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> notice very amateur UI bugs, misalignment, bad spacing, overlapping elements, etc. all the time now.

Seriously. Example: the "merge pull requests" button. If your repository requires linear history and the current type of merge is unavailable, the entire UI element turns grey instead of green. It looks like you can't use the button at all, but the dropdown arrow still works to select a valid type of merge (which then turns the entire element green).

It's a small thing, but it causes confusion by making it appear that the change cannot be merged, and it makes you wonder how much testing they do.

These little things keep piling up as they focus on shiny new features which rarely work correctly at launch (looking at you, code search...)

Please, GH product managers. Take a break from breakneck new features, and give your devs time to clean up and do some preventative maintenance.

There will probably still be a handful of '80s-'00s cars running in 2050+. There are some bulletproof Toyotas and Hondas out there.

You might have to replace the frame every few decades as it rusts, but that is possible with body-on-frame construction. They're also simple enough to be maintainable and repairable until their ECUs croak - maybe even then, with something like speeduino.

If you want, you can still pick up a cheap one from a dry, warm area and make your own car of Theseus. It's not cheaper than running a new car after the initial purchase price, of course.

The problem is that you need a lot of money to be free of servitude.

Adderall treats people who have ADHD, but for those who don't have the disorder, it does what you'd expect a cocktail of amphetamines to do.

Tough for the kids who get misdiagnosed, huh?

What you're describing is parasocial interaction, not social interaction.

The censors are one of the main reasons why China is so far behind on AI R&D.

No unfiltered training data, and severe penalties if the AI hallucinates something that is against the party line.

You'd need more than an internet that could not be shut off. You'd also need an internet where communication could not be tracked.

One of the most effective ways to maintain an authoritarian regime is to proactively prevent a critical mass of revolt from forming. You just need to keep a steady low volume of arrests and disappearances going for people who express discontent. If not enough people are actively expressing discontent, you fill your quota with members of a group or area that you see as a risk. History shows that your people will stay silent and meek, clinging to the belief that they personally have done nothing wrong.

A means of communication which authorities cannot snoop on is absolutely essential for any oppressed population that yearns to breathe free.

Why not try it? Wake up tomorrow, and decide that all of your most optimistic hopes and beliefs are objectively true. That harebrained idea that you've been nursing is a sure winner, and it could deliver 12.5% returns with enough backing.

Sure, people will disagree with you about how much things cost, or when payments are due, or the terms of contracts that you signed.

But if you're patient, you will eventually find people who'll readily believe a friendly smile and a dollop of gish gallop. They give up money easily, and they will often defend obvious cons once they have skin in the game.

You'll always be looking over your shoulder, though, waiting for the other shoe to drop. Your brain will know the truth, even if you try to suppress it, and the gap between expectations and reality will only grow with time.

Would you really want to live like that? Maybe for a day, I guess...

Why not, besides the practical impossibility of the current Congress passing such a law?

IMHO, it would level the playing field for honest manufacturers and service providers.

Sure, it would effectively outlaw many types of ads that we see today, but do you think any of the types of ads that rely on hidden fine print are really all that valuable to our economy or society?

If I were a legislator, I would introduce a bill to ban footnotes in advertising. Everything that the company feels it needs to print, must be included in the main ad copy.

Enough with this coy duplicity.

Yeah...that's how I've usually done things, too. I'm starting to reconsider, and trying to flip off a power strip with PC/TV/etc before bed.

It is inconvenient to lose state. Web browsers can happily spring back up with previously-opened tabs, but you lose a sense of continuity with other apps, shell history, etc.

General question to the community, what's the state of window manager snapshotting these days? I've been able to snapshot/restore non-GUI process trees with CRIU, but I haven't been able to make it work with an X11|Wayland server. I don't think it snapshots GPU state.

Maybe it'd be a better idea to do everything in VMs, and save/load them across reboots?

Your desktop PC uses almost 2kWh per day? Do you ever turn it off or put it to sleep?

Seems like it could be fairly simple to define whether a UGC site can be considered "not social media".

* No recommended content. Chronological feed with basic search functionality is okay. Auto-generated "popular posts" section is social media.

* No targeted ads. Static banners which everybody sees are okay. Decision-making about which ads to show based on user data is social media.

I think those two simple rules would keep a "not social media" company's incentives aligned against invective and towards relevant discussion, even if they were in the business of facilitating discussion amongst like-minded people. And it's not like social media would be banned: just more tightly regulated.

You can just show up and park. You can buy an annual pass directly from the government for ~$100 that covers campsite/entrance fees in pretty much every national park, or put some cash in an envelope with a form and leave it in a dropbox at the lot.

The problem is peak seasons. If you show up to Yellowstone without a reservation on the 4th of July weekend, you'll be lucky if you can even get into the park, much less stay there or appreciate its natural beauty.

So if you want to visit a park during a holiday, school vacation week, or most of the Summer, you need to deal with the bloated mess of a ticketing system which was created by the cheapest new grads that the lowest-bidding rent-seeking leech of a contractor could come up with.

My advice: get used to cold weather and visit in the off season. Nobody is making reservations to hike in Bryce Canyon in the middle of December.

Banks can offer incentives for certain levels of deposits. Better interest rates, better cards, better loans. SVB offered perks to bank exclusively with them.

https://www.cnbc.com/2023/03/12/silicon-valley-bank-signed-e...

If you took that sort of agreement and bet on being bailed out in the event of a failure, you won your bet.

