My gripe is that night owls are supposed to be quiet so we don’t disturb the morning larks’ slumber, but larks can be as loud as they want in the morning cuz they gotta wake themselves up, and they got places to be, and also fuck you for being so selfish sleeping in past 7:00.

If it gets any more powerful, it might be able to solve the halting problem.

got wise and switched to foriegn apps.

Similar to perfectionism/procrastination cycle:

I have to be very careful about the first step, because it will determine whether this whole thing will be an outstanding success or not.

Oh crap, I took too long on the first step, and now there’s no way for it to be perfect. I hope it doesn’t look like I tried.

Yup. They’re all dangerous monsters.

IMO, it doesn’t even matter who’s worse, cuz they’re all bad enough they should all be subject to aggressive regulation with the goal of establishing safe interop off-ramps for people to stop using the services or at least use more trustworthy clients.

In my estimation, TikTok is worse, but that’s not even what the ban is about. It’s because China is spying instead of the US. That’s not a reason to defend TikTok though, or to oppose the government’s decision — cuz they were accidentally right, for the wrong reason.

Oh hey, I just listened to a thing about this!

What we can learn about perception, priors, and truth itself from the party dress that sparked a global debate over the nature of reality

I mean, if that’s the question you want answered…

X uses a native browser controller when you open a link, so the app can’t see what you do in there.

Whereas TikTok uses a managed webview… which they have been caught injecting keyloggers into.

Back in the olden days, we called this a cross-site scripting attack.

Or you can do what I do: skip past the surface level stuff and find out what the experienced folks have to say about the abstract philosophical essence of the thing.

People will be amazed at the depth of your knowledge!

Almost as amazed as they’ll be when you can’t answer any of the most obvious practical questions immediately after.

Idk man, kids can adapt to pretty much any condition. It’s mostly other people’s reactions that make it hard. I don’t think you make that better by saying they’re justified in their prejudices.

Edit: Crap, I didn’t realize this was about you. I stand by it though.

Heck em. I’ve known people with similarly traumatic childhoods who turned out to be amazing — quirks and all.

There’s so much more time than you realize, and Future You™ will have a very different attitude about this stuff after you get some distance from it.

For whom

I walked my late teens/early twenties in those shoes. Would not recommend.

Oh boy. Don’t look too deep into philosophy of language, or you might become convinced that “the iris” is just as nonexistent — or that all nouns are really about a symbolic existence as a relationship, for which measurable physical matter is inconsequential.

Peterson is a big voice in men’s rights – well, a small Kermit’s voice in men’s rights – and he’s also an embarrassment.

Annihilated.

My sister had a Plymouth Duster with little flaps under the dash that you could open to vent in some air from the outside.

The faster you go, the cooler you are. And also cooler.

Age-verification HTTP requests are deeply rooted in this nation’s history.

Based on some similar experience: low millions per year.

Skeleton crew of devs+ITS to keep the lights on, software licensing, hardware costs, customer support, financial oversight, legal oversight and occasional compliance efforts.

Probably a good amount of technical and organizational friction involved, too, for whatever services, knowledge bases, and corporate policies were shared between the Wii U and Switch.

It seems stupid when you compare it to the fact that Pretendo probably pays about 1% as much, but that’s just how businesses work.

I reflexively hated the light streaks at first, but then I thought about it and realized I’ve never seen the speed of ISS orbit represented in a photo before and that’s kinda cool, especially juxtaposed with the Milky Way detail that was only possible with the very same long exposure that produce the streaks.

Idk. Space usually looks pretty still and tranquil, so having that and a sense of fast movement in the same shot is pretty cool I guess.

“Best ever” though? Hell, what does that even mean? It’s a cool photo, let’s just leave it at that.

The real fence is capital vs labor, and he doesn’t play both sides of that one

Welfare

Edit: Idk how many people realize, but “promote the general Welfare” is literally in the preamble; so when conservatives criticize welfare, they’re opposing the constitution.

We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.

I mean sure, but you could definitely conceive a Microsoft/Google/Apple style business model where they try to lock people into an ecosystem where they control both sides — the OS and the software — so that the OS can discourage third-party software and the software offers benefits for using the OS where they have home field advantage.

They don’t really need to, cuz they’re the de facto standard for Windows anyway. Specifically because they never went the Microsoft way. So now their OS is just another nice perk instead of another way to control their customers. And it’s also way cheaper for Valve this way.