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A good watch, like a Citizen Exceed or a Casio G-Shock Square. Price/performance out of this world and will last you a lifetime.

No no, I know. I was just laughing at our reverse-Godwin law.

Ah yes. A point about socialism within 2 comments. You know you’re on Lemmy when…

“Due to COVID we are temporarily suspending the trolley service in your train”. Never returned. “Due to COVID, we have temporarily removed your inflight magazine”. Never returned. “Due to COVID, we now temporarily only clean your hotel room if you request it”. Still have to request a room clean. “Due to COVID, the salad bar has been temporarily suspended”. Still no salad bar. “Due to COVID, you now have to book a slot to go to the tip”. Still have to book a slot. “Due to COVID, the sleeper train has been temporarily suspended”. Never returned. These are just the examples I can think of.

Ah, come on this is valid investigation. If you get the same error every time, you know you can find it and debug it, somewhat with ease. If you don’t, you might have a thornier issue at hand.

I dont know why, but Sean Lock, a U.K. stand-up comedian who was the backbone of a couple of U.K. panel shows. He never spoke about his illness, but lost a lot of weight and the suddenly gone. I still watch and laugh out loud from the many, many laugh out loud moments of his career.

I completely misunderstood you. I’m sorry.

You make it sound as if there was another choice if just people had better principles. Pray tell us, what would you have done, now. Not in the past, now.

Just because we agree with the news doesn’t make it correct. The ban was brought about in December 2025. It’s clearly far too early to draw any conclusions about the impact. If we are going to cherry pick data let’s make sure to cherry-pick data from both sides: theconversation.com/early-wins-for-the-social-med…

This is probably just me, but I think any ire should be directed towards the governments that make these requirements. I don’t get mad at truck manufacturers for building the capability to record speed in the vehicle if the government requires it (as many do). IMHO Apple is intending to comply with the law of a democratic country. It’s hardly Apple’s fault that the law is what it is.

Ii can thoroughly recommend “A Brief History of Intelligence” (by Max Bennett), which explains how intelligence has taken steps through evolution, what those steps were etc. Spatial intelligence requires spatial understanding and it’s not something that can be solved through a large language model, IMHO. I’m excited to see how these are solved. And I’m terrified to see how these will be solved.

I feel fully aligned.

If I’m in the zone I want to sit in a medium dark room with fucking no one talking to me or “having a great time”.

I feel like we could double click on that statement and go granular!

And when they do they only offer them as the second factor. Yes, let me first input my password (from a password manager), the let me approve with a passkey that is meant to make my password not necessary. But email based login: FUCK THAT SHIT.

What if I told you that’ by regulation, the EU age verification system has to be anonymous and that it’s only the AUKUS countries that are moving forward in a way where anonymity is “a nice to have”. Denmark’s system, which is a front-runner implementation in the EU, is going to be fully ZKP.

Depends on where you are and the conditions of storage. If the fuel has a lot of ethanol and it’s been stored in a damp environment, I definitely wouldn’t characterise it as brand new. But yeah, drop it in the car and top of with fresh fuel and you’ll be fine.

Yes but all of these depend on the development team at Firefox. I don’t know what the solution is, but I do know that those three browsers would not continue if Firefox didn’t also continue. There’s still a lot of development work from Firefox. At this point I think the safer route would be to just accept the Chromium hegemony and build a free browser from that.

Same here. I self host photo storage, which leaves originals untouched. It’s got a parity drive. There’s a hot spare. Every night it gets backed to up two different cloud providers that both host their own hardware, on two different continents (OVH, Germany and Backblaze, US East). The entire thing gets written to two offline disks every six months, for worm protection. I run recovery exercises a couple of times a year. It would take a dinosaur killer asteroid for me to lose access to this data. Imagine giving all that to Apple?!

