I think we can Weekend at Bernie's him until he passes. Then we get Kamala, which is not bad.

I think a lot of the federal government can run on its own as long as there are competent people in the cabinet.

I'm frustrated at these kinds of articles because they don't make clear what we are actually talking about.

I'm not trans, so I don't really understand what these kids are going through, or what kinds of treatments are being banned.

Are we just banning the really invasive stuff, like hormonal treatment or sex change surgeries? Sure, that seems reasonable to keep away from minors. Like, I couldn't commit to whether or not I was a "music person" at that age; I can't imagine how difficult it must be to question your gender identity as a teenager. I totally get that there should be some safeguards against rash decisions.

But are we banning things like supportive counseling? That's a whole different issue, and everyone should be entitled to positive, identity-affirming counseling.

These articles always come up about gender affirming care being denied to minors, but it's never clear to me how reasonable or unreasonable these bills are. Shame on the AP for not providing more context here.

Can someone here actually explain to me what this means?

I'm visiting with the fam for the 4th. My grandparents keep CNN on 24/7.

CNN has been running "Biden should step down" as their main lead, all week. Every show has at least one segment on it.

They're saying stuff like "70% of democrat voters think he is not fit" or something like that (dunno what their polling data and methodology are though.)

I expect that these 24/7 news networks can apply a lot of pressure to drive a story like this.

Edit: I may have misquoted those polls. Which I think shows how bad CNN's reporting is. They just said something very different came out of a Reuter's poll.

For Zulip, I've only used it on the web. Apparently they have iOS, Android, Desktop, and Terminal clients.

For Matrix, there are many clients on all platforms, but none have ever stood out to me. Element is the official client, and it's... fine I guess.

I love this, especially the criticism of the FSF.

For coms, Zulip seems OK. I would really like Matrix to take off, but I honestly don't really like any of the clients.

Peak Pixel was Pixel 5

Yes, thanks for the spelling correction.

Great photo. Actually, is this a photo?

As someone with a credit card that benefits from points, these kinds of fees are what pay for my vacations...

But this system raises the price for everyone, not just credit card users. The more fair thing, I guess, is to pass the fee along to the CC users.

8½ is a pretty surreal. Considered one of the most influential films of all time. One of the earliest examples of post-modernism in film.

Every scene in Ex Machina is basically a dialogue covering different arguments in the philosophy of AI. Plus a surreal dance scene.

I was blown away by mother! when I first saw it. But looking back on it, the allegory wasn't exactly subtle.

Once Upon a Time in Hollywood is a meta-modern masterpiece.

Tropic Thunder, as a meta commentary on comedy, is actually really good. Aside from the great comedy itself.

The meaning of version numbers can vary across projects.

One common scheme is Semantic Versioning, which divides the version number into three parts: MAJOR.MINOR.PATCH*

• MAJOR is incremented when there are backwards incompatible changes.
• MINOR is incremented when new features are added in a backwards compatible way.
• PATCH is incremented for smaller big fixes.
• Each number is reset to zero when a higher level number is incremented.

* It's a bit more complex than this, but this is the gist.

Maybe.

Linux won because it worked. Hurd was stuck in research and development hell. They never were able to catch up.

However, Linus's kernel was more elaborate than GNU Hurd, so it was incorporated.

Quite the opposite.

GNU Hurd was a microkernel, using lots of cutting edge research, and necessitating a lot of additional complexity in userspace. This complexity also made it very difficult to get good performance.

Linux, on the other hand, was just a bog standard Unix monolithic kernel. Once they got a libc working on it, most existing Unix userspace, including the GNU userspace, was easy to port.

Linux won because it was simple, not elaborate.

Do Nerd Fonts use the Unicode private use area?

It seems not. It seems like they replace CJK characters instead.

The PUA seems like the right way to handle this.

Motorola has been in the tracker game since way before Air Tags.

I remember getting a Bluetooth tracker with my Moto X circa 2014. Back when Tile dominated the market.

You talk about "non-absolutist," but this thread got started because the parent comment said "literally never."

I am literally making the point that the absolutist take is bad, and that there are good reasons to call unwrap in prod code.

smdh

Fair. But unwrap versus expect isn't really the point. Sure one has a better error message printed to your backtrace. But IMO that's not what I'm looking for when I'm looking at a backtrace. I don't mind plain unwraps or assertions without messages.

From my experience, when people say "don't unwrap in production code" they really mean "don't call panic! in production code." And that's a bad take.

Annotating unreachable branches with a panic is the right thing to do; mucking up your interfaces to propagate errors that can't actually happen is the wrong thing to do.

Unwrap should literally never appear in production code

Unwrap comes up all the time in the standard library.

For example, if you know you're popping from a non-empty vector, unwrap is totally the right too for the job. There are tons of circumstances where you know at higher levels that edge cases defended against at lower levels with Option cannot occur.

This urban planning stuff is really important to get right. And continuing to shaft black communities is not how you do it right.

That said, if it's just smoke ventilation in case of an accident, that is almost certainly never going to happen. It's unclear to me exactly what the concrete impact of this tunnel will be. How deep is the tunnel? Is it deep enough that noise will not be a problem? Will new tracks on either side of the tunnel cut off this neighborhood somehow? They mention the existing tunnel goes under an affluent white neighborhood; how does that tunnel compare, and what side effects do residents of that neighborhood experience?

This stuff is really important, but I think the article does a really poor job articulating the concerns or providing comparisons.

TIL. Thanks for the correction.