The moral isn’t the opposite. Toad becomes stressed about all the work that needs to be done tomorrow. He instead gets all his work done pretty quickly, takes the rest of the day off, and resolves to do nothing the next day now that he’s more relaxed.

Yes, you are correct that the numbers for the Green Party aren’t usually enough to make a difference in any election. I’m just frustrated that they’re not even providing a legitimate alternative to the Democratic Party.

How I’d want the Greens to work:

1. Run real candidates in local elections who care about the environment and get shit done. Be able to point to things like town X electing a Green as mayor and not having their water poisoned. Or 6 state reps from the Greens passing air pollution controls and getting more business into the state instead of less. Pro-bike laws. Etc.
2. Ask both national parties what they’re going to promise to do for the environment and either endorse the better one or release a statement that both parties are unwilling to do anything for the environment and encouraging people to vote local.

How the Greens actually work:

1. Take money from private interests
2. Abandon all local races
3. Fuck around at the national level, drawing attention and money away from groups that would try to get anything done

Oh OK. Murdering rich people might effect social change. Though I’m skeptical because not a lot of people actually do it, which is an important component of that change.

I think you still end up coming around in a circle: in your fantasy of mob-justice, what prevents the wealthy from ending up being the ones who control it? (Like Vlad the Impaler!)

“Exactly as horrible” is unfair to you. But it sounds like you’re advocating to give up on rule of law and just have the strongest most violent people be the ones to decide what’s right. And I’d argue that you’d just get back to where we are right now: wealthy people would control the system, they’d employ strong violent people to enforce their personal whims as “law”, and you’d be complaining that nobody is willing to beat up the pedophile (because his friends would hire goons to kill them).

I mean, presumably that’s what’s stopping you personally from implementing your own recommendation, right? Because if you showed up and kicked this guy’s ass you’d be beaten and arrested by the police.

That I’ve unwisely installed some bad software and I should delete it, as recommended.

It’s fucked up that the Greens actually went into business as Russian stooges instead of just being an opposition party.

Do you feel like you understand what “hacked” even means? If so: a phone is a little computer. If not… I donno. I guess you should give a bit more story about why you’re interested in “hacking” and yet know so little about it? Something that makes it more interesting to reply.

For basic questions, why wouldn’t you start with Wikipedia, which is an excellent resource? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phone_hacking

Hatred Enterprise Linux being marketed to the US gov

I donno anything about China, but whoever made this meme certainly doesn’t know anything about the USA. The idea that “liberals” or anyone else (??) are high-fiving themselves over a credit score. lol

The alien sport-hunter who kills people to collect their bones as trophies is not a role model!

It’s basically impossible to tell with these between the example being totally fabricated, true but only happens some small percentage of time, true and happens most of the time but you got lucky, and true and reliable but now the company has patched this specific case because it blew up online.

That looks pretty decent. Could mostly support the OP’s use-case, but also could allow sites to trade a cookie for payment, for semi-anonymous pay-for-access.

https://www.tumblr.com/windows95tips

There are automated checks which can help enforce correctness of the parts of the code that are being checked. For example, we could imagine a check that says “when I add a sprite to the list of assets, then the list of assets becomes one item longer than it was before”. And if I wrote code that had a bug here, the automated check would catch it and show the problem without any humans needing to take the time.

But since code can do whatever you write it to do, there’s always human review needed. If I wrote code so that adding a sprite also sent a single message to my enemy’s Minecraft server then it’s not going to fail any tests or show up anywhere, but we need humans to look at the code and see that I’m trying to turn other developers into a DDoS engine.

As others replied, you could choose to find and run someone’s branch. This actually does happen with open-source projects: the original author disappears or abandons the project, other people want changes, and someone says “hey I have a copy of the project but with all those changes you want” and we all end up using that fork instead.

But as a tool for evaluating code that’ll get merged, it does not work. Imagine you want to check out the new bleeding-edge version of Godot. There’s currently ~4700 possible bleeding-edge versions, so which one will you use? You can’t do this organically.

Most big projects do have something like beta releases. The humans decide what code changes to merge and they do all that and produce a new godot-beta. The people who want to test out the latest stuff use that and report problems which get fixed before they finally release the finished version to the public. But they could never just merge in random crap and then see if it was a good idea afterward.

I’ve always liked playing under-powered or useless or cursed characters. But you have to make sure the whole group is into it. Just because I want to play the germophobic sword-fighter who can’t be in melee range doesn’t mean anyone else wants to be part of that story…

It works against the general population, if this particular one doesn’t, don’t get too busy strutting, there is almost certainly something else that does work on you.

That is very well put! I feel like I’ve talked to so many people who see one ad that doesn’t land and say, “ads don’t work on me.”

java naturally produces verbose stack traces

I always think of Java as the absolute gold standard of stack traces. Sure, in any given debugging session I don’t care about most of the stack. But across all sessions, I’ve used all parts of the trace and I wouldn’t want anything elided.

JS is my least-favorite because it provides a stack-trace so I get tricked into thinking it’ll be useful. But since it doesn’t cross callbacks it provides no depth.

Set your expectations: networking is complex and the configuration you’re hoping for is particularly complex. It sounds to me like you’re looking for a split-horizon configuration where local traffic stays local but internet traffic is routed over VPN. But also you want that configuration only for specific apps.

It’s not the *arr programs that are tricky, it’s that any service you try to configure this way will be some of the hardest sysadmin work.

The turbo-hell part is that the spam comments aren’t even being written for humans to see. The intention is that ChatGPT picks up the spam and incorporates it into its training.

I worked at a company that sold to doctors and the marketing team was spending most of their effort on this kind of thing. They said that nowadays when doctors want to know “what should I buy to solve X?” or “which is better A or B?” they ask ChatGPT and take its answer as factual. They said that they were very successful in generating blog articles for OpenAI to train on so that our product would be the preferred answer.

Hell yeah! When you click over from “this game is impossible wth” to kicking Rodney’s ass so much that you’d expect him to just give up…

Nice work cracking a tough game!