But what did you learn? What are we supposed to learn? Did you get any context, like how he actually went to anger management therapy later?

Or is this just guffawing and gawping at an old angry email from a tech celebrity?

This mail is 13 years old, and doesn’t seem relevant for anything? This post seems like a lazy attempt at shit-stirring.

The fourth … appendage on the left hand is being used like a thumb, and doesn’t have any indication of knuckle even though it’d be the most bent finger if it was one. I’d say we can see four fingers on the right hand, while the left is in an indeterminate slop state where it’s only partially a comic/Disney three-finger hand, with one extra slop appendage that’s not clearly either thumb or finger.

Part of the answer here is also integrated design. To be able to be repaired a thing has to be designed for that, and to have identifiable parts that can be adjusted or replaced in isolation, and non-destructive disassembly.

If you have to destroy one part to adjust another, it’s not really repairable. If several functions/components are all one thing then you can’t really replace just the one.

To use a bike as an example, you can exchange wires, brake pads, seats and most other things in isolation, especially the things that are expected to wear out and need replacement. But you’re not going to replace part of your bar tape or frame, because they’re essentially one whole thing.

(Ok, you could probably weld a steel frame if you really wanted to, but I think the intent is readable.)

If usps doesn’t want to deliver to rural addresses, fine, but set up some alternatives. Create a secured remote mailbox, or offer P.O. Boxes for free.

The fundamental problem here is that the US population doesn’t really want to pay for stuff where they don’t directly benefit. In “me first” politics, rural populations are screwed.

Same reason as the vampire has one hand with four fingers and fingernails, and one hand with three fingers and no nail: LLM slop

Kinda. At the last strand I expect them to switch to length.

But yeah, at some point should be good enough

Step one is making sure your union has the collective bargaining power it needs to get a good wage and benefits for everyone. Some striking may be involved, so the strike coffers should be robust as well.

Beyond that, wealth taxes and exit taxes on those who want to flee to tax havens with no wealth taxes. Public ownership of some stuff like utilities.

So more or less joining a union if you’re not already a member and voting no further right than social democrat.

Mitigations like spending less might also be a good idea or even required, like wearing dust masks in polluted areas, but just like how the dust mask doesn’t make the pollution go away, spending less individually doesn’t really tackle the fundamental problem of distribution and wealth extraction.

We need actual politics for that.

Varies. In Oslo Foodora started as bike deliveries; the cyclists unionised and got better pay and working conditions, and nooow it seems to be a lot of Romanians in beaters that don’t look like they’d pass their next EU inspections, don’t pay tolls or for parking, and apparently there seems to be something like trafficking going on.

I know, I just think it’s annoying. I even turned on some option to see “adult games” in Steam for a little while because I thought it meant it would shut off the age verification for games like BG3. Instead it started showing me porn games (with no age verification), while still requiring an age check for actual adult games.

Americans.

A wave with an infinitely long period isn’t really recognizable as a wave. It’d just be interpreted as a flat line anywhere in the universe. And as mentioned, the energy of light is tied to its frequency: E = hf. (Or with hbar • omega, but that’s just multiplied with and divided by 2π, so, the same thing.)

So an infinitely long wave would have f=0 and thus no energy.

The highest frequency you’d get would be 1/planck-time, so the energy would be the Planck constant divided by Planck time, which would be roughly 12.3 GJ. That’s a lot of energy for just one photon, but if it’s just the one, likely not world-ending.

Side note: I wish they’d just call them porn games, not “adult games”. I expect adult games to be games for adults, as in, the games that are age-restricted to 18+.

Or are they going to start removing stuff that’s PEGI 18 / ESRB M, like Baldur’s Gate 3? No? Exactly.

They could take some other cost-cutting steps with a housing system without auto-demolish if the plots were made abundant. Like if someone’s subscription lapsed for some time, then it’s entirely possible to move that data to cheap but slow storage. Then people still have their old stuff as an incentive to get back in.

We could probably stand to have some organisation standards in repo roots, but I tend to agree that dotfiles aren’t the way to go there. The project root is similar to ~/.config and the like: When you’re there you should not be subjected to further hidden levels. Those config files are a significant part of the project.

State files however, like all the stuff in .git, lockfiles and the like are generally¹ fine to hide away. Those are side effects of running other tools, not ordinary editable configuration. Same goes for cache—and both cache and runtime files should likely go in the ordinary XDG dirs rather than be something every project has to set up a gitignore for.

If anything I’m more frustrated with the C projects that just plop every source file in the root directory.

¹ Just don’t make it too easy to sneak unexpected crap in there. We don’t need to make the next Jia Tan’s job easier.

I guess here in Norway we can celebrate Joule with Joulenissen that brings battery-powered toys for the kids

I’m very aware of what it means to be human, especially every time the daylight savings nonsense changes. But what the number on the alarm clock says when I get up doesn’t mean jack shit as long as it’s the same actual time of day.

A sundial that has the numbers changed around is still the same sundial, and that’s the point here.

Sundials haven’t been relevant for a long time. We use network time these days, calibrated against UTC (and possibly represented as Unix time).

Personally I’d likely think it was neat to switch to metric time (ten hours per nychthemeron), or kiloseconds (87.6 in a nychthemeron), or even swatch @beat (1000 per nychthemeron).

Somewhat related, the English word for døgn (nychthemeron) is such a mouthful.

The general suggestion is to just use UTC everywhere. Ask if you don’t know what UTC is.

Not having everyone set their clocks to show 12:00 at their local solar noon became necessary. Time zones as such weren’t and aren’t really necessary, except to keep alive the convention that 12:00 is noon (in the winter half of the year for the countries with daylight savings).

Yeah, it measures the same thing we normally use Joule for, or in some situations kcal (as in dietary calories). The kWh unit is just because it’s assumed to be simpler for electric bills than MJ.