This administration might not be full of adversarial agents, but they sure are behaving like they are.
It only takes a few well placed hostile (or fools) to take down an organization, especially when there are no ramifications.
Readit Newsdpkirchner commented on The US Department of Agriculture Bans Support for Renewables insideclimatenews.org/new... · Posted by u/mooreds
Why on earth is this downvoted? I have an identical question.
The default method of operation on Bluesky is that you follow people you are interested in, and only the people you follow show up in your feed.
> Why on earth is this downvoted? I have an identical question.
Feigning misunderstanding is a weird look.
The wobble actually factors onto my device choice as well. It's just annoying to live with for the life of the phone if you can't find a case that widens it, which many don't.
Casetify makes decent cases that make the super annoying bump less annoying. My iPhone 13 Pro's bump is now more like 1mm, effectively.
Sublime Text solved this 17 years ago with the 40-year-old shareware model.
It's also faster than Zed, works on Linux/Win/MacOS, and is decently customizable.
It does, or did, use dark patterns when showing upgrade notices -- prompting you to upgrade to a version that you don't own yet, without telling you you don't own it, leaving you with an unlicensed version. I was happy to use 3 but that felt really off.
In a couple years when he's dead, they are gonna be seriously fuk't.
Yay.
The good news is there isn't a backup. There's no room for someone to be a second Trump -- they'd get destroyed as long as Trump is in power. I am hopeful that the party will split into two pieces, forever.
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dpkirchner commented on SystemD Service Hardening roguesecurity.dev/blog/sy... · Posted by u/todsacerdoti
My feeling, without evidence, is that a lot of the hate is vocal people who don't like this thing that does stuff differently to what they're used to. I get the feeling, I still understand /etc/init.d and runlevel symlinks and /var/log better than systemd, but that's because I have many more years of experience interacting with it, breaking it, fixing it. Whenever I have to do stuff with systemd it's a bit annoying to have to go learn new stuff, but when I do I find it reasonably straightforward. Just different, and most likely better.
One of my earliest memories of using systemd involved logs being corrupted. journalctl would just say the file is corrupted but wouldn't even print the name of the file -- I had to resort to strace. That left a real bad taste in my mouth.
What's the trap for this one? I can't think of any engine that parses this to mean anything other than the letters a through z.
It depends on its use, ultimately, but if your goal is to find a string of letters (a common use IMO), you'll want to use something like \p{L} to ensure you don't miss non-ASCII characters.
eta: fixed regex, I had typed \L, shared from my faulty memory.
dpkirchner commented on Volkswagen locks horsepower behind paid subscription autoexpress.co.uk/volkswa... · Posted by u/t0bia_s
The really offensive part of this kind of thing is that you already paid for it. Like if you wanted to buy a regular car and you could get the engine with turbo then those are two different cars. The latter costing more because it has more/better stuff in it. This is all fine and good.
In this case, all the cars have turbo and you pay to have it turned on or not. The cost of the turbo is in the cost of the normal car because the company would not sell it at a loss. You already paid for it, but aren't allow to use it. So you are driving around with this perfectly good and usable turbo that you paid for and can't use unless you paid some extra extortion money. This is abusive, wasteful, and should be illegal in my opinion. You should only be charged extra if it is in fact extra. Not something that is already there and withheld.
The turbo example would be especially egregious because it adds complexity to the engine. You're paying for the hardware and paying more for all engine related repairs in the future. The same goes for BMW's infamous heated seat subscription.
I'm a strong believer in the "no free lunch principle"
Through a lifetime of experiences with different substances, the body always adjusts to whatever you're taking. Taking a stimulant? the brain will down regulate dopamine receptors. Putting lotion on your face? The skin will produce less oils.
There is always a downside
Rather than excess in one area, we should strive for perfect balance.
I share your concern and I'd add one more:
The motivation behind wanting to be 10% stronger will (probably not) go away after starting a creatine regime. So where do you go from there? Testosterone? Steroids? I can't speak for anyone else but when I work out I am usually trying to meet or beat my last session (despite the march of death) so I think I'm at risk of going too far with supplementation.