mhurron

> drastically greater understanding of what a file

No, they do not. First, simply using something does not mean you understand it at all. Secondly, because the devices they've become the most accustomed to work very hard to hide all those details from the user.

And that reason was that it was the standard before the standard was rethought. There's no deeper meaning to it.

And we rethought it yet again, should we go on the time standard (DST) that we're already on for ~65% of the year, or the one we're on for ~35% the year.

It should be pretty obvious why DST is the new winner, it's the current standard.

<Insert Archer WOOOOO video>

Seriously, woo!

I am wherever for a reason, and that reason is not to be social. I am thinking about what I am doing next, what I need to bring up in whatever thing I'm waiting for, or quite frankly any number of things. You are interrupting me. You'd probably get it if we changed things up and instead of standing in line, we said you were staring out the window while sitting at your desk. You're clearly doing nothing right and talking to you isn't interrupting what your task is because your task is just typing code, and we did just say you're not doing that.

You are bothering me trying to talk to me when I am out, because I am only out to do things specifically. Just because I am currently doing something (waiting) that you deem unimportant or an indicator I am free does not make it so.

> Would you be bothered if a stranger struck up a nice conversation with you?

Yes. If I am basically anywhere there are other people, I am there for a specific reason, and anyone trying to talk to me for anything else is bothering me. I've found that most people that try to start conversations with strangers are really poor at reading signals that their actions are unwanted and they only stop when you say something so out of their comfort zone they have no idea how to handle it. They just can't understand that people wouldn't want to talk to them.

And after this article and thread, we can add I don't want to be your practice dummy to the reasons you're bothering me.

Typically no, Mac's don't expect to run versions of macOS before the one they were released with.

> simply move somewhere else, in a jurisdiction where these laws don't apply, or be distributed peer-to-peer

Each of these options lead software to become less and less discoverable leading to the fact that most people will never use anything that isn't complying with these laws. So the end result still hits the desired effect.

People who enjoy exercise are in the minority. Literally doing anything I find interesting would be preferable to exercise, I exercise because I have to, not because it is enjoyable in any way.

Yep, Hotmail is also my only problem.

I'll be moving soon so my stuff will be offline for like 2+ weeks, I'll look at the problem with hotmail again when I figure out what to do about temporally moving my stuff to a vpc provider.

Jokes on you, I was boring before AI.

> A drug that cures obesity and addiction alone would be a wonder drug.

A drug that influences a hormone causing effects on everything that hormone is involved in shouldn't be considered a wonder drug, it should be expected functionality.

It's only a wonder drug that does all these miraculous things if you think GLP-1 is only a weight management hormone. It's not, and you should expect effects anywhere it is involved in. A short list of tissues we know GLP-1 is involved in processes is:

- heart - tongue - adipose tissue - muscles - bones - kidneys - liver - lungs

Effects on these aren't miracles, they should be expected.

I am happy to hear you saw so many improvements, but it's because you had an issue with a hormone that is involved in a lot of things in the body. So it was going to express a lot of problems. It's not surprising that you see a lot of improvements when you begin to manage the underlying cause.

> Seems like a wonder drug to me

Not really, it's that hormones don't do just one thing in the body. GLP-1 isn't just some weight management hormone.

> The one that stuck with me from a few weeks ago went like 'I puked up my own poop.'

That happens if you let constipation go on far too long, and is not something unique to GLP-1 meds.

No, it feels like the standard 'group/engineer/PM' didn't think anyone did anything different from their own implementation.

Lets Encrypt is just used for like, webservers right, why do this other stuff webservers never use.

Which does appear to be the thinking, though they blame Google, which also seems to have taken the 'webservers in general don't do this, it's not important' - https://letsencrypt.org/2025/05/14/ending-tls-client-authent...

Excuse me, that's GNU/SystemD/Linux.

Bicycles are also not a viable replacement for almost all the uses of a vehicle. None of this advice is useful.

Ya, that's what it's like living in a country that hasn't been trying to destroy itself for some time now.

The first step to solving it would be proving it exists.

Because it doesn't. It's been a phrase used for over 40 years to decry basically any change the author didn't like, from different technology, the rise of the 'me' generation or the declining religiousness of the US.

https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/202504/loneliness-is...

Individuals may be lonely, but that has always been true. There is no evidence this is different than before, growing, or in anyway an 'epidemic.'

The only one showing any lack of social intelligence is you. The author is choosing not to go into unnecessary personal details while giving a short back story as to why they did a thing.

I've thought of doing basically something similar so my wife knows I'm in a position not to be disturbed. I can, and do, tell her when I have a scheduled call, but unscheduled calls do just happen. Something like this would let her know I can't be disturbed without her coming in, asking and then going 'oh shit, sorry.'

In no way is it engineering a way out of dealing with my wife.

> it's pretty much the only browser holding back the rendering engine monopoly

Maybe that's why they're complaining. Maybe they don't want Firefox spending it's time working itself into oblivion.

Of course the Mozilla Foundation isn't bound in any way to listen to them so it's going to happen anyway, but Firefox's users are upset for good reasons.

> Is any other profession held to such an impossible standard?

Almost all, to varying degrees, with the expectation increasing the more you deal with people that are outside that field. People seriously underestimate the challenges and difficulties of things they have little experience with while overestimating their ability to do it.

'How hard can it be to ask someone who knows what's going on and write that anyway?'

Honestly how? What law could be written that would ban PE firms and lookalike businesses that would hold up to scrutiny.

No one with a brain likes what PE does, but really, what do they do that's illegal as opposed to people finally realizing that capitalism is essentially evil?

So how can an immigrant to the US not understand that someone might want to leave the country they're currently in because of the situation in that country?

And had been researched treat symptoms of depression and what would eventually be called ADHD in the 1930's.

Ventoy basically breaks openSUSE ISO's. Just mentioning that so maybe it'll show up more in searches.

Not really surprising when you have political parties and large tech companies both either outright minimizing the role public institutions had in developing anything or outright lying that the public sector can't possibly do anything at all.

This is a law enforcement action. If the government is going to give itself the ability to strip the ability of a citizen or resident to access services that are their right to access, and an increasing number of those services are online access, it should be done within the confines and oversight of the law.

This is a disgusting power grab. 'Because I said so, trust me' is not a justification.

No, they're not referencing the same paper.

I wish you the best with that, but by the metric of 'if I can do it for 5 minutes I can probably keep going because I wanted to do it' would mean that I don't want to do, very literally, anything.

To be fair, I only just recently (past month) talked to my doctor and started treating it properly so I'm still in the tweaking the dosage phase.

I too irrationally hate incredibly legible typefaces.

https://dyslexichelp.org/why-is-comic-sans-good-for-dyslexia...

> Or they could respect the democratic decisions of the countries they do business in?

Blocking, making it clear why your blocking and that you will continue to block until it changes is respecting the decision.