unless something has changed drastically, I pretty sure LMDE is based on official Debian repos, not Ubuntu. LM adds their flavor on top.

die hard Debian user here here, but if LMDE fits the bill, I agree - go for it. its a great distribution.

skipped a few steps there i think.

thanks for the considered reply. didn’t mean to jump all the way down to electrons and sound so flippant.

my claim is that JavaScript arrays are arrays because the spec defines their behavior as such. the implementation details are absolutely interesting from a performance perspective and I was genuinely curious how an internally linked list implementation would actually work, real-world. regardless… almost every interaction I have ever had with a JS programmer has ended in “its strings all the way down”… so… I mean… yes-ish?

loved your poking of the hornets nest in this thread :-)

fucked anyway

and the backing for that is linear or page addressed MOS transistors, spinning rust or flippy-round magnets.

do you have a source that indicates mainstream JS engines internally uses a list structure for arrays? I can’t find one.

🎶her name was lua🎶 🎶she was a coder🎶

indeed. permanently off by 1.

this one hurts…

the article was absolutely fascinating.

The same was presumably true of proto-cuneiform and early Egyptian hieroglyphs, which means the real surprise isn’t that proto-Elamite failed, but that the other two writing systems succeeded. Perhaps, says Dahl, they did so because the elites who benefited from writing lost power in ancient Iran, but maintained control in Mesopotamia and ancient Egypt.

miss him. thank you for this.

well, that puts a fine point on things now, doesn’t it kids…

was looking at phone options recently and, honestly, fairphone has become the only choice as a daily driver. I am now absolutely fine with the limited fairphone specs as a trade-off for a device I control as my own.

will keep older phones for any corp BS that I am forced to deal with. hopefully we can legislatively minimize the interactions.

but isn’t that just using tooling to de-obfuscate code that should be clear to begin with?

passing structs, dicts, whatever keeps the code clear, expressive and extensible. if I can bake-in flexibility and clarity without being overly focused on performance, I am choosing the former every time.

shared with the wife. made our collective day. ❤️

“It is quick, but it’s high octane gasoline, and so a lot of them got burnt and it was an explosion.”

ummm… octane rating is measure of fuel stabilization, typically to prevent pre-detonation and other issues in highly tuned engines. as a measure of energy density higher octane fuel actually provides fewer BTUs than lower octane fuel.

when correctly paired with an appropriately tuned engine, higher octane fuel allows for more efficient file combustion and, by extension, less engine damage and potentially more overall power.

that quote makes it sound like higher octane = more burn damage. am I missing something here regarding high octane fuel burning on human skin?

I suppose the Woke DEI Communist Nazi Department of Environmental Resources Management and their ongoing installation of pumps to control the EVER WORSENING FLOODING is next into the woodchipper?

the stupid hurts. please make the stupid stop hurting so much.

clarence thomas approves.

my understanding is that those (if strong enough to be detectable) would have arrived around the same time as the photons.

this misattributed sentiment still applies…

“Politicians and diapers must be changed often, and for the same reason.”

yeah, this is insane. platner has potential. his deep historical trove of unvarnished fascist bashing appears legit and his current policy proposals are miles better than 99% of what is out there. don’t like him? leave your goddamn basement and run for something. I currently dont see the lie on platner’s face or in his words.

the wife and I just wrote up our monthly pittance contribution list and he’s on it because “fuck collins”.