jyrkesh

A lot of electricity in the US is charged differently during "off-peak hours". I know some EV owners who take advantage of this by scheduling when they charge their cars.

I'm aware, which is why I phrased it like I did. A lot of folks don't know or understand the distinction when they're installing Git (or installing something else that happens to bring Git with it).

The overarching point is that the shell itself is not installing anything at shell runtime. E.g. it's the Git Bash installer, not opening `bash`.

There's a lot of different ways to install Git on a lot of different OSes, and some of them put helper shell scripts down by default.

I still think you're right, Reddit has a much higher signal to noise ratio than almost anywhere else on the internet. But there's absolutely money to made by paying off mods of larger subreddits to curate content in such a way that makes their brands look good.

Would you mind giving an example of what that might look like? Or linking to something? I've always struggled with needing to open ports temporarily on stuff behind my own reverse proxy to avoid passing the certs by hand, and it sounds like something that'd be useful to understand.

It'd be awesome if I could import my Google Maps location history into something like this so I can stop giving them my GPS data forever. I just find it so damn useful, but I'd like to port it over, wipe it, and start on something privacy-respecting.

Maybe the analogy would be more accurate comparing to autoland systems? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autoland

If lockdown WFH has taught me anything, it's that the times that we've set for doing activities day-to-day is totally arbitrary. I work with people across all timezones now, and it's clear that the way that I set the clock is just a pacing metric for the way that my job and the businesses around me give me the freedom to do what I need to do.

If what you're saying is true, schools should start at 10a. We need to have those conversations.

I'm on one coast, my coworkers are on another, we gotta figure out how to sync our meetings. Same goes with when the supermarkets are open.

Most of us are not farming anymore. It's just about having a consistent meter stick to which to adjust our standards.

This is too real for me. I worked as a college hire PM for almost 8 years at $BigTech company on a single product that got re-orged around divisions as it evolved to a mature product that would likely never grow nor disappear. I wasn't there for its inception, but a major threshold point that was enough to give me the context to maintain it with raises every two years in perpetuity.

I just got the hell out back in September. I went from the IT/cloud/DevOps automation space to running the backend for a "make everything easy" web dev -> hosting company. I'm not sure that it's better, but it's different. And it's given me enough perspective to know for sure now that I probably should've gotten out two years ago. Pandemic perspective and all that.

Something something this XKCD: https://xkcd.com/1768/

I cited it as I stayed....

Bums me out too...I've been so so disappointed by every change between GPM and YTP/YTM, but I can't pull myself away for anything else. Plexamp is fantastic, but it's not enough catalog for me (yet?), and Family is just too good of a value.

> > I guess "we" have decided that driving, and self-driving, is worth a number of deaths.

> If I shoplift from a store and I'm not stopped, that doesn't mean that "we" have decided that my theft is okay.

Those aren't equivalent, though. Stores _have_ decided that _some_ theft is okay in the grand scheme of running a store.

Conversely, I think most of us agree e.g. that the incident where a woman was killed by an Uber self-driving Volvo[1] was _not_ okay, and that multiple negligent factors were at play that contributed to her death.

This doesn't mean that society thinks self-driving cars are _all_ not okay.

Similarly, the royal/societal "we" _absolutely_ have decided that collective driving is worth some quantity of deaths. We seek to minimize them, but there are extremely few people seriously advocating for the abolition of cars today, and they've been around for over a hundred years at this point.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_of_Elaine_Herzberg

Society says some stuff is bad that's not actually that bad.

Children and teenagers should not be able to do some things that adults are allowed to do.

These are not mutually exclusive.

An 18+ rating on Deus Ex is dumb for a mature 16 year old. Cannabis should be legal for adults.

I'm also glad that 12 year olds can't drive cars. Even if I wished I could drive at 12.

In other words, the rules can be set up unfairly AND still have room for just differentiation between children and adults.

