PunchyHamster

after a cut restores the text to its pre-cut state in the document, but changes to the clipboard remain.

which is exactly how it is supposed to work. why would I want previous state ? Why I'd even remember that state ?

If you regret replacing your clipboard contents then too bad, they have gone poof in the digital ether.

Clipboard managers have been a thing since clipboards. Tho it would be nice to have one integrated, say so I can get menu of previous pastes with search and paste it in one step instead of "select what's in clipboard, then use it as normal" as it is with most

The second flaw is that a cut reflows the document. A cut and paste is almost always for the purposes of moving text, and yet the instant I cut, the text reflows and I have to locate the point where I want to paste all over again.

Well unless you're pasting in exact same spot, how else would it work ? Editor doesn't even know if you want to paste it back into same document

Undoing a paste will remove the newly added text, but it requires a second undo to completely restore the text—assuming there weren't any edits between the cut and paste.

that is because you might've pasted it in wrong space.

Sometimes the simple thing is better, because you can encode its way of working in your way of working without wondering 'oh why my pasted text was copied from'

It made homework and hobbies feel a lot less lonely. A Spotify playlist sure as heck can't do that.

People use podcasts for it now

To keep users paying for content while companies do whatever they want - and if that's not the reason that's certainly an effect.

The justice system really needs an overhaul with how it tackles "justice" between the wealthy, the connected, the corporations, and the rest. Though I am unsure what that would look like. Minimum net wealth per category of infraction across the board?

% of annual turnover seems like decent strategy. Caps the amount company can sue mere mortal for copyright infringement while at billion dollar company scale can wipe quite a bit

But main problem is enforcement and lobbying, not the size of the fine

I'm curious what people are quibbling with here? Romania has the world's highest rate of home ownership at 96% and only ranks as 34th in happiness.

which means they are happier than 35th, the France, which has double GDP per capita

So you're probably wrong on all points here by your own data

I think it's more that communism appeals to those that didn't really made it or worked for what they have.

Many of us, my siblings and our families inclusive, owe our lives to socialised medicine.

commonly mistaken with communism, yes.

Country having strong social services and caring about their citizens is not the same as communism.

One thing soviet commies did right was housing builds. Build factory for city blocks, then just pop them up, constantly, keeping the line busy.

It should really be city that is building the new housing (even if in the end it gets subcontracted, at least the top level have vested interest in keeping the quality and cost in check). Maybe even offer some rent-to-own programs where part of rent gets put into savings that can be used to either buy it after few years of use or be withdrawn when moving so renter have nice lil bit of money to put forward for buying new apartment/home.

Then the city can actually plan for it, rather than hope housing developer that bought the land does something good for city and not just their own pocket.

It's very likely. It's place we rest, do some of the fun part of life and a place to call our "own" in world where increasingly nothing is.

On top of that having that high mortgage or even rent hanging over your head, making sure you can't really downgrade work to something more fun but maybe less paid can be stressful too. Especially in the firing season where you might be let go and take months to find new job.

And housing taking higher and higher part of the income is also effectively getting us poorer or at least stagnate.

Wish they'd fix what's broken, not fuck with stuff that works.

Coz we don't punish bad politicans enough

Those societies were created way before the level of survelliance modern AI pushes

At what current govt is doing the assumption it's for the pedophiles is far more likely.

Companies push not only age verification (in way that usually is not anonymous) and cameras everywhere will give any pedophile with access to that location of any child they can get their hands of, their daily habits and when it's easiest to nab one of them.

They are creating Pedo Nexus, whether knowingly or not.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Columbine_High_School_massacre

You don't need 24/7, online, searchable, AI enabled video feed to stop any of that

I feel like it could be just alias to some particular GNU Parallel set of options

missed the point. reason to use xargs or parallel are generally two: list of arguments is too long, or list of arguments that is kept in memory would take too much

for example

    for a in `find / ` ; do echo $a ; done

Tables in TOML have uniquely bad format

I haven't really seen program go back from "a programming language" to a simple config format.

Early on Raspbian didn't specify noatime or even relatime; every time something was read off disk, a write happened.

relatime is a default for a while now, like decade+, you don't need to set up mount option just to get relatime

The LLM tempts to just write the thing you want to write with just few prompts.

Some people fall to that temptation instead of using LLM to just do the menial stuff and do the fun stuff themselves.

