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My sports stadium was built with my taxpayer dollars. I can't even watch the team on tv though.

We do sort of have tiered EMS with insurance and ambulance costs. When my buddy came to the US from India, he was told, "unless you're blessing out, call an Uber to the ER."

It would be much more valuable if you explained rate-limited anonymous credentials or provided an article (even wikipedia). ChatGPT is non-deterministic and telling someone to use it feels a bit cold for this website.

It's remarkable that an animated video of this high quality for a French tv commercial is immediately disregarded. Animation has come so far!

That's fair enough! Most accountants I crossed paths with dislike the modern type of busy work. Lots of marking up spreadsheets and PDFs rather than crafting journal entries. Luckily for me, I switched into software engineering, and system design scratches that same exact itch. Now I build software for financial auditors to make their work less dreadful, and it's very popular with them because they don't have to do as much of the terrible, modern tasks that have befallen them with advances in accounting tech.

> Banks used to have rooms full of bank clerks who manually did double-entry bookkeeping for all the bank's transactions. For most people, this was a very boring job, and it made bank transactions slow and expensive. > > And the people who had to do double-entry bookkeeping all day long got to do other, probably more interesting, jobs.

I don't mean to pick on your example too much. However, when I worked in financial audit, reviewing journal entries spit out from SAP was mind numbingly boring. I loved doing double-entry bookkeeping in my college courses. Modern public accounting is much, much more boring and worse work than it was before. Balancing entries is enjoyable to me. Interacting with the terrible software tools is horrific.

I guess people that would have done accounting are doing other, hopefully more interesting jobs in the sense that absolute numbers of US accountants is on a large decline due to the low pay and the highly boring work. I myself am certainly one of them as a software engineer career switcher. But the actual work for a modern accountant has not been improved in terms of interesting tasks to do. It's also become the email + meetings + spreadsheet that you mentioned because there wasn't much else for it to evolve into.

This is a really interesting observation! Cars don't have to dominate our city design, and yet they do in many places. In the USA, you basically only have NYC and a few less convenient cities to avoid a city designed for cars. Society has largely been reshaped with the assumption that cars will be used whether or not you'd like to use one.

What would that look like for navigating life without AI? Living in a community similar to the Amish or Hasidic Jews that don't integrate technology in their lives as much as the average person does? That's a much more extreme lifestyle change than moving to NYC to get away from cars.

Borderline impossible! It's a much wider gap than modern English to Shakespearean English is.

However, I can hardly read Ancient Greek as a modern Greek speaker!

This might sound crazy as a software engineer, but I actually like the occasional "snow day" where everything goes down. It's healthy for us to all disconnect from the internet for a bit. The centralization unintentionally helps facilitate that. At least, that's my glass half full perspective.

I did, but the CS agent kept trying to change the email to a new one when I told them I had lost access, and the validation failed because it wanted to send an email to the old address about the email being updated and couldn't. They didn't have the right tools to fix it.

Had to get an engineer involved.

Careful with this method. I was unable to purchase plane tickets from Southwest or even change my email address because they changed their parsing rules on me and silently dropped the plus. I found out most airlines don't have a ticket counter to buy a ticket the old fashioned way! But the premier help can issue tickets. Took me two months to have CS get someone to run a DML to remove my "bad" email address.

The median age in New York City is 36.8 years old[0].

[0]: https://popfactfinder.planning.nyc.gov/explorer/cities/NYC?c...

Yes to both. It works very well! Admittedly, I just finished the original Half-Life, so I need to push it a little harder, but it's been capable of running Oblivion and Civ CII quite well.

> Linux sucks at running games, and there is no good Linux/x86 hardware out there.

This isn't true in the slightest. You must be dealing with some seriously outdated information.

I've been running games on Linux full time for 3 years. I made the switch the week Elden Ring launched when it immediately ran better on Linux than on Windows. That was the top selling game at the time. I've had extremely minimal performance issues since my switch. Other major games I've run include Baldur's Gate 3, multiple Resident Evil games, and the Oblivion remaster.

I'm running a 7600X with a 9070XT as of last month and am finding my hardware is perfectly fine.

