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Oh my God (pun in pending) I just remembered that I was so into STEM (and arguing) as a kid that when I started asking about dinosaurs, my godmother had to pull out the Kent Hovind lectures.

Like, we're not even protestant,, and her stance is that they are mortal sinners,,, and yet, she couldn't bear me asking questions

Anyway, googling the name of a preacher in the hope of finding out that he's an awful person, and finding out he's an awful person – I do feel vindicated

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The computers we used for our Operating Systems Lab were Debian pcs with Gnome.

On whatever assignment we had, when someone managed to do it using the GUI, our prof would always say "ok now do it with the terminal", and he told us at some point "Learn to do everything with the terminal and configs.

👏GUI 👏IS 👏UNRELIABLE

GUI changes and then you're dumbfounded"

This doesn't actually have that much to do with Gnome I don't think

GNOME is not user friendly.

Whoever said that GNOME is user friendly was lying.

This isn't even an informative post. I just really don't like GNOME after wasting hours of my time trying to figure out how it works, only to return to KDE Plasma because at least it doesn't try to swallow my desktop background whole everytime I open the app launcher.

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Darboux property 😔

it's gonna get worse before it gets worser

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The gauge size system for piercings is actually named after Phineas Gage, the pioneer of piercing stretching.

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Every day I am thankful that I went into physics and not mathematics. Three dimensional vector fields were rigorously proven to be unfeeling back in the 1800s so there's not *as much* of an ethical ick, though I still catch the faintest whiff of something epistemologically rotted when I walk through the quantum communications department

yeah so my university got in trouble with the Platonists for the Ethical Treatment of Abstractions. yeah, for catching eternal forms in the immaterial realm and vivisecting them to discover their hidden properties. apparently nowadays people think this is “barbaric” and “cruelty to eternal entities,” but i dunno. when I was an undergrad you couldn’t get your degree without slicing up a commutative ring or a high-dimensional polytope in the mathematics lab. it’s gross, but you develop a strong stomach real quick. the smell doesn’t leave you, though. blood mixed with pure nous. they quiver when the scalpel sinks into them. I mean they don’t feel pain so it’s fine. at least that’s what they always told us. what would they even feel it with? I’m pretty sure it’s fine. not everybody is cut out to be a mathematician. but how else are you going to make progress in the field?

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My internet provider at least twice a month

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Putting the entirety of my spirit inside a terminal-only computer thus shielding me from all of the Worldly Evils.

going to take all the love (raw inexhaustible power) out of my body (wet, bloody, irrational) into a machine (metered, predictable) and use it to produce energy (valueable commodity) thusfully compelling it to obey the logic of capital (safe, normal) instead of the laws of Heaven (awesome, terrible)

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I think it might double as an autism assessment test

Idiotic hot take of mine:

Children should be introduced to computers via the command line only.

No smartphones. No iPad babies. We use BASH in this household.

Pros:

- Children have to actually learn how a computer works in order to use it.

- No dark design patterns. No hyperoptimized attention vortex in your pocket.

- Your 7 year old can brag to the other kids on the playground that they use Arch btw.

- Easier to sandbox into a VM to prevent installation of malware.

- Can use FreeDOS to raise them with an understanding of legacy systems.

- By the time they figure out how to connect to the internet they will be ready for it.

Cons:

- sudo rm -rf

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Wishing all BDSM kinksters some restrained summer fun this season

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raising my son on a strict media diet of Portal, Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Monty Python and the Holy Grail, and Mythbusters in an attempt to resurrect the extinct species Pre-Gamergate Smug Nerd Boy

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Can you give some examples of the horrors pretty please?

I've only ever coded in c for homework but I would love to know where the tentacles poke through the computer case

The best part of C is the horrors.

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In Linux processes are humanely euthanized via lethal injection.

In Windows they send Her to hunt the processes down and waterboard the diagnostics out of them.

she’s right

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ヽ(´▽｀)/

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One of the great mysteries of science

I wonder if a man has ever seen another man’s penis

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STEM professors sound talking about morality and religion

just because someone can articulate their point better doesn’t make them right, it makes them articulated. 

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does anyone want to play sexual tension with me

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He is inside your computer throwing errors