Well, hardware-wise you made equivalent of hello world project so of course it is not hard in absolute terms (not to piss on your parade, it's a very cool project, just to have point of comparison).

Just that hardware equivalent of 200K of lines of code would take far, far more time and resources and with way longer debug cycle, especially when you hit the complexity point where bodging few wires to fix the prototype gets harder and harder.

That's what people mean when they say hardware is hard - if you need to start iterating on a board and not just board's software it gets complex and expensive really quick

But it is far better than it was before - I got my 5 board prototype of similar complexity (also esp32 based) within a week, assembled board, for like $100 (and it was my design mistakes that made it so expensive, like picking screw connectors in places that could totally use far cheaper generic part JLCPCB had in stock, i just didn't know any better), just a decade ago that would probably be order of magnitude more expensive.

So yeah, for those that always wanted to build a hardware project, it's probably best time in the history to do that. Both PCBA and mechanical part got cheap and commoditized enough.

Bad examples. Roomba and GoPro failed to their own complacency while competition jumped over them.

Car industry is better example, west tech export just to get cheaper prices fueled the growth of local companies that then outcompeted the west by just industrial might.

Yeah I'm sure they are putting swedish wifi chips there and not chinese /s

I'm not sure what attack vectors are there if you don't connect your camera to company wifi, I guess it could technically put a payload on SD card but... eh ?

When China wants to deindustrialize non-Chinese industries for strategic and/or natsec reasons, they are incredibly good at it. (And note it’s not US-only, China targets basically ANY brand that isn’t Chinese. China absolutely does this to Europe as well… and you can see them doing it in real-time with automotive.)

First, Gopros are made and assembled in China (with I think some in Mexico now to avoid tariffs). And absolutely nothing stops them from just sending potentially malicious firmware to the non-china made ones too

Second China didn't make Gopros fucking overheat, shoddy engineering did. They rested on their laurels while competition worked hard on making better product. If it was just production costs the top end GoPros would be the best in the niche, just more expensive, but no they are both more expensive and worse product.

Third, it is not "Chinese govt. doing it" (tho they are certainly helping), it is west constantly sending their tech advantage away just to get some cheap production there. Whether directly like Apple or Tesla, or indirectly, by allowing chinese capital to buy western car companies and instantly get all the tech then just apply their more integrated production to make same stuff cheaper.

West gave China their advantage willingly, for a short term profits, and continue to do so, then try to mask it as some kind of malicious push (not saying it isn't happening, just saying the western companies are complicit in it) rather than corporate greed ruining everything yet again.

I am pretty sure that if you need an inexpensive car with a decent charging bed, you are better of buying a regular passenger car and tow a small trailer when you need it.

Or a minivan. Or an actual van.

Truck's sole advantage is open bed. That is needed even rarer than "enough space for some plywood at the back"

I wish NVIDIA made rastering-only card. No RT, no AI cores, just pure performance

When Intel was on top of the world they tried every trick to destroy the competition so that definitely didn't stemmed from the top...

I think there might be some survivorship bias there - the house that survived 100 years in state where people still want it probably was built well, the 100 years old ones that didn't were scrapped/rebuilt

MS encroaching on existing protocol and behaviors then making a mess is well established patterns, Outlook defaulting to answering to e-mail on top is one of these atrocities

Still better chat experience than MS Teams

that comes with extra donations

Or simpler: people don't exactly want a house layout that was popular 100 years ago. And definitely not the level of insulation it provided. Nor the fact putting any new wiring and piping thru concrete is PITA

Tastes change and so do other requirements.

but, if we actually built for longevity in use, we could build a very durable shell of a house and then use more perishable but easier to modify methods for inside. Build a nice durable brick and concrete shell then use wood and plasterboard for room walls and floors

I think people are often surprised how little materials cost affects the total cost of a job.

It's because they frankly never did it. Nobody that had to contract something around the house is surprised by cost like that, it often costs more than price of renting equipment + you doing it yourself 3 times slower than an expert would did it, even if you're paid well.

There is reason there is so many DIY channels, labour costs are high and install costs of some stuff can be ridiculous (like 2 hour job to install AC costing more than cheap AC unit).

That's also partly the reason the more expensive materials are used - if they offer savings in labour (say way faster to put in), they might be worth it vs paying someone for more hours