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Recall for a font. A fucking font.

Really this is just further proof that software developers should be no where near automotive design.

They're apparently for things that are already heavily tested in prior models and haven't changed.

Like the cockpit door is the same in a bunch of planes, or something, no need to test it in every plane model, etc.

Ars wrote a decent article about it a while back. I dug it up - https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2019/11/half-an-operating-system-the-triumph-and-tragedy-of-os2/

It's a fun read. The tl;dr: OS/2 had lots of features Windows didn't, but IBM is notoriously bad at marketing, and failed to beat Microsoft in the public perception arena.

It's a trial program, to work out the major kinks, issues, and problems before rolling it out further to other states.

It's also federal-only, meaning you still have to do your state returns. Most of the states in the trial have no state income tax, which makes it an ideal solution for taxpayers in those states.

Expect it to expand to all 50 states in the coming years, presuming Republicans don't somehow manage to legislate it into oblivion like usual.

I'm with you. Police and gangbangers are the same group, with the only notable difference in that police are empowered to ruin your day by the government, while bangers will face consequences for shooting people while they're asleep in their bed, or flashbanging an infant in their crib.

That used to be Google, when they were interested in providing quality results and showing ads alongside those results, instead of just.. being an ad company.

Before that, it was Yahoo, when they were interested in providing quality results, and showing ads, instead of just being an ad company.

Before that, it was AltaVista, when they were...

...Ask Jeeves...

We'll see who's next.

And I feel like some elder millennials are taking the generational trauma of shitty mentoring and carrying it forward like a rite of passage.

People who never got decent mentoring don't know what it looks like. It's rarely intentional, they just believe that's how it is in the business world.

The loss of credibility is not because it's discord,. specifically.

It's because the project thinks a chat platform is an appropriate way to document a project. I would feel the same way if someone told me to get on IRC for docs, or Slack.

I thought we solved the boilerplate issue with templates and snippets like 30 years ago.

The "government backed" part is ostensibly about a government setting up the framework and like, requiring it be used for official documents.

It wouldn't be too hard to stick a private signing key on say, your driver's license / ID / passport, for instance.

It's a complex issue, though, that sits on how much you trust whoever runs the system at some point.

It's not everywhere.

States that do vote by mail are just like you describe -- paper ballots collected and counted by computer, with the paper preserved.

No. The "Contract of Carriage" that airlines create between you and them when you buy a ticket explicitly disclaims any liability for stuff like that. Delta's for domestic flights has, under "Rule 2", the following:

Delta will exercise reasonable efforts to transport you and your baggage from your origin to your destination with reasonable dispatch, but published schedules, flight times, aircraft types, seat assignments, and similar details reflected in the ticket or Delta’s published schedules are not guaranteed and form no part of this contract. Delta may substitute alternate Carriers or aircraft, change its schedules, delay or cancel flights, change seat assignments, and alter or omit stopping places shown on the ticket as required by its operations in Delta’s sole discretion. Delta’s sole liability in the event of such changes is set forth in Rule 22. Delta is not responsible or liable for making connections, failing to operate any flight according to schedule, changing the schedule or any flight, changing seat assignments or aircraft types, or revising the routings by which Delta carries the passenger from the ticketed origin to destination.

Source: https://www.delta.com/us/en/legal/contract-of-carriage-dgr (click the "plain language PDF" version)

Every airline has basically the same contract. They can do whatever the fuck they want as long as they get you from A to B. They don't even have to use a plane, or get you there on time.

Then hopefully the reporter won't ask a covered entity. Everyone else is fair game.

Oh no, this was back in the days when we loaded our distros by way of a stack of floppy disks.

sudo rm -f /lib /usr/share/backup/blah blah.tar.gz

Note the space.

They're talking about the lying sack of traitorous shit, Tara Reade, who has a hard time telling the truth about ANYTHING, oh, and defected to Russia when things got spicy.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Biden_sexual_assault_allegation

Where do you think PHP stole it from?

Shit, Comcast has a pretty decent change of charging you for the hardware even if you do return it.

You joke, but I'm literally fighting this fight right now.

Meh. The GOP primaries are just running for the position of Vice President. Whichever candidate does the things Trump likes the most will get to be his running mate. The rest will get to write a book and go on FOX News to talk about how they're totally bucking the extreme Republican party by being mavericks and standing up to extremism or some shit.