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The good thing about mspaint is I can close my eyes, press the windows key, type mspaint return and I can be reasonably sure it will open without installing anything.

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Microsoft has a history of shitty behavior like this. One of the first things I change when I need to use a new computer is change alt tabs to windows only instead of treating edge tabs like windows.

On fedora, I use alt + print screen to capture the current active window. I practically always maximize my windows so it works for me. Assuming Ubuntu hasn’t messed with gnome too much, this should work. See if it works better for your workflow?

Ford lied to its own dealership when my coworker went to them about a transmission slip with his 2012 Ford Fiesta.

He had the people at the dealership drive the car. They acknowledged the problem and got on a call together with Ford. Ford refused to even entertain the idea there was a flaw but less than a year later they came up with a "software patch".

Pete would bring it up with anyone he met. Do not buy a Ford Focus / Ford Fiesta with automatic transmission.

> Look, if the problem of low birth rates is "We have no monies!", you'll have to excuse me for rolling my eyes when I see them buying lattes and iPhones in their very next breath.

If anyone is reading this, beware of boomer logic.

Children are a real commitment, unlike an iPhone. I don’t even have a sim in this iPhone I’m currently holding. It is ok. I can use it on WiFi. You can’t do that with a child. You have to feed and clothe the child. You have to take care of them when they are sick.

A coworker had a baby with an irregular heartbeat. They used to come to work with red eyes like evidently they’d been crying. Why are they at work? I mean there’s more than a dozen doctors and nurses parading in and out of the baby’s room in the hospital. Our health insurance is from our employer.

Let’s assume you somehow raised a healthy child and more they want to go to college. If college continues to go up in cost like it has got the last twenty or thirty years, where will we be when a baby born today wants to go to college?

It is not a crime to not have children. I say it is our right and our duty to not have children if we can’t make the numbers work.

If you claimed you got USD 10 million in bribes, how would the IRS verify that you actually got the money? It isn’t like the people giving you bribes will claim that as an expense… actually I’m not sure how it works.

If you own a restaurant and let’s say you bought a kilogram of tomatoes for a dollar and it spoiled but you don’t claim it as a loss. How can the IRS know this automatically and refund you?

I mean I agree they can for simple people like me who just have a w2 though…

Exactly. For example, imagine if Texas decided it would no longer allow people who have out of state driver’s licenses to drive in the state. All the other states will quickly ban Texas drivers from driving in their states as well. And we are the same country.

In fact, I’d say a ban is at least a decade overdue and our Congress is to blame as usual.

Edit: I mean a ban on social media networks controlled by China PR, not a ban on Texas drivers!

I would go a step further and call for an end to all means testing for anything government funded.

I am relatively poor and this will help me because even though I am poor I still have to prove I am poor which is burdensome.

We should compel these companies to comply.

There should be fine a 1% of annual revenue for every day these companies are in non compliance with prison for the ceo if they are non compliant for over thirty days.

I’ve given up on a one computer solution. I am currently on multiple computers. One thinkpad and an old dell optiplex run Fedora. Main desktop runs Windows. I can still ssh into my old dell optiplex from my windows desktop with its nice windows 11 power shell terminal. I can switch over to my thinkpad t490s and use Fedora with gnome (and still ssh into my dell optiplex because all of them are on the same home Internet connection and router (and same switch other than the thinkpad).

One thing I’ve noticed is remmina isn’t quite the same as mstsc windows Remote Desktop but I think it is high praise that I could even get to the point of someday expecting it…

Exactly. I am at the bottom of the totem pole as it goes. I am definitely not management. How am I “exempt”?

I don’t know if they were bragging about a fake story but I remember an ex Walmart store employee saying they scanned the bar code for a smaller tv and bought a bigger more expensive tv. This was before 9/11 though iirc just to give you a reference of time and technology so don’t try it anymore.

> Credit card networks already know everything you buy

I didn’t know this.

Let’s say I buy advil, condoms, and dish soap with my capital one Visa card at Walgreens. What information does Walgreens share with visa and/or capital one? I just assumed the name of merchant and the total amount charged was all they needed?

I remember back when I was younger, I’d often see adults requesting the cashier to charge this much on one card, this much on another, bringing out four or five cards. Do all these banks/ card processors get a full list of items sold?

This is such a difficult topic. On one hand I want to give the next generation the same freedoms that I enjoyed but on the other hand the “game” has gotten more… everything. Even adults can’t avoid falling for these traps. I’ve seen with my own eyes someone justifying spending USD 90+ on candy crush saying it isn’t that much compared to bla bla.

It is a frightening thought though to think — am I more conservative than my parents?

I would have agreed with you had Russia accepted that it made a mistake. In the absence of something small as an acknowledgment and a formal apology (followed up by large monetary compensations for the victims’ families), it isn’t obvious to me how anytime can assume it was an accident.

The apology should have come immediately after the incident, without anyone asking for it.

It's not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters. - Epictetus

> Money is a side-effect of happiness and persistence.

A million is a lot but my first reaction to your comment was this is something only wealthy people can afford to say. Especially in the US where we don’t have universal healthcare.

