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Insurances need to cover their expected cost with the rates, otherwise they won't be able to cover in case of an incident. Nobody will run an insurance expecting a loss, and you can't force anyone to.

The alternative is like when we had flood that the state bails out the boomers who bought houses when they were cheap in areas where insurance won't insure because of risk, paid with taxes by people like me who have a hard time acquiring property because taxes and other cost are so high due to decisions their generation and earlier ones made.

Of course, this is somewhat exaggerated; they also pay taxes. But it's also not completely wrong.

In the particular case of a previous colleague's house getting flooded, I always had to think of the fact that she chose to fly a certain route for work to save about 2 hours because it's just so much more convenient than the train.

I mean it would have happened with it without her flying, but still thought about it.

He thought he had a 1 in 4 chance to not get hit

There's no such thing as USB hotspots, that's a term for WiFi. Also you can still use the NMC protocol if your Android version is recent enough. Just not RNDIS anymore. It's an insecure Microsoft protocol, though this probably wouldn't have mattered for a lot of people.

It's not about improving a connection, but making your phone's network connection available to other devices. USB tethering creates a network device at /dev/usb... that behaves like an any ordinary network device, allowing you to create a connection using it. Wi-Fi tethering creates a hotspot similar to what your router at home does.

That's different protocols. This is only about the one being used when you share your phone's connection via USB (tethering). Neither adb nor fastboot make use of this.

Also, starting with Android 14, there should be an alternative available with NCM.

You can also track the progress at https://nixpk.gs/pr-tracker.html?pr=367042, is already part of nixos-unstable-small at the time of writing, though this is probably not what a lot of people use. I'll see when it hits nixos-unstable and let you know, but don't know when I used my machine the coming days

And why can he not use the Kokiri Sword as a dagger? It's like he's not even trying

What makes the OoT animation a bit cooler is that Link is older after the animation, like the beams hide him from your view and after the flash of light, he grew old (and everything else changed as well, but you only see that after leaving the cathedral)

what an idiot

It's actually the banussy

Again?

Calling something Linux is very specific, and it's just not true for macOS. E g. if someone brings you an encrypted drive that uses LUKS, you can't mount it in macOS. But both are Unix-like, macOS even being UNIX certified. However, from what I understand, these mostly concern a specific part of the stack that doesn't guarantee that you can work with the other system, this is rather something for applications to target. I mean cool I can enter a shell and list files on macOS, but that doesn't fix the problem.

Almost no company is selling your data. They're selling services that they can offer based on the data collected about you. The data itself is too valuable to be sold, as their monopoly on it is the basis for their business model. That's why all these "we're not selling your personal data" statements are pointless at best and dishonest at worst.

I can't tell if you're making a joke or just confidentially incorrect

I only wanted to include two serious distros.

Hannah Montana is obvious, but which one is the second one?

I have opened a pull request at https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/367042, there might be more changes needed as I had an error in the meta section of the package which I rectified according to the reviewers proposed changes. Not sure this is the end of it, but the request is open

Even submarines powered by diesel engines use, to my very limited knowledge, generators to convert to electricity and then use that electricity for the actual engines. Unlike most cars which do not convert to electricity first. And if the way the electricity was generated is what defines it, then other EVs would need to be allowed as well because the electricity could have been generated from burning fossils.

Monday is more of a pie day actually

EDIT: A second pie about to hit the Monday

Fish is a surprisingly good shell.

It's not POSIX compatible, but I don't really care, it only executes its own scripts / functions. It's not as innovative as elvish or nu, but it kind of does everything very conveniently and shell-y for lack of a better word – and it always seems so simple. It seems conservative in design, but the old concepts have been evolved in a very usable way. Something I can't say for all the other shells I've tried – at some point, it always gets awkward where fish is just elegant.

It's really dumb if you know the two games (poker and Balatro).

Poker is a game of incomplete information where you need one single higher ranked hand than your opponent per round. The stakes are money you bet that your hand is better. Bluffing is an important part of the game.

Balatro is mostly a game with complete information (apart from the order of remaining cards in your deck and certain bosses that flip your cards). You bet no money. There is no bluffing. Money does not correlate to chips. It is about the rating of your hand (poker has no rating, only relative ranking). You play multiple hands. You can't fold. Bluffing doesn't exist. Cards can be improved, ratings can be improved, the decks can look nothing like poker decks, etc.