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Ok I give up. Let’s agree to disagree and go touch grass outside.

That was… once, 500 years ago. The hottest summer before this year was 2023. The one before that a few years before.

38 in daytime and 30 at night kills.

Ah yes, the hottest summer ever. Probably nothing to worry about.

We’ve figured out how to make reusable rockets and computers that can talk you into committing suicide.

I’m sure we can figure this one out too.

It’s a tad hot in some places lately, and getting hotter.

I can hold a strong opinion on this matter without risking any of my own money.

I own no Musk stock and never short anything.

I don’t think that affects the opinion I stated in any way.

“Shocking nobody” I would add… This is an obvious Musk scam and anyone with financial knowledge called it as such ever since it’s been on the table. Why else lobby and change the NASDAQ listing rules for instance?

Samsung is such an evil, dishonest, cunning company. I can’t understand how their devices sell so well despite that!

How?

To add, Switzerland is a little weird with accident vs disease.

If it’s an accident (ie sudden, unavoidable, unpredictable, more or less) it’s great because you have nothing to pay, you don’t even need to worry about the bill and there is no deductible and everything is covered no questions asked.

If it’s a disease, then it’s the regular insurance rules which can be quite arcane and you’re never sure what’s going to be covered and how much.

My transport was from adverse consequences of a surgery and so they deemed it not an accident, and that’s why I had to pay.

Oh wow. They were cool with me they said if we transport you it’ll be expensive. I didn’t have a car, I was living pretty high up a hill, it was midnight, and I had lost quite a bit of blood already so I thought “fuck it I’ll find out how expensive it is once I’m fixed”. But they wouldn’t have charged me if they hadn’t transported me (at least that’s what it sounded like)

I guess I made the right call because I fainted in the ER later from blood loss.

I had to call an ambulance in Switzerland where ambulance prices are freely set by the operator (except in a few cantons which are enforcing reasonable flat rates)

A 5 minutes ride cost 1500.- (more or less the same in USD)

Because I had used a good broker to pick my insurance plan, I was left with “only” 500.- to pay out of pocket for the ride.

In Quebec, as a resident, going 3 blocks in the ambulance cost us about 500 CAD if I remember correctly.

What do you mean? It’s been around for a while and people still use it yes

I too loathe LinkedIn. However it kinda feels like you have to use it if you’re a freelance senior developer and want to find projects. At least that’s what many B2B people say.

So I’m wondering: long term freelancers who make a living out of freelancing (and I’m not talking employee type of positions where you’re basically an employee but get paid on invoices), where and how do you acquire customers if not on LinkedIn?

How do you not participate in the LinkedIn AI slop and still fill your pipeline?

That’s not how it is there though. Any change whatsoever, justified or not, is opposed. So the government goes for bust and makes changes that help the biggest companies, the richest in the country, friends of the president (whoever they are, different presidents same joke) because it’s going to be a struggle anyway so it might as well payoff for their friends. Plus they need the wealthy’s support (they own the newspapers and media)

And so we’ve given up on the train for instance because when it’s not striking it’s broken down for some reason.

Retirements and social security, same thing, the only changes made was for the industry not for the people. And we’re careening into the wall.

It’s not only their printers. Their computers and peripherals are also very low quality nowadays. Enterprise buys them because they’re cheap not because they’re good. The bar they have to clear is to keep working for the lease’s duration (3 years typically).

I’ve been burnt a few times now I run away when I see HP (even their “enterprise” line, which used to be good)

There is a strike or demonstration of sorts every other day in France. Or so it seems living there. It’s become so frequent that it has little to no meaning anymore. The government is scared to implement any meaningful change because it’s guaranteed there’ll be a strike or demonstration of sorts. And so we continue towards the wall pedal to the metal.

It’s as if they were working super hard to obliterate their domination of the consoles market.

Xbox is in shambles but if Sony keeps pulling these braindead moves and annihilating any goodwill they have, Xbox might come out on top despite their best efforts.

E-bikes. Not super hilly but I think it’d be tiring with an acoustic bike for a business.

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That’s what the beeps are for!

You’d be surprised. A family member bought a 2025 utilitarian car (Dacia). It’s the one on the newer platform (Clio 6) so they can implement all the beeping mandated by law.

The car beeps exactly the same way whatever the reason so you can’t tell why. It even beeps when it thinks the speed limit has changed (up or down)… it’s infuriating to drive this car, there is a beep about something every minute or two. You can’t even tell what it’s beeping about.

Luckily there is a shortcut button near the dash that you can press to disable all these idiotic beeps. You have to do it every time you restart the car. It does make it feel like all these beeps are pointless since you can’t tell what they’re about and press the button to disable them all as soon as you start the car anyway…

I don’t think you’ve ever lived under SU rules.

I own a car and a bike. I wouldn’t mind if cars were banned or very heavily restricted in the city.

I have a trailer for the bike, we can haul 100 lbs. it’s more than enough.

Businesses can be allowed to get deliveries, just personal cars are restricted.

In my city, many businesses have switched to operating from a cargo bike: plumbers, electricians, even mechanics.

Apple so often disagree with reality.

Well we still use Roman months and weekdays, and carry over the 30/31 days months even though we could’ve had a way better system by now (base 10 and equal divisions)

Happened to me a few times. And then your password never works and you can’t understand why.

To me it signals bad engineering in the underlying system which doesn’t exactly encourage trusting the system with my data.

I worked some (terrible) place that did that and wouldn’t allow you to use your last 3 passwords. So what we were doing is that when it was time to rotate password, we would change our password 3 times in a row and on the fourth time we would just use the same password as before. This way our password never changed (the requirements for passwords were ridiculous) and the box could be checked in the audit.

Also the same company: we ran a version of our artifact repository that had a 10.0 CVE for almost a year. It was too much work to update it, couldn’t spare the resources.

Consider putting them on archive.org then, they have a section for that and it helps spread sources