Or Python, or tcl, or (eeek) Perl, or JavaScript.

Or anything that can handle integers and floating point calculations natively.

It doesn't really make sense to be squirmish about Perl in a discussion about bash.

Bash handles integers natively.

Protip:

while you made a great comment, ND people like me, and even most NT people have diffivulty ingesting walls of text like what you just wrote.

Please, therefore, breakup your text into paragraphs every 3 sentences. It does wonders for readability for just about everyone. :)

…it’s literally four sentences.

You have multiple paragraphs longer than mine in your history.

This is what we call shifting the the goalposts and tu quoque fallacious attacks.

Just because I have erred in the past does not mean I cannot suggest to you to improve your outputs.

Or, I have had learnings previously, and I am simply trying to pass them along to you.

Here is another protip: dinae be so defensive. I was not attacking you personally, but your reply clearly was an attempt to attack me.

We used to call "reactionary" content sensationalism, and that type of content has always been predicated on fallacious arguments, but especially appeals to emotion.

Facebook's algorithms seems very good at dectecting and pushing content that makes users have an emotional response.

They now have developed a feature where is someone or a page posts a comment to a page or group that I am not subscribed to, Facebook will push that content on to my feed.

It is just about the most annoying thing ever. I am profoundly not interested in people who I follow on what they post on Ted Cruz's Facebook page. Why is Facebook pushing Ted Cruz on to my feed if I am not subscribed to him? I want to see my friends posts, but not their responses to Ted.

Facebook sucks ass now, and I am going to convert over to mastidon or something.

It’s sucked for a long time. I quit over 5 years ago. I can only imagine how bad it is now.

Algorithmic content is great when it shows us things we want to see, but by it’s very nature it can be exploited to show us that which we most despise in an attempt to increase engagement.

I’m willing to go so far as to say the Algos in question are actually just optimized for engagement, not necessarily nefarious, but because we’re human, most people have an innate desire to make the world better in whatever way they can. Many believe discourse can help, but that’s obviously turned out to be flawed in the context of online conversation, where others can distance themself behind an online facade.

As long as we are optimizing for engagement, I feel all social media is doomed to the same fate.

Well, 2021 might be the year of the Linux Desktop afterall.

If Linux somehow manages to run Adobe Cc suite, AAA games and surpass anti cheat restrictions on major games. Yes probably.

Many AAA games already run on Linux and anti cheat restrictions are on their way with some already being here (epic released their anti cheat for linux like a month ago) due to steam deck.

What many AAA do you speak of? Many steam tops are Borked, And there is no support for EA, Blizzard and Activision games on linux. If if some manage to run, the setup is so horrible for a normal user. Even if the anti cheat restrictions are on the way I don’t see Linux as desktop contender in gaming at-least in the next 2-3 years.

This article sets up a strawman argument and then attempts whataboutry to prove her thesis.

She is neither an expert in the philosophy of science, philosophy, or any of the fields she is critiquing.

She also fails represent what science actually is: a way to organise the best set of information we have collected thus far.

Science has never claimed to be the absolute truth on anything, and that an implied assertion the author is attempting to make.

In the end, the author is only able to prove that science, like all human endeavours, is imperfect. She let all of us down by failing to say what she would replace it with, or simply articulate reasonable boundaries through which science ought to be seen.

She makes a clear implication that she would replace it with her own cultural ideologies.

If you are looking to dip your toe in and have a tinker with BSD, FreeBSD is probably the best place to start because it has spread of compatibility.

But if you are looking for more focused projects, then Dragonfly for best out of box desktop experience, openbsd for security and firewall, and netbsd for compatibility and portability across loads of devices.

The proper term is "conspiracy fantasy".

The one with Mark and wire cutters was pretty amusing.

I remember coming across Treehouse a year or two ago. It just seemed a bit desperate, and I moved on. I am not surprised they are having troubles.

Almost no vaccines are sterilising and that is a very high threshold to meet.

Polio and measles vaccines are not even sterilising. It is much more realistic to achieve herd immunity with vaccines than it is to create a sterilising vaccine.

FreeBSD underpins a fair number of commercial producers. Junos from Juniper perhaps being the most famous.

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