Others mention Chappelle here, and I want to just mention, I did watch his last special with an open mind, and I just want that hour back.
It was depressing on a couple of levels. But most importantly (for a comedian) I didn’t find it even a little bit funny.
I like a good bit of dark comedy, and tragedy plus time, and all that. But Dave Chappelle should pay for a therapist in private, instead of wasting my time.
+1 for Bill Burr, who will mock anyone, pretty mercilessly.
Also, his cameo in Star Wars, after giving tons of shit to Star Wars fans, is an utter delight. (And made him a fan.)
Why would Microsoft fire an employee for holding a vigil, it’s not like they …
…called “No Azure for Apartheid”
Oh. Thanks for drawing attention to this, Microsoft! I appreciate that they’re so willing to invoke the Streisand Effect.
I hope those employees land somewhere where they build something that costs Microsoft a lot of profit.
This sounds like an important step toward fully working the right think algorithm.
C.S. Lewis wrote that every death in our lives is an ending not just to their life, but an end to the unique part of our own life that only happened when we interacted with them.
It’s natural to fear and mourn that ending.
Yep.
“Keep the bug on this planet.” - K, Men in Black
“As the proud owner of a Cybertruck picture that I took last week, I couldn’t be more excited for Elon’s planetary dominance,” said David Kelenic. “This man has literally done no wrong, if you don’t count the COVID misinformation, right-wing conspiracy theory amplification, antisemitism, and his atrocious appearance on Saturday Night Live. Can’t we just give the man a break? He’s just trying his best as a billionaire, who could easily solve world hunger but chooses to purchase dying social media platforms instead.”
Is this the start of “relevant Sesame Street” replacing “relevant XKCD”?
I hope so. And then maybe XKCD / Sesame Street cross-overs…
Yeah. It’s not hardware, then.
I would try searching “black screen <bios version>” with any name and version number you can figure out about your bios, next.
If you can get it back to booting from install media, I would do a full reinstall.
There’s recovery layers (such as grub shell) that ought to kick in if this was just a display config issue, so I’m thinking corrupted install files is more likely.
Also, do a careful check through your various BIOS settings - search each one with “Debian 12 <setting name>”, to find out if they work with Debian 12, or need adjusted. Debian 12 supports most boot security features, that I have encountered, but I believe there’s still a couple out there that have to be turned off.
I suspect your next practical goal will be to get the (presumably failed) bootloader install replaced.
Edit: Tried to add a lot of specific thoughts as search term leads.
So the good news is you’re probably not bricked.
I’ve had similar, and had to work through getting my bios into the right state to get the screen to load, and then escaping grub into a grub recovery shell to debug.
Edit: Do you have access to an alternate/external monitor? I would want to try another monitor, just to rule out a hardware failure, too.
But it makes me look like a miracle worker which is nice.
Lol. Yeah. That part is nice. I would trade it for a more sane world. But it’s nice.
As a Perl user who won’t shut up about it… Yeah. Yeah, that’s pretty fair.
This is great.
If I could make one change, there’s so many funnier languages that could have been Esperanto. I would have taken a shameless jab at F#, myself.
Yeah. I’m just joking about your choice of words.
Like with any specialization, I’m glad you’re doing yours so I don’t have to learn it or learn to live without it.
On the computer bullshit side, shareholders and CEOs are betting hard on AI, right now, and we’re - unbelievabably - headed toward an even greater shortage of talent.
Unfathomably, I believe folks are going to look back with nostalgia on today’s pathetic computer science talent pool.
(No offense to my peers, but there clearly aren’t enough of us who actually know what we’re doing.)
Specialised skills in a specialised industry are worth a fortune.
Unlike all that computer crap, which is, thankfully, finally all solved.
We can tell because our computer, phone, Internet connection, shopping websites, and government services websites all work perfectly, all the time, without any security breaches, now. (This is sarcasm).
They quoted me! I’m famous, now!
MIT Professor David Tinsdale believes that concerns over automation may be overstated. “Artificial Intelligence can already beat most programmers in their three major skill-sets: writing code, automating repetitive tasks, and lying about their level of knowledge,” the Professor claims. “However, that doesn’t mean it will eliminate programming jobs. It’s just going to the nature of the work programmers do. For instance: previously, programmers spent most of their days fixing errors and writing boilerplate code. In the future, they’ll have new responsibilities – like driving an uber or filming homemade pornography.”
True!
I take comfort that if my kid can figure out setting up their own VPN or DNS, then I’m sure they’ll earn enough later to support their porn habit.
That’s great. Thanks.
I was getting tired of bop-a-mole bop-a-moe blocking these.
I like a NSFW picture just fine, sometimes, but the NSFW toggle doesn’t work for communities that don’t even attempt to tag their content.
Yeah. I gotta admit I laughed at Ellen’s (completely unrelatable) “relatable” jokes about being ultra wealthy.
I dunno if she counts for this request?
I guess she’s more conservative than many comedians, but I’m guessing her wife makes sure she still votes in favor of civil liberties like marriage rights.