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so without tool support you can't navigate to a reference target

Maybe, but XML tools are also just superior to JSON counterparts. XPath is fantastic, and so is XSD and XSLT. I also quite like the integration with .NET.

My general experience with JSON as a configuration language has been sad. It's a step back from XML in a lot of ways.

You don't have to meet someone to know they're awful. I've never met Adolf Hitler - but I'm pretty confident he's an awful person.

Elon Musk uses his immense wealth to cheat. He's infiltrated the government and uses his power to directly harm Americans, in order to further enrich himself. In addition, almost everyone who has worked for him has corroborated that he is an awful boss.

He is also prone to dishonesty. When confronted with something that requires accountability, his strategy is to protect his lies with newer lies. FSD, the state of twitter, DOGE, and on and on. He is so dishonest that it's almost always safer to assume he is lying than to give the benefit of the doubt.

But, even on a personal level, he struggles to stay afloat. He has impregnated multiple woman and is practically forming an army of illegitimate children. Those who were close to him either speak of him with extreme disdain or not at all. The only child he has any connection to is used as nothing more than a political pawn.

The only reason anyone even thinks he might be okay is because he's rich. We tend to have an extreme bias in favor of the wealthy, almost akin to a brainwashing. The reality is being rich does not correlate with being moral or decent. It doesn't correlate with being intelligent either, but that's a separate conversation.

Sure, but it's becoming increasingly obvious to everyone that the American car industry is in major trouble. In a decade, I'm confident in saying a lot of American car companies will not exist.

We see it in our day-to-day lives. People aren't buying new cars. Cars on the road are getting older and older. Views of Tesla continue to dwindle. Anything Stellantis is on life support. I mean, Chrysler has literally one car. GM is clawing for any sort of relevancy. And Ford is only afloat because of toxic masculinity. We all know that it's bad in the US, and we know outside of the US it's 100x times worse for these companies. We also know the US car market as a market is getting overshadowed.

It doesn't matter what stupid investors think. We can see the writing on the wall. These investors are delusional, period.

I would not be comfortable using any self-driving system on US roads that only utilizes computer vision.

The reality is we don't actually know how reliable these systems are, and Tesla has a long history of spreading misinformation about their own technology and obfuscating the facts. We don't even know how many cars crash while in FSD mode. We don't know how they crash, or why. None of this data is made publicly available, and of the data that is shared it is carefully curated, and we have no guarantee the data is not fudged. For example, are we certain that FSD does not disengage itself in dangerous circumstances to skew statistics in it's favor?

Trusting Tesla marketing on the topic of Tesla products is like trusting any kind of marketing. They have an incentive to sell the car, so they will lie, and they will cheat.

IMO it's not much added work. In KDE you can navigate to settings and edit flatpak permissions, and flatpaks are available to download via discover. I haven't noticed any weirdness for firefox or chrome.

I find for deeply hierarchical data that XML is much easier to read.

There’s two things going on here:

1. You’re, rightfully, pointing out the “kids these days” bias that societies tend to have. Humans are risk-averse by nature and old things register in our monkey brains as better. This is all true.

2. Some goods are actually worse. Objectively. Clothing is one of them.

I buy and curate menswear from the 1960s and 1970s. Full suits, trousers, vests, trench coats, you know. The quality is just not comparable to modern menswear. Almost all of these items look brand new, and when pressed, better than new clothes made today.

They’re much sturdier, with no fraying or pilling. Most hold their shape to an unbelievable degree - one pressing session will easily last for 3 months of wear.

The viscose and polyester stuff is better, too, but naturally not as long-living as cotton or wool. But still, I have seen 60 year old polyester trousers with no pilling. Modern trousers can barely survive 3 washes without pilling.

A lot of business basically just steal from their future selves in perpetuity until the interest they’ve accumulated is too great and they implode.

