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In case you haven't heard, FreeBSD has a new code of conduct that's seemingly pulled straight from the shit-spewing face of a blue-haired intersectional feminist.

Me, I refuse to contribute to any coding project with a code of conduct designed to protect people of one political ideology from those who disagree with them. They're of course welcome to do what they like but they'll be doing it without my help in any way.

- from 17.1 to 18.3?

I'm finding this vital information damn near impossible to obtain. No own answered at superuser.com. Google yields no insight.

My objective is to install the latest cmake version so I can build the XMR Stak Monero mining software. Here's a wild guess for 18.2:

deb http://packages.linuxmint.com sonya main

I've gone through all the minor releases between 17 and 18.2, but /etc/issue says "Linux Mint 17.3 Rosa" is installed.

All that ever gets installed when I specify a newer distro's repository is a bunch of packages having to do with cinnamon. Nothing else gets installed.

I tried deb http://packages.linuxmint.com sonya main contrib non-free but apt-get dist-upgrade puked on my shoes.

Please tell me how to do this without using a GUI tool. Those tools do not work. I'm not the only one who says so.

So, my last entry was about Annie, a girl at my coffee shop that gave me her number. I also mentioned that she has a sister that works there too and that I /cannot/ for the life of me tell the two apart.

They are identical twins, so that makes me feel better. I didn't just want to be a white guy that can't tell Asians apart. (I feel vindicated!).

I was in there this weekend, and I tried to ask her sister what her name was. Turns out, this was Annie, the one that have me her phone number. Well fuck... Anyways, I chat her up, and find out her sister's name is Anna. Anna and Annie, identical twins.

They are Chinese, and these are their chosen western names. Their actual, Chinese, names are boy names because somehow it's lucky to their grandparents?

Bizarre... I think I would hate having a basically identical name to my identical twin.

For those of you playing along at home that brings Mueller's score up to 4 guilty pleas and 15 indictments.

Mueller probe: London-based son-in-law of Russian businessman to plead guilty to false statements

Folks, today is a VERY SPECIAL day. Because it's President's Day. When we honor the greatest President in history. And George Washington. Is it George Washington's birthday? Big debate about that one! Enjoy! 🇺🇸 whitehouse.gov/articles/great-debate-presidents-day-washingtons-birthday

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Summary:

I am often presented with an alert that says "This Mac can't connect to iCloud because of a problem with "mdcrawford@gmail.com". Open iCloud preferences to fix this problem."

There are two buttons: "Later" and "iCloud Preferences"

Clicking Later sometimes fails completely. The alert keeps reappearing.

I work around this by moving the alert so it is mostly off-screen. However I am unable to convince the alert that "No means No".

Steps to Reproduce:

Change your Apple ID password.

Use your Mac for a while. This mostly occurs when the Mac has been booted for at least a few days. However you can put your Mac to sleep then wake it the next day.

Expected Results:

The alert won't show itself anymore

Actual Results:

Less than one second passes between appearances of "can't connect to iCloud".

Version/Build:

macOS 10.12.5 16F73

Model Identifier Macmini7,1

Configuration:

Intel Core i5
8 GB memory

When I bought my mini Apple was advertising three configurations. I bought the $699 model.

I wouldn't cheat on anyone. Never have never will.

On Valentine's Day I bought a rose for a woman I'm interested in. She clearly likes me but I really don't know whether she would want to date me.

She wasn't in that evening. I felt a huge sense of relief.

Last night I was stricken with terror because she was in. I said "happy Day After Valentine's Day" then gave her the rose.

I don't think I have ever in my life seen someone as happy as she was last night.

Neither of us had anything rational to say so I left.

But soon I'm going to ask her to meet for coffee. In my experience that works quite a lot better than asking women to dinner.

Never ever take a first date to the movies. Fail to heed this hard-won advice and she'll spend the duration of the flick wondering if you're going to put your arm around her, while at the same time you'll be wondering if you can get away with doing so.

When you feel confident enough to take her to a movie, and she's not going to get pissed off at you for putting your arm around her, take her to a comedy.

I once took a first date to "Lorenza's Oil". It's a true story: Lorenzo had a horrible genetic disease that resulted in constant, excruciating pain. That disease only happens to boys. The women in his mother's side of the family tend to all have red hair.

It was ultimately a truly wonderful story, but when Lorenzo first started screaming in pain I wanted to crawl under my seat.

What the movie portrays by the end of the movie is quite inspiring. So by then I was OK to crawl back out from under my seat. I'll leave what actually happened as an exercise for the gentle Torrent enthusiast.

What was I thinking?

I should not write code when I'm hallucinating.

Russia started their anti-US campaign in 2014, LONG before I announced that I would run for President. The results of the election were not impacted. The Trump campaign did nothing wrong -- NO COLLUSION!!!! 🇺🇸👱🚫💕👱🇷🇺

I got curious about how many comments my "The Difference Time Makes" journal entry had last night after replying to what seemed like the millionth comment on it, so I checked. It had ninety comments even. That seemed like a lot to me and got me wondering how it stood in relation to other journal entries, so I checked. It turns out I had just tied for the most commented journal entry of all time on the site. When I checked again this morning I was ahead. Thus the title of this entry.

Now I'm by far not winning in most entries in the top ten but you take your victories where you find them. Without further ado, here's the top ten list for most commented journal entries of all time:

+-------+--------------------+------------------------------------------------+
| Count | User               | Entry                                          |
+-------+--------------------+------------------------------------------------+
|    98 | The Mighty Buzzard | The Difference Time Makes                      |
|    90 | aristarchus        | It's over.                                     |
|    87 | aristarchus        | Should I stay, or should I go?                 |
|    84 | aristarchus        | Ethics for Soylentils                          |
|    79 | The Mighty Buzzard | Fun For the Whole Family                       |
|    75 | Open4D             | Proto-submissions                              |
|    69 | aristarchus        | Breaking Frontpage!                            |
|    69 | aristarchus        | SuckOylent!                                    |
|    68 | DeathMonkey        | Before and After:  Movies                      |
|    59 | takyon             | Sex Harassment and the Office Christmas* Party |
+-------+--------------------+------------------------------------------------+