MajorHavoc @ MajorHavoc @programming.dev

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I too recognize that this person's coworkers are fucking idiots.

I mean, you're allowed to test it before it and iterate goes to review, though.

And reviewers can be allowed to merge stuff that's "good enough", and the iterate.

Jokes on him. I push bugs to production all the time anyway.

I'm with you on all of this, but there's no need to stop at 50% with a marginal tax. Keep going up until 99%, and then start adding .9s.

I think anyone should only be allowed to own, say, $10 million in assets.

Agreed. And I'm willing to let them have an annual cost of living adjustment of exactly the same percentage that minimum wage goes up by.

I've gotten the most interest from others when I've been focused on my own goals, anyway.

Try to relax and enjoy the ride. Relaxed people are attractive.

Trust your future self to make good dating choices, when the opportunity arrives.

That said, it took me awhile to wise up and establish some very basic fashion sense.

If I could tell my past self one thing about dating, it would be:

Classic looks never go out of style, but "not even trying" never goes into style.

I took too long to figure that one out.

Another discussion point that always comes up is "Jeff Bezos can't pay that tax rate, it's all tied up in shares of Amazon. He would have to sell huge portions of Amazon to keep up with the taxes."

And yes. That is the intent.

But I'm not upset if folks would rather just eat him than deal with the logistics of it.

Might be easiest just to look up which ones aren't publicly traded on the stock market - which are the only ones that might not be doing that crap.

Hold a silent reverse auction. Whichever billionaires agree to the highest tax rate don't get eaten. The new billionaire tax rate is whatever the uneaten billionaires agreed to.

Edit: Also, roll 4d10+50 and add it as a secret bid. If it happens to be the highest bid, eat all of the billionaires. This roll is the "public option" to prevent the billionaires from colluding to cheat the system.

$1000/month? Really?

Some exaggeration may have occurred.

But yes, 10x increases from previous business to business prices have been common lately. I'm just waiting to see which direct to consumer service tried it first.

I think they mean all Google docs gone unless we buy a $1,000.00 per month subscription, or something.

We see that kind of massive price shift in business to business contracts all the time.

Someone is bound to try it on regular consumers, and Google currently has the most leverage.

In fairness to Google, they actually have better data export tools than most of their competitors... At least today.

That said, not my prediction, I don't think it'll happen in ten years. I do think someone will try it. My money was on Evernote, but I think their best opportunity passed already.

"Mom, I want Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 3+4 Remastered."

"We have a skateboard game at home."

Neat. I've been holding out for a new higher quality retro emulator without sticks. The old games I want to play don't use sticks, and the sticks make it harder to carry in a pocket.

Get her a Raspberry Pi! Lol.

I'm pretty sure that if you use elevated privileges to run commands you don't understand, you can break Windows just as much as you can break Linux.

I can confirm.

Source: I learned most of what I know about computers (which is genuinely quite a lot), by doing dumbass stupid stuff I didn't understand yet.

Your answer is my favorite.

The big thing that changed side 2010 is that most distros are perfectly usable on most hardware.

I keep tossing Linux onto random stupid hardware I have lying around, and lately it just goes spectacularly well.

I should be ashamed of even asking if Linux will run on it, but Linux ends up running well on it.

Around 2010, I used to tell people that if they did their research and used Mint, for simple web stuff, they're going to be fine.

Lately I end up telling people "I don't know how to do that advanced thing you're debating which Windows product to pay for, because, of the last three random Linux distros I tried, all thee provided it for free and pre-configured with sensible defaults".

I'm sure there's still plenty of interesting reasons to need a paid operating system. But for the simple practical stuff, I find Linux so much easier, even on my random poorly researched distros and hardware combinations.

I might well have just had an incredibly lucky streak, of course.

And here I thought the perfect response image didn't exist...

Yeah. The Cardassian cases are the most headache-inducing. My mind-canon for those is just "Gul Dukat thought it would be funny."

Edit: With an occasional splash of "Garak the Simple Tailor messed with the system and no one was willing to admit they didn't know how to fix it." Which doesn't hold up on DS9, where Odo would have, but works for various Cardassian locations.

The camera thing drives me nuts, because we all know it's generally just going to be what's drives the plot for this story. Which is okay.

But as a privacy nerd, my brain immediately concocts some deeply weird privacy law to explain why main engineering is monitored 24/7 and the front door is somehow not. Then my brain starts trying to come up with the relevant moments in the fictional history why the laws are so broken...