It’s the GM and intel school of business. Constantly choose what makes money now, and avoid advancements and infrastructure. Wait now the competition is 20 years ahead? So you have 20 years worth of infrastructure to pay off, right now? Oh…

Everyone is just faking it until the chicken inevitably comes homes to roost. Then they walk about from the explosion and go to another company and say “see? Look how much share holder value I made! Nevermind that the company got destroyed shortly after I left!”

Yes, I just bought one a few months ago actually. A new lunar lake laptop. It gets 12 hours of battery life and has plenty performance for programming, plus 32 gigs of ram. It’s under 3 pounds and the screen is OLED.

And yes, everything works. On bleeding edge 2 month old hardware.

I even use thunderbolt 4 to connect my external displays and peripherals. Not only does it work, but it’s pleasant. KDE has a settings panel for thunderbolt. I can even change my monitor brightness in KDE settings. No OSD required!

But wait, there’s more! I’m running 2 1440p monitors at 240hz and the system never even hiccups.

But wait, there’s more more! The battery settings are really advanced so I can change the power profile, maximum charge, everything.

The only thing I’m unsure about in your comment is “low latency audio”. It seems low latency to me, but I’m not an audio engineer.

Hugely agree with markdown.

99% of the time people want bullet points, headers, maybe a table or two. Using a word processor is very overkill and actually makes the simple stuff more arduous.

Markdown is the best too because:

1. Sending as plaintext is so convenient and it looks pretty decent

2. Most software (gitlab, jira, etc) accept markdown input so you can just copy-paste

The division of per-app vs app list in general is bad.

I think they should just throw in the towel and duplicate settings. Meaning, we can turn off Siri learning from an app or from the Siri page. Or we can turn off banners from the app or the notifications page.

This doesn’t work on Windows because there’s half a dozen “settings” applications, which is the original complaint.

My advice for web browsers is to use Flatpak.

You can limit the file system permissions of the app, like giving only access to downloads, so that if/when there’s a sandbox leak you’re fine. You can also disable various things, like webcam or mic, this way.

In addition, you can get perpetual updates to the latest version of your browser even on old, stable distros like Debian.

It’s perfectly fine. KDE and Gnome are both now more cohesive, more intuitive, and less buggy than either Windows or MacOS.

The problem with Linux is that, while it’s very good, it’s different.

Nobody actually cares how intuitive something is, at least not in absolute. People will still say Windows is intuitive. Pretty much nothing in Windows, from the registry to COM to IIS to setting/control panel/computer management, is intuitive. But they know how to use it and are used to that particular brand of buggy inconsistency.

Linux desktops have been high quality for a long time now. The reality is you, and others, measure quality as “how much is it like windows” or “how much of it is like macOS”. When that’s your metric, Linux will always come up short, just by definition.

1. Customers don't know what cancelling is like before they buy a service. This isn't advertised, obviously.

2. Competing on being easy to cancel is a bad thing, actually. However wins that competition is losing money. That's why you see the competition go in the other direction. As in, who can make the shittiest cancellation interface (Planet Fitness, btw).

3. People who cancel a service are cancelling BECAUSE of the service. Why would they go back to a service they disliked enough to cancel, if the service stays exactly the same? They wouldn't. Meaning, "good cancellation" doesn't count for anything.

So it doesn't help you retain customers, it doesn't help you get back customers you lost, and it doesn't help you get new customers.

No, but they do have different risk profiles for various diseases and drug use. Surprise surprise, that affects diagnoses and treatment.

hormone levels, etc.

Right… their gender they identify as.

So sex, and then also the gender they identify as.

You can’t hide behind an “etc”. Expand that out and the conclusion is you really do need to know who is trans and who is cisgender when doing treatment.

I hardly think most (any?) democrats or their constituents are talking about affirmative action in this day and age.

It’s pretty shocking that this extremely fringe issue is the only thing you can find to support the narrative that dems are “spearheading” radical social change.

Whats actually happening is that conservative fear monger about random various minority groups, as they have for all of time, and then enact policies intended to harm them. The dems have no choice but to respond.

