thaway2839's comments

Unless you're a bully, you will only use nicknames that the individual themselves has offered you to use.

What a terrible decision by DDG. That's as generous as I can get regd. this.

> Relentless pressure to conform and be a "team player" + massive levels of doublethink and hypocrisy + lack of parental guidance and care even in two-parent households because everyone has to work and has no time and energy for raising children.

And why does that only lead to more mass shooting events? Why doesn't it lead to all sorts of other violent crime that went down significantly over this period? Why would overall violent crime drop drastically over this period of time?

Attention seeking may be an answer, because it would explain why it leads to all these mental pressure increasing the number of media covered mass shootings, even if overall crime was going down. But the mental illness aspect simply doesn't fit. We should be seeing an increase in overall violence if so many 18 year olds were mentally unwell.

Suggesting ideas is not the same as assuming everyone else should have the exact same design choice and architecture. The problem is that the actual issue owner on the Google side does not appear to have any solutions (or is burying solutions because they may be too complex).

It's pretty clear that the issue owner agrees there is something wrong here. That's why the issue is kept open and their only reason for not fixing it is that it's a complicated fix which requires effort.

As a workaround, they offer Drew the opportunity to essentially disable his service from being used as a useful source of Go modules.

4 GB/day is a different person facing the same issue who is hosting a single module they claim is likely only used by them.

The second link is irrelevant to the issue at hand. I'm sure there are a lot of shitty Google devs who have behaved shittily with others. I don't think that's reason for, say, an ISP, to ignore any issues Google might face as an entity.

The relevant first link clearly lays out an implementation problem. It's not just git.sr.ht that's facing it, but another user also comes in to point out a tremendous amount of traffic. An amount of traffic that is fairly irresponsible to say the least.

The issue owner doesn't deny the problem. They simply say it requires work. It appears they are unwilling to do the work to resolve the unsavory behavior, and instead are asking the host of Go modules to disable the ability for their service to be used as a Go module host, or instead suck it up and deal with the cost and complications of Google not putting in the effort to fix their architecture's DDoSish behavior.

Google and Go have the market power to pull this off, but let's not pretend this isn't bad behavior. An appeal to Drew's terrible personal communication style does not change that.

Unfortunately US courts have taken a very dim view towards adjusting balance of power.

For example, I don't think there's anywhere else where the mere act of purchasing a product or service can result in you giving up the right to sue the company in court and be forced to enter arbitration with an arbiter of the company's choice.

It clearly isn't a direct and obvious violation.

Even ignoring any say the rest of the Constitution has on civil forfeiture, even the parts that you quote do not prevent civil forfeitures on their own.

"The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated"

The rub here is "unreasonable". The fact that the constitution explicitly proscribes "unreasonable" seizures means it also allows "reasonable" seizures.

So there is no clear answer here because unreasonable is completely subjective.

The constitution is contradictory. It isn't a perfect document written on a stone tablet by god.

And legal systems of any nation are more than just the constitution.

So the idea that you can just read one clause in the constitution and therefore clearly know what is allowed and isn't (also, even the interpretation of that clause is not as easy as you are portraying here) is absolutely false.

Is this a known thing? I'm convinced it's the case, especially for emails from the 2000s. My email usage dropped in the 2010s, so I don't have as much important stuff stored in there, but there are periods of my Inbox history, where I know I was using Gmail heavily, that have basically little more than a handful of emails anymore.

A random selection of benefits that I see on an almost daily basis:

Combining multiple accounts from multiple providers in the same interface is a lot easier.

Alt + Tabbing to your mail client is a lot easier. It's absolutely brilliant in something like i3 where I pin my mail app to a desktop, and so my mail is always a single key combo away.

Having multiple open message/compose windows is a lot easier.

Stuff like multiple mail selections using your keyboard and even mouse is a lot easier.

Notifications work better and can be controlled in a much more granular way.

There are a ton of automations that can be made a lot easier.

Attaching files to email is a lot easier. Most OS'es/file browsers can make it a single right click process.

Rules can be far more powerful.

Downloading means you can access your messages (maybe even all messages) at anytime, whether you have access to the internet or not.

You can maintain email hygiene much better. For example, I have my email check set to once every 15 minutes, which means I will only be able to see new email once every 15 mins at most. Until I really got used to not checking and refreshing every time, I had even more aggressive strategies where I blocked network access to the email app and had to manually enable it and manually download emails, each time I wanted to check emails. There may be better strategies or alternatives, but the point is that you have a lot more control.

The downsides of desktop mail clients: Search tends to be slower and often worse.

No easy access from other computers.

Some missing "advanced" features (e.g. the GMail style promotions tabs, etc., and the additional live features GMail often provides)

Labels don't work well with most desktop clients (although GMail focused clients do an excellent job, but personally I don't prefer them because I have many non GMail accounts that I also want to use in the same interface).

IMAP syncing is slow and silly. I wish we had a better protocol. This doesn't make much of a difference in practice unless you're trying to use email as an IM application.

I still don't understand the lack of Mozilla's support for Thunderbird, right as the mail client space was hitting peak hotness.

This was the time Google and Apple were paying millions to buy the likes of Sparrow and Inbox, etc.

Road deaths in the US increased during the pandemic (2020 over 2019) despite fewer miles driven.

And it seems 2021 then saw another 10% jump in the number of vehicle deaths.

I have never seen any of those claims being made.

1) The 9% was surprising because everyone believed Musk had not taken any steps, because he was legally required to publicly declare when he acquired 5%.

Which he did not do until much later, in order to lower his acquisition price, and is now under an SEC investigation for it.

2) I'm not sure who was predicting a hostile takeover. His suggested price was high enough that most commentators said it would be fiscally irresponsible of the board to turn down the offer. Which is why the board accepted the offer the moment Musk showed any signs of raising funds.

3) No one believed that he wouldn't be able to raise funds. It was pretty obvious he could. The question was whether he was interested in, considering he had taken no steps to raise the funds and it was fairly obvious that it would require him to sell/pledge Tesla shares hurting the TSLA stock price, and it wasn't clear he would want to do that.

It's consistently 1/10th of a cent below the peg.

That's not maintaining its peg. That being said, it has been stable at that price for several days now, but let's see what the next few weeks hold.

Distributed Finance:

> Deus Finance reacted by halting the redemption process in order to try and stabilize the coin

The Aristocrats!

Except the 49C here is not a weird microclimate of some small part of New Delhi, but rather is the average temp across the city.

Which means that places with weird microclimates that were 49C when the overall temp was 46C are now 52C and above.

Wasn't Amazon's increase over a year ago?

And I have never heard of Amazon being a low payer. I guess the people I know worked at AWS and maybe that was an outlier in terms of their payments, because they are paid as much, if not more, than people in similar roles in MS/Google.

I think this is increasingly true of us as a society. We have been consistently elevating "ease of use" over every other objective and/or subjective quality.

We've reached the point where easier is better, even if it is objectively worse.

We are all settling for local maximum that are significantly lower than several other maxima because apparently making the effort to move further along the x-axis is now almost considered the worst thing one can do.

I thought RPis were extremely power efficient. Is that wrong?