Luc

I hear smokers with similar opinions. Some get really old. It’s luck, not wisdom

Like 194 of 195 countries do. It’s a pretty safe assumption

Thanks, right, that makes sense!

I don’t know that it’s not a coincidence that this wasn’t hotly debated btw. There’s other debates that I don’t hear from elsewhere, like nitrogen emissions. I barely know the words in english but de ‘stikstofcrisis’ has been a thing for about as long as I’m allowed to vote. Someone figured out that it harms nature and so a cap was put in place, then someone else did the math and figured out we’re way over that limit (mainly due to insane cattle numbers for the country’s size, iirc), and now any sector emitting nitrogen has permit issues, such as building living space for the growing population. Why is it growing despite low birth rates? “The foreigners!” See, we can blame everything on immigration :) (sadly I feel the need to clarify that this last sentence is not serious)

Sorry that I’m not responding to basically anything else you said. I don’t have much of an idea about things like representation scales but what you said all sounds sensible. Perhaps I could add that the EU, until this year’s “think of the children” fad (first ubiquitous age verification, then chatcontrol), has made mostly sensible proposals so far as I heard of them, but then it’s not really acting in the same way as the US federal government so it may not be a good comparison. Maybe they were doing alright because they didn’t think of themselves as the parent who’s calling the shots, but rather a collaboration system of sovereign countries? Who knows

Does unrestricted immigration work?

I’m not aware that any country (that anyone would want to go to, not like a war zone) has completely free immigration. I’d be opposed to having no more borders from one day to the next for the simple reason that it’s a big change. One that’s worth trialing and working towards, of course, but not something we can yet know will work afaik. Especially if we’re the first country doing this and 2 billion people decide the Netherlands would be a fine place to live in (it is!). I’d not be surprised if it turns out we need a lottery kind of system, or maybe an announcement system, at least for those not in mortal danger, so that we can build living spaces ahead of time. Supply and demand is currently such that the only way to afford a house (even for top, idk, ~2% of world incomes) is to have a house so you can sell it at the inflated price, and while immigration is afaik a net positive to a country’s wealth and welfare, this effect is offset in time. The housing crisis will pass again, as it always has, but in general the solution should be sustainable and I’m not aware that it’s as simple as “be in favor of unrestricted immigration or else you’re a racist”

And “nobody taught you” to attack the argument instead of the person

That’s the idea anyway. In practice, half the apps ask for it on first setup so (tech-illiterate) people are expecting the prompt and know to click yes next finish

It’s still the developer’s choice when the prompt is shown, just that it moved from AndroidManifest.xml to executable code so now they have the option to not ask until it’s actually needed and handle denies gracefully (in practice, half the apps just close if not every useless thing is granted)

I also seem to remember it’s a policy of Google’s that permission mustn’t be asked until required, but if I remember this right, I’m either not using enough of their store-vetted adware or they’re not checking this properly

Why does the netherlands do so many things well

I’m really curious about this also! What makes some nations be, ehm, in a “sensible” state (in my eyes) and others not, given similar situations and options? We’re by no means as cool as Iceland or Finland for example, eyeing metrics like happiness index and development index, but why not?

Being a small population and/or region seems to be a part of the success mix (my theory is that this makes the government be closer to the people as well as forcing trade since you’re clearly better off working together than trying to navigate international politics alone), but there’s plenty of counter-examples so it’s clearly either not the only requirement or flat-out wrong. I tried reading a book on the topic but then the book doesn’t adequately explain it either ^^ It seems to be an unsolved problem as of yet

Either way, despite the current government I guess I’m proud of the place I’m from. You get to decide your own life (factors including: people are multilingual, relatively low inequality, euthanasia available (not that I’d currently want to, but self-determination just seems like a good principle that a crazy number of countries don’t yet have)), though iirc the rich are getting richer and both rich and poor citizens are currently voting to widen that gap (as well as other short- and long-term issues, strawman problems… the usual). We’ll see where we stand in 100 years. Maybe I shouldn’t be proud, since all that I’m proud of was built by my forebears (particularly before privatisation, which has its pros but maybe not for every aspect of society) and it’s my generation that has yet to stand the test of time 😅

aanyway, I didn’t get this part:

and seem completly bored talking about lol

Could you elaborate or rephrase?

