You said they're called octets because they're supposed to be written in octal. I was saying why I don't think that's true.

That smells a little like folk etymology to me, are you sure about that? My understanding is that since the word is older than computers and can refer to any group of 8 things, "octet" in computing just came from the need to communicate a group of exactly 8 bits given that bytes aren't always that size.

Slow depends on the use case. If your main bottlenecks are in code that people have written highly optimized lower-level libraries for, it could be slower to roll your own implementation or use a less mature library in a different language. And in some cases it might not matter if you take 1 ms or 100 ms to do something.

It works the other way too, and you have to weigh the pros and cons of your specific case when you choose a language. What level of abstraction do you want to work at, how stable do you need the toolchain to be, how familiar you are with the language, what's supported in the language, how easy is it to do what you want, what's the norm in the domain you're working in, etc.

I took it more as a plea to people who think it's optional year round

I've had some not so good pig intestine and some phenomenal, and the worse ones were similar to how you described it. If you ever decide you'd try it again, I think it's so much better when crispy. The texture reminds me of bacon with a gelatinous, melt in your mouth center almost like burnt ends.

I wouldn't buy a whole thing from the store unless you know you like it, but if you like cilantro and jalapeno, a banh mi with head cheese and pate is a good way to try it. It's a delicious mix of fresh, savory, fluffy, crunchy, and chewy.

Canonical's hiring process is wild. The number of stages is a deal breaker in itself, but the bizarre questions and the tests you mentioned don't do them any favors either.

I lost interest in the first stage with them asking for an essay about things like what kind of student I was in high school. The full email was massive.

Slop, I think. Their replies smell like they came out of an LLM, and they have a Claude attribution in their commits. Comes off as grifting or cosplaying to me.

I don't think this paints all of atheism as a bad thing, just satirizes militant atheists who struggle with the fact that others can peacefully hold beliefs that are incompatible with their own. Reddit's full of them, and they're the equivalent of the evangelizing Christian that jumps on the "you need Jesus" spiel at the first whiff of non-Christian views.

In my (atheist) opinion, the two are equally obnoxious.

• How can iodéOS (Lineage fork) be installed on phones with bootloaders locked?

I just don't understand how they can create an installer that works with bootloader locked phones, and then the OS remain completely secure.

Barring exploits, phones with a locked bootloader can't be flashed with a different OS by design.

If you're comfortable with vim, vimdiff is lightweight, works well for simple stuff, and you probably have it installed already (can use vim -d if not)