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Maybe. My wife is non tech and after dropping her XPS and breaking the screen she was real interested in something that can have a replacement display installed in about half an hour. She wishes her F13 were a little slimmer like her XPS, but she gets a lot of peace of mind knowing that repairs something that "even" she could do.

I'd also say that Linux support basically from day 1 is their hidden killer feature. Literally zero fuss. That's mattering to a lot more people these days even if they don't daily drive Linux, it's a good plan B in case Windows manages to get even worse.

I can personally attest to this, along with many of my friends and family.

I've driven hundreds of extra miles per trip going around that damned state.

I believe you can't put an outlet on the side of a kitchen island anymore because too many toddlers were able to grab an appliance by the cable and pull it down onto their heads. In the USA at least.

American used to offer the AAirpass back in the 80's, you could pay around $250K and get an unlimited lifetime ticket. It gets brought up in the news occasionally, usually when American cancels the person's lifetime ticket, or to run a story about a guy with a craving for NY pizza and decides to fly into JFK for a day from another corner of the country.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AAirpass

My only problem using git and a text editor is deciding whether I want hard or soft wraps. Vim handles hard wraps better IMO and you can change the git diff engine to something like difft, which makes it much more bearable than the default for hard wrap prose.

But softwrap definitely has its advantages: no hard line breaks makes copying the text into other mediums easier, git diffs show only which paragraphs you edited and not a bunch of line diff noise no matter which engine you use. Only problem is it breaks my yy, dd, cc muscle memory, as AFAIK you can't force those to work on virtual (vs logical) lines.

As far as visibility is concerned, the only problems I've encountered in a big truck are to do with the driver-side A-pillar obscuring pedestrians about to cross the street on the other side of an intersection. It's the perfect width, and in just the right spot that I've had to stop in the middle of an intersection a few times now because I didn't see somebody as they just started to cross. I'm building the habit of moving my head around at intersections, but I'd spent decades before they changed regulations not having to do this (and it doesn't actually seem that big, but it really obscures a big chunk of arc, especially at "other side of the intersection" distances and greater).

In practice, if somebody is right in front of my grill where I can't see them, they were close enough for me to notice them before they got there without me having to be on high alert for people.

I'm not putting this here as a truck-vs-car thing or whatever, I'm just trying to people a realistic idea of where the blind spits are that actually cause trouble in my experience.

Thank you! I was going to be using SSD's for medium-friction accessibility and M-DISC for long term reliability, but it never hurts to have a few more mediums.

I appreciate the links, I think outsourcing may be the best option, given the volume.

Better algos = more demand

Memory squeeze will get worse before it gets better.

Every time we add capacity with almost anything, we find ways to saturate it.

Interestingly, von Neumann's daughter was kind of shocked by the research the author did for the book The MANIAC; as a kid she carried graph paper in her pocket and Labatut had somehow found this out in his research and put it into the book, really blew her away I guess.

Ideally, somebody like Modos would create a replacement e-ink display for the Framework.

Every problem, looked at from the right perspective, is actually a solution.

POTUS has been throwing around the "treason" label a lot this term, I honestly wouldn't be surprised if he started pushing for executions of his political opponents or reporters he doesn't like.

I assume they'd be covered by a ludicrous NDA.

I've lived in a small community (pop<1000) and a budget of $5K could turn you into a shadow mayor.

Yeah that would never be weaponized with trumped-up charges against political opponents.

This thread is starting to remind me of Stalker.

I like the blurb about your ZK being something which can actually hold you back. I encounted the same issue myself and found that ZK is not always the best fit for me.

I find the best thing to do when studying something is to go over your material, internalize and synthesize it in an essay. If you can't create an original essay which perfectly replicates the knowledge you want to understand then you almost certainly don't understand it perfectly.

Alternatively, create a detailed flow chart using subcharts if you have to. (Graphviz/dot is good for this)

I used them recently and I was half expecting to give them my money and never receive anything, but actually they were great and very helpful. No complaints at all.

In some places not strictly in drought the water cycle is still completely messed up. A few huge winter storms make up for lack of precipitation in the rest of the year and then promptly melts off. So the yearly average looks good on paper but it's dry as hell in summer/fire season with no snowmelt throughout the year.

You could at least filter out hallucinated references which simply don't exist pretty trivially, I'd imagine.

If memory serves, Linux typically outperforms Windows with AMD and Intel graphics. Some of the gotchas are things like running games through Proton or anti-cheat/DRM stuff not getting the same attention that Windows does, but the raw performance is there. I wouldn't recommend using Nvidia on Linux though.

If anyone wanted to write a minimal vi-style helix clone they should call it 'ix', as it's derived from helix, gives a nod to 'vi' and a wink at the turning of vi syntax on its head, like rotating a six to make a nine. Then a descendent of 'ix' could be called 'six', and we'll have come full circle.

1. "Oh no don't make me more money. Okay if you insist..."

2. Kansas City was 30% black but his audience at that show was almost entirely white. I have a hard time believing none of them could afford a ticket.

3. Yeah which he announced after the public letter from his 11 year-old fan which had a ton of press coveeage saying how it wasn't fair

Yeah I dunno, the nose job makes me think it was about more than evening some skin tone. That guy was weird.

He's estimated to have made $10-12m in the 80's.

I had some of the details wrong btw, you had to mail in $120 for the chance at 4 tickets, and he only held it for 6-8 weeks. Part of what was so shitty though was that very many of his fans couldn't really afford what was about a months rent but scrapped it together anyways. Maybe it was a poor financial decision on their part, but he took advantage of those people for his own profit, when he didn't even really need the money.

Edit: link from sibling comment:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victory_Tour_(The_Jacksons)#Ti...

Thank you, I was flipping through the book that I read about it in and was having trouble finding it.

Hey the military has rules of engagement.

Agencies. I ended up doing private hires, which was a little nerve-wracking since I didn't have somebody doing background checks, etc. One of them was a total scammer who I probably should have reported for fraud, but the others ended up being really good and went above and beyond.

Not much different than the US, really. I had to hire some at-home care for a relative with brain cancer, and almost all of them were drunk on the job, falling asleep when they were supposed to be monitoring at night, or getting offended at something their patient said, who's mental state resembles that of a psychotic 8 year old. Oh and if you don't lock shit up, some of them will steal.

At a certain point, you fire so many there aren't any left in the area. I moved my relative to another area for unrelated reasons, but it was the same story at the new place too.

There were a few really good ones tbh, but 95% were in private care because nobody else would hire them.