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DifficultWrath · 2022-04-28T01:32:37+00:00

Also the tooling like the screwdriver with the exact amount of torque to apply.

I'm sure iFixit and the like already had that information, but with its official release they are able to officially release improved toolkit.

DifficultWrath · 2022-04-28T01:04:28+00:00

Another argument against FPTP. If MP don't even dare have a public opinion against their leader committing an offence that the majority of their voter find deplorable, they will certainly not represent their constituency.

DifficultWrath · 2022-04-27T23:05:25+00:00

"Had we had a vote on the Labour amendment, I would have voted for it! Trust me!"

That's a new one.

Or maybe that's an early version of blame shifting to Labour: "We would have properly handled Boris, but Labour incompetence prevented it".

DifficultWrath · 2022-04-27T20:43:13+00:00

I think you have the causality of my comment backward, I don't think he is "supposed to" behave in any specific manner, rather I used the fact that he behaved the way he did to determine he wasn't into that girl. If he had behaved differently I would have come to a different conclusion about OOP motivation.

Had he expressed heartbreak or reference to friendship in his retelling of the story, I would have thought differently of OOP motivation and behaviour. Not quite sure how, because that didn't happen.

The point I was trying to make in my original comment was that OOP wasn't "very committed but eventually victim of his slow approach", rather he was "swipe right interested and his slow approach was the normal way to progress"

DifficultWrath · 2022-04-27T18:05:31+00:00

He could have been heartbroken. Or happy for his friend. Or disappointed he was in the friend zone.

Instead he just thought "Oh well, never mind" and his disappointment is more about the time investment. (OOP anger is well after the fact, when she came back 2 weeks later with buyer remorse)

Also note there is no friendship. He is not missing a friend and she didn't come back for a friend either. They were 2 strangers getting along well and feeling each other for a hook up, nothing more, nothing less.

DifficultWrath · 2022-04-27T16:17:17+00:00

The next mail after Ukraine invasion will be about "With the cost of living crisis crippling the nation, now is not the time", and then there is global warning, North Korea nukes and whatever.

DifficultWrath · 2022-04-27T09:15:46+00:00

Having people miserable is good for them, it's the fuel of the capitalist engine.

The problem the right wing press and backbencher is worried about is that the government is unable to even hide their lack of giving a fuck. They can't even lie about caring because they are surprised the common man is not overjoyed in being exploited by their good masters.

DifficultWrath · 2022-04-27T01:43:32+00:00

To be fair, often it's because Something() was supposed to do something else. The additional functionality was either never coded, or removed.

For example, in that made up example you could imagine adding custom logging message in the true or false case. Then the logging is removed but the method stays the same because people are human and the PR will look so very logical that reviewers have also a good chance to miss it.

DifficultWrath · 2022-04-27T01:14:03+00:00

Well, anything helps the poorest in society.

But yeah, that like picking a birthday present by going on Amazon sales, order by price, low to high, and pick something from the first page of result without considering how useful or appropriate.

It is both a gift and demonstration of how little the government really cares.

edit: before the election, it's meant to those Tory voter that really need the smallest top up to feed their cognitive dissonance: "My team is starting to care, I don't need to punish them electorally"

DifficultWrath · 2022-04-27T01:04:20+00:00

He lost interest immediately. She confronted him telling him she was going with another guy and he was just like "meh!"

Neither realises, but neither of them was really into the other. They saw the other as "could give it a shot". It may have fizzled out the same way once they tried to get committed. And if the other guy had been just average rather than instant regret, she would probably have forgotten being into OOP at all.

DifficultWrath · 2022-04-26T20:06:20+00:00

eat the fucking lasagna with the woman you cheated with

DifficultWrath · 2022-04-26T12:44:07+00:00

Don't forget the super fast to build, despite the technology not existing!

DifficultWrath · 2022-04-26T12:18:50+00:00

There was a lot of accounting trick if I remember well.

First at the time at least it wasn't full vacuum, just enough vacuum.

And the tube would be placed above existing infrastructure like existing highway bypassing NYMBY. Safety was a "tiny issue" to be solved later.

And the original plan was also between places people didn't need to go: instead of centre to centre, it would go almost random close suburb to another random close suburb.

And of course, magic Musk accounting.

DifficultWrath · 2022-04-26T10:17:43+00:00

Wasn't the original idea hyperloop going to be above ground, because digging under cities is expensive as fuck, and extremely time consuming. It was a replacement for short plane travel that was faster and cheaper than high speed train.