The problem is that people aren't rational, and they don't have perfect information.

So the history of finance and commerce has been a cat-and-mouse game where the cats find new ways to cheat people, and the mice try to recognize and prevent those schemes.

One example: cartels. If an industry is dominated by a small number of large players, they can collude to set prices and stifle competition through regulatory capture, acquisitions, cornering supply chains, etc. It works like a monopoly, but no individual member is large enough to pursue as a monopoly. It falls apart with too many members, because the rewards for defecting are high.

How about Ford, in Dearborn MI? They were really into controlling their workers' behavior outside of work. If Ring had existed in Henry Ford's time, he would have had surveillance cameras in every home, reporting to Ford's internal sociology department.

https://askus.thehenryford.org/faq/169797

https://www.thehenryford.org/collections-and-research/digita...

The Ford Homes are not to be confused with Fordlandia, Henry Ford's disastrous attempt to build a utopian rubber plant in the Amazon rainforest.

Nah, you can easily get a residential mortgage from smaller lenders with just proof of income/savings, and the sort of light credit usage you get from monthly CC payments, rent, utilities. That will net you a solid credit score, too.

The issue is with very large banks. They have rigid underwriting deparments and poor CS, so if you approach them as a first-time buyer who isn't already leveraged to the hilt, they will make it a long and painful process. Mortgage agents are a prime target for AI replacements, because all they do is relay information between you and the underwriting departments that make the real decisions.

Other people have pointed out that when you take a loan for something you can afford, you can use the money you would have spent on other things in the meantime. (As long as you're confident that you'll keep making enough money to make your payments for the life of the loan.)

If you like this, you'll love the Golden Book of Chemistry Experiments. Fun for the whole family.

https://archive.org/details/the_golden_book_of_chemistry_exp...

Most weeds regrow easily if you don't pull out their root structure.

Is it really a "cold wallet" if you can quickly transfer funds out from a smartphone app, and that process is easier than using a banking app?

Organized sedition, maybe, but "treason" is narrowly defined in the US constitution:

>Treason against the United States, shall consist only in levying War against them, or in adhering to their Enemies, giving them Aid and Comfort. No Person shall be convicted of Treason unless on the Testimony of two Witnesses to the same overt Act, or on Confession in open Court.

>The Congress shall have Power to declare the Punishment of Treason, but no Attainder of Treason shall work Corruption of Blood¹, or Forfeiture except during the Life of the Person attainted.

¹: "Corruption of blood" is a legal term. This passage means that treason charges cannot be carried to future generations, they only apply to the person who committed the act.

But don't 12V lead-acid batteries have a wide voltage range between charged (~14.5V) and discharged (~10V)? I don't think they would provide exactly 12.6V very often, or for very long.

This article is paywalled after the first couple of paragraphs, but..."Finally"?

Nobody likes extracting and burning hydrocarbons, but let's be honest. Shale gas removed a lot of uncertainty around the US' ability to supply itself with energy in a pinch, and markets love stability.

Wall Street has already made plenty of money off of places like the Permian basin and Bakken fields.

I could be wrong, but I think I've seen removable silicone membrane covers over mechanical buttons in some pieces of medical equipment.

Silicone is inexpensive and suitable for cookware that gets exposed to heat. I bet that sort of thing could survive an autoclave.

Exactly, standards should be durable and predictable. They need slow, lumbering curators.

When it comes to overbroad laws like the cookies thing, lazy malicious adherence is the name of the game. Simply block JavaScript from domains like "cookielaw.org", and you'll never see the dialogs.

Is it legal that the website doesn't ask for your consent if you block random third parties from executing code on your machine? Who cares!

They add another common standard, probably allowing manufacturers to choose between "old" and "new" for a little while.

Similar to the switch from microUSB-B to USB-C. Budget phones kept using the cheap option for awhile, but eventually costs came down and people settled into the new standard.

Not sure how it's done in the EU, but their legislature could delegate authority to make such decisions to an executive agency if the process of passing an amendment or new law is too slow.

Seems a bit tabloid-y for Bloomberg. It's got all the hallmarks of a daily mail front page, except for a rhyme.

* Alliterative "billionaire brin"

* Grammatically inexact reference to a polarizing company/product.

* Pun on "giving vehicle" to refer to a nonprofit organization.

Personally, I'd be surprised if most mammals weren't generally happier than people. Cats, dogs, and sea mammals seem to have it all figured out. Apes and monkeys, less so - chimpanzees are brutal.

    Tiger got to hunt.
    Bird got to fly.
    Man got to sit and wonder why, why, why?
    Tiger got to sleep.
    Bird got to land.
    Man got to tell himself he understand.

- Kurt Vonnegut, Cat's Cradle

Or as Blaise Pascal put it in Pensées:

>When I have occasionally set myself to consider the different distractions of men, the pains and perils to which they expose themselves at court or in war, whence arise so many quarrels, passions, bold and often bad ventures, etc., I have discovered that all the unhappiness of men arises from one single fact, that they cannot stay quietly in their own chamber.

>>>>>The first step is to eliminate cars as a primary mode of transportation.

>>>>The first step is to make it possible to live without a car.

>>>The first step is to set up separated bike lanes and improved electrified bus/rail routes.

>>The first step is to convince the legislature to shift infrastructure funding away from building new roads.

>The first step is to elect the right candidates, build a base of support, and draft an amendment which can get through the next budget showdown.

And so on...although it's more of a sprawling tree than a descending list.