Because a well designed game does not include drudgery. “Work-simulators” focus on results and progress and gloss over many of the hours of outright boredom or physical exertion to get there.

For example, truck driving simulator does not include the pain in the ass and boring part of loading or unloading the truck. Farming simulator does not include the painstaking process of removing rocks from the field.

While I grew up on a farm, my first proper career was something called OBC seismic. What it is isn’t as important as the fact that it involved placing a 6km long sensor cable on the seabed with a winch and position it properly. To do this right requires practice, and as the principle is farly easy I wrote a small simulator that our trainees could try out. At first they found it interesting, and even the seniors from other departments enjoyed toying with it. The biggest lack of realism was that it didn’t involve doing it for 12 hours straight, only stopping to unscrew 25 meter sections and replacing them. Barring drudgery and repetitive boredom could’ve probably made it an interesting game similar to other work simulators.

Typing speed matters in programming the same way hammer hits per second matters when building a house. There’s a little bit more to it.

FYI, the H&K variant is called G3A3. AG3 is a noggie term for the licensed design named “Automatgevær 3”, which are locally manufactured.

Source: I’m also a noggie and former AG3 enjoyer.

On servers I like to have /var on its own partition. Partially as a habit from the olden days of using FreeBSD in the 90’s, but also because that means that / will mostly be left with things that don’t really change. I’ve had to clean out clogged up / too many times. So in effect, my partion schema for a typical production server looks like this:

/ ext4
/local xfs
/global usually beegfs or nfs, but sometimes a local xfs.
/var ext4
/home ext4

It’s NOT just a stick. It’s a nice stick, which means its uses are many.

• sword
• wizard staff
• samurai katana
• javelin
• light saber
• cane
• stick (because that’s a use case on its own)

Ian Watkins, the lead singer, is now in prison for sexual abuse of children. We’re not talking the typical groomer here, he actually raped kids as young as toddlers. He’s a monster. A lot of their songs are absolute bangers, but knowing about him makes it hard to listen to them.

The rest of the band (to my knowledge) are decent, though. They broke up the band upon learning the truth about Watkins, and has since formed a new band.

I’m pro voilence against people who block grocery store entrances because they figured that was the best place to chat with someone they ran into… so yes.

Another indigenous population beginning with P who got fucked over by brits who had never been to the area. Easy mistake to make.

I would’ve jumped on this instantly, but I finally landed on a Min21 configuration that works well. New laptop => new hardware => need new nvidia driver => need new kernel.

Which kernel does LMDE currently ship with?

I have a typical smart people career, and my coworkers are pretty smart too. I therefore like to believe that I’m at least somewhat smart… but there’s too much evidence to the contrary.

Chat client and server for a system that is similar to IRC, but with certificates both for encryption and signing. The idea is that this will provide secure end-to-end communications as well as trusting that the person in the other end isn’t just someone with the same nickname.

I think the Luka news about hospitalization were true, though. I might be wrong, but IIRC, it was verified by several sources. Presumably he was in the hospital for “normal” reasons, and got better.

On one side I’m saddened by the scientific loss. But I’m also a bit relieved that the vatniks don’t get to use it for propaganda purposes.

If windows didn’t exist, linux would dominate with the problems you describe, and we’d still see this meme, but advocating for FreeBSD instead.

That being said, I like them both. It’s been a while since I last used bsd, so I think it’s about time I give it another spin.

If it’s OK for the gay best friend to be misogynistic, it’s OK for the woman to be homophobic. Makes just as much sense.

Not very practical, but good for understanding the OS: Everything is a file. Even your filesystem and harddrive is represented by a file (devicenode).

Back in the day, before things such as pulseaudio and equivalents became the norm, there was also such a file (it might still exist, idk) for your soundcard. By shoving the contents of a wav file directly into /dev/dsp, you could hear it as if it was played normally.

Unrelates to the above, in a terminal context it’s very handy to learn the concepts of STDIN, STDOUT, and STDERR, and how to manipulate these. I won’t go into it here, but whenever you see a bunch of commands strung together with redirects, < > | >>, that’s usually for sending the output (STDOUT) of one command somewhere else, such as to the input STDIN to another command.

I’ve always been intrigued by that one. I want to test it out, but finding an image has proven difficult.

Stupid question, but what makes it particularly suitable for adult video as opposed to, say, regular video by a camera/recording enthusiasts (who may or may not enjoy videos of spinning plastic bags)

What’s your favorite dinosaur?