I'm signed into an Apple ID on my one Mac machine so that I can use the App Store and to use iMessage/FaceTime despite my lack of an iPhone. I unchecked all the iCloud stuff as fast as I could because I wasn't prompted after adding the Apple ID on what I wanted to add, and there's no clear "Turn off iCloud" button.

Updated to Monterey, and suddenly 3 or 4 of the iCloud items were checked. Maybe there was something buried in the Monterey OOBE, but I honestly don't remember even getting a new EULA, and I'm usually VERY careful about looking for the anti-patterns that push cloud stuff.

Just popped System Preferences back open to see what the current state is, and it says I have 4.99 GB of 5GB available in my iCloud (presumably because of the iMessage stuff). Private Relay (Beta) has no checkbox and is spinning a spinner that says "Loading". No idea if that means it's turned on, or how to make it stop loading.

Not defending MSFT, this sucks, and I say that as someone who uses W11 Pro as my daily driver. But between them, Apple, and what Google does on Android, it's very frustrating that my only _reasonable_ option for truly offline local accounts is a Linux machine. I WANT TO PAY MONEY TO HAVE A WELL-SUPPORTED MACHINE

Unfortunately, the devil is in the details of that "essentially" and "simplified UI". CarPlay seems magic (though admittedly I don't own an iPhone), but Android Auto has been riddled with problems around whether the deck or the phone has control, weird memory leaks, and critical controls or settings missing from the "simplification". Every time I've used it as a passenger, I find myself unplugging the phone, fiddling with the Maps or music UI on there, and then plugging it back in (often only to find out that the pairing got reset somehow and the car needs to be put in park before I can complete the onboarding again).

I drive a 2005 stick shift that sits on a Toyota Corolla block. It has a dumb radio with real buttons, and no power windows or power locks.

It's amazing. Maintenance is cheap, stuff works. I have a Bluetooth FM radio dongle, and the audio quality is less than ideal, but my speakers are crap too, so who cares. I threw on a dash mount for my phone to do navigation and music, and it's wayyyy better than even decks with Apple CarPlay or Android Auto (particularly since most of that stuff, until very recently, required you to plug in a cable).

I'm going to drive the thing into the ground. Really not looking forward to the idea of buying a car full of computers to replace it.

That being said, fuel economy isn't _great_. If the odometer is to be trusted I get around 25 mpg, but I don't drive all that much, and I just don't think a hybrid or electric vehicle is worth the price, both upfront (particularly in this market) and maintenance (for the hybrids only, electrics seem to be maintenance-free).

I totally agree with you around regarding the way sexuality is treated here in the US, and think you're on the whole correct that socially we soft censor a whole lot.

But when you say "vibrant right wing" and they're "just...not allowed to display Nazi insignia", are you referring to the extreme right wing that're basically Nazis without the logos?

If so, given that they exist, what do you see as the point at all of having those bans on the iconography? It seems your society largely _does_ have the mental defenses that I agree with OP are necessary to combat the downsides of free speech writ large. So then why have those bans in place at all?

I didn't know this was a thing that had a term either! I don't talk politics anymore except with folks that I explicitly know want to talk politics, but I frequently suggest that people shouldn't use a whole litany of terms in those discussions: right/left-wing, capitalist, socialist, liberal, conservative, communist, libertarian, fascist...so many people use these terms as short-hand for "stuff I really/don't like", and then project values and policies onto them.

Throw them out, talk about the issues, talk about your shared values, etc, and you'll quickly find that you agree with people a lot more than you realized.

Ehhhh, there was a lot of incentive to botnet vulnerable machines.

Source: I made a lot of money between the ages of 12-15 running HijackThis and Spybot Search and Destroy on neighbors' machines.

Other source: circumvented my school's firewall with "anonymous proxies" on lists of what, in hindsight, were absolutely compromised machines.

Shouldn't those all be true of ISPs too, though? Why are telcos different? Is it just because they need stricter QoS because of airwaves vs. cables? Do you think that argument still holds water in a post-5G-saturated world?

