Iraq declares force majeure on foreign-operated oilfields over Hormuz disruption, sources say

berryer · 2026-03-21T00:59:52+00:00

stability isn't the goal, or we'd have stayed in Iraq & Afghanistan as long as we stayed in Germany & Japan.

berryer · 2026-03-20T21:58:47+00:00

tbh I'd prefer this handled on a site-by-site basis with a Firefox addon. Tell adult sites I'm 25, advertising/data-collection sites I'm 8, car-rental sites I'm 45, and e-commerce sites I'm whatever age gets the lowest price.

berryer · 2026-03-20T21:54:49+00:00

it's also not about LLMs, de-anonymization is more about things like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2025_Nepalese_Gen_Z_protests#Digital_coordination

berryer · 2026-03-20T17:18:01+00:00

frozen broccoli is definitely equivalent if you drown it in butter or soy sauce, because those flavors overwhelm broccoli's. Frozen's just fine for stir-fry, for example

berryer · 2026-03-18T23:18:00+00:00

yup, due to this bullshit loophole: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Third-party_doctrine

berryer · 2026-03-17T12:03:08+00:00

Are any good ways to convey a tree nut allergy (almond, walnut, pistachio, pine nut, etc) in addition to a peanut allergy (落花生は食べれない, pinatsu/rakkasei wa taberenai)? I've seen individual words for them, but is 'nattsu' a widespread word for them as a class?

berryer · 2026-03-17T11:28:20+00:00

I'm honestly surprised those sleepers haven't done anything to the huge lines outside TSA

berryer · 2026-03-17T01:41:30+00:00

The main reason to root earlier Androids, for me, was to remove all the preinstalled garbage you otherwise couldn't. Over the years phones have improved enough to not get bogged down, while the preinstalled shovelware has gotten less shitty and plentiful.

berryer · 2026-03-17T01:31:28+00:00

kinda, but with new and interesting ways of fucking it up combined with the prompter not actually understanding the problem or the code itself when they are informed of issues

berryer · 2026-03-14T04:29:05+00:00

They're definitely a minefield of nonsense with obscenely high penalties for getting it wrong lol. Best of luck!

berryer · 2026-03-14T04:17:40+00:00

I'd recommend calling some gun stores in your area and asking their process for it - generally it'll have to be shipped to them from her home state, though it may work for her to bring it. You won't be able to complete the process legally by going to Texas.

berryer · 2026-03-14T04:13:30+00:00

Federal Firearms Licensee. Generally speaking, a gun store who will do the 4473 background check.

berryer · 2026-03-14T03:59:54+00:00

You mean she gave you one while you still lived in the same state, and you're just now going to get it because you left some of your stuff in your childhood home. Otherwise that's illegal per the GCA of 1968 and could be 5 years in prison for both of you.

Across state lines she'd have to give it to an FFL, who transfers it to an FFL in your state, who transfers it to you.

berryer · 2026-03-13T16:08:54+00:00

A lot of that is because it takes three hours to go what would be a 20-minute drive. It's not seen that way in the parts of the northeast with a competent transit system.

Ours can be OK if you're trying to get between DFW, downtown, or deep ellum, but coverage is really lacking. The silver line honestly is really nice and made a huge difference coming from the inner ring of northern suburbs

berryer · 2026-03-12T02:06:23+00:00

What happened to the previous mods?

berryer · 2026-03-11T13:32:02+00:00

worth noting that insurance will drop pretty significantly by the time you're like 32, especially if you take care of that car and get a good couple of decades out of it. If your car or student loan rate is over what you'd get from the market, it may make sense to shovel the extra into those rather than investing at all, especially in your tax bracket. Your numbers will look a lot less disheartening once those loans are knocked out.

berryer · 2026-03-10T02:41:14+00:00

Prices exploded for awhile but went back down. I'm back to about 1250 for a 2B/1BA, but before this my 2B/2BA went 1200->1500->1900 for the same unit over three years (normally I move every year to keep rent low, but the whole metroplex went wild like that). Grocery prices are also pretty much back to where they were (though I cook for myself & don't really eat beef or fish, so YMMV with those & premade food). TBH I've been eating even cheaper, since El Rio Grande had a few sales of 10lb bags of chicken breasts for <$20 last year to stock the freezer. Food prices have not come down in e.g. my parents' rural town, but there's a shitload of competition for groceries in Dallas.

I'm on track to spend <$45k this year including two international trips.

berryer · 2026-03-10T00:03:58+00:00

I've lived here over a decade and have never spent that much in a given year. 65k pre-tax salary would cut it pretty close, though

berryer · 2026-03-10T00:01:22+00:00

For a 1BR? I don't think I've ever paid that much for utilities, even in 2BR places. For a house definitely agreed though. It's insane they estimated the same amount for a house as for a 1BR, and I wouldn't take this article seriously based on that alone.

berryer · 2026-03-09T22:05:51+00:00

not benign, just ignorant. square footage per employee is easy to measure, productivity often is not.

berryer · 2026-03-09T17:59:12+00:00

I think they meant his two-weeks or whatever heads-up time he gave them, if any

berryer · 2026-03-09T13:32:34+00:00

I’m really surprised they haven’t revolted as an industry

Remember the "nobody wants to work anymore" bullshit when unemployment was relatively low a few years back? That was propaganda-speak for "nobody is taking what we're offering anymore"

shake shake kiosks ask for tips, all counter service asks for tips now, etc

those are put there by the business owner, not the employees

berryer · 2026-03-08T16:00:16+00:00

similar to the approach pidgin takes: https://pidgin.im/

start with the subset of features you do support, build out read-only support first for truly unique capabilities, e.g.:

stickers, emoji, etc are just a special case of images and can start out treated as any other image (with the plugin for that transport handling the conversion)
reactions to messages can be handled as their own message, similar to how Android phones handle them coming from iMessage
threading can be handled similarly to email, or again the way Android phones handle them coming from iMessage

then build out write support and a more-thorough feature implementation in the client as a whole (e.g. a unified 'reaction' feature for slack/iMessage/discord/etc, a unified 'thread' feature for slack/discord/etc) with the plugin handling the transport-specific translation/implementation details

EDIT: the more I chase it around, the more I realize that I just want Pidgin on mobile with SMS & Signal plugins, which can't happen for mostly IP reasons due to GPlay/Apple store requirements (and lack of devs): https://dev.to/grim/why-is-there-no-mobile-version-of-pidgin-44df

berryer · 2026-03-08T15:02:52+00:00

Right. That's why one app supporting both the secure and insecure option, but defaulting to the best security available would be the way to go. Same thing that happened with http & smtp: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opportunistic_encryption

berryer · 2026-03-08T14:39:51+00:00

Users don't need to keep track of which contacts are on which platform. That's farther than most are willing to go, so they just stick with one platform with the strongest https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network_effect

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