Right, this happens with me all the time (though I suppose I don't require the use of swear words, but I do use them quite a bit, just not when speaking professionally). People take my matter-of-fact personality as being arrogant. I'm really not, or I actually try not to be, but I can understand how things can come across when not mincing words. I suspect Torvalds doesn't like making useless small talk, either, which is a trait of this kind of personality. I can wholly relate to that and how people might perceive him. But I do not feel, as the person I replied to had written, Torvalds "lets you know" that he's "the smartest person in the room" in any instance I've ever seen him speak.
Perhaps I'm confused. I've never seen or heard Torvalds act in the manner you describe. In interviews, and talks, at least, I've seen him be quite self-deprecating, quite deferential, and quite humble. He just doesn't put up with bullshit in the space he knows extremely well, and he's very direct with little regard to being empathetic, or at least that's how he's acted in the past on the Linux mailing lists. Being matter-of-fact can often be misconstrued as acting superior, but I've found it's usually a time-saving personality quirk.
Edit>> Clearly this guy is unable to understand what being matter of fact is and resorts to ad hominem when someone doesn’t share his opinion. Sad, really, but pretty normal for the internet, I suppose. Oh well.
But it doesn't function flawlessly, at least not yet. I know of one pretty big online networking bug that affects me -- You currently cannot connect directly to a password-ed server (by IP), it won't prompt for the password and it simply denies entry. And since the multiplayer server browser is pure garbage, you can't even properly search for the password-ed server because the search only filters the current page you're on, and even pagination is flat broke.
This game has a lot to get fixed. This is my major hit list that I'd like to see fixed/enhanced:
Fix it so a client can directly connect to a server that requires a password without having to use the server browser
Fix the server browser so pagination works properly
Fix the server browser so keyword searching actually filters across all registered servers, not just the currently-loaded page
Fix the server so when purposefully not registering as a public server, it doesn't show in the server list (my private server is not supposed to be listed, but I had a random stranger connect...and since I cannot password the server yet due to the bug listed above, they got on and built stuff before I could kick them -- and I cannot destroy anything they made)
Enhance it so an admin can destroy all content irrespective of guild
Fix the in-game chat so it actually scrolls properly and can be user-scrolled up and down
Fix the pal AI and pathing, it's atrocious
Enhance it so you can dedicate a specific pal to a specific job
Fix it so party pals will properly attack incoming raids outside of the base circle
Enhance it so storage bins can be labeled (without having to use signs)
Enhance it so if there is a security code on a door or storage box, it doesn't allow other guild members access without knowing the security code (this would require a level of ownership to each crafted item)
Enhance it so stacks can be divided by an arbitrary user-defined number instead of only by half
Enhance it so signs can be placed on foundation pieces
Fix it so pals that fight intruders cannot destroy buildings and other crafted/placed items
Fix it so wooden "security" walls are are not so easily destroyed by a simple pal invader
Fix it so other pals and players cannot become invisible
Fix it so in-dungeon bosses cannot use an ability that would place them outside the arena, thus requiring restarting the fight (in other words, fix the collision detection so properly bound the boss to the arena)
First, the waiver should have been provided prior to serving the meal.
Second, and off topic, Toronto Pearson area seems fraught with problems. From second-hand experience of a family member, they got delayed by 11 hours after the 3 hour layover, simply because the airport apparently doesn’t know what electric surge protection is (that was their excuse, that a surge occurred in the airport grounding their plane).
Last, anyone who wants less-than-well-done meat should expect a semblance of risk and expect the restaurant will want to legally protect themselves. But it’s pretty shitty to get the waiver after being served.
Except the therapist works for the OP, not the other way around. If it were just OP’s friend who stood them up, then you’d have a point. But this is someone OP had an agreed-upon appointment with someone they are paying to treat them. And also keep in mind that many doctor’s offices will charge for a missed appointment if the patient didn’t show and made no attempt to communicate ahead of time.
Sure, there are probably understandable circumstances that have caused this, and the therapist will probably make it up to them. But that doesn’t invalidate OP’s feelings and expectations, especially in the moment.
Most of the modern ones do store certain information on servers, though. Spark and Mailbird both do. Mailspring does as well if I recall correctly.
Most modern mail app developers seem to think that it’s more important to do search indexing and account storage on a server for ease of use, and expect inherent trust, foregoing all sense of real privacy under the veil of “we’re not evil, we promise.”
I’ve yet to find an email client that has a good modern look and feel, but doesn’t try to use server-side storage for some UX convenience factor.
I want the look and feel and mail host integrations of Spark (OAuth, like GMail, or preconfigs of hosts like iCloud) with the dumb-pipe-ness of Thunderbird. That’s the email unicorn I’m after.
It's kinda crazy to me how hate-filled Lemmy is just a half-year after I joined (when it felt like a breath of fresh air after deleting my Reddit account), especially for Mozilla. Mozilla has issues, but it's nothing they can't fix or come out of. They don't deserve to die. And all the conspiracy theories I'm reading is just nonsense. I happen to be a Firefox user, but really it's mainly because Google decided to screw with user choice (i.e. Manifest v3). Firefox is still FOSS, and it's still giving plenty of user choice.
And all this AI talk is just bandwagoning by every corporation because if AI (as in LLM and whatnot) happens to be a baseline thing for many corporations, Mozilla not implementing it could backfire for them, so while it is bandwagoning, it also makes sense to hedge one's bets on it.
I, for one, think this current notion of AI is too raw to take any real shape (outside of the current novelty), and these corps that are jumping on it, just like they did with "web 2.0" and "big data" and "the cloud" and "blockchain", will eventually find that while there is some tangibility to be found, it will take many years to solidify into products that make sense for a consumer.
I mean HDR support in Windows, at least in my anecdotal experience, is garbage, anyway. But I agree, that doesn't mean the browser shouldn't support it by now.
Yes it was. Trying to sugar coat it doesn’t change that fact. We’re done here.