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Comment · 11 months ago
We should stop normalizing referring to managers or employers as leaders. These are different things.
Comment · 11 months ago
ObamaCare (actually the Affordable Care Act: ACA) is a band-aid solution. It's a way to at least ensure that everyone has a pathway to insurance if they have enough money. Basically, the government negotiates some plans with private insurers and makes them available to the general population.

It's subsidized, but the new budget has drastically decreased these subsidies and so the cost to enroll in the ACA is about to go up for people who want to get insurance through their marketplace.

Comment · 11 months ago
> pushing borderline indoctrination of controversial, left-ish values

Which values? I haven't gone to school in a long time.

Comment · 1 year ago
The issue wasn't the Docker config, it was the web-based setup experience afterwards. If I messed up something minor, I'd have to blow away all the Docker containers and start fresh.
Comment · 1 year ago
I didn't have any issues actually installing it, I had issues getting it to run properly.

I used a Docker container and it led to so many error messages, having to wipe all the containers and restart, etc.

So I gave up and didn't bother.

Comment · 1 year ago
I tried to install nextcloud once, and it was an exercise in misery.
Comment · 1 year ago
> You run a large, high resolution screen with your browser maximized?

Probably like 98% of the time, yes.

It's not an ultrawide, just a 27" 16:9 screen.

I find small windows to perform poorly on anything that's not just a simple document (gmail, hacker news, etc) because those require some horizontal space.

Comment · 1 year ago
We shouldn't normalize referring to managers as leaders. Leadership didn't make this decision, management did.

High level managers aren't leaders. Similarly, politicians are not "leaders". They are administrators and managers.

Comment · 1 year ago
> Let users with large screens resize their browsers to whatever width they want.

Do people actually do this? I have like 10 tabs in a maximized browser window. Am I supposed to keep unmaximizing it and fidgeting with the width? Or am I supposed to just rip the tab out and have to deal with multiple browser windows?

Comment · 1 year ago
Browsers _should_ have been set up to allow per-site toggling of the dark mode CSS preference, much like how they allow per-site zooming.

Configuring the whole browser to have a light theme is the wrong solution - some websites look better in dark mode and some look better in light mode. Also, the browser setting also affects the UI of the browser itself, not just website contents.

These are of course solvable problems, but the most obvious and trivial way to handle this is just to store an extra flag per-website in the same place as the zoom preference.

Comment · 1 year ago
It seems far more likely that we'll end up in a state where you won't be able to override CSS at all. You'll be allowed to use only the most modern version of Google Chrome because all the websites will simply require a private auth key that only Chrome possesses, and commands like cURL will no longer function properly. The devtools console will be locked behind a key that you must petition Google to get, and if you use it for anything other than what they want, your permissions will be revoked without further recourse.
Comment · 1 year ago
I don't think it's a strawman. I've definitely seen a lot of people think that the perspective compression is a result of lens choice rather than camera position.
Comment · 1 year ago
The photographer had to move quite a bit further back to get the subject to be the same size in the frame at 150mm as the subject was at 35mm.

They could have used the 35mm lens at the same distance as the 150mm lens and simply cropped and the perspective compression would be the same (it'd just be a lower resolution image).

Comment · 1 year ago
Mine offer CSV exports but the data in the CSV file is a small fraction of the data in the PDF statement.

It's just a list of transactions, not a reconcilable "end of month" balance with all the data.

Comment · 1 year ago
Would be nice if my banks provided records in a more digestible format, but until then, I have no choice.

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