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I think you either missed the point or are intentionally sidestepping the point. If I have a favorite band and they're reasonably large and I want to go see them live, it'd be a bonafide miracle if their show wasn't at a LiveNation venue. The local spots are simply too small to be a reasonable stop on tour for any moderately popular artist.

I agree that you should definitely go see local artists at local venues, but you can do that and still really want to take your dad to see Steve Hackett play a live show. It's not up to you to decide what enriches my life.

> Come to think of it, if there is a latching door on the detergent tray, your dishwasher definitely has a prewash cycle, or else they’d skip the door entirely

Alec also mentions this briefly in the linked video; if manufacturers could avoid the cost of a latching mechanism, they absolutely would. Its presence means a pre-wash cycle exists.

Bug fixes:

- Corrected an infrequent issue with getResultingProtonCount that would cause it to always return 1 for certain origin bodies.

(In the merge request comments: "This why we don't let junior devs commit unreviewed code to critical branches, guys.")

Extreme aversion to NIH syndrome, perhaps? I agree that it's weird. Sure, don't try to roll your own crypto library but the amount of `require('left-pad')` in the wild is egregious.

Your argument highlights its own flaw; changing your editor opens up a world of tooling that's certainly adequate for most use cases you can throw at it, but it also requires either discarding or (worse) un-learning all of the tooling that you've learned for your current editor.

For example, I'm perfectly content to use nvim as my primary editor, and this was born out of having to develop for and administer literally tens of thousands of linux servers professionally. I have all the plug-ins and configuration necessary for productivity on my development machines, and when I'm on a remote system ad hoc editing a configuration it already has a built-in lightweight version of the editor I'm already used to.

If I switched to Emacs locally, I'd still have to maintain a working knowledge of vi and context switch when in a remote shell. Changing to Emacs would require more cognitive bandwidth when the whole purpose of "switching for org mode" is to reduce mental load.

You can cut and shape rock with chisels. Isn't the water used primarily for dust control in powered stone drills/saws?

I've built a setup that orchestrates updates for any number of remotes without needing a permanently hosted registry. I have a container build VM at HQ that also runs a registry container pointed at the local image store. Updates involve connecting to remote hosts over SSH, establishing a reverse tunnel, and triggering the remote hosts to pull from the "localhost" registry (over the tunnel to my buildserver registry).

The connection back to HQ only lasts as long as necessary to pull the layers, tagging works as expected, etc etc. It's like having an on-demand hosted registry and requires no additional cruft on the remotes. I've been migrating to Podman and this process works flawlessly there too, fwiw.

Sounds like you already know this, but your dad's a hero. Infinite respect for the folks who dedicate their lives to helping others.

The loss of tactile keyboards on mobile devices is a tragedy.

mutt is all I'll ever need...

Man some of y'all really have beef with Rocky...

Does anyone actually still use jQuery?

Everything I've built in the past like 5 years has been almost entirely pure ES6 with some helpers like jsviews.

I wish there were better coupling between TST and STG (Simple Tab Groups). Automatic nesting of TST is great, but sometimes I'd like to just move a whole tree into a named group. Maybe I'm just doing it wrong.

This is the primary reason I keep so many tabs open instead of just bookmarking things or copying URLs into my project notes.

I can't tell if you're being hyperbolic.

Plenty of people make art to express themselves, not for the potential profit of it.

It certainly used to, but tbh C++ since 17 has been pretty decent and continually improving.

That said, I still prefer to use it only where necessary.

Ah yes, the "We have a problem over there/I'll just delete 'over there'" approach.

Hey just want to take the opportunity to say thanks for your efforts with releng. I'm always pleasantly surprised by how quick and effective you folks are with getting updates built, validated, and shipped when upstream has a release.

Looking forward to Rocky 10!

This is just categorically wrong. Alma is no longer a 1:1 binary copy of RHEL due to the licensing changes RedHat made in 2023, but it is absolutely still binary compatible.

...would it?

I guess maybe if it was PHP8 only...

This baffles me. What's to maintain? I've been running wireguard for years and never had to do anything except scan a QR code when I get a new phone.

By "as if it were public facing" I assume you mean locked down as much as possible using either router or host-based firewall rules?

I like the idea of the passively-safe, waste-reducing LFTR but it's still a materials science issue at this point, and there's no real solution in sight.

Fission still has this huge stigma about "nuclear=dangerous and bad" which clearly isn't true with the growing number of passively-safe designs... but nobody wants to fund development of those into proper commercial reactors.

Meanwhile, fusion is still different and futuristic enough to have support from governments and the general public.

Maybe I'm blind, but I haven't seen anywhere else in the thread where "we'd be directly connecting unsolicited" is mentioned apart from where you've prompted it.

I don't think any reasonable engineer expects that that end would ever be the case, even if it was one of the stated original "dreams" of IPv6.

If you think domestic social media companies aren't capable of silently promoting certain content at the request of someone with influence... you wouldn't happen to be in the market for a bridge, would you?

Devil's advocate: Can this not also happen on literally any other social network? Can this kind of shit not also be initiated by domestic agents, or agents of allied nations, or even just some bored haxor group with a penchant for chaos?

If what you said is the primary reason for banning TikTok (bad actors can do bad things), it's also a valid reason to ban literally every social network, or possibly even all user-generated content on the internet.

And its sequel, Vimborne.

I haven't visited Elbonia in a while. Do you live near Weenus or Chelidon? How's the weather this time of year?

Oh my god it's worse than we thought...

Purple was her favorite color. #639 is shorthand for about the purplest purple you can make with RGB. Jeff Zeldman proposed the color name on Twitter and in a blog post shortly after she died, and it understandably caught on.

I agree, that answer is misleading. The way I've always understood it: light is an EM wave, and it interacts with medium that it travels through. When traveling through a vacuum, the "beam" source is the origin, but when traveling through a medium the "beam" is a propagation of emissions from the matter absorbing, oscillating, and re-emitting a photon. These interactions take (an extremely small, but nonzero) amount of time, but the light being absorbed and emitted always travels at c.