I was just thinking that the one thing the race to the bottom has not yet replaced with a cheaper, enshittified version is death. Love, friendship, food, urbanization, yes.

This may be referencing a chart from CNN’s report on Small Arms Survey data, which includes many other statistics making the same point. Here’s another:

In this case, folks are getting shipped from Minnesota to New Mexico to start with. Similar for a high-profile case in MA. ICE’s standard practice seems to include quickly moving people across state lines. So closing down an ICE detention facility in one state doesn’t seem like it necessarily makes it more likely for folks to end up stranded far from home.

And of course this is one of those cases where in some ways it gets worse as more people take a stand, but once enough people take a stand it stops. (I think a good comparison is the dichotomy between ‘if guns are outlawed only bad guys have guns’ and ‘there’s no way to prevent this says US, the only country where this happens’.)

Got a screw loose.

Do post again if you figure it out!

I’d never heard of tie-on pockets. Cool!

$17 * 40h / wk * 52 wk / yr = $35,360/yr. Yikes.

Revived mine w/ Pokemon Yellow from the late 90s not long ago! It fared better than my Tomagachi.

Link for more.

Would love to, need more/better trains.

I think explaining rationale for what you’re doing can be very helpful for patient comfort (not to mention compliance). Cis man here, but on the one hand I hear about enough women’s medical concerns getting dismissed to understand why that might be the assumption even when there’s good reason; and just from my own experience I like to understand what providers are thinking / working on with me.

Yeah, current company has their internal git server default to master and it was a little odd first time I created a new repo. Luckily all the CI templates can recognize either name so I just switched it.

Yes — and the term to read more about here is “growth mindset.”

Bought a lifetime pass, switched to Jellyfin after way too much Tidal promotion on my server.

I just downloaded the .deb (unless it was an AppImage) and it ran without further tweaking.

NSFW tag on that image?

Yeah. If I stayed in the right lane, every couple miles I’d need to change lanes to avoid an exit only, or free up space for entering traffic to merge. But that leaves one of not two open lanes to my left.

Also changing lanes is stressful for me: the situation changes quickly, and even after checking blind spots I’ve almost sideswiped someone a couple times. (Also honked to keep a pair of cars in front of me from picking the same moment to shift into each other.)

So, I get the principle, and I also am annoyed with slow traffic in the left lane. But if there’s room to pass on the left, that’s what I see as necessary.

I guess this is probably safe. /r/dashcamgifs makes me want as much space as possible between me and the other 2-ton projectiles.

If driving were a sport where you got points/safety for being right, I would drive very differently. I have right of way over that person parked in the intersection? Back to a save point for them!

I forget where she got it, but my mom sometimes quoted a nursery rhyme ending with “he was just as dead as if he’d been wrong.”

It’d be interesting to have an AI look for recurring boilerplate from StackOverflow and suggest new libraries or language features.

I agree, and I think it’s closely related to something else I dislike about AI — art or other media. The best it can do is interpolate among other, generic, mediocre training data. There are a few cases (novel go strategies, optical illusions) where a human has carefully guided it to a new creative output. But on its own, it’s missing that obsessive need to render some internal idea into the world.

I run into this in programming. I can add the AI agent to do some administrative tasks, like factoring out a React component. But it’s never yet been able to solve a problem I got stuck on, where a teammate quickly identified the extra aspect I needed to take into account, or the way I needed to shift my approach.

AI is great at the instinctual, pattern-matching part. I wish we would use it to eliminate the redundancy in our writing and art, rather than amplify it.