out of three always had issues out of the box. When the time came when the LTS died, it was a different set with problems.

On two different laptops.

If something breaks when I update the kernel and that same thing works again if I downgrade the kernel, what explanation should I seek other than that the kernel broke something?

Notice I’m on Linux Mint, so I’m not using the original kernel but a modified version.

Because whenever I’ve upgraded any Linux OS in the last 10 years, something broke. Always. That’s why I’m riding this LTS until it dies.

I’m using the 21.3 LTS release. That may be why I have more kernel options.

Since in my experience something always breaks when upgrading any Linux OS, I’ve come to try to avoid that.

Luckily I learned programming when I was already using the NEO layout. I couldn’t imagine typing parentheses and the like in German…

The first step in any software project is not doing it. Have you checked if the product you want to build isn’t already out there?

Why I ditched Manjaro and came back to Mint:

• I find the package manager clunky. Why is the flag to install something -Ss?
• At some point I couldn’t upgrade packages anymore because they somehow got in conflict. I never bothered to find out what caused that and what the fix would’ve been. I just ran back to mommy Mint’s welcoming arms.

Remember how Cyberpunk got hyped across the board? Not a single critical voice before launch (as far as I’ve heard). If that’s the “journalism” you’re providing, then I’m sure as hell not paying for it.