There are two versions of the bangle.js watch. The second version looks pretty similar to the pinetime.

I used to use the pinetime for a while and now have the bangle.js 2 watch.

Pinetime is cheaper in DE than the bangle.js (40€ vs 90€ IIRC).

Both are nice watches and integrate well with gadgetbridge and have a couple of weeks battery. Which is much more then what you get from a Android watch.

But you don’t need to misuse language to assign responsibility.

What? I am interested… How else would you assign the responsibility to people that designed something intentionally bad, if you cannot used language?

“Misuse [of] language” is a concept I cannot even begin to wrap my head around…

Do I loose the warranty if I use language in unintended ways?

It is their responsibility for breaking the system.

You just ‘misused’ language to assign responsibility to people for breaking the system.

Saying the system was always designed for this removes responsibility.

No? Responsibility is not a binary concept. Someone can kill someone else, and would be responsible for that death, and the people around that killer could also share responsibility for not noticeing their unusual behavior. And the system could also be responsible for not giving the killer the support they needed, which drove them to kill someone. And the people that designed or constructed that system could also be responsible for not caring enough about these kinds of deaths to prevent them systemically.

There is a difference is saying “I does what it does” and “what it does is per design”. The latter assigns a responsibility.

In OP Aziraphale gives socienty the responsibility to fix a broken system incrementally and Crowley gives the people in power the fault of intentionally creating a bad system and calls for revolution.

I don’t know what you mean by that. No country or federation in the world is self sufficient. Everyone needs global trade.

Sure, but we are talking about the US here.

Or are you all busy building tunnels and bunkers over there? Organise in your neighborhood and build local groups?

Pretty sure that if the media starts calling these guerrillas terrorists, anti-american, instigators of violence, Communists, Antifa, and so on, they will loose public support and without broad local support in the population, guerilla fighting will not work.

Afganistán and Vietnam fought guerilla against a foreign invasion. US would have to fight ‘guerilla’ against their neighbors and other Americans, against people like them… I don’t think this is comparable.

In an all out war, (which I doubt will happen) all these guns in the population don’t matter against drones, aircrafts, tanks and trained snipers or other soldiers. If the military and all other agencies decides to support Trump, all these weapons will be useless. The pentagon surely has plans for a civil uprising in their own country.

I don’t think the US has enough ordinary citizen that would actually risk their lives for democracy, to make a difference. Media and social media is controlled by the oligarchy, and even the progressives don’t seem to want to cut themselves loose of twitter, Facebook/Whatsapp, google, bluesky, discord and so on. Where would they even organize?

Hmm… I am using git for maybe 15 years… Maybe I’m just too familiar with it… and have forgotten my initial struggles… To me using git comes natural… And I normally pay a lot of attention to every single commit, since I started working on patches for the Linux kernel. I often rebase and reorder commits many times, before pushing/merging them into a branch where continuity matters.

Sure, I sometimes messed up with git, but a git reset , checkout, rebase or filter-branch (In the extreme cases) normally fixes it, but real issues are very rare. And I use git a lot… But only the CLI, maybe people have issues with GUIs?

Isn’t it the exact opposite?

I learned that you can never make a mistake if you aren’t using git, or any other way for having access to old versions.

With git it is really easy to get back to an old version, or bisect commits to figure out what exact change was the mistake.

The only way I understand this joke is more about not wanting to be caught making a mistake, because that is pretty easy. In other methods figuring out who did the mistake might be impossible.

I did read that. And how much of it was distributed, it doesn’t say.

In every article on records about of food preparation, they never say how much of it is eaten and how much of it is thrown away.

I would necessitate that all or a large percentage of it needs to be eaten for the record to count.

Maybe you are scarcastic, but I think nobody should be afraid of their life by getting killed by random people.

They should be afraid of the people, but not of individuals with guns or money to hire contract killers.

Kirk’s death was a public assassination. There are many easier for ways someone can kill an unsuspecting target. The way the killer escaped makes it likely they where professional or otherwise trained, not just crazy. The killer choose a difficult and public way to kill him, meaning it is more then just about killing Krik. It is clearly a message, question is what message and to whom.

TBH, I could imagine Mark Shuttleworth being there.

He is one of the first, if not the first space tourist.

Mdisks are a viable offline long term backup solution, and cheaper to get started with than tape drives.

I am against the concept of individuals or legal entities owning property, it belong to everyone. However, if you take something from the society in order to be allowed to used it exclusively for a while, you ought to give something back, that is what tax is for.

If you see propaganda everywhere, the it was successful on you. One purpose of propaganda is to erode the fundamental trust in society and sow distrust about anything and anyone, that way people become politically ineffective and easy to manipulate.

Propaganda doesn’t necessarily need to convince people, but can instead attack the peoples ability to differentiate truth and lie by sowing mistrust about the most mundane and conventional things. When people stop believing their own eyes or following logic, they become easier to manipulate. A bit like gas-lighting, where you sort of turn the critical thinking against them, but on a large scale.

The text is hiding a lot of details, but the nurse is pushing a normal chair, as if it was a wheelchair.

And the composition gives AI vibes as well. But all of that could also just be because the photo is poorly staged.

I know this post is more about the committing on LLM “fixes”, but find the other reasons more interesting.

Similar to the date & time library there are a couple of other things that look easy at a first glance, but get complicated very quickly, because it has so many special cases:

• lexicographic sorting (different languages sort things differently)
• Postal address formatting (different standards in different countries, with many different context sensitive rules)
• string handling
• …