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I really like the show. I’m mildly addicted to hot food.

“I love the flavor. I think there’s some oak in it… and pencil.” I’d never seen the host be in this much pain.

As a Star Wars fan, Disney’s failure on this topic isn’t technical at all. The content is just mediocre; it doesn’t excite or motivate one to watch, it feels bland and commercial. What they’re doing to other franchises — and notably Pixar’s work — is quite similar.

The picture on that link clearly shows how you can heat up greenhouses by running 14th gen. CPUs at modest speeds.

On a more serious note, kudos to them if these numbers are true. That’s a decent amount of renewables and waste reduction at such an industrial scale.

Wait for Intel Lake Michigan, which freezes in winter and stays relatively cool in summer. I jest, but I don’t understand how they’re getting power regulation so hit-and-miss.

Ah, I meant having a single transaction in a SQL file, as that’s how we’re using it. So having multiple queries with a BEGIN and COMMIT wrapping them.

I’m not sure you should use anecdata from 1997 to infer “most dentists” are what you’re describing. Certainly there’s bad dentists — my implant is proof of that —, but please show us the data that ‘most’ of them are ignorant or scammers.

Mouth rinses often contain alcohol or other harsh substances, some of which have a correlation with mouth cancer. By comparison, flossing is comparatively harmless. You can floss wrong, but even that seems better than not flossing.

From experience: I used to rinse AND floss, and the floss always came back with a little bit of organic matter which would’ve otherwise decomposed.

So arguing against floss in praise of mouth rinses doesn’t seem like such an obvious ‘just do it’ idea. It’s probably more nuanced than that. And you can always use the wrong rinse or rinse incorrectly.

I didn’t know support for schemas had landed, but the docs still seem obtuse for joins and upserts. Compared to plain SQL files in PgTyped — which admittedly needs some annotations to work, and lacks transactions —, I find the lateral joins in Zapatos really verbose and ugly. Lots of extra parameters too.

Which isn’t to say it’s not a great tool! You pick what you like :)

I haven’t, but it’s an ORM so an automatic no. We tested 6 ORMs before deciding that plain SQL with introspection was the way to go. No regrets.

We had to abandon Zapatos because a) it doesn’t support multiple schemas; b) the types wouldn’t always be very readable.

PgTyped was the alternative, and 2 years later I’m very glad we made the switch.

macOS doesn’t record video well at all. QuickTime is the vehicle for it, often crashing, or not stopping the recording. It’s been like that for years. I don’t use Loom, but I’d never ever recommend trying to record your screen on macOS using QT.

You picked one of the most unequal, lowest Gini countries ; one known for tax havens at the cost of quality of life for its people. In the EU we have Ireland, which many will tell you isn’t being run well.

I don’t want to disagree with you for no purpose: I agree countries need to keep their spending in check. I live in a country that is far too generous on the wealthy (no substantial capital gains tax, corporations get lots of tax breaks). Are we competitive? No. In fact, a decent portion of graduates prefer moving to neighboring countries that offer better quality of life.

Governments don’t exist to serve corporations. They are elected for and by the people. If all countries on Earth had the same corporate tax, this discussion would be very different.

Why is it bad that corporations pay taxes? Ignoring your use of sexual language to that effect, I don’t see why companies get to use tax havens to avoid paying for the Common Good that serves everyone (regardless of how much % you think it should be).

I stand corrected, and I’ll rephrase it as “it used to be that every now and then Apple released a version of macOS with notable fixes and small improvements.”

I’m not downplaying how much work is going into crazy features that millions probably like. But I make software, and I’m tired of how macOS is now marginally less annoying than trying to maintain an Arch Linux setup.

I do agree that lack of risk-taking and sameness are affecting the music and movie industries. But it’s entirely possible movies “feel” worse because… there’s more of them. Maybe Sturgeon's law is at work, and the more movies we make, the more shit we get.

The basic advice I got to avoid RSI (from an ortho) was dynamic movement. Move. Change position a lot. Sit back, forward, turn, get up, yell at the neighbors, etc. Any movement is the point, as it activates your tendons and joints. Seems to work.

