https://xkcd.com/681/

You’re approaching this with the attitude of a parent who’s already got their future grandkids named.

Happy cake day.

The article just before that about the “missing missing reasons” hits just as hard. That whole site makes for an informative read for someone frustrated with dealing with their parents as an adult.

Alice in Chains - MTV Unplugged

If I had to pick just one.

I was never as good as I always thought I was

I, too, try to avoid the water fountains on the common wetwall where the water in the pipes is cycled all the time thanks to the constant use of the bathrooms. I usually shoot for the fountain next to the old eyewash station they were forced to put in when the electronics lab used to be the chemical lab–there’s never anyone using that one.

I know this is a shitpost, but here’s the explanation: you can’t force people to like you.

You may get off on power trips going to businesses where people aren’t allowed to deny you service or return bad attitude in kind, but everywhere else you’re a $1000/hour with a forty hour minimum payment in advance work starts after the check clears kind of guy.

They’re revisions to the USB standard. USB stands for “Universal Serial Bus.” In the before times there used to be different connectors and formats for sending data over wires for a lot of things. Eventually USB came along and solved a lot of problems all at once: https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/USB

Yes, the same one.

audited regularly

You won’t overturn hundreds of thousands of years of human nature and ungodly profits this way. People already have the ability to vote with their wallets and they don’t for the most part. We do have at least one example of someone who tries, but I wonder how much of that page is still true today: https://stallman.org/stallman-computing.html

I was surprised to find the old Edward Bernays books online. I guess they’re just that old now. From the first book Propaganda:

In theory, everybody buys the best and cheapest commodities offered him on the market. In practice, if every one went around pricing, and chemically testing before purchasing, the dozens of soaps or fabrics or brands of bread which are for sale, economic life would become hopelessly jammed. To avoid such confusion, society consents to have its choice narrowed to ideas and objects brought to its attention through propaganda of all kinds. There is consequently a vast and continuous effort going on to capture our minds in the interest of some policy or commodity or idea.

• https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/78634/pg78634-images.html
• https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/61364/pg61364-images.html

Stallman’s notions probably aren’t going to manifest themselves in the middle of nowhere without internet. Bernays’ probably will.

Just ban the algorithms on social media and you solve a good portion of the issues they cause.

There’s no way to enforce that, and you have to have seen some bs before to recognize it again. Plus, if you’re the only kid that never sees stuff the algorithm provides then you’re right back to being surrounded by people with different knowledge sets.

“autistic kids are retarded, and you aren’t so you can’t be autistic”.

Growing in a small rural town comes with a lot of good things but also a lot of prejudices that can make your life tough if you aren’t “like the rest of the kids”.

This is why I waffle about banning “social media” for kids under a certain age. If the parents and the communities they allow say that it’s not possible for a kid to be a certain way then there’s no way for a kid to independently check. I don’t have any idea on how to balance that against the algorithm.

I ended up creating an account just to block communities/users. At the time there was a poster posting to his own instance that was federated with lemmy.world, and he was reposting nothing but reddit posts, and the volume was such that they had to go. With no algorithm there’s no way to just see subscribed stuff without losing out on discovering new things.

And just a tip, Lemmy will let you export (to JSON) your configuration options to include who you’ve blocked.

A jeep renegade I rented did ok

You must’ve gotten a good one.

Try the c++23 standard. There’s been a lot of cross pollination. Contrived example follows:

#include <format>
#include <numbers>
#include <print>
#include <string>

int main(int argc, char *argv[]) {
    double pi = std::numbers::pi;
    std::string fstr = std::format("{}, {:>.2}, {:>.5}, {:>.10}", pi, pi, pi, pi);
    std::string h = "Hello";
    std::string w  = "World";
    std::println("{}, {}!", h, w);
    std::print("This won't have a {},", "newline");
    std::println(" but this will add it."); // Add a newline.

    // Can't put a non-constant string as the first argument to
    // print or println so they can be checked at compile time.
    std::println("{}", fstr);
    return EXIT_SUCCESS;
}