foofiepie 6 hours ago • 100%
Ok. Permission to ask a mad question. Apologies in advance.
If black holes ‘suck’ everything in… could there be the equivalent of the ‘other side’ of one, that’s mysteriously ejecting a tonne of plasma?
Not saying that’s what this is, just prompted the thought.
foofiepie 6 hours ago • 100%
He would force everybody to be kind to animals and each other, eat raw vegetables, spend more time in the play park and participate in bushcraft activities. He would also ban chromebooks if his opinion of the school computers is anything to go by.
Yes I said raw vegetables. He’s a loveable anomaly.
Edit: almost forgot. We would have to spend slightly longer than is healthy, playing Minecraft.
How bizarre. When you edit a comment (in Voyager) it appears as a reply. Sorry for the spam.
foofiepie 6 hours ago • 100%
He would force everybody to be kind to animals and each other, eat raw vegetables, spend more time in the play park and participate in bushcraft activities. He would also ban chromebooks if his opinion of the school computers is anything to go by.
Yes I said raw vegetables. He’s a loveable anomaly.
foofiepie 7 hours ago • 98%
These marketing types shouldn’t be allowed to call anything ‘indestructible’ until they’ve given it to my kid to play with for a week.
foofiepie 1 day ago • 100%
complex carnal carnival of carnivory
Beautiful.
foofiepie 4 days ago • 100%
I absolutely love your work. Carry on!
foofiepie 4 days ago • 100%
This was my count, are we correct?
foofiepie 5 days ago • 100%
Same but without all the fancy words. 53.
foofiepie 6 days ago • 100%
So I herd.
foofiepie 1 week ago • 100%
Out of all the memery, I missed this until I read the transcript and it’s my absolute favourite.
foofiepie 1 week ago • 100%
What the hell man. Get out a bit more. Where do you live?
foofiepie 1 week ago • 100%
Tsar right to know if he’s compromised.
foofiepie 1 week ago • 100%
Pre brain injury, and post brain Ingush.
But seriously. Wear a crash helmet folks. Saved my life.
foofiepie 1 week ago • 100%
This plus no way to replace battery yourself or upgrade storage.
foofiepie 2 weeks ago • 100%
Govt Communications Headquarters. One of the branches of military intelligence in the UK.
foofiepie 2 weeks ago • 100%
You win. /thread
foofiepie 2 weeks ago • 100%
Maybe tomorrow I’ll want to settle down, until tomorrow I’ll just keep moving on.
foofiepie 2 weeks ago • 100%
I was going to say this.
Instead I’ll say: 48k ZX tape noises and Ace of Aces. Betamax. Not answering the phone as we’re having dinner.
And manic miner! Damn that game was brutal.
foofiepie 2 weeks ago • 100%
I heard (but haven’t actually checked because squirrel) GCHQ in the UK were actively recruiting ND people.
foofiepie 2 weeks ago • 100%
Is that a quote or did you think of that. If it was you, then if you’re not already writing prose, you bloody well should be.
He might also like some peanuts. Ours do.
foofiepie 2 weeks ago • 100%
That puzzled me too.
foofiepie 2 weeks ago • 100%
It’s a big building where they treat sick people - but that’s not important right now.
foofiepie 3 weeks ago • 100%
Please do share the instructions once you get it up and running.
foofiepie 4 weeks ago • 90%
Let’s maybe not call it the final solution.
foofiepie 4 weeks ago • 83%
Thoroughly enjoyed this post thanks. I have long wished for a FOSS OS that can truly become popular by considering these users and carving a mainstream path for them. Even - for people who don’t even know what terminal/shell is and don’t care.
foofiepie 4 weeks ago • 100%
Fluoroantimonic acid.
foofiepie 4 weeks ago • 100%
She cancelled some concerts in Vienna recently following arrests and intel about ‘ISIS inspired’ threats.
foofiepie 4 weeks ago • 100%
I agree with you but UKR may not have the luxury of triaging a bunch of people into non combat roles, and with regard to reaction under fire, I don’t think anyone really knows how they’re going to react in that situation until they’re in it. Even volunteers.
I’m not and never have been military, just my £0.02.
foofiepie 1 month ago • 100%
What (just from your own opinion) percentage split of regular Russian people are for/neutral/against the war? Do you even speak about it privately or is it too dangerous.
foofiepie 1 month ago • 100%
Worse if it’s the St George Cross imo. I’ve never understood the “away with immigrants” argument from a nation of immigrants. Do they think life evolved in the UK?
foofiepie 1 month ago • 100%
Connections Puzzle #428 🟪🟪🟪🟪 🟨🟨🟨🟨 🟦🟦🟦🟦 🟩🟩🟩🟩
foofiepie 1 month ago • 100%
That looks great thanks!
foofiepie 1 month ago • 88%
Er, this is mine.
foofiepie 1 month ago • 100%
Whatever they’re watching, it’s fucking funny.
foofiepie 2 months ago • 100%
Futureproofing it for the next N years? Playing some mad games? Honestly no idea I just thought to take the current top tier benchmark and one-up it.
