[-] [email protected] 85 points 2 years ago

How alone am I in disliking the word "allistic"? To me it feels like an outgrowth of a persecution fetish, literally defining an outgroup. Especially since it has zero mainstream adoption, where "non-autistic" is immediately clear to anyone.

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I couldn't sleep. Also I don't know how to deal with formatting this because of the apostrophes and I don't care that much

Function CreateUUIDv4$ ()
' this routine generates about 23 guids per second at 4.77 MHz

' define a UUID string template
Dim result As String * 36
result = "00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000"
'         123456789012345678901234567890123456

Dim substring$
Dim index%, offset%

' enumerate the indices where we should insert values
For index% = 1 To 33 Step 4

    ' skip over the separators
    If index% = 9 Or index% = 14 Or index% = 19 Or index% = 24 Then
        index% = index% + 1
    End If

    ' generate a value from 0x0000 to 0xFFFF
    substring$ = Hex$(Int((&HFFFF& - 0 + 1) * Rnd + 0))

    ' add an offset that permits leading zeroes if the hex representation
    ' of the value to insert is less than 4 characters
    offset% = 4 - Len(substring$)

    ' insert the substring at the specified location
    Mid$(result, index% + offset%) = substring$
Next

' version 4 (random data)
Mid$(result, 15) = "4"

' variant DCE 1.1, ISO/IEC 11578:1996 (0x1000 - 0x1011)
Mid$(result, 20) = Hex$(Int(Rnd * 4 + 8))

CreateUUIDv4$ = result

End Function

[-] [email protected] 83 points 2 years ago

I think this is funny, but it's hard for me to hate too much on flatpaks. Disk space is practically free now, and having spent a good chunk of my career fighting DLL hell, I have a lot of sympathy for the problem it's trying to solve.

[-] [email protected] 188 points 2 years ago

I'd like to see a law where this immediately dissolves the company.

[-] [email protected] 216 points 2 years ago

I wonder what percentage of the Linux users making these reports are already professional IT people in some capacity. I'm not convinced that it's "the open source way" causing this to happen, but instead suspect it's "the experienced engineer way".

[-] [email protected] 58 points 2 years ago

I don't think it's particularly prudish to disapprove of rape.

[-] [email protected] 94 points 2 years ago

I'm not going to either of those castles. That's just what they expect you to do and I'm sure they're monitoring the traffic.

[-] [email protected] 73 points 2 years ago

Strewn across the ground were empty food containers and survival books

Please master the survival books before returning to monke.

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