Don't know who Dara is but anyone who "implores" me to watch a video can get lost.
> de-googling is itself has its costs It can, but it depends on how "googled" you allowed yourself to become in the first place. For me, that's not much at all. But if you've been all-in (or near it) for years, with…
> Could be that I liked "All The Pretty Horses" even more than "The Road". Have you read the others in the Border Trilogy, The Crossing and Cities of the Plain? If you liked Pretty Horses, you'll probably like them,…
> how grim is the the Road? Not all that grim, at least compared to some of his others. Grimmer than No Country for Old Men, less so than Blood Meridian or Outer Dark. There is at least one very grim scene, though, and…
Too many people are thinking that "printing" here necessarily involves paper. I almost never print on paper but I "print" a lot of stuff to PDF. A lot of that is just record-keeping but some is for other reasons.
Maybe it's a weird, unusual edge case but maybe not. Lots of people need to keep records of various things for various reasons. In my personal life, I also "print" lots of stuff from various web sites to PDF for…
>I politely disagree. The original intent Tim Berners Lee had [1] was to create a navigable way of finding documents and information. Not printable. And I politely disagree right back. My particular problem with this…
Oh good, can't tell you how concerned I was about this. What a relief!
I don't know whether Teams is worse than Slack. I do know that I loathe Slack, though. Of the software I use almost every day, it is the worst by miles.
The editor is execrable.
Not beating the "Elon is 12" allegations any time soon.
"violating patent law" is not a "crime."
If you can't dazzle them with brilliance, baffle them with bullshit.
On the contrary, only math is real and everything else is an illusion. Weird, I thought everyone knew this by now.
"Social media is a big part of people's lives" Well, there's your problem right there.
"The average person really does not care about any of this, they'll happily write 'seggs' and not think any deeper about why they are writing it." I'm more online than I should be and don't have the slightest idea what…
"you can test drive a Tesla for free in most parts of the world" (1) Test drives are free everywhere. WTF? (2) Tesla sells cars in about 40 or so countries; Toyota sells in more than 170. (Fanbois need to learn that the…
I didn't expect the difference to be quite so large, but apparently, Tesla has sold about 9.72 million cars since 2008; in the same time span, Toyota has sold about 183 million.
"best selling car in the world" The best-selling car in the world all-time is the Toyota Corolla. The Tesla Model Y was the best-selling car in a single year, 2023. Every other year since 2020, the best-selling car was…
"For some crimes the tolerance level is pretty much zero." Seems hard to think of types of crime for which that's actually true. In the US, at least, it's certainly not true of murder, rape, or other violent crimes. We…
Settle down. I responded to the statement "SMS is an ugly user experience and more importantly is expensive" to point out that from my perspective, neither one of those things is true. The "user experience" is fine and…
"This is a discussion about passkeys." No, that's not the way it went. I joined the conversation, such as it is, to respond to the guy who said "SMS is an ugly user experience" to say no, it's fine. I haven't shifted…
"Good news then, this also works on desktops, even ones without cameras or touch sensors." All of the 2FA methods forced on me by my employer and most online services that require it require a phone app. So no, it…
Done with all that, thanks, but not for such narcissistic reasons.
Glad that works well for you. Does not work well for me. I do not care for laptops except when necessary and have come to loathe my phone. Everything important is done with desktop computers that do not have cameras or…
Don't know who Dara is but anyone who "implores" me to watch a video can get lost.
> de-googling is itself has its costs It can, but it depends on how "googled" you allowed yourself to become in the first place. For me, that's not much at all. But if you've been all-in (or near it) for years, with…
> Could be that I liked "All The Pretty Horses" even more than "The Road". Have you read the others in the Border Trilogy, The Crossing and Cities of the Plain? If you liked Pretty Horses, you'll probably like them,…
> how grim is the the Road? Not all that grim, at least compared to some of his others. Grimmer than No Country for Old Men, less so than Blood Meridian or Outer Dark. There is at least one very grim scene, though, and…
Too many people are thinking that "printing" here necessarily involves paper. I almost never print on paper but I "print" a lot of stuff to PDF. A lot of that is just record-keeping but some is for other reasons.
Maybe it's a weird, unusual edge case but maybe not. Lots of people need to keep records of various things for various reasons. In my personal life, I also "print" lots of stuff from various web sites to PDF for…
>I politely disagree. The original intent Tim Berners Lee had [1] was to create a navigable way of finding documents and information. Not printable. And I politely disagree right back. My particular problem with this…
Oh good, can't tell you how concerned I was about this. What a relief!
I don't know whether Teams is worse than Slack. I do know that I loathe Slack, though. Of the software I use almost every day, it is the worst by miles.
The editor is execrable.
Not beating the "Elon is 12" allegations any time soon.
"violating patent law" is not a "crime."
If you can't dazzle them with brilliance, baffle them with bullshit.
On the contrary, only math is real and everything else is an illusion. Weird, I thought everyone knew this by now.
"Social media is a big part of people's lives" Well, there's your problem right there.
"The average person really does not care about any of this, they'll happily write 'seggs' and not think any deeper about why they are writing it." I'm more online than I should be and don't have the slightest idea what…
"you can test drive a Tesla for free in most parts of the world" (1) Test drives are free everywhere. WTF? (2) Tesla sells cars in about 40 or so countries; Toyota sells in more than 170. (Fanbois need to learn that the…
I didn't expect the difference to be quite so large, but apparently, Tesla has sold about 9.72 million cars since 2008; in the same time span, Toyota has sold about 183 million.
"best selling car in the world" The best-selling car in the world all-time is the Toyota Corolla. The Tesla Model Y was the best-selling car in a single year, 2023. Every other year since 2020, the best-selling car was…
"For some crimes the tolerance level is pretty much zero." Seems hard to think of types of crime for which that's actually true. In the US, at least, it's certainly not true of murder, rape, or other violent crimes. We…
Settle down. I responded to the statement "SMS is an ugly user experience and more importantly is expensive" to point out that from my perspective, neither one of those things is true. The "user experience" is fine and…
"This is a discussion about passkeys." No, that's not the way it went. I joined the conversation, such as it is, to respond to the guy who said "SMS is an ugly user experience" to say no, it's fine. I haven't shifted…
"Good news then, this also works on desktops, even ones without cameras or touch sensors." All of the 2FA methods forced on me by my employer and most online services that require it require a phone app. So no, it…
Done with all that, thanks, but not for such narcissistic reasons.
Glad that works well for you. Does not work well for me. I do not care for laptops except when necessary and have come to loathe my phone. Everything important is done with desktop computers that do not have cameras or…