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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is there any free game like net hack ?⁩ ⁨⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Not sure, but we may be talking about different programs. BSDgames' hack doesn't seem to have a version number that I can find. There's nothing in the changelog, and the command doesn't have anything like a -v/--version command line switch

  In fact, the closest to any kind of versioning that I can find are dates in the year 1985, both in the man page as well as in the strings in the executable itself.

  The bsdgames package itself has a version number, but that doesn't strictly apply to the games themselves. (Especially since that's 2.17-35 for me, which is nothing like the numbers you gave.)

  The program shouldn't be any more than internal logic and terminal calls anyway, so I can't imagine it would be difficult to patch, so either we are talking about different programs, or it's not considered important enough to repair.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is there any free game like net hack ?⁩ ⁨⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  As a hint for where to get the first one, hack is available in the bsdgames package on Debian and derived Linuxes, so I assume versions can be had for most distros. It might even be available for Windows and Mac too what with WSL, and the fact that MacOS is a BSD derivative.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What is the deal with IPv6?⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  2038 problems have already started happening in niche cases. I expect things will pick up in pace in a couple of years because 10 years is that sort of period of time that people like to post-date future events by.

  That might be enough to scare a few of the hold-outs. Then 2033 will be the next scare and reminder, because five years, etc.

  Then probably every year after that until the deadline hits. By that point, the remaining few will be using faketime or something like it to eke out a few more years from whatever ancient hardware they're still running that is too expensive to replace.

  Fun fact, and possible hint: Setting the date back 28 years on such hardware could work in a pinch, since the calendar from 2010 to 2037 is identical to that from 2038 to 2065. All weekdays and leap days fall on the same dates. (Easter and other moveable feasts don't, however.)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What do you think goes through an animal’s mind and POV?⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Because that is easy.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What do you think goes through an animal’s mind and POV?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  It's possible to get your own inner monologue to "shut up" for a bit

  The only way I know how to do this is to go to sleep. This is somewhat impractical except at one specific time, and I need to be tired to do it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is chess the most frustrating game to lose in?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Not fast enough. Horses take a while to die in lava and they don't make pleasant noises while it's happening.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is chess the most frustrating game to lose in?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Coordinates are the least cheaty way of trying to combat that. Whenever I play I always have the coordinates on screen somewhere, whether through the newer Java debug info, a local resource pack or, in the case of servers, a client-side mod. Bedrock has a coords option somewhere too.

  Knowing the coords of where you died doesn't 100% guarantee getting back to your stuff in a timely manner, but it does give you a slightly better chance.

  Half the trick is knowing that as long as those chunks aren't loaded, the despawn timer isn't ticking, so you have all the time in the world to gear up to go back. And you might need to gear up for a fight if mobs steal your old gear.

  ... but none of this is a cure for lava. I lost a horse to lava once. That was horrible.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What character is the king of plot armor?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  James Bond.

  The Doctor (Doctor Who) and maybe a couple of his nemeses from his home world. Sure, he dies every few years, but regeneration into a new body is literally written into the lore. But then occasionally the Doctor is literally female, so at that point I assume she's the queen of plot armour instead.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Does anybody actually work from 09:00 to 17:00⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  One of the jobs I had was 9am to 5pm for about a year. For me, that was practically heaven because prior to that it had been 9am to 6pm for a few years, and the shorter hours didn't come with a pay cut.

  It got weird later because I took on a rotating shift pattern and more responsibility, but some of the day shifts were still 9 till 5.

  Then I jumped ship to a different company that had 9am to 6pm again, but that turned out to be preferable to the hell of not being able to sleep properly.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Back in my day it was ok to receive a paddlin (simpson ref there) at school as a kid. But on the flip side it was against the law to beat a paddle a prisoner by a guard, why the rule difference?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  If I were to guess, the teachers would have had many good reasons to not to too far, whereas the prison guards would have had less incentive to hold back.

  Also, a prisoner's crimes are probably more serious. Probably.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How do you pronounce 'Niche'?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The follow-up question is basically "Are you a non-American English speaker?", however you choose to parse that.

  So, it's "neesh" for me.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is it weird that I cringe whenever someone calls my name and I avoid using peoples names when talking to them?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I too had a decent upbringing, but, after a bit of introspection about why I'm so wary of my own name, it came down to this:

  I have two names. One is my given name and the other is "son".

  My parents have always tended to use my given name in negative and neutral contexts and "son" in more positive ones. It's not intentional on their part, and I expect my father got the same, but I think it's at the root of it all.

  Good upbringing or not, how many of us are still terrified of being addressed by our full name in an irate tone? I'm convinced it's related.

  The only wrinkle that bothers me is when a sonless aunt once called me "son" and it made me very uncomfortable. But, I figure there are other reasons for that.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is it weird that I cringe whenever someone calls my name and I avoid using peoples names when talking to them?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Identifying this as egg behaviour might be egg behaviour.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do a majority of nation's flags use the rectangular shape except Nepal?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Round coins are less likely to damage coin purses and pockets. No more complicated than that.

  Then as technology has moved on, it has proven advantageous for coins to have constant radius so that coin-accepting machines don't jam on an unfortunate rotation of points.

  This is why even when coins aren't round - thinking specifically of the British 50 pence and 20 pence coins, but there are others - they still have curved sides.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I think the motivations of the 26-year-old are immediately called into question in a way they wouldn't be for someone of high school age, so in that sense at the very least, yes, it's strange.

  What are, or do you suppose are, the motivations of this 26-year-old? (And note that "because they want to" does not address the actual motivations.)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is putting black beans in my chili a bad idea?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  You've probably had your chilli by now, but no-one else seems to have mentioned that canned goods are often fine long past their printed expiry date.

