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You need to be offended.
If you're really clever, you already have it on your hard drive.
Andrew Dice Clay.
The day the laughter died.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RdUxDoy5m3o
I should do some Lenny Bruce first but with apologies, bad roll of the dice there I guess.
Here's the setup. Biggest comedian in the world. Bigger than anyone before him. Bigger than Lenny Bruce, who was arguably better.
Shows up to a pretty big comedy club. On a slow week. Unannounced. Without a script. Without a set.
Room is nearly empty. The folks that are there initially consider themselves incredibly lucky, honored.
As the night goes on, some of them begin to reconsider that. Nah, they all do, at one point or another.
This is not entertainment. That's the great thing about this recording. /Good/ comedy before this point (and, for the most part, after it as well) is about speaking as much truth as you can, while still being entertaining.
Dice, on this day, didn't give a copulate if he was funny. He was just speaking truth to power, and he was still young and naïve enough to think that would always be funny.
The best parts are the ones that aren't funny.
The year was 1991. I wasn't in the hall. Nowhere near. I got a bootleg copy of this via usenet about the same time I did my first linux install. I'm afraid some of you won't understand just what a brag that was. ;)
Comments, as always, are open. Worst that can happen is I'll delete the whole damn entry. Flame all you want.
Well whaddya know!
Alt+F4 still works!
It's that I kinda hate the mouse. Think one of those big trackballs is better?
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Stupid project I'm working on
My memory is bad. It's really, really bad. It's famously bad. One of my best friends said it was "an etch-a-sketch on a bumpy road".
The calendar apps I've seen aren't aggressive enough in notifications, and LineageOS's alarm app won't let me set dates sufficiently in the future. There's also a lot of recurring events and events that occur on irregular schedules.
So, I got sick of it, and wrote this. I made an alarm app that can be as aggressive or passive as you want, with crontab syntax.
The code isn't great. I wrote it in python as that's something I've had to use lately and python's proving to be... well, better than I expected. I'm not an expert with Python yet so you'll probably find some eww.
You need pygame for python 3 for alert sounds, python gobject Gtk 3 (pgi), python 3 sqlite, and everything else should be included in the Python 3 standard library.
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Stahp with the JavaScript shit!
Ewwwww. Lately in two separate business environments I'm finding large, complicated codebases written entirely in JavaScript....
The worst one uses Electron. You know, basically a Chromium instance rendering your shitty pages as a faux GUI?
Look, JavaScript isn't a bad language for what it was designed for, but pulling in a separate chrome process for every one of your lazily written apps is a horrible idea and wastes a ton of resources.
JavaScript was never meant to be used the way Node.JS is letting it be used! It's not meant as a standalone language, it's meant for some shitty scripting abilities in your web browser.
If you want to make an easy desktop GUI app in a high level language, just use Qt and Python or Perl or something, as those are usually actually easier than JS anyways...
Idk, is anyone else here horrified at how they're developing these apps nowadays?
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