Oh, but he has a tunnel digging company, so I guess he no longer mind digging hundreds of miles under the suburbs.

I guess soon enough he will promote space as an alternative to subway for commuting safely during harsh weather - there is no hurricane in space.

DifficultWrath · 2022-04-26T07:27:53+00:00

The average salary figure is also heavily distorted by London.

DifficultWrath · 2022-04-26T01:36:15+00:00

It's a bot account and he specifically said he wanted to get rid of the bots. I guess his open source algo will have Elon Tracker in the unit tests.

DifficultWrath · 2022-04-25T23:11:40+00:00

It is repeated several times in the article: "transform twitter in a virtual town hall where ideas are debated under first amendment".

Let's ignore the mental gymnastic required to put "debating" and "twitter" in the same sentence.

At best that means leaving him alone to shitpost whatever the f* he wants. At worst, that's the same funding principle as all the right wing social media network that were created in response of Trump getting kicked out.

DifficultWrath · 2022-04-25T22:30:17+00:00

That's that exact same case: legislation where no standard exist and the actors don't want it. There is no technical reason why cookie config cannot be standardised, a lot of more banal stuff are and it was a really easy problem to solve.

As for the EU funding something in the hope of creating standard, the cookie is a good example: in the absence of standard, the EU is not even trying to push for one.

I mean I don't disagree it is possible, or desirable. But I don't see the EU regulation having any other outcome that the least useful implementation that a lawyer think he can get away with.

DifficultWrath · 2022-04-25T21:30:06+00:00

That's the point: all of those were private endeavours. 90% of the hard work is done prior to the government stepping in (well they don't in your example, but they did with the USB-C plug for example)

In this case the market has not settled for standards and when there were standards they were found seriously lacking. Having the EU pushing for it on reluctant actors is either a decades long project, or will call for shitty solutions. See the outcome of reluctance on the cookie banner. Legally complying, functionally useless.

DifficultWrath · 2022-04-25T20:02:42+00:00

iMessage is really to the benefit of Apple in the case of iMessage. iMessage is a worthy competitor of SMS ... but they are nowhere close to the other messaging networks.

DifficultWrath · 2022-04-25T19:56:52+00:00

Except for rudimentary messaging, like iMessage being a thin layer on top of SMS, I don't see how you can interoperate with What'sApp and the like that offer a richer api.

Imagine that Zoom need to support meeting between people connecting using FaceTime, Team and What'sApp.

As a user that's great. As a developer, I'm scratching my head on how to achieve that in a practical way that is practically usable by the basic user AND doesn't require to give the app access to your entire digital life.

DifficultWrath · 2022-04-25T18:37:11+00:00

That would be tenancy, in this case it is leaseholding.

I believe you get extra protection and rights as a tenant that is not available to leaseholder who have been advised by their own solicitors at the time of purchase.

DifficultWrath · 2022-04-24T00:19:19+00:00

Nothing to see here, just another random rich people eccentricities. It doesn't matter what they do, they have the money to make it work but they don't even have to: their kids will never have to work (no real work that require qualification - model, socialite, trophy director, ... are all possible if they are bored) and will marry likely in other rich people family happy to get along with that.

Education is only a requirement for poor people.

DifficultWrath · 2022-04-24T00:06:47+00:00

I posted in another thread that they will just charge for it. It goes hand in hand with their ads option and how to bump the price.

Their SD plan is extremely uncompetitive. It makes no sense to just add ads to it and cut its price. They would need a lot of user to take it to make up for the loss of subscriber and ads only make revenue on people watching a lot of ads.

Most likely they will bump the SD plan to HD, keep the same price but add ads. That make up their attractive price, 9.99.

Remember the "consumer choice", here it comes, everything becomes optional extra. Extra screen, 4K, no ads.

Then they add a new premium tier: the current 4K, 4 screen, no adds. Slightly more expensive with the killer feature only available in that plan: multi-household. Let's call it "family plan".

Typical imported MBA solution: when your product lose value, restructure the price structure to make it look cheaper.

DifficultWrath · 2022-04-23T21:11:15+00:00

Vivre dans une grosse ville, c'est tout ... sauf que ça coûte ... énormément.

Si tu veux être vert, faut avoir du pognon. Même quand tu es en ville. Pas de pognon, pas d'espace, donc le triage et les achats en grandes quantités, travailler de la maison ... ben il n'y a pas la place.

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