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Tell me about it. As an individual user you absolutely CANNOT get support is some (if not many or all) circumstances. It’s really quite shocking

https://yougov.com/en-gb/trackers/do-brits-think-that-immigr...

This sounds very much like the operation described in the book Number Go Up, which is ostensibly about FTX, but is really about a number of crypto operations which may or may not be illegal

Disk Utility used to have a Repair Permissions tool, at least back in the 00s. Not sure when it was removed

You will no doubt have noticed that with the proliferation of mobile Epos, tipping is increasingly being crowbarred into daily life over here too. For godssakes Just Say No

Yes. However there are downsides to Japan’s intensely high trust (and high shame) culture as well. Death by overwork is the one that’s most known in the west, although there are plenty of others that outsiders would never usually learn about

It’s possible the last train simply parks there for the night. This would mean that you ride the same train back after this misadventure

I’ve never ended up in this situation myself, but I have many times lived on similar commuter lines. Hearing the names of those end of lines stations becomes a big part of your every day routine. In most cases I never even visited them, which looking back feels like a pity, and even disrespectful of their incidental importance

This is entirely a problem of putting all of eggs in one basket. Or rather, only having one basket in which you’re allowed to put your eggs. The German pension system is already insolvent, and I suspect it’s not the only one. European welfare states are great n’all, but it would seem they were set up when the going was good and populations were growing. Now with stagnation, they don’t look much like staying solvent and populations don’t have anywhere else to turn

Very very true. I self host synapse, and generally speaking the ability to bridge my ~3 most used messengers into one app (ElementX) adds value. However, the lacking features and bizarre feature disjoints between Element (supposedly EOL) and ElementX (suppose next gen) are jarring

That’s not surprising at all. I don’t about the scientific apps you’re talking about, but I assume that their user base would be accessing them through academic site licenses. Music apps, however, would be predominantly used by hobbyists, a few of which would later make it big. The problem was/is that the price tags assumed studio budgets. But if you wanted those studio sounds at home, well the price is a big challenge until you start making solid money. Which is even fewer

kittysplit.com has had this feature set for a decade. I try to promote it whenever I can

Indeed. Although this tool looks like a way to work around those holdouts which refuse to provide an official customisation point

Also very enjoyable, Emilio D'Alessandro’s book Stanley Kubrick and Me

In my current and previous job, we talked about (and partially implemented) low level “contract” modules in order to avoid linking (and building) the entire module in order to share behaviour

That problem was already solved with header files; trivial to split interface from implementation, they’re just two different files. But sometime around the 90s, probably Java and this was deemed inconvenient. Now we’re trying to reinvent that same pattern

Octal is very commonly used in Ansible playbooks, for representing file permissions

Funnily enough, in my experience Germany has the same (actually seemingly worse) issue as the UK; many people have poor home internet speeds due to the fact that the local (copper?) legacy infrastructure is privately owned by DT/BT, and there is little to no incentive to have that upgraded

See: The Banshees of Inisherin

The scope for a darkly comic Jony Ive product video voiceover parody on that though

That _is_ cool

I’ve thought the same. But quite anti-social for apartment dwellers

I think that, if you look at the first iPhone, the technology was not at all “mature”. The first versions had some decidedly undesirable workarounds in both hardware and software. There’s even an interesting argument that Apple’s reliance on a somewhat outdated, non-“modern” language (ObjC) was an advantage when switching to low powered mobile hardware. What Apple did was succeeded in a more concept driven paradigm change - usable soft keyboard, multi touch, usable “full web” browser. Also rejecting dubious technologies like Flash that were considered de facto at the time. Basically packaging standard technologies into a far better conceived whole. This was their successful business model for a long time. It’s only recently that Apple has been leading technology in terms of innovation, and that only happened once they became so dominant, which only happened after the iPhone

One could argue that maturity can only be reached by allowing minors responsibility

Isn’t this just evidence of the Overton Window? The amount of promotion needed to push any particular cause is significantly lower than people intuit. And following on from this, once that cause has hit the mainstream, the amount of coverage it gets leads to people further overestimating its true significance. After that point it just snowballs

I think what we’ve discovered is that, thanks to the Internet, that’s a strategy that’s significantly easier to employ than ever before. In the past ups at least need to have mainstream media outlets onboard. Nowadays you can do that with a hashtag

That is true. But I have to say that migrating my home server to using rootless Docker (which included all of the same pain), was a fantastic improvement when I finally got around to doing it. I could now migrate to Podman, but less motivated now, since rootless Docker works so nicely

https://github.com/monicahq/monica

I think “most” is a bit of a stretch. Even in countries where education is free, or close to free, students still need some means to support their daily living costs. So that means loans or part time work. Having all of that handed to you doesn’t feel like it promotes the idea that university is an investment you’re making in your future. And otherwise I’m not that supportive of “free” higher education. I certainly agree it shouldn’t be cripplingly expensive, but the last few decades have demonstrated that shifting more and more young people onto the higher ed track just devalues a degree for everyone, stigmatises those who choose a different path, and raises costs for everyone. I also strongly disagree with the idea that having some/many diplomas automatically makes one “smarter”. That’s just a normalisation of credentialism, in my opinion

As a non-American, the “pay for the kids’ college” (in cash) meme stumps me. How do people expect children to value their education, or the importance of that investment in terms of time, effort and money, if they’re handed such a gift on a silver platter at an early age? Frankly it smells of status signalling on the part of the parents

Ditto in German. One of those rare times English is more specific!

3. Some amount of people don’t want to feel like the dating process is an interview process, of attempting to insert a “bum” into a “seat”, of finding a “candidate” to fill a “role”. Of course that doesn’t stop it from still _being that_, it’s just that some people are fully comfortable with an upfront, obvious and formal selection process, but many people are not, and want the process to have some amount of an “organic” feel to it.

As with anything with dating, since you have no idea of what a new person’s criteria is, and they may not know either, and since there’s often a certain poker game involved in revealing those intentions, most people seem to opt for feeling it out as they go along. Honestly I think this is fine, it’s just that you have to give each other enough time and space for that, and that’s often a problem