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I would also suspect that, if they were used for building purposes, some of these artifacts would be found in situ with poles still inserted into or through them, thus being evidence of their use and removing all ambiguity.

As there is only ambiguity in the analysis of these, according to the article, then my conclusion is that no dodecahedrons have been recovered showing evidence of being used like this.

> X.org - which is quickly becoming deprecated for Wayland

I'm not sure 'quickly' really is the right word choice there.

oh gosh this was so great. thank you!!!! you are awesome for putting this together.

In some localities it is illegal to do this.

Also, schooling for younger children isn't exclusively about the obtaining of actionable knowledge. For some children, it can be disruptive to yank them out of school.

Other families might have a problem that this teaches their children the lesson of "rules for thee, but not for me" --- that it can be okay to ignore rules just because you don't want to follow them. That isn't something that everyone is okay with.

I doggedly still run my 20+ year email platform for self-use. I ran into the same problems with Google/Gmail. I am ashamed to say that the solution I settled on was to just give up and pay them for smarthosting. I still host my own servers, but my exit pipe is through gmail. My life got easier.

The rule is pretty much every interaction you have in the Googleverse is easier if you just pay them something. It's pay to play internet, and yeah, it's a problem.

Allegorically it's a cheap bar of soap that tastes worse than a more expensive bar of soap that is dyed to not be an ugly colour.

OK, I'll bite. What are you doing with those emails, then? Are you blasting out spam to them? Do they engage? Are the analytics better for those who have subscribed to e-mail compared to those who haven't?

What does the data show?

And yet here you are, reading and participating in a thread for which you do not come here.

During the pandemic, my dog became accustomed to having a human around 24x7.

I cannot leave my dog for hours at a time without finding that he has thrown a tantrum -- urinating or defecating in places inside the house, or destroying something.

Because of this experience, I will likely never have a dog as a pet again. He didn't use to be this needy -- it's the constant presence of humans that made him this anxious when they are away. But until my dog passes, the situation is at a stalemate.

I believe GIMP is the oldest F/OSS app I have used more or less continuously since I first logged into a Linux system decades ago.

It's amazing how dedicated they are after all these years. Hats off to you, people involved with GIMP over the years ... your work has made a huge difference in many lives and careers.

Embrace, extend, extinguish. It's the Microsoft way.

In the 500 years since this event happened, you are the first person to think of this as an actual reason. Congrats, we can close the case, finally. Thank goodness for you.

> that issue is orthogonal to Amazon [...] but maybe added to their decision.

So, not orthogonal?

You. Took. Intimate. Photos. In. A. Car. Made. By. A. Company. With. A. Horrible. Track. Record. Of. Security. And. Actually. Acting. Like. A. Professional. Company. What. Did. You. Really. Expect. Would. Happen.

> A good start would be to ban feeds based on algorithms; instead your feed would be a chronological list of new posts from channels you've chosen to follow.

The replacement you've described for an algorithm is still an algorithm.

I have not heard a single affirmative reason to keep AM in cars as a technology at this late a date.

I look forward to finally hearing one ... some day.

So your 'test' of tiktok was mostly invalid. It takes a few days for "The Algorithm" to become astonishingly good at finding things for you to watch.

TikTok also seems to 'run out' of new material to show you easily. This makes sense, mathematically -- there just isn't enough new content to avoid repeats and quality drop if you view it for hours at a time.

You will get more interesting content that appeals to you if you interact with the app honestly, instead of grabbing someone else's phone for a few minutes and then trying to prove whatever point you're on about here.

> reading summaries of certain books

Careful with this. You have to trust that the summary is correct. Which, as it turns out, isn't as foolproof as one might hope for.

It turns out that a sizeable percentage of human reviewers and condensers of information just make stuff up. And if you're just consuming the summary of a work, how would you know?

> I found Mac was a lot worse than it used to be and definitely not stable.

Can you clarify this comment? I haven't seen any stability problems in macOS for years.

> your statement is simply not true in this context.

Thanks for clearing up the misconception with your cogent and well-reasoned reply.

> The same way anyone lacking knowledge can confident say that they got the right information from anyone with experience: You don't.

No, that's not the same way that anyone lacking knowledge gains confidence in the things that others tell them.

A technique one can use instead of blindly trusting what one person may tell us is seeking out second opinions to corroborate new info. This works for many things you might not have personal experience with: automobiles, construction, finance, medicine, &c.

Google refusing to do anything is not the same as Google being unable to do anything.

I'll bite. I've implemented user hostile features before.

> what goes on in the heads of the people who make these kinds of features.

The people who make the decision to implement these kinds of features are bad people. Full stop. They want to punish people, and believe a technological solution provides a fool-proof way to punish the people around them. It's about control, and spreading hurt around. It's about being able to exert control on others, without them having the ability to push back. It is evil, and I hate it.

I have implemented user-hostile features in the past because it was my job at the time, and I would be fired if I didn't.

When I've had to create this sort of anti-feature, I do a shitty job on purpose. It barely works. There are workarounds that defeat the punitive nature of the horrible thing I've had to create. It'll work on paper, but be shit in production. In every case I've had to do this, the people who ask for the anti-features are not capable of testing that they work right. They gleefully take their new pain toy and go off to hurt people with it. I never hear from them again. Then I start updating my resume and begin to look for a new job.

You're begging the question.

Technical Debt is anything your boss doesn't like this week.

Neutrinos aren't dark matter.

so what you mean to say is that you're just making things up as you go? neat.

You can run a network dongle off the USB port (some phones) to have two network paths.

A phone is never going to be a great node device for a mesh network, though.

> I've been thinking of building a "poor man's cluster"

It's not a bad idea, but what would you do with it?

What's the shame -- paying for your grandma, or posting about it?