It didn't seem to me that the parent was arguing for any of the things you're saying they're arguing. They were just pointing out the reality of the world we live in and the flaws. They went on to say "if you truly believe..." which doesn't mean they do. I think your comment is oversensitive, they were not trying to push a particular position.

I agree about Eich. What's more those folk at Mozilla really shot themselves in the foot by ousting him. But I disagree about Dorsey, his path was nothing to do with external politics but about backstabbing his cofounders and rewriting history to make it seem he was the one true founder. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=... is an interesting history of Twitter.

I get my toothpaste in a glass jar. First purchase came with a little metal spoon to scoop it out. There's supposed to be a return path once you've collected a few jars so they can be reused, which would mean no recycling required. The same company also does a tooth powder instead of paste which is more efficient, didn't like it at the start but it has grown on me a bit.

Quite. My ford has had 2 cam belts and a clutch replacement, and it's coming up time when it'll need the clutch doing again. The clutch especially is not cheap to replace.

Where would the US be without it's security theatre?

Just flew out of Auckland to SFO. Auckland has had those machines for awhile. Seeing as they already take your photo every time at the US border it's not going to make a difference except maybe doing something about the awful queue at every American airport. I'm actually standing in that queue right now worrying about my connection.

https://www.math.columbia.edu/... They didn't make or build a wormhole. They ran a simulation on a quantum computer after running it on a classic computer and their excitement is that they got the same result.

No, and they never were. Everyone, tsk

They will, if you step away. But you might not like their contribution, which could be paying someone else to work on it, or replacing it with a closed source solution.

I think it's a bizarre situation to put yourself in, "I've made this thing, it's free and open anyone can contribute and make use" then later "actually I need money for food, can you all see your way to contributing something." If your hobby is too time consuming and expensive you need to step away. We don't get pestered to contribute to other hobbies.

I'm going to shout out kagi.com a paid search engine I've been using for about 6 months. It started out slower than DDG but the results seemed better. It has steadily improved in performance. They have their own index for non commercial content as well as using bing and Google, so you get an interesting mix. The best thing for me is that it seems to actually bubble up sites relevant to my country whereas other engines only work well if I add the country identifier, which then constrains the results rather than sorting them.

I rushed my previous reply. I learned to drive in 2004, I doubt I've experienced any older automatics. But I've owned autos and manuals and an Alfa with selespeed (sillyspeed) with an "automatic" manual or whatever. The mushiness is the delay when it downshifts. No automatic can know what you're about to do and be ready. But in a manual you've always eased off the accelerator, selected and are going in again. So the car is always responding in one gear. Taking that further, you can be looking ahead and see the hill you're about to climb / overtaking opportunity and have already dropped down a gear. Automatics change faster but always too late. I'm not against them, if I drove in traffic often I'd have an automatic. But I live rural and a manual is more fun on country roads by a large margin. The Alfa had the paddles but it still feels weird for it to change gear under your foot, so to speak.

It's not imagined. Whether this feeling comes from the mechanics of the automatic transmission or the way it selects gears, it's a real feeling that a lot of people sense when switching between a manual and automatic.

I've got a manual car. I prefer them, I don't like the mushy feel of an automatic. I've driven some EVs, they feel like a manual because they don't have automatic gear shifting, and regenerative braking feels quite a lot like riding the gears to slow down. So I'd quite like to go from manual to EV and skip having an automatic. Not sure that'll work out as right now EVs are expensive and used manual cars in my price range are hard to find.

I didn't think we used Newton's laws for this kind of astrophysics.

So how exactly does promoting one of the most entrenched bands help the music business work for anyone else?