CogitoCogito

I don't understand why this is being downvoted. I would love if metric were used universally, but I don't really see any difference between that and wanting a single language to be used universally. In fact, the cost of different languages is certainly much higher than different systems of units. Converting between systems of units is just trivial arithmetic after all.

Sweden has no inheritance or wealth tax.

I have always been very careful with git histories and often rewrite/squash them before final review/merge. Often my rewritten histories have nothing to do with the original history and commits are logically/intuitively separated and individually testable.

That said, very few people seem to be like me. Most people have no concept of what a clear commit history is. I think it's kind of similar to how most people are terrible written communicators. Few people have any clue how to express themselves clearly. The easiest way to deal with people like this is to just have them squash their PRs. This way you can at least enforce some sanity at review and then the final commit should enforce some standards.

I agree on rebasing instead of straight merging, but even that's too complicated for most people.

Identification often isn't ever checked when flying within Europe _today_. They just check your ticket.

That said you're certainly not getting near any gates without a ticket in Europe these days either.

The fact that it's still used in many places obviously means it's not unbearable. Besides if you're bothered by the dust you can use the water cleaning methods described in this very thread. It's not perfect, but I would take a chalkboard over a whiteboard anytime.

I enjoy using chalkboards so much more than whiteboards. Other than the chalk dust, I just can't understand how anyone would prefer whiteboards over chalkboards.

The irony is that if Tylenol use in pregnancy actually does increase the risk of autism, RFK's destruction of trust in the government's scientific process will probably just push that sort result back. He's a charlatan and totally unscientific regardless.

Luckily for those of us who care, there are private and foreign government organizations who still take healthcare and science seriously. Unfortunately the only sane solution seems to be to ignore the US authorities on this for the time being.

> But having a persistent notification to turn on iCloud is good for the user so they don’t lose irreplaceable pictures.

Are you saying it's not okay for a user to decide they just plain don't want it? Why shouldn't be they be allowed to dismiss it permanently?

I'm not sure where you're getting your information, but this is a quote from the European Commission itself:

> The political agreement of 27 July 2025 is not legally binding. Beyond taking the immediate actions committed, the EU and the US will further negotiate, in line with their relevant internal procedures, to fully implement the political agreement.

https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/qanda_...

You might consider updating your mistaken prior beliefs.

Edit: I see another comment made the same point. I'll have to presume that after you've been presented with this new information, you'll realize that you are in fact very wrong.

Then I think you just don't have much imagination. I have recovered files in /tmp after turning off a machine by booting it back up in single-user mode and accessing the data before it would be cleared in during bootup. Given that "turning off a machine" can also mean "the machine lost power", I can definitely see why people would be surprised by this change.

I can't speak for the other poster, but I like the idea a lot. Having tools with specific purposes means I can avoid using my phone for everything. No matter what games I play to remove notifications/interruptions/etc. it's always a distraction and easy to be distracted from whatever I originally intended to use the phone for.

> What's ironic is that the ones doing this crap are usually the first to cry about internet censorship.

I believe most people against internet censorship are against _government_ censorship. I fall into that camp. I don't support government censorship of the internet, but I have no problem if individual website operators decide they don't want to serve a certain country.

Why would this post be flagged? It could of course just be automatic due to disingenuous flagging by users, but any administrator could see there is no reason to flag this and then unflag it afterwards.

Reading through Kent Overstreet's comments, it seems totally correct to kick bcachefs out of the kernel. His comments demonstrate very clearly that he's not able to work under the constraints of the current kernel development process.

I'm pretty sure we've actually known this since time immemorial. Property, contract, etc. are all legal constructs. Talking about free markets (or whatever approximation to "free" is meant by that) without laws and regulations doesn't make any sense.

The presidency is only legally afforded some powers. The issue here isn't Trump's fulfilling of campaign promises. The issue here is if Trump is following the law while doing so.

"Apparently..." would have been the perfect way to describe my reaction. I didn't realize that "cover me" meant "lay down suppressing fire" to Marines. I guess it makes sense, but that's not the meaning I would have expected. So I would probably have been just as confused as the cops in the story. I wouldn't be surprised if most cops would have been similarly confused.

So yeah in conclusion, I don't really understand the point you're trying to make.

> "Go out and talk to people" isn't valid advice. It's never been, but in 2025 finally even the mainstream is slowly admitting that this doesn't work.

It continues to work for me in 2025.

I presume in that case each meeting would just stretch to 10 over the hour.

I'm not the poster you're responding to, but I'll just confirm as a third party that your arguments have been very hard to follow.

Every American should feel ashamed by this national idiocy.

A similar method is in indeed used in many jurisdictions:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speed_limit#Operating_speed

There are advantages and disadvantages as with everything.

I already live in the EU so know about a lot of the irritations of being an American abroad, but I was surprised to hear about the whole shifted UK tax year. I am considering a move there so I'll just remember your post and use it as a starting point in dealing with it all. Thanks so much for all the info!

So you do think that Texas Christian University should lose all federal funding until it proportionally represents all Americans' political beliefs?

> I don't want this money going to random causes I disagree with.

There certainly is _no_ government spending supported by _all_ Americans, so your position isn't a very practical approach to governance.

Are you arguing that _all_ universities that receive government funding should cater equally to conservatives and liberals? Given that Texas Christian University receives funding from the government, would you argue that it too should stop receiving federal funding until represents America equally?

How do you deal with this practically? If an American moved to the UK now (after April 6th of this year), how would you recommend dealing with it? Even if your answer is to get a tax accountant, do you recommend doing that early?

> you can't complain about the government spending $1m on a packet of nails

Has the government spent a million dollars on a packet of nails?

Maybe Loch wouldn't have minded? I'm not religious, but I don't really care if I were memorialized with a religious service. My belief is that service is more for the people left behind than the one who died anyway.

I'm pretty sure no NATO countries actually consider the US a dependable ally at the moment. So US spending is kind of irrelevant really. And if the US were to actively work against its NATO allies (seems pretty likely at this point), US NATO spending would be considered more of a negative rather than a positive.