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Complete nonsense. Smart cars (to pick just one counterexample) meet those standards without being big or looking angry.

I think what will sink Twitter will be if Mr Musk goes ahead with his plan (as he's stated) to have "blue tick" tweets all float to the top while deprecating tweets from non-paying users. In my world $8/month seems an outrageous amount for the privilege of bloviating into the void, yet if I don't see my own comments and those of my other non-paying friends, what the hell is the point of even being on the platform?

Why do so many cars look so angry? Big front grilles that look like a growling, howling maw full of teeth, bulging, muscular body shaping... It's like car designers all got together and decided that aggressive-ugly is a good look.

I wonder how much that contributes to road-rage?

I think that "pubescent" does not mean what you appear to think it means.

GPL?

That's cool for you. For the rest of us, however, it would be terribly simple for Github to provide a profile/account setting that allows people to opt out -- perhaps on a per-repo level as well as per-account. Yet they don't. I wonder why not.

But not, I'll hazard a guess (ianal), if its a Gnu GPL license. Right?

On Mastodon there's a setting "Require follow requests : Manually control who can follow you by approving follow requests" so you get to whitelist Real People.

Not as onerous as you suggest.

> stops casual interaction

... and the often hilarious scene that ensues when you don't share a common language. Some of my best memories are made of things like this.

She invented Assembler language! This one really deserves a HN "black header" imho.

Well, YES! since so much of the tech industry has a triangular thing that they insist is a wheel and obstinately refuse to engage with those round things, despite the round things having been around for quite a long time. (I'm talking about programming languages, of course. See the Stop Writing Dead Programmes talk.)

Controversial opinion: If you can't make money from your website without shoving ads in my face, perhaps you should seek either:

* another monetisation scheme for your website, or

* a different line of business than a website.

The race-to-the-bottom that is ad-supported websites is nothing more than a massive failure of imagination; pure laziness; a grift of the first magnitude.

Yep. I was never totally sure who was bullshitting me, the manager/interviewer or the recruiter person who'd started the ball rolling, hence my "supposedly" above.

Funny (true) story: In one memorable case, I went the opposite route and stated my salary expectations up front, knowing full well that they were likely above the HR-approved salary scales the company was likely to offer. The point was I was not prepared to work for that particular company (life insurance) unless the money was eye-wateringly good.

Despite their (supposedly) knowing that, they put me through all their HR hoops anyway, all the way to a final interview, when the manager I'd have worked for looked across the table at me and said, "So what sort of salary would you have in mind?"

I looked him in the eye, didn't blink, didn't blush. Repeated the figure I'd given up front. The interview was over.

Why the fuck did they bother with all the palaver when they knew they were never going to pay that much. Did they think I'd blink?

Last laugh: I ended up doing a short consulting stint there several years later and took more off them in a couple of weeks than the annual salary they'd failed to meet.

Actual headline: Patients in England at risk as NHS and care 'gridlocked'

Not the only meaning of "legitimate". There's also "Authentic, real, genuine" and "Conforming to known principles, or established or accepted rules or standards; valid." (Wiktionary) There's a question of acceptability involved here, I feel.

Do you in the UK have any means to recall an MP and force a by-election? (for whatever reason -- gone rogue, gone awol, gone loony, etc.)

It has already, and long ago. It's just not very intelligent. Have you had any serious (non-routine) dealings with a bank or phone co. lately? Nobody you can talk to has any agency, any authority to do anything other than what the algorithm (which includes their internal rules, guidelines, etc.) tells them to do.

Not so. I, too, have no smartphone and no Twitter app. Not ever been suspended (yet).

And evidently I'm not allowed to swear. "Fuck" gets unfailingly "corrected" to "duck" -- even if I spell it out.

I agree with you regarding Zuckerberg -- he's in the same camp as every politician (imho). Nevertheless, if you don't have anything substantive to say, it's always an option to just not say anything. Just saying.

Hmmm... Except for the fact that people who don't use Facebook are never going to get the joke...

It seems to me more like a USA thing. Maybe some other countries where there is little or no worker protection legislation, too?

And I read it a third way: Exceptions you ain't gonna need.

Any more offers?

Oh!... Having "Java" but no clue of "OOP"? Seen it any number of times. Devs who've migrated from a C or Cobol background with little/no/hopelessly inadequate OO training in particular. The code is predictably horrible.

Soylent Green? (referring to the original 1970s movie, not the faux-food thing some grifter tried to flog a few years ago)

It's never too late to fight authoritarianism.

The approach I've followed for many years is to have /home mount on a separate partition from anything else. Then when you do any kind of fresh install or upgrade, you only have to make sure that partition doesn't get touched (and usually that's the default) and all is well with the world.

It would be slightly more work involving parted (or whatever partition manager you prefer) to create a new partition, resize existing partitions, etc., but quite doable (if tedious and time consuming).

Mercurial

I doubt A/B testing. If the original headline was "Bridge destroyed" then it was simply factually wrong, blatantly incorrect, and seemed unlikely to me coming from a news-source like the NY Times which still has some shreds of a reputation for journalistic integrity.