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Right?! Cataclysm DDA is the first thing I think of when I think roguelike. And then someone says Slay the Spire is roguelike because, I dunno, you progress in ability. I suppose I'm just too old.

Linux definitely does this. What different DEs do with it is sometimes suspect. But BT keyboard definitely wakes my GNOME environment, while it does not stay connected to my headphones.

Which, if we're being honest, is not inherently a bad thing. I know people who worry about how much they lean on the grandparents for help, but then walking it back two generations, that's kinda, sorta how it always was.

It's hard for American's to understand sometimes, but no man is an island, and it's okay to not be fiercely independent and have fuck-you money for everything. Sometimes you're gonna just have to depend on other people to help you.

What is vouching?

Nobody is arguing with you about skateboarding destroying some property. 100% seems like hyperbole given that many (nay, most these days) skateboarding takes place at municipal or private parks.

Statistics on lawsuits brought by riders against property owners should probably be cited, else it just sounds like perhaps you have had one of these lawsuits brought against you and have anger about it.

On a more positive note, I love to see municipalities embracing community rather than shunning. I personally wouldn't session those things just cause it seems crazy public. But I'm glad skateboarding isn't quite so marginalized anymore. Really, across the board it's awesome seeing people okay with differences and gives you hope for the future.

Wow, that's a hilarious hot take to hear in 2024. I get that some people associate skateboarding with all that, but then again, there are some folks who just trespass and cause property damage on their feet. Almost as though there's a correlation rather than causation.

This. I find myself tremendously bored watching most videos online these days, scrubbing through to find things that are of interest. There's just so much filler and even when it's not, the information density is very low.

In the meantime, along with reading, I also have longreads in my RSS reader, so every evening I get a few fantastic long form online articles and feel pretty well connected to what's going on.

The people of Chad? Oh wait, I forgot that Africans aren't capable of self-governance /s

But that's a silly example, because proving net-harm from industrial uses across from residential is easy. Proving net-harm from denser residential is generally an exercise in NIMBY-ism that slides very smoothly into classism and racism about who would live in those denser units.

Residents coming together to decide on rules by which they are governed can get us public lynching too. It doesn't mean it's good governance.

There's got to be some cosmic irony to using Buddhism principals of impermanence to help explain the next phase of post-WW2 consumer culture.

This space is too small for a philosophical debate about the merits of UBI. Suffice it to say, when the top 5% has 1,000x more than they need for subsistence and the bottom 25% has never had access to more than 1x more than they need for subsistence, nothing will ever change. And more to the point, because having 10-20 times more than you need for subsistence has a demonstrable impact on your ability to generate more wealth 1) some will always get richer and pull away from the majority over time and 2) eventually the majority of people without subsistence amounts of wealth will rise up and kill you.

Maybe that wont happen in our current system for a generation or two. But then the question those 5% at the top have to ask themselves is whether they feel lucky to avoid an uprising against them in their lifetime.

I mean, we're basically heading towards a basic minimum income at that point, where you truncate the top 5% of the tax ladder and redistribute it to the bottom 25%. At that point, people could pay for services.

Dig a little into the idea that people can "pay" with their attention (and with their poor health, crappy buying decisions, personal freedoms) might fit the dictionary definition of sinister.

Geez. Simply the trajectory changing twice in flight rules out rockets and makes is pretty clear it was a directed Interceptor. But the fog of war is thick so we'll probably never really know. So sad.

Mixing tabs and spaces usually throws a runtime exception. I'm not gonna make a value judgement about that, but your story doesn't make sense based on how I understand py3

Edit, sorry, shoulda read your whole commebt before replying

Gah, it's not even the politicization! I dare you to sit through a 3rd grade class at your neighborhood school. Nothing gets done. They do projects with little to no mooring to curriculum. That is, unless you live in a top percentile district that values curriculum mapping, but then you were already going to be in the middle class at least. In the meantime, most of these schools are day cares so parents can work. Marx wasn't that wrong.

As someone for whom the pandemic inverted the hierarchy of needs around school, we are still homeschooling because public school around here is a glorified day care full of busy work. The one thing we are missing is the socialization part and are working to address it. But I promise you, we ware not bible thumpers, nor concerned about the curriculum per-se. Rather, the slow plodding movement through the curriculum and soul-crushing aspects of bored kids.

yeah, noted. But it does seem like the heading change was so dramatic and the smoke pouring out after power recovery that something happened with the prop. And while it may have been currents, the lack of heading change before the smoke seems to suggest there was an intervention that caused heading change.

Ship travel, much like orbital mechanics, are so often non-intuitive if you're not familiar with how much effort it takes to make significant speed changes vs. heading changes. And speed changes often affect the heading as well if you're not careful.

