No worries, I hope you’re in a (relatively, despite the state of the outside world) good space as well. I wish you all the best, and I hope to meet again. Cheers mate!
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No worries mate, that’s thankfully in the past. I appreciate this brief discussion, and I hope you have a wonderful day!
That’s fair enough. I tend to look at things overly analytically, and I have a hard time when there isn’t a clear answer, or even potential answer to “why?”
If every answer is a paradox, and the conclusion happens because “that’s just how it happened,” I feel unsatisfied. I want it to mean something conclusive, even if that conclusive meaning is ambiguous.
I think a movie that accomplishes this concept more effectively is Inception. The ending is very ambiguous, but there are multiple concrete and logical interpretations. Those possibilities feel exciting to discuss and explore to me personally, while Donnie Darko just leaves me with more questions and confusion.
I understand that it has prompted a lot of debate and conversation, which was very likely the goal.
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However, I don’t find any of that information or explanations compelling. The author of that article even admits multiple times that the understanding and interpretation is ambiguous. None of the “why” or the “how” is definitively explained.
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I’m also almost certainly biased to view the message of the movie negatively in hindsight. I’m on the spectrum and struggled severely with my mental health for years, including when I watched this movie for the first time. The fact that the movie ends with his suicide being portrayed as a heroic and noble act had a profoundly negative impact on me for many years.
Strange movie with some interesting philosophy and good moments.
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I never understand what Donnie did to break out of the time loop. It seemed like all of the events of the previous loops still occurred throughout the movie, so why was the final loop significant? What caused him to stay in his bed? Was his death necessary, and if so, why?
Where do the active code contributors to FOSS software exist on this scale?
3·2 months agoThey don’t mess around with their requirements either and strictly enforce them. If you don’t follow their rules and your domain is deleted, there is no refund or recourse.
That’s usually determined at the registrar level, not the registry level, though of course there are always exceptions.
Some ccTLDs have strict requirements (looking at you .de), but most are fairly standard TLDs. The last time I checked, .tv (for Tuvalu) was responsible for something like 40% of the country’s GDP, so it’s not surprising that most ccTLDs are welcoming to outsiders.
Edit: I was curious so I double checked, and apparently as of 2019 .tv was closer to 9% of Tuvalu’s Government spending according to Wikipedia. In my defense, the last time I researched the matter was several years prior to 2019, and additionally I have no doubt that I’m misremembering and/or unintentionally exaggerating that figure.
Regarding .de domains, I’ve seen multiple examples of a registered domain being completely deleted with absolutely no refund or recourse because the Registrant/Admin contact(s) didn’t respond to a physical letter sent by DENIC via post in Germany.
12·2 months agoI would like to think that I’m capable of writing maintainable code like seemingly everyone else in this thread, and I have multiple code bases that have existed for decades that have included necessary updates over time to reinforce that opinion.
I’ve also seen some truly unfathomable, Lovecraftian horror code in the wild that has persisted for decades.
Seeing Will Smith’s character as a representative of humanity, and Sonny as a representative of LLM/GenAI in that context makes this joke absolutely hilarious.
VB.NET app that was installed on every employees computer to capture time sheets. Required VPN access so it could talk to the accounting DB using raw queries, zero input validation, and it used a pirated library for the time input grid control.
The IT staff who would install the program on all new machines (it didn’t work with their imaging system) had a script to suppress the message requesting a paid license. There was nothing special about this control, it was basically a rip off of built in winforms controls.
Source code was long lost, but reverse engineering and decompiling CIL/MSIL code is thankfully relatively straightforward.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=fnWypQz6X2U