Who are the morally bankrupt execs who wrote this? I want names.

I keep discovering things from the 80s kid me would have loved but I never knew existed until my late 40s.

And if you mean controlling 3 dimensional projections from your phone, we can sorta do that right now, it’s just clunky and expensive and there’s very little actual demand for it outside of show business and art projects.

Discovery might have been a good show if every character was just played by Jeffery Combs.

(no, not really, the problems with Discovery were NEVER the actors’ fault)

You’re actually 100% right, I despise coffee.

Honey, the proprietary operating systems are quarreling again!

*sips coffee in exclusive Linux user land.

Oh, Android does this to me too. It constantly suggests I want to call my old boss from 13 years ago who I honestly hope I never see again.

It gets the point across SO WELL though. XD

It’s not and we’re not enemies and I’ve seen your username around and remember your situation. I’m sorta sorry for getting bombastic, but I also have REALLY FUCKING strong feelings about this. I don’t think you’re shilling for Nazis, I think you’re playing right into their hands when you say stuff like that and it just triggers the fuck out of me. Sorry. Mostly sorry.

Let’s hang out at Burn. I’ll share my booze with you, maybe you’ll forgive me.

I fail to understand why people think a bunch of rational corporatists who primarily want economic stability and who’s party contains a number of very progressive voices, some of them QUITE loud and influential are substantially the SAME as a bunch of INSANE RELIGIOUS MANIACS who think the End Times are coming and are literally stripping rights away from trans people, non-white people and women as fast as they can while looting the world around them as quickly as possible.

I’m so fed up with it. Are you guys self destructively nuts? Your apathy and “both sides are the samisms” have SUBSTANTIALLY enabled our slide into fascism. I don’t care if you disagree. I hold you partially responsible and I’m not gonna stay quiet about it,

I grew up around the donor class and they are NOT a monolith. Yeah, they’re shitty, out of touch and their wealth makes them crazy, but some of them are just VERY problematic while others are FUCKING NUTS. They ARE NOT THE SAME. I promise you. I know them very well, some of them personally.

You know what? I’m wrong, because I DO understand. The right wing media LOVE to say things they know will trickle down to people like you and get you to stay disengaged and not voting. The defeatist attitude and lazy thinking lead to a self sabotaging apathy that helps the Overton window get dragged further right. You’re not going to get anything kinder from me than a “Shame on you, sir or madam, for falling for it and DOUBLE shame on you for amplifying it.”

so tl:dr; STFU cantchangemymind.

I was seeing a whole bunch of Oracle people I know suddenly “open to work” on LinkedIn, posting about how they were all “ready for my next opportunity” or “excited to discover my next project” and immediately correctly guessed what had happened.

This is the way.

or do they often fail and vanish?

No. Niche, hipster, “latest hotness” distros sometimes vanish. Debian, Fedora, Gentoo, Kali, Qubes, Mint are all examples of community maintained distros that have been around for a long time.

Since you’re looking for “stability” highly recommend Mint.

Now is an excellent time to make a donation to the Tor project.

No.

As someone who doesn’t usually connect with modern Trek, I’ve really been enjoying Academy and Life Of The Stars was one of my favorite Trek episodes of all time. Not many Trek episodes have made me cry like a little girl.

Disco was blessed with a bunch of very talented actors, but constantly plagued with terrible writing. It was lovely to see Wiseman on Academy.

Very rarely, but probably only in situations where you would too. No, usually I put my HTML in HTML files. They’re usually building blocks… page components, not a full page. I regulate the page flow in PHP, and I don’t like it cluttered up with tons of HTML, inside or outside of echos. I have been known to do stuff like this though:

echo “<div class=‘whatever-container’>”.$Page->pagecomponents[‘contents_of_some_html_file’].“</div>”;

If I go and look at $Page, it will show that $this->pagecomponents is set by reading my template files in so I can grab HTML structures dynamically. If the contents of pagecomponents[‘component’] are set dynamically (they usually are), there won’t be some ugly <php ?> tag in the HTML file, but my $Page class will handle populating it somehow. The architecture I usually use is $Validator is instantiated for a page load, then $Data, so whatever user activity $Validator has detected and cleaned up tells $Data what to do with the data backend (which is usually a combination of Maria and Redis) then $Data gets fed into $Page which figures out what page to build, looks at all my HTML building blocks and figures out how to put them together and populate whatever it needs to. So it will usually be something like (very simplistically)

$Validator = new Validator($_GET, $_POST);

$Data = new Data($Validator);

$Page = new Page($Data);

renderPage($Page->Page);

Bad ass answer.

I don’t like reading it captain pedantic. Deal with it. :)