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Pacman should have something like informant built in. Informant it better than nothing but is a little glitchy. The Arch new file warned about this, but I don't think people checked it. Informant stops you from running pacman without it first checking for unread new items. But even Informant in one of the issues points out that the pre transaction hook is still too late for some manual intervention that needs to be done.

Pacman already queries things for updates, why can't it query an RSS feed to check for stuff?

My wife is unemployed and loves doing gift stuff including wrapping. Even constantly asking if I want them to wrap their gifts for themself lol. I think some folks just see this without having loved it and assume it's bad. The reality is couples split their chores. My wife doesn't help me with yard work, even while unemployed, does it make them a deadbeat? No. That's just not how we split the chores.

Socialism is when capitalism

Yeah, after reading the answers I see it more clearly. Also, I assume in hindsight that it's three switches which can be on or off, so we know if all three are off the light is off. Which helps as well.

Like I said, it's been over a decade, some of the specifics may be lost to me.

YOU'RE DOOMED! You must weigh two against two in the first step.

Reminder that the Windows devs copied AppGet, even spoke with the dev of it, but refused to hire them. Reminder that just because something is legal with regards to FLOSS tools, it doesn't mean it is ethical. It's stories like this that I think people need to think long and hard about when making FLOSS stuff and whether you want to use a permissive license. A copy left license wouldn't have necessarily prevented this, but this is the competition. They don't play nice.

https://keivan.io/the-day-appget-died/

Impossible even if you know if the light is on or off to start with. Even then, there are 2 possible outcomes which means the solution space halves on each test. 3 divided by 2 is greater than 1 (1.5) so we cannot figure it out in a single test.

That's my recollection of how to solve these from computer science. The classic one is 8 coins and figuring out which one weighs a different amount (and you don't know if it is more or less). You have a scale that tells you which side is heavier (or equal) but it doesn't give readouts (as in it doesn't say a side is X pounds/grams). With only three uses of the scale, how can you find the fake coin? I'm not going to go into the process in depth but because you have THREE outcomes (left heavier, equal, and right heavier) you reduce the solution space (which of the 8 coins is the bad one) by a THIRD each test. The number 8 sort of lures into thinking powers of 2. You can actually do it with 9 coins in 3 tests.

Some of the details of my explanation may be wrong, it's been over a decade since I took that class in college lol. It was my worst professor (while different story lol) but I distinctly remember him talking about this. He had a very thick accent, some form of eastern European or Russian, I'm not really sure what exactly. But he gave us that problem as homework or something or maybe just to think about. And he'd ask us to explain how we'd do it. Whenever someone began to describe something doing like test 4, 2, etc instead of the correct way (which involves using coins you already tested) he'd say "YOU'RE DOOMED!" Then someone else would try, and when they got to a way that wouldn't work "YOU'RE DOOMED!" It was hilarious. Very memorable.

Righties really see this and don't get why due process for all is necessary.

And they lied about it on the award application, but yes.

I think they meant ging versus going. I think it's just a typo.

We have a (presumably) non Christian here saying because it promotes Christianity and elsewhere we have a (presumably) Christian saying because it promotes paganism.

Unironically though, I think it's cool that we have a diversity of opinions here!

AI took that too! Oops all joblessness! 🤩

They got that rich because they already have problems.

My house had cat 5e cabling but wired for phones when I moved in. Luckily it was a simple fix (relatively, I'd never worked with terminating cables before).

Jerboa has improved a lot since then. It used to be noticably buggy!

Jerboa is pretty close in vibe. I was sad to see the pick tildes over Lemmy too.

HAM

If your religion overrides your ability to judge fairly, then you cannot uphold your duty as a judge and should step down.

Because of the API changes made during July of 2023 killing my Reddit app of choice (RIF is fun), their own first party app being garbage, and Reddit's CEO lying about a conversation with another third party app developer (the developer of Apollo I think).