Infinite scrolling == infinite memory usage.

Whenever I go to some forum that's heavy on pictures and videos that has infinite scrolling, and I'm looking far down the page for something or other, eventually my browser slows to a crawl, or the browser's resource-hungry JS engine crashes, and that's the end of the scrolling.

Certain sites I patronize that have the stupid infinite scrolling also have the classic &page= HTTP GET mechanism. On those sites, every once in a while, I reload the entire page with a &page= corresponding to roughly where I am in the infinite scrolling, just to reset it and free up some memory.

It's not the UI paradigm that bothers me, it's the resource usage insanity.

It's very telling that you think someone who relocated to Europe "struck it rich" and "lives with the elite": it show how much of a dump you think America is in comparison.

Even if their island becomes 100% hostile to all life, the Icelanders can always power artificial life with the free energy they're blessed with: the uninterrupted source of heat coming from the bowels of the Earth.

They're in a quasi-unique position of not really having to worry about climate change, if worse comes to worst.

has been utter shit for decades. It glorifies overtime over everything else - including over metrics that could be improved with less overtime, such as quality and efficiency.

AI is just more of the same: turbocharged shit.

I'm saying this as an American expat living in Europe and actually having a quality of life and work/life balance I never had stateside.

For the MAGA dimwits, getting rid of negative value non-white people results in an effective population increase.

Or a prepaid retainer agreement with an expiration date for hours and a cap on hours worked per day and per week, waivable only in writing when confirmed by both parties. That way, they can't rush to jam in all the hours with 12-hour days at the end of the year.

His cryptocoin is down 93%. But it was just another way to funnel money into his pockets anyway.

it's currently a currency that is needed to buy oil worldwide

Oil is priced in dollars by convention, but there is no requirement to buy it using dollars outside of what individual countries require for their trade. Oil is regularly traded in other currencies including euros, Indian rupees, Chinese yuan, and Russian rubles, with non-dollar oil trading covering about 20% of the global market. The US dollar is relatively stable, though, so it serves as a useful reference for other currencies, and using it directly to conduct oil trades keeps things simple.

On the plus side, TV has hit rock bottom decades ago, and films aren't far behind. Using AI to make shit faster is kind of fitting really.

That's what we explained. We'll give them access where necessary. Their response was a constant series of what-ifs.

"But what if I need to fix something?" That's what test and UAT are for.

"But what if it worked in UAT but not in prod?" Then figure out what makes prod different from UAT (they're supposed to be identical), apply it to UAT, break UAT, fix UAT, deploy to prod.

"But what if it's an emergency?" We can make an exception at the time.

"But what if you're not fast enough?" We can get it done in half an hour max. Nothing you're working on is going to cause that much of an emergency if it's down an extra 30 minutes.

"But what if--?" Please stop.

Itâ(TM)s finally the year of Linux on the desktop. And it will be locked down so tight that it can only install software that someone else thinks users should be allowed to. At least Microsoft allows users to make choices about what software they run. Maybe this will at least convince more people to try Ubuntu.

Correct, Mistral.

I was evaluating AI coding assistants for my company a while ago, and of course Claude Code was on my shortlist. But after discussing Anthropic's collaborating with the fascist US regime, our company decided to practice economic withdrawal and take our money to a European supplier.

Can't blow anymore hot air into it?

Trump doesn't use email, and he never has.

And as of last summer, NIST recommends against complex passwords and expiration while calling for a 15-character minimum. Forced password changes should happen only when they're suspected to have been compromised.