Just typing this made me realize I need concrete, achievable goals though so I appreciate your comment. I am not the gp but this is something I expect a lot of us need to work on. Something like:

1. What are my financial goals? 2. Is it realistic to have those goals? 3. How do I know if I am on track? If not, what can I do to correct my course?

Peace and trust are backed in part by an implicit ability to wage/counter war and aggression.

> Disputing reasonable cause is very hard to do. Most people would likely find it reasonable to be suspicious of a person lacking a cell phone. Also appears judge granted a warrant, which to me confirms they believed their the threshold for reasonable suspicion had been passed.

I don’t know what I stumbled upon but it definitely does not meet my threshold of reasonable suspicion to do an involuntary body cavity search for anyone solely because they do not own a cell phone.

Also I would hope the public pays for all costs of whatever involuntary search or medical procedure regardless of whether the search results in evidence of guilt but definitely if the search does not yield anything.

I don’t like azure functions timer triggers at all. Why does it need azure storage? What is it doing differently from an HTTP trigger that requires this nonsense? Why does azurite fail to start in my local visual studio some of the time?

I am with my fellow poster. Boycott azure functions timer trigger and server less in general. Take responsibility for the machines you run.

Except the ones who are dead

But there’s no sense crying over every mistake

We must keep on trying till we run out of cake.

I’d say it is always safer to fully load a car on a flatbed and tow it with none of the wheels turning. I never understood why it is allowed to tow someone else’s car with their wheels turning.

> Specifically, if those connections are interacting with each other in any meaningful way, I think shared data is still too useful to pass up.

What does this mean? What are some scenarios where connections interact with each other? I work with dotnet. To me, every request is standalone and doesn’t need to know any other request exists. At the most, I can see doing some kind of caching where if someone does a GET /person/12345 and someone else does the same, I maybe able to do some caching. However, I don’t think this is what you meant by shared data.

Did you mean like if someone does a PUT /person/12345/email hikingfan@gmail.com instead of the next get request reaching to the database, you keep it in the application memory and just use it?

Or am I completely missing the point and you’re talking about near real-time stuff like calls and screen sharing?

World Remit kicked me out and canceled my transaction because I didn’t realize soon enough that Ally Bank now requires me to reply with yes to a text message every time I make a big transaction with my debit card.

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> No one is seriously going back to Python 2 at this point.

No, the community is stupid and wrong. My machine learning professor (actual professor, not a teaching assistant) only used Python 2 in 2017. Imagine how many people had their opinions shaped by someone like them.

> … it is: never do this.

By that standard, we would never get things like angular 2 or Raku.

Would it be better if we renamed Python 3 to some other name and pretended it was a completely new language?

There is a lot I am unsure about but I'm sure about this: zero tolerance does not work.

Read more about it on the web. Zero tolerance is something management / administration created to not have to do their job. The world is nuanced and each case has to be judged on its own merit. I do not support slapping a zero tolerance "policy" (not really a policy, more like a copout).

> Cameras - everywhere - except individual, single occupancy enforced, stalls.

Will you place an actual human outside each such stall to guarantee there is ever only one person inside?

In theory, yes. In practice, no.

I say this because in theory Drupal core supports postgresql 100%

In practice, unless you actually comb through the code base if all the modules you install, you will have some that won't work. I have only tried this on Drupal 8 but I doubt much will change with 9 or 10.

> auto-learn

There is a gate right behind me that is closed with chains. It isn't possible to drive through there, though you can walk in and out from the smaller gate.

Google still always tells me to drive through the gate. I don't think Google Maps auto-learns. Maybe it needs a bigger sample size so people don't abuse it?

I don't get it. Why is fiber to the home so expensive? I think in principle, it makes sense for us to pay for rural broadband the same way we paid for rural electricity. The problem is some companies took the money but didn't deliver the results, no?

> In 1936, the REA was made permanent through the Rural Electrification Act. It was granted an initial budget of $50 million for the first two years, then $40 million a year for the following decade ($550 million in 1936 is approximately $10.3 billion today). Jul 12, 2021

snippet answer from Google search https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-1-d&q=how+muc...

I can't imagine how our government can justify subsidizing anything other than fiber to the home in the current year. As far as I know, there is very little ongoing maintenance cost and glass fiber is much cheaper than copper, no? Coax people are saying they can get symmetric gigabit up and down with docsis but I will believe it when I see it (low latency symmetric gigabit up and down, no data caps, reasonable pricing). Until then, we shouldn't give them any money.

> how many [...] are actually solving problems [...] not a lot

How is this specific to programming? Surely there are more pressing matters if we are looking for BS jobs that don't solve problems.

> U.S. health care spending grew 9.7 percent in 2020, reaching $4.1 trillion or $12,530 per person. As a share of the nation's Gross Domestic Product, health spending accounted for 19.7 percent.

https://www.cms.gov/Research-Statistics-Data-and-Systems/Sta...

This is almost one out of every five dollars in this country. Now that is something actually worth talking about.

Thank you for this. The right to bear arms crowd always says you cannot ban guns, you can only ban legally owned gun.

Well you cannot ban abortion. You can only ban safe abortions.

This is what they want. They don't want an end to abortions. They want an end to safe abortions. If more women die in labor, they are ok with it.