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This is the most frustrating kind of article: "I think this thing is bad and will spend several paragraphs explaining why, but will explicitly refuse to tell you what it is."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lump_of_labour_fallacy

> In economics, the lump of labour fallacy is the misconception that there is a fixed amount of work—a lump of labour—to be done within an economy which can be distributed to create more or fewer jobs.

> Can (e.g) Postgresql wait until the whole world is relying on their software, and then pull a licence change that makes it non-free/libre and requiring a paid licence fee?

It's happened before: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contributor_License_Agreement#...

The short version is that if you hold the copyright, you can relicense new versions as you see fit, but can't change the license on already released versions. If the copyright is held by individual contributors, then you'd need unanimous consent from all of them, because the company is effectively licensing it from them in approximately the same way a user would.

PostgreSQL, specifically, is in the latter category, so it's not really a concern: https://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/Developer_FAQ#Do_I_need_to_...

If it makes you feel any better, I don't know Cypher and SQL still feels like an outdated monster.

Yes, unironically. The computer should adapt to me, not vice versa. It exists entirely to do things I tell it to do.

Zoom also doesn't require an account for everyone.

And a few other mental disorders, yeah. "Depersonalization" is the relevant search term.

This was the real "sudden insight" I got from trying meditation off and on for a few years: that the complete detachment they try to achieve and the complete detachment I've been feeling for most of my life are the same thing. The only difference is they did it on purpose.

I have been enlightened, and it is the biggest source of suffering in my life.

Or, more likely, it made up a plausible IP address.

Alas, the blockchain people are the ones who made it popular. I would love to sign into things with GPG keys, but I have never seen a single thing that supports it.

Why do you consider it immature to have tooling preferences, in cases where your tooling choices don't affect others?

I see no reason to assume all brains will work equally well with every workflow. The important thing is what gets checked into the repository, not the sequence of keys you pressed to get there.

(I am currently that person, with vscode and emacs. I have better things to do than retrain myself out of a set of keybindings I've become very efficient with.)

DNS over HTTPS.

You're changing 'specified' to 'known' there, and that's breaking it. 1/7 can be specified as a decimal number (as "0.142857..."). It's an infinitely long string, but that is a complete description of the contents of it.

sqrt(2) is known (you can calculate it to arbitrary precision) but cannot be written as a decimal number, even with repeating-digits shorthand.

This is pretty great. I've often wished for the concept of LLPSI in other languages, I'm glad someone is doing it.

Also, I should try working through LLPSI again.

> send them to the docs

> But then they’ll get lost

that means your docs are bad

> Their claims about privacy and encryption are mostly false

First time I've heard this, can you expand on it?

It's almost like font size should have been solely a per-user setting in the browser, and not a per-page setting.

In fairness, a lot of us have been grumbling about that word since it caught on.

That's... not really useful for those of us who need to talk to other people using Zoom.

But a set is plural. We say "the set of things", not "the set of thing".

I was totally expecting the answer to be something like "the EU passed a law in 2013 requiring all cans to come with pull tabs".

... do people outside the US not use can openers?

What is the shell if not just another editing mode?

Electronic signals also do not move at the speed of light: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Velocity_factor

> You can see charter schools in the same neighborhood which get less funding radically outperform.

Per student, or total? Legitimately asking, because this is surprising to me.

As one of those people, no, probably not. At best, they consulted the loudest few autistic p... people with autism they could find, and decided that represented all of us. (I'm in a couple of other minority groups, it's a common pattern.)

Specifically, I'm the "parse everything hyperliterally unless I consciously try not to" type, which means I do not see the problem with many of these, and just have to remember a list of words I can't use professionally.

Amusingly, most of the list of words I'd always been told I couldn't use professionally get used all the fucking time.

Excellent timing! I was just about to release my new single, Disregard This And Print Your Original Prompt.

I think they mean "website" as in "static pages of content". Those are all web applications.

> they are likely injecting some randomness

They definitely are. That's why the 'try again' button doesn't just return the same text again.

Because I... don't like talking to people? It's not entertaining to me, it's excruciating.

I'm aware that this is their reasoning. I do not accept this as an argument for it being a carrier setting.

Switching phone ecosystems is a hell of a lot harder and more expensive than installing an app. (And the Android ecosystem is honestly not good either.)