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You can also learn to make your own tshirts. Sewing is a useful skill in general, and tshirts are pretty easy. The neck band is a bit of a challenge, but other than that it's just cutting fabric to a template and sewing pieces together using a sewing machine.

Wear whatever the fuck you want, and don't judge people for what they wear. It's that simple (barring a few exceptions around safety and whatnot).

You can get clothes adjusted/altered, even cheap store bought ones. I often have to get new jeans altered because my legs are chonkier than their length justifies. Some stores still have people on site who can make alterations for you. Some don't, but it's easy (at least in my town) to find little shops that do alterations/mending.

> Everyone wears street/modern fashion, and I don’t want to really go to a friends house in suit and tie. It sucks but that is the way things are.

Just wear the suit and tie if you want to. This is such a non-issue.

Fiction: Revelation Space by Alastair Reynolds. I love it. Been reading the series out of order for some reason.

Non-fiction: Introduction to the Theory of Computation by Michael Sipser. It's fun. It looks at things like pushdown automata, Turing machines, decidability, ... Not reading it too rigorously, but more exploratively.

A little over two decades ago, my then girlfriend was arrested for "writing malware" (which was not against the law at the time, and which was never released into the wild and never caused any damage). This set in motion a chain of events that effectively ruined her life.

Fast forward to today, and we have multi billion dollar corporations pumping out malware at breakneck speeds, compromising various systems (including those of foreign governments), and no one is getting arrested. Instead we're gawking at the marvel of these systems and are playing word games about whether or not it's a rogue system. If anything, it's making people richer.

Make it make sense.

Lots of mentions of "EU regulations" in this discussion, but not a single concrete case of a regulation that would be to blame.

The combination of Trump's Iranian shitshow and Putin's Ukranian madness, means energy prices in Europe are currently insane and predicted to keep rising. Uncertainty due to the possibility of war is not exactly conducive to investing in fabs either.

Europe has been deindustrializing for decades, and IMO that's had more to do with profitability than anything else. That hasn't changed.

> primarily due to regulations and bureaucracy

Or, more likely, due to energy prices.

And then what? Things will magically go back to the way they were? I doubt it. The US has seriously damaged its international reputation. It has burned bridges. It has started literal wars. Removing the Orange Danger would be a good start, but it will by no means by the end the problem.

Why would those make a difference? The US elected the same corrupt madman twice. Why would things suddenly improve after this election?

And we will all live happily ever after? What a load of naive nonsense.

Somewhat tangential, but Lenovo's website is an absolute shitshow. It is so hard to find a laptop that matches a bunch of criteria. Their search facets are next to useless. Not to mention glacially slow. It's almost like they don't actually want to sell laptops.

I probably buy more laptops than most people, I've owned some 30 thinkpads in my lifetime. Quality isn't what it used to be, but the serviceability and on-site repair warranty is still amazing.

Propane isn't exactly good for you either, and it'd obviously flammable. Freon caused ozone layer depletion. There is no perfect refrigerant, but CO2 seems pretty safe.

The complexity of training depends heavily on your goals. If your goal is to improve startup time, it's actually pretty simple.

If your goal is peak performance across the board and you can't wait for runtime optimizations to kick in, you're going to have a harder time. But in many of the things I've worked on, startup time has been a bigger issue than JIT->peak.

Why not? The UK has been a police state for decades. They have a long history of mass surveillance and of cracking down on protests.

Hah. Europe's Chat Control proposal would exclude politicians from being monitored. Because of course it would.

Constantly. It's made me stop using Google entirely because I can't run a single search without hitting reCAPTCHA. It's becoming problematic because some services I pay for, such as Bandcamp, also end up pestering me with boatloads of reCAPTCHAs. I enjoy Bandcamp, but I'm going to have to axe it if it keeps up.

I strongly suspect those would be very illegal and could result in serious side effects, such as for people who use continuous glucose monitors.

People (by which I mean average computer users) didn't "start ignoring security", they never bothered to unignore it in the first place. Early Windows editions didn't even ship with a firewall at all, people were rawdogging the internet out of the box without ever stopping to consider the consequences.

Calling NAT the original sin is a serious exaggeration. Carrier Grade NAT (CGNAT) is a truly evil concept that restricts the freedoms of the CGNATed users. But regular NAT is fine as long as you can control it. "No one wanting to bother with port forwarding" is largely a matter of shitty UX on the home gateway side and laziness on the side of the operator. Same with UPnP.

If anything, NAT has saved millions of wildly insecure devices running unpatched old Windows versions from getting pwned the second they connect to the open internet.

How do such referenda work in Iceland? Is this a simple Brexit-style yes/no question? Were people provided with context and arguments as to why (presumably?) the goverment was considering joining the EU?

Without knowing anything about these gas wells, couldn't they be used for compressed air energy storage?

I recently deleted all of my Reddit accounts. The website had been unusable on mobile for a good while, with the constant and ever-more-aggressive nagging about switching to the app. Old Reddit was the one thing that made the site still usable. And now that requires a login.

So fuck that. Bye Reddit. I'll miss some of the communities.

A simple spreadsheet of income & expense is all that's required for most small businesses. Larger companies require full fledged double entry bookkeeping with requirements about charts of accounts -- which usually necessitates paying an accountant, unless you enjoy that particular kind of pain.

Really? I paid ~1500eur for a Mitsubishi mini split including installation. Not quite sure why your setup would be so insanely expensive.

Oh come on. Tax evasion by barbers is a classical example of why taxes are so high for the rest of us.

The cost of bookkeeping for a very small business is essentially zero. Everywhere that I know of exempts small business from double entry bookkeeping. VAT exemptions exist if revenue is low enough, too.

Privacy requirements are even easier: don't ask for, store, or process any personal information you don't absolutely need.

Your barber is being dramatic.

So what? Lots of places do this. It's not unique to Spain and it's simply a tax ob real estate.

It doesn't. Or at least it didn't last I checked, maybe that's changed, but I doubt it. I've tried the Wayland alternatives, and they left such a bad taste in my mouth that I'd really rather never touch Wayland again. Sway in particular was an exercise in frustration, the damned thing refused to use the right keyboard layout no matter how hard I tried.

> you will pry xfce out of my cold dead hands

AwesomeWM for me. I've essentially fused with it. Warts and all.

More anecdata: I've been using my inhaler more since moving to a city with worse air quality than my previous location.

Yes, the same google that has repeatedly, entirely "by accident", captured boatloads of wifi data with their wardriving vehicles (or google streetview or whatever it's called). They sure seem like a trustworthy bunch.

What a load of crap. Your liberty to swing your fist ends where my nose begins. What's "triggering" is when it hits my nose.