Not often, but those “agree to extra terms to continue viewing the content that you were already looking at for 0.9 seconds” pop-ups (cookie walls and the like) sometimes pop the agree button exactly under where I’m clicking, or activate the button with spacebar that I was just using to scroll down a page

Always wonder if it is a valid legal defense if the pop-up can be dismissed faster than it is possible to read them, but I’m afraid of the potential global consequences if I were to challenge that

Gameboy Color

It’s called a consumer market authority

You said most countries but then only mention the USA. May I surmise you’re from the USA aka the world? :P

So I got curious, but it’s also 7am and I need to sleep. I looked it up for my own country: we don’t exactly have this

The Netherlands basically requires you to acknowledge that its laws apply to you (they do when you set foot here anyway) and that you’ll fulfill the duties that come with citizenship.
When opening the included FAQ item “what duties?” it says two things: you abide by the laws (duh) and that you should consider that you’re part of this society and that “you’ll do what is needed to really be part of this society.” Handwavey and not about choosing a side in a war or something, just focused on integration and community. Seems okay to me and distinct from blind allegiance. There’s some more details but the FAQs all circle back to respecting the other citizens (no discrimination) and the like

Source: https://www.rijksoverheid.nl/onderwerpen/nederlandse-nationaliteit/vraag-en-antwoord/verklaring-van-verbondenheid

Scripting isn’t the issue, but for tab completion: the boundary is often at a space or parenthesis so that you need to type the backslash + char to continue tabbing to completion

In dutch I’ve heard them be called flying commas unapologetically (vliegende comma’s — ironically has one in it because many plurals need it, it doesn’t mark possession)

Now I’m imagining a shell that looks iteratively through arguments to find where quotes would make total sense

$ ls
my victims.ods
$ wipe -f my victims.ods --thorough

So the shell would go like

1. wipe → command name found, ok
2. -f → no file in the current directory starts with that, skip
3. my → matches a file, keep in memory…
4. my victims.ods → full match, but missing quotes!
5. Prompt user:

Filename "my victims.ods" found without quotes. Choose:
[a]dd quotes this time
[A]lways add quotes (dangerous)
[n]o quotes today please
[N]ever offer adding quotes again
[t]ell me what could possibly go wrong when I choose to always add quotes
[P]unch the person who proposed this feature

almost always a strawman

Tell me what party should I vote for then :(

“… or through inaction, allow a human to come to harm.” (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three_Laws_of_Robotics)

You can stand by and do nothing if that’s the lesser evil choice

Not to mention the improved team quality now that you can easily and effectively verify that the person can do the job in real-world conditions

But, to be fair, there does probably need to be some pre-selection. Anyone could show up for a free day’s wage. Might still be worth it though, who knows

the problem solves itself (unless you are very desperate)

Have you seen dating sites? When the market is such that one side can clearly pick whoever they want, not everyone has the luxury (good looks for dating / relevant experience for jobs) to not play ball

By free, I assume you mean that you pay with attention for advertisements? Or is it donationware or something else?

Every TWO years, as a best-case scenario?! What parallel universe do you live in

I don’t think I’ve owned a phone for fewer than three years. That was an Apple device at work and it had dead touchscreen pixels for half the time, a bad battery from day one, and software bugs galore (couldn’t reset an app, for example. It kept b0rked data between reinstalls and it’s not like there’s a way to go into the filesystem and actually delete it yourself, so I just couldn’t use the app at all and only had the work calendar on my laptop. Very convenient at events. “It just works” they say, but if it ever doesn’t, you’re screwed)