brianary

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[–] brianary@startrek.website 10 points 1 year ago (3 children)

There's a little historical baggage, but look at Windows: multiple letters for drives, and all of the paths can be modified, so you have to ask Windows where any important directory is physically mapped (like SystemRoot or Documents or Temp or Roaming AppData or many others), because it doesn't have this nice consistent structure like Linux. Linux presents a logical layer and manages the physical location automatically. Windows makes you do the logical lookup yourself, but doesn't enforce it, so inexperienced programmers make assumptions and put stuff where the path usually is.

That's part of why logging in to Windows over a slow connection can take forever if you have a bunch of Electron apps installed: they've mismapped their temp/cache directory under the Roaming AppData, so it gets synched at every login, often GiB of data, and they refuse to fix it.

[–] brianary@startrek.website 2 points 1 year ago

I'm just shocked at the vanity of people aggressively voting third party. They value the purity of their voting record more than other people's lives. They think they're the first generation to figure out morality or the secret cheat code to change the system.

[–] brianary@startrek.website 0 points 1 year ago (2 children)

If intent matters and results don't, I'll write in my favorite fictional candidate!

[–] brianary@startrek.website 4 points 1 year ago

Most people can't afford to move.

[–] brianary@startrek.website 5 points 1 year ago

Cars don't scale.

As soon as there is real traffic, cars become inefficient trains.

If you're somewhere that doesn't have much traffic yet, it'll seem fine, but that doesn't always last.

If you can make a bicycle work, that's much healthier and cheaper to own and operate for all those people that can't afford a car, or don't want to be indentured to it. Cargo bikes even work fine for groceries, depending on your family size.

[–] brianary@startrek.website 10 points 1 year ago

His communications director who?

Brian Griffin at podium

[–] brianary@startrek.website 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Months are the craziest, weirdest, stupidest measure humanity has used for this long. ISO8601 week dates make more sense, or even the French Revolutionary Calendar. Humans organize all of society by weeks, not by months. Compare last January to next January, or last February to next February for metrics. Do they have the same number of weekdays vs weekend days? Even if they do, do they happen at the same point in the month so you can compare the flow of the month? Now compare two weeks, and that's apples to apples. Group by weeks instead of months and your irregular, bumpy graph smooths right out. We only hang on to Gregorian months out of inertia.

[–] brianary@startrek.website 110 points 1 year ago (7 children)

Saw this on Mastodon:

I guess it needs to be said again, but politico is owned by a fascist German billionaire who has repeatedly said his goal is to get trump elected, and help the far right transnational movement. He literally is on record telling people in the newsroom at politico to pray for Trump

[–] brianary@startrek.website 1 points 1 year ago

Did it? I didn't bother with the article, and only shared a screenshot of a post about the headline.

[–] brianary@startrek.website 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

On top of the likelihood that a ban would be very politically expensive, distracting, and watered down to pointlessness.

[–] brianary@startrek.website 5 points 1 year ago (7 children)

The pouches seem like less plastic.

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