I think if someone’s curious about that they might be in the market for something more like just, as in, here’s an example for running recipes with uv or use [script($INTERPRETER)].

No, but a bad MS/Windows decision is often a catalyst. I came over to Linux from Windows ME. :)

It’s generally conspicuous consumption, where the main point is to flaunt wealth.

Functional aspects like how well an engine runs or a clock displays time are part of that, as poorly functioning but expensive-looking stuff is generally derided, but you also can get great-working stuff that doesn’t look flashy.

It’s actually a collection of four books, which I think these days are sold in sets of two.

It’s got some fun stuff, like an author who’s convinced of his own infallibility, and fantasy-like vocabulary, except none of the words are really made up, it’s just applications of somewhat obscure latin and greek words. I’d also kind of encourage going into it blind, since there are some bits of it that are more fun to figure out as you go along.

Bonus for /c/finalfantasyxiv@lemmy.world players: it has Ascians.

Yeah, I can imagine it’s kind of in the Lovecraft category, as in, clearly influential, but, uhhh, yikes.

Kind of the inverse, but you may enjoy Gene Wolfe’s book of the new sun, and the Numenera TTRPG.

I guess Vance’s Dying Earth series, that inspired how spells work in D&D, also would fit there, though I’m not personally familiar

I escaped reddit for this?

The O is for the kind of whooshing sound

I’ve heard of the year of Linux on the desktop, but I’ve never really heard of the year of BSD on the desktop. Apart from OSX, maybe.

I guess this is the kind of stuff POSIX could’ve helped with, but it seems to be busy mandating buggy behaviour.

Yeah, and Android has had some 16 years of “optimize later”. I have some very very limited experience with writing mobile apps and while I found it to be a PITA, there is clearly a lot of thought given to how to not eat all the battery and die in the ecosystem there. I would expect that kind of work to also be done at the JVM level.

If Windows Mobile had succeeded, C# likely would’ve been lower as well, just because there’d be more incentive to make a battery charge last longer.

Is there a lot of computation-intensive code being written in pure Python? My impression was that the numpy/pandas/polars etc kind of stuff was powered by languages like fortran, rust and c++.

And it powers a lot of phones. People generally don’t like it when their phone needs to charge all the freaking time.

And battery costs, including charging time, for a lot of devices. Users generally aren’t happy with devices that run out of juice all the time.

I think most of us would consider that an eclipse bug, but yeah, until it’s fixed it’d make sense to work around it.

Kinda similarly, I have a mostly identical setup on several machines, and on one of them Firefox has a memory leak, which even showed up just recently. It also seems to manifest if I have certain pages open, the most noticeable of which is Reddit.

It’s the kind of stuff I could dig into, buuut it’s just a PITA.

Oliven, Norwegian. For some reason it’s an uncountable noun.

Ah yes, traditional urban cores, historically entirely without any good food options, either delivered, on the go, or even sit-down at odd hours