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Also networks, Bucky Fullerism, Eastern philosophy, mind maps, UNIX and chaos theory gaining momentum, etc. They seem somewhat dated now, but in a way they've diffused through our culture so extensively that they're just part of the background and nobody raises an eyebrow at them anymore. The 70s had a zeal for cool ideas that we just don't have anymore.

Several also comitted suicide, and quite a few were divorced. Also, British law apparently has no mechanism for holding anyone responsible.

I'm not even sure how you'd begin to make restitutions for this tbh.

Oh god the shame.

There's data that suggests that the increases in vehicle/pedestrian collision is mostly due to the in car displays that require you to take your eyes off of the road to do anything. Most excess collisions since around 2010 collisions have been at night, when peripheral vision is less likely to catch movement, and when the screens will mess up your night vision.

Also, smartphones being used while driving are a massive hazard that people aren't really talking about. The number of people that I, or my passenger, has seen texting while driving is really shocking. I'd wager it's a bigger problem than drunk driving ever was.

And probably none of them were hindered because students had their phones.

Offtopic, but does anyone know of a decent mini pc with ECC?

The only thing I'm unsure about is when to short nvidia.

Clarified.

It's practically considered child abuse these days to not give them a smartphone. I'm only slightly exaggerating. I think kids would be better off without them altogether.

Actually, you'd want to get rid of those in car displays that require you to take your eyes off the road to do almost anything now, and will also spoil your night vision. There was an episode of Radiolab that was talking about this, and they made a very compelling case for it, along with those super bright headlamps that ruin your night vision when they're equipped on an oncoming vehicle. Tellingly, almost all increase in traffic accidents we've seen recently have happened at night. Pedestrian accidents with trucks haven't really gone up more than other vehicles either.

For cyclists in my area you aren't considered a pedestrian if you're riding a bike, and they have tons of signs telling you to walk it across the crosswalk. Presumably it's because bikes can move a lot faster than someone on foot and a motorist may not have time to brake if the cyclist darts into the crosswalk.

> They are attributing their motivations to some sort of homophobia

This could potentially be used to upgrade a petty crime to a hate crime, if prosecutors could convince jurors they were homophobes.

This is tangental, but I believe Persi Diaconis recommended like 13 riffle shuffles* if national security is at stake. Who knows, maybe one day nuclear launch codes will depend on the Solitaire cipher.

* Depending on how chunky your shuffle is. A pro card dealer can do almost a perfectly alternating riffle, which is obviously no good for national security.

> It wasn't just the NYT, it was almost all mainstream media

And it was prolonged coverage too.

It wasn't just the NYT, it was almost all mainstream media blowing up about it when the east coast got a little smoke. The pics honestly didnt even look so bad compared to what I've been through the past 7 or so years. It seemed like it wasn't really news worthy until New Yorkers coughed a little more than usual.

IIRC the attorney arguing against Chatterley seemed grossly out of touch by mentioning servants reading it and it didn't help his case. LCL was a bit of an attack on the impotence of the upper class and the lawyer was oblivious to the context of his remarks.

>Although iron ore is plentiful, it is expensive to refine and smelt

Might explain why the land around the Lonely Mountain was unforested*. This is what happened in ancient Greece -- deforestation largely due to charcoal production for smelting iron. Topsoil got eroded and it still hasn't recovered today. Prior to metallurgy, Greece was densely forested, and must have had some biggish trees, judging by the construction of temples etc.

* IIRC. Also a fire breathing dragon taking up residence probably didn't help.

Yeah I heard that about letters like 20 years ago from a staffer so maybe I'm a bit out of touch, lol.

00.0 must be the output of /dev/random

Write your elected representatives, preferably by snail mail (they take it more seriously that way). With Right to Repair being talked about so much right now, the time could be right to get this into the public mind. Car Thing could be what nucleates anti bricking legislation.

25 a day.

A lot of shenanigans happen at sea. Cruise ships are registered in countries favorable to them so passengers have zero chance in court when someone gets hurt or a family member disappears (its happened). If you're an American for instance, you'll never take on a cruise ship owner in an American court, it's got to go through some tiny nation of the ship's home port. Passengers agree to this when they buy the ticket.

(no I've never been on a cruise)

Tangental, but I still haven't found a better personal task management system than Knuth's: make a list of everything you need to do, the task items you want to do least are almost always the ones you need to do first. Works good.

PE bought up the local chain of doctor's offices a few years ago in my area, and it was an instant drop in quality. They started dropping patients for missed appointments a decade prior when they were a minor (one was being treated for depression after a suicide attempt). Then their doctors started leaving and they had to bring in people to fill the labor gap, but these pepple were not of high quality and malpractice suits became more common. Then they had to start dropping patients. Entire families suddenly had no primary care doctor, and what's worse is that this was the major providor for medical care in the area. Some people are now driving ~100 miles or more each way to get a primary care physician.

Outside of medicine, I've seen PE fuck up at least three decent tool companies. Their products are basically garbage now. PE sucks, too many glaring examples of it messing things up in my day to day.

Why are people so desperate to cling to labels? As I get older the notion of identity just seems increasingly absurd. Identities and labels have just become their own end. People seem like they don't exist anymore except on the terms and expectations already laid out by other people. It's no way to live.

What violent act?

I'd just like to throw out a recommendation here for the book Longitude by Dava Sobel. It's about the invention of the marine chronometer by a self-taught carpenter. Fascinating read, and a real page turner too.

Cool it down, as in, lower real estate prices.

If it cools the market down it benefits just about everyone except the speculators.

Paywalled, so I can't read the article, but a funny problem of Boomers owning expensive properties today is that a lot of them can't afford to sell because of capital gains on homes they may have bought 40-50 years ago for <$100,000. If they don't have much wealth besides their home (many homeowners) they won't have enough to move into a new place in their area because everyone else's home has shot up in value as well, and taxes just ate up a hefty portion of the sale from their previous home. So they make do with what they have, property values go up, and a lot of people are unable to buy homes because it doesn't make sense to sell.

I'd be interested in seeing, say, a five-year moratorium on capital gains from real estate to see if it helps cool the market.

I'm using this post to air some grievances I have with GNOME.

I've been using it for a daily driver for the past few months and it's come a really long way the past 15 or so years, but they don't seem to have a cohesive vision as to what they're trying to do.

What's with the topbar? Why have the window title button in it at all? It's not like there's a menu to select different windows, and when you click on the window's button, it shows items that are better done somewhere else. It's like some useless appendage. I already know which window has focus, it's the one on top of all the other windows...

Why hide the window's menubar behind a button that doesn't even have a consistent location, like users expect from the "close window" button? Looking at you Nautil- sorry, "Files".

Their CSD titlebars don't work well with Firefox or Chromium, the main piece of software most users are likely to use. Everybody knows that its stupid, but nobody wants to be the one to change they do things, so users are left with tiny chiclets of grabable area in the upper corners of the windows. Completely idiotic.

Why can't I change the time/date format to something sensible in the topbar? Why can't I just move (or remove) the damn thing anyway?

Why all the emphasis on touch in the UI design, but I still can't select text without a mouse? Touch screen laptops have been around for a while now.

It does a good job of exposing functionality, but it feels very confused, overall. And I'm a little upset that the first taste of Linux most people will get is going to be with GNOME. It's had tons of work put into it but it still feels half baked, not for lack of trying, but just a poorly thought out recipe, if you will.