[-] mycodesucks@lemmy.world 1 points 53 minutes ago

That is true... of a traditional campaign. But we live in an era where people can get millions of devoted followers by twerking on a webcam. A savvy third party that uses the internet effectively to build followers and then spreads into the greater population through word of mouth could conceivably work. Heck, it's not all that different from how Trump managed to build his base.

I'm not sure exactly what such a thing would look like for a third party candidate with some kind of scruples, but it shouldn't be IMPOSSIBLE.

[-] mycodesucks@lemmy.world 2 points 1 hour ago

There's plenty else they could be doing... outreach in off-years, for example. Start on campuses building awareness and building the kind of word-of-mouth and grassroots supporters you really need for a campaign. Having your name on the ballot isn't enough. Having rallies isn't enough. You can't ask the people to come to YOU, and the media certainly won't give you any coverage... you have to reach out to THEM.

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[-] mycodesucks@lemmy.world 8 points 5 days ago

Absolutely.

Bad, rushed software that wires together 200 different giant libraries just to use a fraction of them and then run it in a sandboxed container with three daemons it needs for some reason doesn't mean "8 Gb isn't enough", it means write tighter, better software.

[-] mycodesucks@lemmy.world 67 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Good point.

"Me writing a script that looks for my obituary, and when it finds it, sends memes from my account to my friends, until one of the random memes is a webp, python starts throwing errors in an infinite loop, it doesn't properly reset the timer because I had that inside the try block, and the whole system crashes from an error log file eating all the hard disk space 2 days later."

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boo.py (lemmy.world)

My best prank and I won't even be around to see it

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submitted 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) by mycodesucks@lemmy.world to c/memes@lemmy.world

Homestar Runner is now canon to the Metroid universe

[-] mycodesucks@lemmy.world 36 points 1 week ago

Romance is different when you're both old enough to have so much life experience under your belt. It isn't the same. Not saying it's better or worse, but it's absolutely different.

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News that matters.

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It's a much better idea to build it around the moon, which is light all night, rather than the sun, which only shines in the day.

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Sad morphin' noises (lemmy.world)

Has it always been so hard to afford electricity?

[-] mycodesucks@lemmy.world 68 points 1 month ago

Taking bags without your consent is kind of airport security's deal. They're explicitly allowed to do that.

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submitted 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) by mycodesucks@lemmy.world to c/linuxmemes@lemmy.world

As of the July release, future memes will use "It's Chewsday, systemd?"

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If this is where the internet is headed, count me out.

[-] mycodesucks@lemmy.world 40 points 1 month ago

Not that I don't believe what's being said here, but can anybody who speaks Hebrew confirm the subtitles are accurate translations?

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I don't consent. (lemmy.world)

I didn't know that was an option... has that been an option this whole time?

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"Juror number 3 is quite an illustrious director."

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