I’m sorry for my lack of clarity. Please keep in mind this is what killed Firefox for me, not the wider audience.

But also more vendors, market fragmentation, and far less open-source firmware?

It used to be that even-numbered releases fixed bugs and stabilized the OS, with notable features coming in odd-numbered releases. Now they don’t care. Unifying iOS and macOS has become the goal, and probably some PMs are getting nice promotions thanks to that. The golden stability of macOS (a la Snow Leopard) is gone. Now I get random reboots every other week, so I keep a tight Time Machine schedule.

I normally would argue for how much we dumb down human intelligence to pretend AI is intelligent (rather than saying it’s capable). But… leaving that aside, I think it’s on-brand for Stallman to push a bit against them. They’re a) largely owned by private companies; b) their code, data, and models isn’t open or openly licensed. I wouldn’t expect one of GPL’s biggest crusader to defend ML in its current state.

I did say “then Chrome…”. Over time I found more and more extensions being Chrome-only. This before the manifest harmonization, of course.

A quick example that comes to mind is The Great Suspender (the tracking-free community edition). Firefox’s alternatives were really not very good. (I’m not sure how it is now.)

It’s 699€ in Europe; not sure about the price in India. But that feels prohibitive for my budget, so I imagine it’s expensive for the average Indian consumer?

Lots of good reasons already mentioned, but there were 2 killer reasons for me: developer tools and extensions. I really wanted to stick with Firefox, but as someone working on the web, it was an appalling experience. And then Chrome just kept getting better and better extensions that I couldn’t find elsewhere.

Obviously Firefox becoming much slower and heavier over time, whilst introducing anti-features didn’t help either.

I despise Google now, so I don’t use Chrome anymore. But I’m not going back to Firefox either. The trust battery towards Mozilla never got back from zero.

It was published by the author as a DRM-free ebook in all formats. You can get it from, say, Bol and convert it. Or directly from Daedtech’s website.

I agree with you, but many (most?) of the controllers are indeed from that demographic. Of course the language wasn’t the best; unless you like punk >.<

I agree that irrigation needs are urgent. However, we also need incentives towards an eventual transition.

A basic example: contours to mitigate how fast water moves in elevated terrain. Cheap and effective. Then water collected at dug basins in the bottom.

If you have cheap, constant access to water, you irrigate industrially. It’s only when droughts, lack of groundwater, climate effects, etc. kick in that the alternatives become important. But by then, you didn’t put them in place early enough.

So I think farming deserves both short- and long-term thinking. Business as usual won’t work as climate conditions get worse.

I’ve lots on my e-reader, but I keep going back to Ben Falk. “The Resilient Farm and Homestead” is super cool, you actually follow their story over multiple years, with the farm’s changes rather well documented! Of course the more scientific books on the topic are better information-wise — some used at uni —, but Falk’s is nice to read.

These are very important factors, of course. But Mozilla could’ve at least mitigated the disaster. Even amongst engineers Firefox was a hard sell for many years. It took me a long time but even I jumped ship eventually, despite being a die-hard fan with a couple of contributions to Firefox. For a veeeeery long time Firefox was just atrocious to use. And once you’ve moved browsers, there’s not a lot of incentive to go back.

I don’t have a list of examples, but this is historically a problem for the web.

I’ve sat in a couple of Ecmascript events where maintainers complain about Google implementing features before approval. Sometimes Chrome ships stage 2 features because (apparently) Google engineers don’t want to respect due process.

It’s known, we just put up with it. I also blame developers working on non-standardized features. You should work with the ES that is official and current, not the one Google is forcing on other vendors.

Apologies for not listing all the times this happened, but I think too many.

> There's no right to make infinite money off the Internet.

I like this a lot. Google is massively profitable. The only argument in favor of continue to extract every cent they can off the market, is that we have a fiction of perpetual, constant growth. It should be 100% okay for a company to say “we’re super profitable, we’re going to tone it down now and focus on making our services better”.