You would think that conservatives continuing this playbook for, well, ever, would cause people to stop and say “wait… are the conservatives really the ones stirring up the culture war?” But no, somehow it hasn’t. Somehow, we’re all still living under the delusion that conservatives just maintain the status quo and oppose radical change, and not that they’re the ones creating the need for opposing action.

yet still choose to drive

Obligatory “almost nobody in the US chooses to drive” comment.

Driving in the US is a lifeline. It’s closer to food and shelter than a product or action. Remaining economically afloat in the US without a car is extraordinarily difficult. Many people, especially poor people, would much rather lose their job or health insurance than their car.

In addition, humans have a lot of senses. Not just 5 - but dozens. A lot of them working in the background, subconsciously. It’s why I can feel someone staring at me, even if I never explicitly saw them.

The misconception here is that technology just magically runs on its own.

No, it’s created by and maintained by humans. You’re shifting the cost of a driver to software engineers, data analysis, people mapping out roads, etc.

This is why Uber doesn’t make any money, despite being more expensive for the customer as compared to traditional taxi services. Coordinating Ubers across the country costs a lot of servers and a lot of engineers. Sure, the system is automatic - maintaining it isn’t.

So you end up with a lose-lose-lose scenario. The ride is more expensive for the customer. The driver makes less money. And Uber bleeds hundreds of millions a year.

Technology is neat, yes, but often we don’t stop and think “wait… does this make sense?”

We don’t know if autonomous cars make any economic sense. They could end up not. It doesn’t help that 99% of tech companies in the transportation space are just making trains with extra steps. Like, guys - have we even done feasibility analysis?

I'm sure it's a sliding scale type thing. 24 students is slightly better than 25, and our numbers have slowly been increasing for a long time.

It's widely, but inconsistently, supported. The behavior of importers varies a lot, which is generally not the case for JSON.

Woke is everything, everywhere, all at once.

Pretty much if an action can even so much as be perceived as helping someone, somewhere, with something in a way that they do not "deserve", then it is woke.

Clean air? Woke! Better consumer protections? Woke! Not having lead in our pipes? Believe it or not, woke!

This is just a roundabout way of saying it's the Conservative's fault.

That's because you changed what's actually happening to something way bigger, so then you can immediately say it's not minutiae.

This isn't taxes, this is one very specific and small tax. And this isn't levied by the FCC, it's levied by Congress. The FCC just gets to say what percentage of this specific tax is applicable.

So the FCC gets the power to change what percentage of phone bills should go towards universal telephony access. Put this way, you know, the thing that's actually happening, it does seem like minutiae.

I doubt Congress has any idea what percentage of phone bills should go towards universal access because they're not telecommunications experts. They don't know how hard, or easy, it may be to run rural lines. They don't know what lines are still needed. They don't know where they're needed. In fact, they don't even know what phone bills should cost!

Because it’s directly related - the US’ political strategy is why PayPal exists. Politics is inseparable from economics.

We prioritize the private sector politically and there’s a lot of benefits, and a lot of detriments, to this.

One of the downsides is we have hundreds of more or less identical companies doing the same thing that don’t need to exist. This breeds inefficiency into systems we use, thereby opening the door for even more useless companies that just reduce friction. Friction that we decided we needed to have.

The most obvious example is healthcare in the US, but every industry experiences these detriments.

It works of course but it’s a short term solution. Because you’re trading off long term success for success right now.

It’s like a cash advance on a credit card. Great for getting 500 bucks in your pocket, but the interest is steep.

People, like most resources, can be extended past their maximum value at the cost of longevity.

If it wasn't that, then what was it? This is the golden question that, apparently, hundreds of millions of Americans are unable to answer.

Torching Teslas isn't a strategic use of violence, it's throwing a tantrum.

I don't know, seems about the same as throwing tea into a river. Doesn't help anyone, the tea was probably already sold so it doesn't even hurt the manufacturer. But it does send a message, doesn't it?