Especially Transcendental Cha Cha Cha

With computer stuff, you can do even better: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Literate_programming

TL;DR: your documentation and your shell script (sequence of console commands you run to accomplish the task) can be the same file.

(Dunno what kind of chemistry you do, but you may have already come across this concept in the form of Jupyter notebooks or something like that.)

While I’m at it, I’d also like to mention Ansible and Git, for when you really want to keep good records and have a reproducible setup. Don’t worry about them immediately as it’s probably too overwhelming to learn all at once, but keep 'em in the back of your mind for later.

Honestly, I don’t think it’s possible to get by just trusting any particular guide without developing at least some actual understanding of the concepts underlying what you’re doing. The field is just too wide and rapidly changing for any source of info to be authoritative (and stay authoritative indefinitely after the guide is written), so it’s super important to develop the skill of looking up multiple different and possibly conflicting approaches to the task, thinking critically about them, and then synthesizing your own approach that works for your specific situation.

LOL, nice try with the blatant dishonest spin. Too bad your attempt to falsely paint ICE as the ‘good guys’ falls flat if you’ve got two brain cells to rub together and realize that they were there to kidnap the workers, not arrest the owners.

No, we need to slam a Top 40 classic rock song in there because that’s the only thing the plebeians who see this movie will understand.

See also: the Beastie Boys bullshit in JJ-Trek.

I wasn’t actually sure when i wrote it (it just sounded “truthy”), but I just checked and found this:

Some adherents of the QAnon conspiracy theory have also borrowed from the reptilian conspiracy theory, including elements shared in anti-Semitic conspiracy theories.

For the record (because I just looked it up, as I also have this problem): it’s ctrl+tab, but only if you enable “Ctrl+Tab cycles through tabs in recently used order” in Settings first.

Considering how few references there were in the post

Why use many words when few words do trick?

They’re actually even nuttier, just a different kind.

That’s one chimp’s kink, not a trend.

Also, I did not expect to write that sentence.

¿Can U get… prrrreganté?

And yet they’re all for government intervention when it’s stuff like zoning (telling you where and how you’re allowed to live) or copyright (telling you what ideas you’re allowed to share)…

What did you think that was a euphemism for?

Conservatives love forcibly imposing their lifestyle on people in the name of “freedom.” It’s amazing how successful they’ve been in getting people to buy into their ass-backwards logic.

Huh. I just kinda assumed Norway would use the Euro, but TIL it’s not even a member of the EU. Weird.

Oh, it’s only 13" diameter? I’d rather just hang a real laserdisc on the wall in that case.

I want a CD-R mirror that’s like 3’ wide.

Flash was also cancer that ruined web pages.

The reason Java Web Start wasn’t, was specifically because once you clicked on the link, it downloaded the app and started it as a real desktop application, with its own window and taskbar entry and whatnot. It didn’t rely on being embedded in HTML (I’m specifically not talking about Java applets, BTW – they sucked too) or manipulating the DOM for its UI; it could use Swing and have the same look and feel as a native application.

I make this point at every opportunity:

The “normal” working-class single-family neighborhoods in my city are zoned R4, with a 9000 sq.ft. minimum lot size. The rich neighborhoods are zoned R1, with a 2 acre minimum lot size. That means every R1 lot could fit at least nine R4 homes on it. Why do we have ridiculous shitty traffic on the freeway going past that rich neighborhood? Because every single one of those mansions physically displaced eight other households out into the suburbs, who could have otherwise lived there if the law wasn’t being (ab)used to subsidize the rich.

And that’s just the difference between two kinds of single-family, let alone rezoning to allow the real level of density the market demands! If my city were zoned appropriately, the entire metro area population could be housed within the ring road.

Don’t get me wrong: I’m not saying it’s “selfish” or wrong to want to live in a single-family home… just that you only deserve one if and only if you’re actually willing to pay for it. That means being willing to outbid multifamily developers who would build the lot out to its highest and best use, not hiding behind zoning to protect you from the free market.

(I’m also not saying it isn’t selfish or wrong; I just try to stick to the geometric argument to deprive the person I’m debating of an excuse to turn it into an emotional debate.)

The bottom line rebuttal to all the variants of the “but whatabout people who want to live in single-family houses” arguments is real simple: if it were truly that important to them, then they would be willing to pay fair-market rates for it. Which means artificially inflating the supply (thus subsidizing the price) via restrictive zoning laws wouldn’t be necessary.

People who think they are entitled to live in single-family houses to the point that they want the law to forcibly impose that lifestyle on vast swathes of the population are just selfish takers who want society to subsidize them.