> Yet, still 1/4th of the time my ThinkPad with Linux wakes with a Thunderbolt display connected it dies with a kernel panic deep in the code that handles DDC (no matter what kernel version).

This doesn't happen on my ThinkPad but does on my MacBook. If anyone else faces these kernel panics on their Mac, you have to set your monitor to a hard 120hz rather than a variable rate on the macOS display settings. KDE handles the variable rate just fine on the ThinkPad for me.

NFL RedZone, the ad-free premium tv channel now shows ads for sports betting

I recently bought an original iPhone SE in hopes of using a smaller device. But I can't use it for anything worthwhile because I can't sign into an Apple ID due to having encrypted backups on my account, which was introduced in iOS 16.2. The SE only supports 15.8.5. So I'd have to disable encrypted backups for all of my other devices in order to sign into my account.

Why am I unable to use Apple Music on my device while I can use it from a web browser or from an android phone that don't have encrypted iCloud backups enabled?

Unfortunately this also prevents me from jailbreaking the device because I have to sign into an Apple account in order to trust a developer certificate on the device required for the jailbreaking tool. It's my device! Let me approve of the certificate without an Apple ID!

So if people don't like this, does anyone have a recommendation for a good, class 1 (pedal assist only) bike?

I've been using Claude at work for the past two months, and the other day I realized that during that time, I haven't had my previously weekly aha moment while in the shower or on a walk where the solution to a problem suddenly came to me. Claude has robbed me of that joy, which is why I got into software engineering. Now I review its slop or the slop that other engineers make with it. I think I'll take a walk today.

When I bought mine, Amazon didn't have USB C and page turning buttons on the same model. Kobo did.

It has direct integration with borrowing books from the library.

It has direct integration with Instapaper.

You can drag a file onto the device after mounting it over USB.

You can replace the endpoint for the store with a Calibre Web endpoint to directly sync your books from a personal server.

You can pretty easily modify the device however you see fit.

For me the library integration on the device itself was a major selling point. I have no complaints after switching four years ago!

SponsorBlock is on iOS: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/sponsorblock-for-safari/id1573...

I'll echo the sentiment about being very familiar with macOS but being spoiled by Linux and KDE Plasma. I put up with my work MacBook. My personal Linux setup just works and gets out of the way as a machine.

I'm using the latest safari from an iPad

It requires a password to enable Touch ID whenever you restart your phone. For security reasons, the iPhone automatically restarts every few days. So I run into this issue regularly.

Why can I not use my password manager for my Apple ID but can use it for any other password field? Instead I have to switch to my password manager, copy the password, reopen the App Store, select get app, and paste the password in the Apple ID login pop up in the 10 seconds before my password clears from my clipboard.

I downloaded all of hardcore history and added the podcast to my iPod. Fun fact: the iPod is why it's called a podcast!

FYI your website seems to trigger a filter/search every time I type a character. However, this causes the keyboard on iOS to collapse, which makes typing a tough task!

Does thunderbird support the file storage, labelling, alias creation, and notes features as well? I thought thunderbird was just for email using IMAP. Does it support JMAP?

And what about them making this has detracted from your experience as a Fastmail user? I've found the desktop site to be perfectly fine, and they recently addressed my primary complain with the mobile app by allowing emails to be saved offline. I haven't found anything worrying that I feel their dev time needs to urgently address that was ignored due to this. Fastmail just works.

I appreciate the response and how you're proactive about following things! That's great to know RCS is now possible on GrapheneOS. That's very pragmatic.

For now, I have switched back to iOS due to a significant majority of my contacts using iMessage, so I'm back to encrypted chats again. Hopefully the future of RCS changes things while America struggles with using a unified messenger. I dream of using a dumb phone with RCS.

I just read that they changed their stance, but for a long time, they were against implementing RCS and said users should be using another tool like Signal. That ignores real world scenarios where users ended up using SMS rather than RCS, which was encrypted with Google messages. Of course, there's more nuance to the discussion, but I found myself a few years ago having gone from encrypted messaging on an iPhone by default to encrypted messaging on stock Android with RCS to unencrypted messaging on GrapheneOS. I thought that was certainly less secure for myself and likely the average user.

But they did share valid concerns about their reasoning and most other aspects of the OS certainly have a great focus on security.