@JonBaker Why are we like this? Why are humans like this? I’ve been comparing the enshittification of platforms to the downfall of corporations to the collapse of civilisations, and they’re all remarkably similar.
For me there are a few people who are usually equalizing, and I can just be around them, so I won't count that. But generally, I find about 3 times a week, I'm game for socializing. A day in between to rest is usually nice, but the larger the gathering or if we go somewhere particularly noisy or I'm meeting new people that involves more effort, and my social battery empties sooner. I'm very curious where everyone else falls on this!
@RickiTarr I need 100% alone time when I am not working (one-on-one with people). I can spend days on end by myself with no problem as long as I have some media and can text some friends.
Socializing in person just two or three hours a week is too much for me at this point. I have to budget my recovery time very carefully, especially when I know that I'm going to see family. Even if I'm hanging out with my neurodivergent friends, who are fairly equalizing, I have to be careful.
Zooms exhaust me. A text conversation or email chain can wear me out (I had an email absolutely ruin three nights of sleep for me last week, and the fallout is ongoing). An actual phone call? It takes days to recover.
I wasn't very social before the pandemic started. I'd be in the corner with a book, under the table with the dog, doing dishes, or outside looking at trees or birds or stars at any given social gathering.
Any pretense of being able to survive an in-person social activity has dissolved since March of 2000 (I loved lockdown -- except for the no work part). Especially since 2021, when people started rabidly gathering to make up for perceived lost time once they were charged with "saving the economy" by getting out there and doing capitalism again. I could not go that fast or throw my precautions to the wind.
@RickiTarr I always used to consider myself an extrovert but now I can’t cope with more than two or three social things in a week. I say extrovert because I don’t like to be on my own very much. If I do crave alone time, it’s really only being on my own in a different room while someone else is in the house. I guess I am hard to please
Pff.. I just got cut off on my bike by this triple A hole with his massive window blinded SUV on the bike lane while he was holding his phone making a call
I was signing and yelling he should put his phone down and open his eyes, didn't take much of his car would have enjoyed the frame of my bike
Seemed like a "though businessman" or perhaps even a diplomat with foreign licence who did like he "owned the place" but not when I'm around
I don't care for your status, act like a human or ...
A lot of America is like that, too. Especially mid-size cities full of dangerous "stroads" that look the same from state to state.
Rural is green grass, brown grass, cows and/or horses or corn or wheat for miles. Or trees that look so similar you feel like you must be going in circles.
@Stefan_S_from_H
If it's the same as a Tesla yes, but it won't be sriveable during the update.
However you choose when the update starts, and starting an update that can take 45 minutes just before you're due in court is bloody stupid. @TeflonTrout@maia
@GottaLaff
I5, for me, is much worse. At least south of Manteca, it is. (Been doing 99 for nearly 60 years; I remember when the oleanders in the divider were shorter than the fence they're along.)
@GottaLaff If you have time for a short rest to stretch your legs, check out the suspension "Sundial Bridge" over the Sacramento River in Redding!
... oh darn. Looks like it is closed till Tuesday. Harrumph.
Not going to link to the actual review because I don’t care and will not care about the movie in question, but I find it interesting how quickly and thoroughly the meaning of “AI” in the public vocabulary as shifted from “futuristic automated intelligence” to “bad and lazily made”
At some point, my purse became a walking pharmacy. Stomach upset, got a headache? I have you covered. Need bug spray or sunscreen, what about some lotion or hand sanitizer? I've got a snack, and something to freshen your breath.
When I had surgery a few years ago, I had a weight limit of 10 pounds for 3 months! Hubs said he needed to weigh my purse to make sure I could safely carry it. I thought he was joking, turns out it weighed 17 pounds!
A friend who used to be a chiropractor always weighed female patients' purses to show them just WHY their neck and shoulder ached. Men who carried their wallets in a back pocket had hip and back problems.
@futurebird
unhelpfully, the us customary fluid ounce and the british imperial fluid ounce are not quite the same; the imperial is about 1 ml smaller .
edit: I forgot to add that in this case, it doesn't affect answers to the poll.
I have a longer rant about this that I will write up at some point, but here's the TL;DR: yes, you should attend conference talks, and please stop telling other attendees (especially those new to the community) to categorically skip them. Supporting conference speakers and the staff and volunteers that work to make the talks possible is a very cool decision.
@jonafato For the record I mean that said conference has not released a single video from it's 2023 edition. So it's not the normal "were really sorry but there was a goof-up with this one talk" situation.
And, well, the wording was, in part, intended to prevent people from thinking the matter was fully settled without giving away too much about what is settled, and what exactly might still be unresolved.
A DDOS against the Internet Archive has commenced again, timed for maximum pain for the California staff to deal with. (I don't sleep, but I also can't do anything on the infrastructure here.)
So, we're down until people wake up to deal with the constant DOOS against us because... reasons
There's a bunch of C-like successor languages that say they want to eliminate undefined behavior. I've never been able to figure out how they intend to deal with reads and writes to memory since a lot of these languages take what I would call the "naive" machine-centric view of memory which is hard to reconcile with source-level semantics for variables, etc. You can't really rename all of this stuff as "implementation-defined" and get out of jail for free.
(some behavior in C is undefined by virtue of the language standard not saying anything about it)
Yes, there is the truly weird category of UB which pertains to translation time, not execution time, and it seems completely unnecessary, but I assume that's not what was meant here.
@amonakov@harold Hah, I knew what Harold meant! Well, at least what I meant is that that there's a large range between UB minimalism and maximalism when it comes to specification freedom for a language roughly at C's level of abstraction, and C is not very UB minimalist (and hence there's room for C-like languages to be more UB minimalist).
Une tante qui récupère tout partout, essaie de convaincre que la TV de ma mère ne vaut pas grand chose.
C'était une télé que ma mère n'a pas utilisé pendant quelques années. Une télé led. D'après ma tante, elle ne vaut rien car une télé led inutilisée s'abime. C'est vrai ?
Elle fait du forcing auprès de ma mère pour l'avoir et j'aimerais savoir si c'est vrai.
@asl@nitot j'étais à la conférence Arcep/Arcom/Ademe/secrétaire d'État du numérique du 17 mai 2024 sur le référentiel d'écoconception sur la consultation duquel j'avais envoyé une réponse, l'Arcep est passée en mode "sobriété des données" façon Shift (au point d'en être félicitée par quelqu'un du Shift dans le public)... :/