I walk around barefoot pretty much all summer. Just that it’s been -10 here since December.

Oh I was going to say he paid a rich guy way too much $$$$ for a NOS (new old stock) vintage Mac!

No socks though! My feet are feeling cold just looking at them!

Not sure what that means. He’s not Jesus. There’s no need to worship him! We can take the good and criticize the bad.

The issue is with creating more work for others. Supporting a multi-language toolchain and build environment is a lot more work than a single language one. The R4L folks have made it their mission to shoehorn Rust into the kernel and they’ve explicitly stated that they will not avoid making more work for others. This has upset some longterm maintainers who did not sign up for additional workload.

Linus Torvalds has been accused of many things but he has always been loyal to his best maintainers. That’s been a big key to his success.

Luigi could’ve passed the screening check to become the guy’s bodyguard. Maybe he even would’ve had a better opportunity to escape.

Many, many ruthless tyrants and other nasty people have been killed by their own bodyguards over the years. And these are often guards who have been properly vetted.

How vetted are these Uber rentacops gonna be? No criminal record doesn’t mean you can trust the person if you’re some ruthless bastard with a lot of enemies.

There’s a big cultural difference. Taiwanese workers, like Chinese, Korean, and Japanese workers as well, have a much higher tolerance for long work hours and less pay.

All of these East Asian cultures have long-standing social norms against complaining and refusing to work hard. It’s a collectivist culture of work that puts the success of the company ahead of the individual’s interests. In return, companies tend to be loyal to workers so it’s very common to stay at one company for your whole career.

We westerners used to have similar values back in the 1950s and earlier. That all changed during the counterculture.

Similar issue in Japan, Taiwan, China, and more. I remember reading about an idol fanbase going ballistic when their favourite weather girl got a boyfriend.

The whole idol industry is incredibly toxic. It turns parasocialization into a ruthlessly monetized business.

Nothing like a more important task to do to motivate me to get a lot of cleaning done!

We could do a lot more though. Canada’s not even meeting our NATO commitments.

Musk realized at the last minute that NASA is one of his (SpaceX’s) biggest customers! Whew that was a close one there!

Another reason to prefer self-checkout. People in line get fanned out across multiple machines.

They can always trade the US some chips for them!

Buy the weapons now so you don’t have to beg for them when you’re under attack. If you’ve got the money then it makes perfect sense.

Taiwan should really be smart about which weapons they buy though. Anti-air systems and anti-ship mines as well as drones are what they need. Fancy jets are not cost effective for defence.

A lot of FOSS development isn’t rich developers donating their free time, it’s paid developers who were hired by their company to work on an open source project the company deems crucial to their business.

He also said:

the impression words form in the reader is more important than their intent

He didn’t intend for the master/slave connotation. He intended for the recording master connotation. Either way, he regrets using the word master and he’s supportive of the change.

Not according to pasky, the git contributor who picked the names.

It is enshittification and it’s how they make money. But my point is that fixing enshittification doesn’t fix daring apps in the long term.

I can’t blame enshittification on this one. The dating app model doesn’t work, period. Even in the case of a completely free, non-profit app, you still have the problem that as people pair off they leave the dating pool.

The fundamental problem is that there’s a nonzero subpopulation of people who either have no interest in or are incapable of forming a stable long term relationship. As the dating pool filters over time, these folks get more and more concentrated in the population. This leads to the experience getting worse and worse for people who are interested and capable because they keep matching up with the wrong people.