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This scenario is highly speculative and recent research has cast a ton of doubt on the assertion that melting ice is causing weaker jet streams. People are desperate for doomsday scenarios…

I agree, but it comes across as unprincipled and reactionary when this stuff is always done as a consequence of bad PR or high profile subs throwing a fit.

At the moment Docker and Kubernetes are the reason I’m using Linux at work. Without those I’d just use the M1.

I don’t like Joe Rogan but his earlier episodes were my first introduction to real long form, off the cuff conversations that have become pretty common now. Even relatively recently, I watched the Bernie Sanders one and felt like I hadn’t really heard Bernie Sanders just have a conversation like that for a long period. Among others I know, that, at least used to, be the appeal.

Strip just under 50% of the country of voting rights to combat creeping authoritarianism? At least you’re shameless I guess.

I don’t mean to be too critical, but this article is part of a larger trend. I can nod along with all of its central claims and walk away with exactly zero actionable advice or practical path toward integrating this into my teams workflow.

It really depends on the settlement, but yeah they're not exclusively religious fanatics of course.

In any case, the parent comment claimed nobody was fighting over theology, not "mainly".

They quite literally are. I would encourage you to listen to the arguments put forth by the Israelis currently settling across the internationally recognized borders in the West Bank.

I think they’ve correctly learned that these concerns aren’t sufficient to prevent users from flocking to the next new app that their friends are using.

I hear you. I get where people are coming from in a general sense. On the other hand, it strikes me as a kind of provincialism. I feel like the same argument could have been made in 1930s San Francisco: “ok everybody, time to hit the pause button, I like it here now!” But on the other hand people should have a say in what their cities are like and how they develop.

I remember when I lived there everyone was so against the “manhattanization” of the city, so it was a big uproar every time a new building went in. I never quite understood how to square that view with the desire to keep housing affordable

A somewhat similar thing just happened to me with Apple. I did an AppleCare express replacement for an iPhone (swapped out my old, damaged phone for a new one via mail). Fedex then proceeds to lose my phone for about three months. No tracking information, nothing.

Three months after mailing it back, Apple said they received the phone and then proceed to charge me the full price for the phone, as they say they will do when you don't return the old device. Bear in mind that nobody at Apple or Fedex contacted me in those three months to say that the phone was due, or anything was amiss.

Now, I was in the position of being charged over $1000 for a phone they acknowledged that they were in the possession of. I went through many (10 or so) rounds of phone support. In a few cases, the higher up support people refused to hear my case. I finally disputed the charge with the credit card and after a while, my claim was approved.

Long story short, never shopping with them again.

This is somewhat tangential, but I'm feeling a bit ambivalent about all of the popular options for building RESTFul APIs lately. With every new entry in the ecosystem, the same libraries (authentication, migrations, logging, authorization) have to be re-implemented. In spite of all of this new stuff (Go, Node, and now Rust) I look around and don't really see how we've done any better than Rails in the past decade or so. Performance needs aside, I feel like we're just going around in circles since Rails.

That consciousness arises from the physical world and not something like the soul.

My disagreement with the fsf is pretty fundamental. I don’t see anything wrong, all things equal, with paying someone for software that is closed source provided there’s some way to ensure it’s not doing things wildly unexpected or malicious. Perhaps it’s impossible to verify such a thing without source code, but the core ethical claim seems off to me.