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@Aurimas @briankrebs "when you do it, it's political, when I do it, it's apolitical and just common sense", is usually how the rationale goes.

The Trump Administration Accidentally Texted Me Its War Plans - The Atlantic

https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2025/03/trump-administration-accidentally-texted-me-its-war-plans/682151/?gift=vgcKXZKCrHTQr6wr7_bnjR_NoPtjLBLTVrdpY1uN2w4&utm_source=copy-link&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share

This was quite a story to listen to this evening on NPR.

"For decades, anti-Palestinian racism has driven efforts to expand U.S. laws and practices that are used to violently repress Palestinians, Arab Americans, and other communities. That is precisely why I am being targeted."

I was disappointed to see that the top result, when I searched for Quantumania and holes to find the right quote, did not acknowledge that the film completely agreed with Vsauce's topological analysis of humans and their holes.

Vsauce: "How Many Holes Does a Human Have?"

farside.link/invidious/watch?v=egEraZP9yXQ

www.youtube.com/watch?v=egEraZP9yXQ

@lynn Is this at all related to "His name is Scott Lang and he has seven holes"?

Whereas in Win32, there is only one current directoryI have been lied to by CMD.EXE. 🤯

So does D:some_dir even have meaning in the system? I'll have to find a Windows machine and experiment.

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@anubis2814 If people do it a lot and have somewhat thin plastic drains in the upper part of the plumbing ... I don't know. I wouldn't put it past some people to pour lye down the drain. I agree that baking soda and vinegar is weak sauce but I stand by my statement if only because it might stop someone from mixing heavier stuff.

@lunarood Aha! Gotcha. Making them actual environment variables with special names rather than process attributes is an "interesting" choice. They do affect the behavior of native Windows processes, right?

@dalias @hipsterelectron

One day it will happen! I will ask the bsky bridge to ask a person to opt in to the fedi bridge, and the person will actually do it. 😅

Some of your blockage may be stuff that would be dissolved by an acid, some may be stuff that would be dissolved by a base. Don't use both at the same time. Flush with generous amounts of water between using the two.

@dalias Yes! I described that elsewhere in the thread. Each drive has a current directory, and your actual current directory is determined by your current drive and the current directory of that drive. Is that state what you mean by pseudo environment variable?

@hipsterelectron @lunarood

"Mix a few tablespoons of baking soda with a cup or two of hot water"

Yeah! That creates an alkaline solution, and if you pour that down your drain, it can cause some fats trapped in there to turn into a soap, which is water soluble, helping you remove them.

"(you can also add white vinegar for a bit more punch)"

... aaaand you failed high school chemistry. Vinegar is sour and neutralizes the alkaline solution. Worst case, the reaction causes heat and bubbling that may damage your pipes.
baking soda is a base, it's alkaline. vinegar is an acid, it's acidic. adding an acid to a base makes it less alkaline.

@lunarood Horrify us! I grew up fighting the "com bat files", as some of us called them, and moved up from there through Windows 3.0, 3.1, 95 and XP, but this quirk sounds new to me.

@dalias @hipsterelectron

@hipsterelectron It's easy to see how it's useful and where it comes from, and it's not even close to being the tenth quirkiest thing they're backwards-compatible with. But it does mean that D:some_path is a not-quite-relative path and \temp is a not-quite-absolute path, so cross-platform devs can't rely on Posix categories being universal.

Petition failed. 😔

Dear body. Please don't be silly. Whatever made us sick was ingested over 12 h ago. What's in our stomach now is all good stuff that will help us, I promise. Let's keep it.

@hipsterelectron @dalias Yeah, I would say \temp is neither relative nor absolute. 🤢

@hipsterelectron Yes. You have a current drive and each drive has its own current directory. D:the_dir is relative to D:'s current directory. If you are currently on C: then \temp refers to C:\temp regardless of the current directory onC:.

@hipsterelectron The MSDN docs seem to have their own definition of "absolute". If you don't provide a drive letter, then \temp is "absolute" within the current drive.

@hipsterelectron @ciggysmokebringer Yes, in 2020.

www.vox.com/science-and-health/2020/7/13/21315879/covid-19-airborne-who-aerosol-droplet-transmission-cdc

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