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Cognitive empathy, yes, absolutely, affective empathy, no. Difference between flinching when someone gets hurt and understanding that someone gets hurt, including the theory of mind to understand that they don't like that. Which is why the well-adjusted ones (mostly a function of nurture) make damn good surgeons. Maladapted ones will use that (very acute) cognitive empathy to do the usual dark triad stuff.

People are taking naps in their car in a bank parking lot while charging.

Missed opportunity, right there, because even the operators still think in terms of "gas station". Get a plot of land with a nice view, build a cafe, build a couple of charging stations. Make it a destination people want to go to regardless whether they need a fill-up or not.

Heck, whatever happened to car cinemas.

There's already a low-key travel warning for trans and intersex people in place because the US's stance on passports having sex entries not matching the birth certificate, or being anything but M or F, is unclear at best. Advise is "get the US embassy to sign off on your papers before trying to enter". This might amount to a total ban: If your birth certificate says X and they're not accepting X passports and neither ones which don't match the birth certificate then there's no kind of passport they do accept.

DB is still 100% owned by the federation, it's only organised privately. Trouble is they expected it to turn a profit, to do that DB had to run its infrastructure into the ground, invest abroad, get into fucking trucking, you name it. Don't get me wrong there's nothing wrong with operating rail/road interface warehouses, but when a rail company is building a logistics warehouse without rail connection you know something's deeply fishy. Meanwhile, the Autobahn network got plenty of tax money pumped into it. And those DB profits.

The failure is 110% political, decades of car-brained infrastructure ministers, "but won't someone think about the car producers and their workers". Bipartisan issue. In US terms: UAW and Blackrock vs. Amtrack. Guess who's winning the lobby battle, difference being in Germany people actually like trains.

Those "high prices for small farms" are in the order of maybe a cent or two per egg. And producing eggs isn't the whole equation: With distributed production you have lower transportation costs. Not to mention that the US has to have a whole cooling chain for eggs because they rather wash+chill them than adhere to proper hygiene standards.

It's not like European supermarket eggs would be produced in backyards. Looking at German numbers: About 50m hens in 2258 companies means an average of 22k birds per company, maximum flock size is 3000 (organic) or 4000 (regular).

The US could take its 100k flock sizes and just build some dividers and generally environmental isolation and be much more resilient. But resilience costs money so nitwit MBAs are saying "let's cut this out, statistics say I'll have my golden parachute before shit hits the fan won't someone think about quarterly results".

I'd say build and run tools are pretty integrated into vim. Type :mak and there you go, it's not like vs studio would be a single process either.

Every self-respecting vi user should know enough ex to get by with ed.

So an IDE is a code editor that ships with an LSP server, not just an LSP interface? (Doesn't have to be LSP as such but "stuff that an LSP server does").

Would you be bold enough to write if (i++ == INT_MAX) break? The result of the increment is never used, but an increment is being done, at least syntactically, and it overflows, at least theoretically, so maybe (I'm not 100% sure) the compiler could be allowed to break out into song because undefined behaviour allows anything to happen.

con is with, di apart, both in the "is apart" and "drifts apart" way, also "between" and "not", and trans is, well, also apart, but implying some sense of border, not just (conceptual) distance. I'd say that digress and transgress are comparatively synonym (if you squint in just the right way) and both antonym to congress.

intragress might be an alternative to the missing cisgress, especially as ingress already exists. And then we could have extragress for being not on the inside but not beyond the pale, either.

Or we could stop this silliness and cast out the Normans.

so, the actual opposite of congress would be digress

How about transgress.

You're right, that's what I get for not having written a line of C in what 15 years. Bonus challenge: write for i in i32::MIN..=i32::MAX in C, that is, iterate over the whole range, start and end inclusive.

(I guess the ..= might be where my confusion came from because Rust's .. is end-exclusive and thus like <, but also not what you want because i32::MAX + 1 panics).

I mean i < 10 isn't wrong as such, it's just good practice to always use <= because in the INT_MAX case you have to and everything should be regular because principle of least astonishment: That 10 might become a #define FOO 10, that then might become #define FOO INT_MAX, each of those changes look valid in isolation but if there's only a single i < FOO in your codebase you introduced a bug by spooky action at a distance. (overflow on int is undefined behaviour in C, in case anyone is wondering what the bug is).

...never believe anyone who says "C is a simple language". Their code is shoddy and full of bugs and they should be forced to write Rust for their own good.

i <= 9, you heathen. Next thing you'll do is i < INT_MAX + 1 and then the shit's steaming.

I'm cooked, see thread.

Yes. We usually rather give people money to buy food locally than ship sacks of rice across the world. With the US simply having no eggs of their own, though, that's of course not an option.

Occasionally, we ship some to Ireland to cause a political ruckus there. Sadly couldn't find any pictures of the famed EU cheese, but have some rice.

2.39 Euro, free-range, 10 piece. Organic is 3.39, barn 1.99, all incl. 7% VAT. so 12 barn ones would be 2.40. Granted, Aldi probably makes 0 profit from the barn ones but there's only so much they can squeeze farmers. We've long since outlawed cages.

We do have H5N1 here, just like everyone else it's out there with wild birds and those fly all over the place, it's been a thing for two decades. Difference being we have regulations and also industrial structure (not as large companies/flocks) which means even if a flock gets infected it's a much more limited loss.

And of course the completely different hygiene standards: Eggs in the EU must be sold unwashed, which means that companies actually have to keep the barns clean. It's similar with chicken meat: It's not like chlorinating chicken would be a health danger to humans, it's that the hygiene conditions that would make chlorinating necessary, seen from the other side that chlorinating enables, are absolutely unconscionable. That's why chlorinating is outlawed in the EU.

In another line of thought, though, we should have another class of eggs: Organic barn. The usual better feed, more space etc. but keep them inside, it's not like chickens mind being inside. Vaccinating them sadly isn't an option at this point, like it is with salmonella.

Point being FM coverage is almost universal in any area where there's a significant number of people, not just lone homesteaders, uncontacted tribes, suchlike. Yes there may be people there that could be reached but the total number is small and if they want any news, they're getting them from the town over once a month.

Contrast that to the situation when those shortwave broadcasts were originally set up where you had whole cities with actual population that had no electricity, no radio, and certainly no internet. You'll still find settlements like that, but, as said, not a large amount of people. Alternatively, people behind the iron curtain: You don't need short-wave to get into North Korea and any Chinese or Russian who cares can access any western media, anyway.

The purpose of these broadcasts isn't "play some music to 20 evangelical homesteaders 100km away from the next road". Those people aren't the kind of people who might, one day, protest in front of the president's palace.

With the age of those computers you might even be looking at a HDD. Those should definitely be replaced, SSDs, it depends.

In any case a new 128G SDD is on the order of 15 bucks, well worth the investment even for an age-old system (unless you have a bit more extra cash because the GB/buck optimum is in the 0.5-2T range).

The point is rather if you're operating an FM transmitter, you not only have the money for a satellite dish and DVB-S decoder you already have one, and FM radios are dirt cheap. The electronics for short wave certainly aren't more expensive but you'll need a proper antenna. Meanwhile, much of Africa actually has quite decent mobile phone coverage, there's some piss-poor countries and large areas of nothing, generally desert, but overall, if there's people, there's probably reception. Their whole banking system works via mobile phone.