They must be the easiest people to scam

Seeing as how they got scammed into voting into :: waves hands at everything :: this, yeah. 100%, without a doubt, we have a huge voting block that are also marks for grift after nationalism-flavored grift.

Joking aside, if we want long-term solutions, we absolutely must get to the bottom of how that keeps happening.

I see where you’re going here but at least Dent had a good side to start with.

You may not like it, but this is what peak (toxic) male performance looks like.

I’m reminded of another observation I read online, some time ago. To paraphrase:

The biggest lie put forward by toxic masculinity is that anger is not an emotion.

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I appreciate the workaround here, and I’ve tried this in production environments to one degree or another. This usually fails due to another problem: the number of systems that think unexpected JSON keys are an error, is is too damn high.

I’ll give it a shot, but I must be able to use my laptop to vibe-interview.

That’s all true. And FWIW, I’ve only ever charged my EV on 120v at home, so I’m familiar with the limitations.

I’m thinking of the worst case where my trip planner accidentally sends me to a location where the intended charger is long gone or in-use, and I have too little charge to make it to the next viable location. Also: it’s 3AM and nobody is open. Sure, I could sleep that off in the car and/or throw myself on the mercy of some hotel, but that’s sketchy in other ways. Or maybe I’m stranded due to a moment’s inattention?

To me, that all reduces to “be resourceful” so why not pack some additional resources?

At the same time, I’ve wondered if it would be helpful for EVs on some long-distance road trips to tow/stow a generator for overnight and emergency charging. Charging stations are popping up more and more, but if you’re saddled with an obsolete or under-served charging port type (e.g. Nissan Leaf), having a generator would be valuable insurance.

Ah yes, C64 floppy drive “headbanging”.

IIRC this is because rather than ship a design with a limit switch or any position sensing at all, the drive software just rapidly slaps the read head home a bunch of times to ensure it’s properly aligned with track zero. I have a hard time believing this was to reduce part count, because the drive itself is a whole-ass 6502 computer; the sale price also reflected that. Instead, I think it’s a software fix for a “sometimes an issue” hardware problem.

I honestly don’t know which is more real: The mere existence of an app for an inert hunk of metal, or the fact that it’s a miserable user experience?

You’re not alone. My preference is shopping at places like that “off hours” if possible. Sunday morning (while a lot of people are in church) is a must-do for me.

I miss 24hr and late-night grocery stores. 10PM shopping used to be incredible.

I meticulously read labels on everything. I kind of have to since I can’t just eat anything off the shelf - it’s complicated.

But one thing I do is to be aware of how much room the cart/trolley/whatever is taking up. I much prefer to use a hand-basket or smaller cart if available. I’ll also park the damn thing outside the aisle if there’s room nearby, or next to my person parallel to the flow of traffic. Why gack up the whole lane?

At the same time, I also appreciate that a typical supermarket is an assault on the senses where even the neuro-normative struggle. It’s not hard to find people that are clearly stuggling, doubling-back-and-forth through the whole market to complete their shopping list (just peek in the basket then consider where you are in the store). The frequency of this happening is kind of staggering.

Yes, but don’t use a public service for this. Use a local LLM and maintain distinct profiles, one for each online account.

The only real question is: does it go “wooo wooo!” ?

https://youtu.be/C4QMffMAwAU?t=32

Whoa, they’re loss-leaders? That’s good to know. I usually pass them up since I get better results at home but I appreciate that I’m not exactly pinching pennies to make the budget happen. I’ve been broke and/or between jobs before, so who knows? That is handy information.

They know their audience. After all it’s hard to find “undesierabes” to look down on when their standard of living is alarmingly close to your own.

Indeed, brother. It is heresy of the highest order.

All praise the omnissiah.

Besides, it’s a really bad form of ID. The numbers aren’t even unique, and up until 2011, a few digits are reserved for geographical information.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_Security_number#Structure

If I had to reach for a hasty solution, it would be to use the IRS taxpayer ID instead. Of course, that might weaken the SSA’s importance overall, so that wouldn’t be without consequences: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Individual_Taxpayer_Identification_Number

Seriously. For both events, I feel like the skill curve starts at “try not to die” and just keeps climbing in degrees of “get better at not dying” and “point your feet in the right direction”.

The content inside the notepad edit window should probably be universally sandboxed from your local box

Sadly, this was already the case when Notepad stayed in its lane and only handled plain text unicode.

Good call.