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I can imagine future TVs refusing to work without an always-on internet connection.

And then they can sue the hosting company Valve uses for distributing the assets without a license, and the ISPs that transmit the assets without a license, and the speaker manufacturers for playing the assets without a license, and ...

It's not clear in this image but I saw it in the plans the NYTimes posted for their article - but why does it need a gun range? I'm not familiar with American gun culture, but is it typical for government facilities like prisons to provide gun ranges for prison guards to practice?

I would be curious to see how often people actually upgrade their frameworks.

For me, I've upgraded my mainboard to a newer CPU generation for better integrated graphics (old one is in a case as a home server) and I upgraded to their matte screen when they released those.

In this thread: people who only read the headline.

Guys, cities in BC always could do this. That's why at far-eastern BC they followed Mountain Time in some way or another. That's it. And in fact, they're looking into standardizing with the rest of BC, which if you had read the article you'd see.

For a 6 year-old that's some impressive use of fractions!

It's basically group malicious compliance as job action. The employees find all the workplace rules that are on paper that no one actually fully follows ("drivers must check oil level before heading on a delivery") and then doing each and every one to its most obnoxious version (so a driver takes time to check the oil level between every delivery, even though they checked the oil already at the start of the day). As a result productivity suffers, and pressure is on management to concede something.

I hate these articles because they imply that anti-depressants aren't useful ("just excercise more!"). In my personal experience, having had about 20 years of depression and suicidal ideation since I was a child, nothing worked until I finally was on venlafaxine. That drug seriously saved and transformed my life, and I hate that there are people that will read this article for whom it might be the only treatment that will work for them, but they'll try excercise, not get better, and blame themselves because they always could have exercised more.

Depression is a symptom of likely different hidden diseases, and some treatments will only work for some of them. That's why it's not uncommon for patients to need to try multiple medications before finding one that treats their underlying disease (for example, the first drug I tried, wellbutrin, actually exaccerbated my depression).

Likely excercise can be a successful treatment for some people, but it won't work for everyone, and a headline that says it's as effective as medication fails to communicate that that's averaged across a population. Just like how a typical anti-depressant is only somewhat effective (amazing for some, nothing for others), I imagine exercise is the same.

The guys who annoyingly correct dates after the new year still have work, apparently!

Other people have good points, but even if you don't care at all about open source or MS, Github's reliability lately has been really bad. I think they've had 3 outages this month already? It's been disruptive at my workplace and we have concerns about how we'd deploy a fix if we had an outage at the same time (since our deploys are automated using GH Actions).

The child should learn that blackmailing an adult cannot succeed. I think that would help prevent future flushes on its own.

Question is whether the Republican govenors still end up going "unofficially" or whether they all refuse to actually meet Trump.