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Cake day: June 10th, 2023

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  • If I’m traveling I usually don’t mind, but if it becomes late I just say I’m tired and go back to the hotel. Which is true since usually when I travel for work it’s too many timezones away, so I’m zombified very early and it shows.

    That being said one time there was a local celebration during working hours, we all went to the pub, we were having beers and snacks when 18h rolls over and I stand up, say my goodbyes and start to leave, most just wave me and that was that, but one of those extremely social guys said “where do you think you’re going?” to which I replied “it’s 18h, work is over” as I was walking through the door. I could hear people laughing before the door was fully shut and no one cared one bit about it. Most people who enjoy those sort of things will enjoy them even if you’re not there, so don’t ruin your day and your sleep to try to please others.



  • It can be generated as an excel file or as another file type which we cannot use.

    This is probably a dumb question, and there’s likely a very good reason why this can’t be done, but can you not generate an Excel file from one of the other formats yourself? E.g. have the program output a CSV and write a python script that parses it into an excel file. That way you might have more control over the generated Excel and maybe be able to do it automatically.





  • Lots of dogs become very still when feeling threatened, there’s even a saying “barking dog seldom bites”, and while that is just a saying and a bark can be a threat becoming very still is also a sign on dogs in general. I’ve never personally had pitbulls, but have seen dobermans and German shepherds do it, when that happens the owner or the person needs to reassure the dog that nothing is wrong, but most people just see the dog quiet as okay with the situation instead of the truth that it is frozen with fear much like a human would.


  • I would bet money that that guy’s friend was a piece of shit that abused the dog. There is a strong correlation between race and attacks only when you don’t normalize for living conditions. If you normalize by that there’s no significant difference between dog races. The thing is that assholes, especially assholes who want to put their dogs in pits to kill other animals, seem to like pitbulls, and if you spend your life being tortured and forced to kill other beings you’re likely to attack others as well. Repeat after me, correlation does not imply causation, Pitbulls being responsible for the majority of deaths while accounting for a small percentage of the dogs is a correlation, you can’t conclude any cause, and saying pitbulls are aggressive would be a cause.












  • You’re focusing too much on the installation process, if installing Arch was the whole of the problem things like Endeavor would be a good recommendation for newbies, but they’re not. Arch has one giant flaw when it comes to being beginner friendly, and it’s part of what makes it desirable for lots of us, and that is the bleeding edge rolling release model. As a newcomer you probably want something that works and is stable. Arch is not, and will never be, that, because the core philosophy is to be bleeding edge rolling release. If you’re a newcomer who WANTS to have that and doesn’t mind the learning curve then go ahead, but Linux has enough of a learning curve already, so it’s better to get people started with something they can rely on and afterwards they can move to other stuff that might have different advantages/disadvantages.

    We’re talking about the general case here, I’ve recommend Arch to a newcomer in the past, he was very keen on learning and was happy with reading wikis to get there stuff sorted, but realistically most people who’re learning a whole new OS don’t want to ask questions and be told RTFM, and RTFM is core to the Arch philosophy.