Does that mean this was effectively captain error? Like in response to a power outage the decision was made to try to reverse and rather than arrest forward momentum it just pushed their forward vector into the piling?

Damn. I'm convinced. The asdf CLI was always a bit of a pain ... mostly I don't interact with it that often. But mise seems light years better designed. Thanks!

Curious what you like about mise! I've been a strong advocate for asdf for a few years now. Aside from smooshing together tools that are often used together, but not always (direnv, make), I can't see what mise adds to the picture. And I like still having direnv for what direnv does and make for make does, rather than an all-in-one.

I think Atlassian is Australian

Which makes one feel even shittier when you realize that even with that skewing, the list STILL contains a lot of inherited-wealth or comfortable-highly-educated-wealth people.

Probably not much reason to panic anyhow. If you live within 20 minutes of a hospital (probably, in 2024), know what measles looks like, and ensure Vitamin A in your family diet, there's a very low likely-hood that even if your family contracts the disease, your infant's symptoms will be mild. IANAD, so this isn't gospel, but I do think it helps to learn and understand risk before panic. There is plenty that can still hurt or kill us in this world, but in general, our ancestors would love to have the peace of mind we have from our modern health care system.

I say all this having had the lived experience of my infant developing necrotic pneumonia from an otherwise innocuous RSV strain that went through our house and spending two weeks in the NICU wondering if she would survive. Prevention is great, and I would never wish anyone to go through what we went through. But I also refuse to panic or live in fear.

EDIT: I had not heard of immune amnesia before. That sucks. I will exercise more caution around measles.

I am no expert in WWII era politics, but a big part of what led to WWII had been fierce nationalism within Europe that made it start drawing lines. That still exists, but there's both more outlets for competition and more opportunities for collaboration via the Eurozone. Plus, the ultra rich cross borders and have zero interest in a big global war.

I think the awkward part of your first post is that you appear to start with a value judgement that tinkering is for poor people who's time is worthless. That's not remotely fair to either poor people, or rich people who like to tinker. No one's time is worthless. Not your time. Not mine. It's all just time.

Having been a public official your adjectives for the public official in this case made my hackles go up for a moment, but you're also absolutely right. The hidden assumption in those sorts of statements is that it's all good for volunteers to try to help, but one day "authorized" people will be able to do that work, but only if we are allowed to raise your taxes. Sigh.

The problem is, not all bureaucrats are evil, but all bureaucracy begins at neutral and tends towards evil, so there's a sad inevitability involved. And my hackles went up because even I, who consider myself pretty self-aware, ended up in some horrible conversations where I know I preferred the town having authority over something volunteers had historically done. We are all part-nazi, some of us just have more authority.

The last line in the article jumped out at me: “A lot of folks … they’re kind of DIY-ing it until we can get the level of public service that we really need.”

I am through "A Paradise Built in Hell" right now, and that, combined with having spent 6 years in a (small) town leadership position makes me appreciate the unfortunate consequences of thought like that last line.

It feels like leaning hard into capitalist democracy rather than socialist democracy. The idea that things don't get done unless someone gets off their butt, puts a line item in the budget and makes sure someone is getting paid to do it not because they want to but because their compensation is adequate is destined to fail in really unfortunate ways.

Part of the book referenced above is all about the failure of the "organized" parts of government in times of crisis. It turns out, most people in community want things to be better, but learning that the "city" or "county" will do it for you if you just pay your taxes kind of neuters the impulse to be a part of your community. Instead of cleaning up the road side, people end up with book clubs or art committees, because someone's getting paid $12/hr to clean up the road for you. It's not a great look, and has disastrous consequences when things go really bad.

I wonder how many people in 2024 don't know what a spark plug is, or how their car works at all. I don't mean that in a snarky way, it just seems like increasingly people treat modern technology like magic rather than something that does a thing easier than if you tried to do it manually.

Makes me appreciate the Amish perspective on technology [0] more the older I get.

[0] https://www.wired.com/story/virtually-amish-hacking-innovati...

Yes. In the sense that Mastodon is decentralized because there is no one Mastodon server. One may accumulate more users or be the "default" for the community of users, but there is no Mastodon server (much to the chagrin of many new users).

We don't even need the hypothetical "it will defacto become..." because Bluesky Social was, up till now, the ONLY way to participate in the community. They had 3 million users before federation, and now we can start to hook into what they've built, but the idea from the start was clearly not built around federation and decentralization, otherwise it would have been federated from day one, as Mastodon was. They can HOPE now, that people accept the federation concept, but there's enough gnashing of teeth around the pain of running Mastodon instance that it seems really clear that going from central to decentral is, if we're being intellectually honest, a bridge too far for most to cross.