No of course I wouldn’t prefer living in a place where legal safety standards are ignored or non-existent. But that isn’t what I said either, so I refute your false dilemma argument :) I don’t know the details of the lawsuit. I was merely commenting that the description of the case from the post I replied to didn’t make it make more sense. Your post did, though, so thank you for that. For what it’s worth in the UK and Denmark, the two countries I know well enough, the temperature of hot drinks don’t have a legal maximum and any liability would fall under “protecting customers from foreseeable harm” broad health and safety regulations. So the question, at least from a legal perspective is what is foreseeable. Can coffee made with boiling water be foreseen to be scalding? Certainly in the UK, case law suggest exactly that a hot drink should be foreseen to be scalding and therefore it is not negligent to serve it at scalding temperatures; see Bogle v McDonalds (2002) - cms-lawnow.com/…/recent-case-on-the-supply-of-hot…

IMHO you didn’t make it sound less mad. If coffee is made by pouring boiling water over coffee beans grinds, I would expect the temperature of the final product to be scalding hot. I would even go so far as to call it a feature. Warning: Knives may cause injury. Well, yes, the whole point of them is to be sharp enough to cut something. I’m glad I live in a less litigious society.

Totally. This is the data equivalent of a “new battery tech will revolutionise your phone” post.

Tbh my own personal use case is getting buried with all of my data and become some kind of data-“Tollund man” in the year 4000, when they dig up my data cube and study it endlessly. I expect them to build a reading device to do this; it’s the least I would expect if they want to study the holiday I was on in Bergen, or completely misunderstand the two hotdog pictures I happen to have as some kind of fellatio training device. “Myes, we do believe family structures were loosely organised around the remote picture beaming devices that used to be called “te levision”

I sat next to a teacher the other day who did just that. Every single paper was graded by an AI. It actually shocked me.

Through the Ages, the app edition of the board game. I play that at least twice on a long flight.

Well you can of course do that. Then if it discovered that you’ve lied on an entry form, you’ll be denied entry forever.

Nor do you get TV tuners. While most geeks probably couldn’t care less, any associated family do prefer to watch Great British Bake-off as it airs.

Snide comment that achieves very little. Word has done the dash —> em dash transformation since the late 90s.

Many writing tools automatically transform dash to em dash when used as an em dash.

I use em dashes all the time and I’m a real person, at least last time I checked.

You understood “remember the human” wrong.

Love them both for who they are and never compare them.

“MetaAlphabetAmazon once again refuses calls for universal basic income: ‘if people wanted handouts they should have stolen the world’s IP like we did’”

Point taken. Thank you for the reminder. I was probably being harsh. Appreciate the feedback.

Man, I luckily upgraded to 64GB (when MSFS 2024 said “that’s preferred”) before all this.

In a personal context, agreed. In a business context, I completely disagree. Analysts, finance, operations etc all have much more complex requirements.

Google Sheets is competing with Excel. Proton Sheets is competing with Google Sheets. So Proton Sheets is competing with Excel. I used Word as a comparative example to say that parts of the office/docs suite are easy to compete with (there’s only so may things a word processor can do), while others (like Google Sheets or Excel, whichever order you prefer) is incredibly difficult to compete with; a formatting error on import of a Word doc is acceptable. An unsupported formula ruins the entire thing.

Agreed. The RU ain’t perfect, but I’d take it over any alternative.

Does if have FILTER, array formulas, spill zones, MAP, data tables, query engines, SQL engine etc etc? To compete with Word: Easy. To compete with Excel: Very, very difficult (pretty much only Google Sheets have managed).

Fortunately I live in a country where the government can (broadly) be trusted.

I thin Zig actually stands out pretty well from the pack. You sound maybe a little jealous or something?

The build system was basically a black box until 0.14.

The Zig core team is pretty chill and pretty united around strong engineering ethos.

Where I live, well off (seen in global scale), white, westerner is the average. Would you prefer me to represent an opinion that doesn’t reflect what I observe in my surroundings?

The Nordics.

Not at the minute no.