Edit: on reflection I generally max out my MBPs out of habit to get the longest shelf life possible. Perhaps it’s just habit.
Edit2: if it helps I tend to get a new laptop every 5/6 years. The aim here would be to happily bespoke the hell out of a system and get more than 6 years out of it.
foofiepie 2 months ago • 96%
Ok fuck it.
Tell me why i shouldn’t go for this as my next daily driver after one MBP after another for over 15 yrs. I’m serious.
foofiepie 2 months ago • 97%
Tiktok afterwards please.
foofiepie 2 months ago • 100%
You almost made me snort peas.
foofiepie 2 months ago • 100%
I have my client (voyager) set to default to reader mode, so I didn’t even see any cookie options. Does this mean I accepted them all or none or what?!
I’ve basically been ordered to pick up any fiction book and read, after a friend discovered I’ve not read anything but non-fiction for a decade. The ones I’ve enjoyed in the past have been short, fantastical or sci-fi (think Aldous Huxley, Ian McEwan), but crucially with amazing first person descriptive prose - the kind where you’re immersed in the writing so much you’re almost there with the character. I liked sci-fi as the world’s constraints weren’t always predictable. Hope that makes sense. Any recommendations? Edit: I’m going to up the ante and, as a way of motivating myself to get off my arse and actually read a proper story, promise to choose a book from the top comment, after, let’s say arbitrarily, Friday 2200 GMT. Edit deux: Wow ok I don’t think I’ve ever had this many responses to anything I’ve posted before. You’ve given me what looks like a whole year of interesting suggestions, and importantly, good commentary around them. I’m honouring my promise to buy the top thing in just under 4 hours.
Hi all, A fair while ago I asked the community here advice as my 8yo lad wanted to experiment with programming: [Old Post](https://lemmy.world/post/6087801). Thanks so much for all the words of wisdom - there’s still stuff we can explore in the replies. Thought I’d just give a little update. So I installed dual boot Linux Mint / OSX on an old intel MacBook Air (dual boot in case his homework/school stuff needs it, but he hasn’t used OSX much!). It was _much_ easier than I thought it’d be. Perhaps it’s just the hardware/OS choice, but I don’t consider myself to be ‘properly’ technical and it was a breeze. Perhaps the only difficult part was creating a bootable OSX restore disk just in case I destroyed the OS… it’s almost like Mac really don’t want you to be doing this. He’s working his way through foundational courses on programming, in codeacademy, and using scratch as usual. So far, so good. Is there an IDE you’d recommend that has some element of a tutorial to it?
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Hi all, My 8 year old is asking if he can learn how to program. He has asked specifically if I could set him up with a ‘programming kit with lessons’ for a Christmas present. I’d like to support this, and it seems like it’s not a transient interest as he’s been all over scratch, and using things like minecraft commands for the last year. I have an old (pre 2017) MacBook Air I can set up for this. How do I / what would you advise I set up for him, to a) keep him safe online (he’s 8!) and b) give him the tools he needs in a structured way. I am not a programmer. I know enough bash/shell and basic unix stuff to be dangerous and I was a front end dev a very long time ago, but I wouldn’t call myself a programmer and don’t know what concepts he needs to learn first. Hugely appreciate any advice, thanks. Edit: So I posted this then had a busy family day and came back to so many comments! I will methodically go through these all, thanks so much. A couple of things on resources: he has expressed interest in 3D worlds and I noticed comments on engines, but wonder if that’s too advanced? Totally agree with the short feedback loop rather than projects that take days. He has an iPad 6 and I’m happy to pop a Linux distro on the Air, so certainly open to that. So many links to research. Hugely grateful.
Hi! So, I used to play hockey at school/uni, mostly on ‘banana’ rockered freestyle inlines. Now I’m somewhat older - it’s been a while since I’ve been on blades, but I’ve regularly skated on ice, I would say I’m intermediate but more used to ice than tarmac. My son is getting into in-line skating and I’d like to put on some wheels again so we can knock a puck about. What would be a good (but not bank breaking) skate for me? I’d like a hockey stance but I’m thinking I might need something I can rocker (or just buy different wheel sizes I guess?). Any suggestions hugely appreciated.
Hi folks. Can I ask: Is it better to say “We’ve got to get going” or “ We have to get going”? I hear the former in conversation and it slightly irks me. I think it’s because of the redundancy (?) in the sentence. Which is better, grammatically? The latter feels cleaner. Am I wrong?