  Exceptions might include: rusty cans, because rust outside could also be inside; dented cans, because that might have created a weak point that could compromise the contents; and those cans with the ring-pull easy-open lids - ring-pull seals aren't as good as the full seal of a can that needs a can-opener.

  And finally there's always the look and smell test. Tip them into a separate bowl before putting them in the chilli. If they look and smell fine, then dump em in the chilli, with or without any liquid they might have been stored in.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If Tyler Perry is a billionaire with his own successful movie studio then why are his films so bad?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  There's an old, old saying: "There is no accounting for taste."

  And it cuts both ways.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why does google decide to log people out of all their google accounts all at once with no warning?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Sounds like Google doesn't create per-account cookies and uses one cookie set per browser instance, so you're either logged in or you're logged out, one account at a time.

  Browser containers or profiles might be the answer to what you need.

  I've been using different Firefox profiles to run accounts in parallel for well over a decade at this point. Containers might be able to do the same thing, but on account of the aforementioned, I've stuck with the old way of doing things.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is there a word, perhaps as 40-letter compound word in German, that explains this annoying social phenomenon?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Also not what you're looking for, but it may scratch some of the itch: déjà vu

  That is, (you think) you're inducing a sense of déjà vu and disgust within Sebastian.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨why is the beginning on the left and the end on the right?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Additional to other answers, back in the early days of alphabetic writing, some writings alternated left to right then back again right to left on alternating lines. This is called "boustrophedon", literally "(as the) ox walk(s)" because it's the same way oxen are used to plough fields.

  There's documented evidence of both early Latin and Greek being written this way. What's less clear is which direction they chose to start those writings.

  The problem with that is that you have to learn to read both directions. They often wrote the letters backwards when text went the other way, which came with its own set of problems. You probably don't have a mirror. You basically have to learn to write almost twice as many symbols. Some letters are their own reflection and you can't always tell which way something was written. etc. etc.

  Eventually someone influential will have chosen the direction for presumably a good reason (to them) and everyone else eventually followed suit.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Am I financially enabling child labor in 3rd world countries by buying second hand fast fashion?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Do you consider yourself a virus?

  Well, certain people do consider me to have some undesirable traits like ideas about getting our species off the planet, and if I didn't exist, I'd generate considerably less CO₂.

  Uncomfortable though it may be, the latter applies to everyone I've ever known, cared about or who has cared about me.

  And it is inherent. The singular purpose of certain genes is to make more of the same gene, and they've gotten very good at it. Humans and viruses are both emergent phenomena.

  But then, I suppose if we don't leave, we don't spread the disease elsewhere... so OK. You're right. We should never ever leave...

  And the only way to save the biosphere is to do something we're completely incapable of. We're screwed. Neat!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Am I financially enabling child labor in 3rd world countries by buying second hand fast fashion?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I don't think that because the rich b-stards think that. I think that because I believe our species - regardless of race - has outgrown its environment. If I got this idea from somewhere else, it wasn't from Musk or Bezos or others like them. It might even have come from watching Star Trek or reading sci-fi.

  We're like a virus or a cancer that will ultimately end up killing the host. Earth's biosphere in this instance.

  The correct course of action is to destroy the infection or cut it out.

  And if you want what's being cut out to survive afterwards, yes, you have a lot of work ahead of you before you do so to ensure its continued existence once it's somewhere else.

  We need to consider what it would take to get every single one of us off this planet and living somewhere else.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Am I financially enabling child labor in 3rd world countries by buying second hand fast fashion?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I'm actually of the opinion that humanity needs to get off this rock as soon as possible. The uncomfortable truth is that fewer humans would in fact help the environment, and none would be even better.

  The problem is with how to implement that without it turning into murder.

  Hence, we leave.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I wouldn't turn up to most job interviews with rainbow hair, oversize sunglasses and clown shoes. And if I dressed sensibly, I probably wouldn't bring my teddy bear as a mascot if I expected to be taken seriously.

  Emojis are in that sort of territory.

  Know your audience. And if you don't, or are trying to present to as wide an audience as possible, default to the safety of plain prose.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  but three hundred twenty-seven otherwise

  Depends on the dialect. That "and" is a requirement in British English.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How do I keep a brand new one of these mats from wanting to keep curling up on the ends?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I was going to suggest gluing a thin, flat strip of metal around the edges, but yeah, anything stiff would serve the same purpose.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Am I financially enabling child labor in 3rd world countries by buying second hand fast fashion?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Seems to me that would make the true ethical choice to be to buy it from the second-hand shop and then burn it, robbing anyone else any chance of advertising that fashion.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Do you touch the light switch entering a room if it's already on?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Not a doctor, but that sounds like an OCD-type thing to me. I suspect most people do not feel the need to touch a control if it is already set as they want. Also, this might be in violation of rule 3 as a result.

  Consider consulting with a doctor or psychologist or (cheaper) trying to get yourself out of this habit before it diversifies into a family of them (assuming it hasn't already).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why there is no clock that displays time 4:20:69 ?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  There's a Unix timestamp that ends with at least one of 42069 or 69420 within any 24 hour period. Often both.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What should be emoji reaction for "me too" in the general sense⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Nah. It's not, or wasn't, Redshift. Nor is it a vision issue. I can have the emoji picker on screen at the same time as my comment and they're definitely very different colours.

  I think the picker uses images, but the on-screen text renderer in Firefox is using the Noto Color Emoji font as a substitution (because the text font doesn't have emojis) and whatever Firefox has set as the default colours for the glyphs in it.

  My picker clearly doesn't know how to generate the right modifier sequences to change those, and I don't think it's worth mucking around with Unicode zero-width joiners and colour modifiers to try to figure it out.