rodric

> You can't have separate scroll directions for your trackpad and your external mouse.

The worst. There are even separate toggles in Settings for mouse and trackpad scrolling direction, but changing one changes the other. It is truly amazing that this has persisted for 15 years.

> Maybe the sync is fast now, but my usage would put my in a higher iCloud tier than I'd like

You can use Messages on the Mac without storing messages in iCloud. iPhone, iPad and Mac can all send and receive the same account’s messages, effectively staying in sync without actually syncing them to iCloud’s servers.

If Q is not a written source, the Q hypothesis falls apart. The point is to explain what Matthew and Luke (but not Mark) have in common, much of which is word-for-word the same. Whole sentences between them that are verbatim in the Greek point to literary dependence, not oral tradition.

Setting aside the truth value of any religious claim — I find ‘Jesus **** Christ’ to be in gratingly poor taste. Imagine going around saying ‘Prophet **** Muhammed’ or even ‘Martin **** Luther King.’ It’s gauche.

> Eu, definitely a good name

I see what you did there.

You are right, of course. Clearly, I have been away from mathematics too long.

> the set of such roots is actually closed under multiplication, addition, and subtraction, and there is even an analogue of prime factorization if you squint

I did a maths undergrad, but I don’t think I ever studied algebraic integers. That’s something I shall have to remedy now, thanks!

VLC is up to date on F-Droid, for what it’s worth

> The V is gradually being dropped in Spain and in the last few decades the process seems to have accelerated

I own a Spanish textbook printed (in English) in 1958 that says about «usted»: ‘It is the universal respectful address of society, and the only one the foreigner is ever likely to employ or hear addressed to him, unless he marries a native or forms intimate friendships.’ How times have changed!

> "total deathtrap" is a wild exaggeration.

Sarcasm ;-)

The web is, in theory, an open venue, and somebody publishing on the web is not unlike somebody performing in the street. It is not your duty, as the consumer, to ensure the producer’s income—particularly not at the expense of your privacy. The producer has something to say, and you the consumer are willing to hear it: that may just as well be the extent of your relationship. How, or even whether, the producer monetizes this state of affairs is not the consumer’s responsibility, though some consumers (who can) may choose to patronize the producer.

> Require anyone who sells a new physical product have to accept returns of that physical product at the end of its lifetime

This is the correct solution