It wasn't necessarily the standard or even the majority, but we had that with Sysops whenever "the build team" or "the deployment team" was building self-serve tools.

And I definitely agree with the article here that if you're using PaaS, you don't need a DevOps team. And there's certainly a better feedback loop there.

But many will argue that PaaS _still_ isn't there yet for highly complex applications. Unless you go to a point where you basically need a team managing the eventual complexity that PaaS adds back to things for you to achieve complexity.

In any case, this is mostly pedantry. We should all strive for simplicity as much as possible, but complexity in apps breeds complexity in organizational structures. DevOps was never a silver bullet, and there probably won't ever be one.

Great, but you're computer-savvy. You know not to click the 9 phony "Download" buttons and to find the nondescript text that says "Download link (slow)", and you probably don't even end up on sites like that in the first place.

Nowadays, the first thing I do when "cleaning up" a non-tech friend/relative's computer is to install uBlock Origin. Since I started doing that, the number of repeat calls dropped precipitously. (To be honest, it's probably good for their fake news intake, too...)

The web is a lot scarier for most people than you might realize if you've been successfully navigating away from sketchy sites for 30 years.

I love my mobile app as well (RIF), but do you know about old.reddit.com? Still works great with RES, I couldn't imagine Reddit on the desktop any other way

Even worse, they just took the opportunity to pay off the govt to avoid disclosing exactly to what extent they lied.

At this point, what basis is there to presume that their reserve is non-zero?

Legal matters have ramifications. She can never live in the US ever again. The loss of that option alone would be emotional for me, knowing that I have to chunk up time with loved ones into 90 day periods, or knowing that I never the option to say, move home and take care of my parents.

Yeah, I can't stand the Teams client experience, in spite of them nailing the threading model--it's just horribly sluggish--but it nails the "it just works". And for large organizations where the majority of folks don't notice 500ms response times in the UI, it's everything they need. And at PAYGo rates, and at uptimes your IT department can only dream of achieving (yes, there's downtime, but at some point it's unavoidable).

"Productivity" is at Microsoft's core here, and for the large majority case, they're nailing it.

Sure, but it definitely avoids a bunch of the problems mentioned in this thread. It's annoying that you have to dig so hard to even make Hibernate visible next to Sleep, Shutdown, and Reboot on the various power menus.

I recently switched from an XPS 15 to an M1 MacBook Pro, and it's glorious that I just don't have to think about it anymore. The XPS 15 had all the problems I'm reading above, and then some.

I would assume it's the upbringing because I don't think impulse control is actually a very natural behavior. There's a reason it's called "primal rage".

On the flip side, self-control, impulse control, being able to manage your emotions with a toolbox: these are skills that are learned, honed, and mastered. Sure, many people learn them through other means than from their parents, often as a survival necessity in their environments, but I don't think that e.g. the people who fly off the handle and get into a bar fight when someone's hitting on their girlfriend, are doing so because of heavy metal poisoning or genetics.

I agree with you, but also having maintained a fairly large corporate OSS project, our backlog has gotten unsustainable. We've thrown more bodies at the problem, and are trying to deputize more of the community, but I really don't know how to manage/organize super old issues that may be legitimate, but typically aren't very searchable for people with similar problems (which often aren't obviously similar).

In the vernacular, or scientifically?

I think most folks around me call their annual flu vaccine a "flu shot", but I still think it qualifies as a vaccine even though we don't think of it of the same severity as your one-time childhood vaccines.

I would have. English is a frankenstein language, adopting words from all sorts of different languages. Kowtow means what it means in English, it's a perfectly reasonable word to have used there.

I tried really hard to see if this wasn't the case, but the consensus across the web seems to align with this SO post: https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/314900/does-kowt...

IMO, he was being downvoted because this particular instance is just as much a show of kowtowing to the US government as the Chinese government.