that way thinking is problematic because if we thought that way about every issue nothing would improve because small improvements would be relentlessly attacked because they don’t fix everything.

That actually is a big problem in politics. Half-measures are often attacked and stopped because improving something isn’t enough. It has to be perfect.

Even worse, there are tons of people applying this kind of logic to themselves as an easy out to not do something:

“Oh, there is no candidate perfect for you? Why vote at all.”

“Oh, you cannot become fully carbon-neutral? Just continue polluting at your hearts content.”

“Oh, you cannot retire at 30? Just don’t save at all.”

“Oh, you are past your physical prime? Why workout at all.”

Maybe some day I’ll find an example so stupid even these people understand the flaw in their ways.

Become a bad programmer and be thankful you won’t have to further maintain your code instead!

These cows, confirmed to have been infected with avian influenza (H5N1), were left exposed without any warning signs […]

They make it sound like piling dead cows on the roadside is perfectly fine if you just add some signage.

I’m worried that wildlife could come into contact with them.

Of course that’s a concern! These poor creatures have no signage to read, which would tell them to stay away.

With how conditions usually are, I’m actually amazed these people only created one pandemic during my lifetime (so far). The sheer amount of horrors created by them never fails to shock me.

First, it’s NEVER right for a person or group of people, regardless of position or occupation, to wish for a company’s death.

I disagree on a fundamental level. I stopped reading shortly after that.

Just in time for the Rust debate to kill its momentum development wise! (/s, likely)

That was fast. We might as well start doing the lettuce thing for any given live service game at this point.

The kernel is probably too large to rewrite the whole thing at once. This could lead to a future without any new C kernel devs, leading to stagnation, while the Rust kernel could be many years away from being finished. (Assuming we actually move away from C.)

At that point you might as well just start an entirely new kernel and hope it is good enough to eventually replace the Linux one once all devs are gone. Kinda the X11 and wayland thing.

That’s probably the main reason to reason to ban AI. They want a mostly clean training set and they will probably add their own AI answers to each question as well.

Well, I’ve been missing out on the whole travelling thing.

I’ve been too poor to relate to that.

If god divided us on purpose, isn’t Duolingo blasphemy?

I mostly agree, however I think the most recent season is dragging. To keep it light on spoilers, they kind of stop following the main plot and more or less revert to the old format as a kind of training arc.

Given this data, I think I can reasonably predict that lyrics of pop songs in about 20 or 30 years will mostly consist of cursing. Maybe even sooner given my personal impression of pop songs repeating their lines more often each decade.

I’ve also never heard about people paying the cost (partially) themselves, except in the US.

It goes both ways!

My only windows machine left still runs Winamp. It may be old, but at least for playing my offline library, I really don’t know what they could possibly change. For everything else, I wouldn’t use Winamp anyway.

I’m gonna be honest, I love that design. That comparison just makes it better, those games had a big part in my childhood.

The main draw of xmonad is that you can modify pretty much everything, as the config itself is a Haskell file (the entire thing is written in Haskell). There are tonnes of modules to use, you can define your own window layouts and add whatever functions you can dream off - I haven’t seen any other window manager offer this kind of freedom (with the added joy of learning Haskell!).

As for the second point, about half a year ago, they started doing exactly this. Rewriting xmonad for Wayland. Guess I’ll sit this one out.

I just set up xmonad because I was in the mood for change. Took about a week of tinkering a bit each day and I really like it. Afterwards, I was still in the mood for configs and looked at Wayland. There isn’t much progress on Wayland xmonad, so guess that has to wait.

That’s a common problem I’ve been hearing for almost 10 now - the software support isn’t quite there yet.

I’m not saying it can’t be a dyson sphere, but I feel like that’s a pretty click-baity explanation. Usually the simplest anwser is the most likely one and that’s never a dyson sphere.