That’s what it was called when I started getting it for free with my subscription to Google Play Music. :)

It’s not often, but yeah, sometimes I’ll get a “Jump Ahead >>>” button overlay that skips the sponsor ad-read and/or a clear auto-generated “segment” that is the sponsor ad-read.

Still, I never expected YT Red to remove uploaded content, only to stop inserted advertisements.

If the guys that frequently move furniture describe you are “strong for your size”, that is a powerful compliment.

If you work at a company where all of its offices are in the same time zone

coworkers ignore my 11 a.m. CDT, and invite me in their timezone

PLEASE read the comment you are replying to before submitting your reply.

Even in a single-timezone organization, I think it is still useful to use UTC+offset because it avoids DST confusion and lets the company expand to a second timezone without the team members there feeling second-class. But, GMT+offset does have costs with dealing with people that don’t really think about timezones when scheduling, and those costs might overwhelm any advantages.

“While Galactus has omniscient knowledge of all current user data providers, it doesn’t have future sight”

Just use EKS to deliver the feature this quarter, and block the OmegaStar migration on “the team gets their shit together” and supports ISO timestamps.

Was looking for this. Yes. Whenever possible, dates should be specified in a format that is BOTH RFC 3339 and ISO 8601. I’d say both have their quirks, but the intersection of the grammars is machine-parseable and human-readable without (much) legacy baggage or (much) experimental / reserved-for-future-use noise.

US here. I remember when it changed, probably 20-25 years ago. (Tho, of course it was gradual and localized and I’m only one data point.) I was an undergrad, and not in my first year.

IIRC, it was because “gulf stream” was a little ambiguous, because there’s a lot of gulfs many of which contain oceanic currents / stream. But, if someone in the U.S. or EU says “gulf stream” they are always talking about AMOC.

If the sword isn’t part of any of the lions, I don’t see why the bullet would have to be one of the robot-animal-vehicles.

Thanks for the clarification. I was too young to program the 2600. I started programming on PC-compatible.

IIRC, the 2600 didn’t have a graphics processor. So, you had to “chase the ray” with CPU instructions, which made for some interesting limitations.

browser fingerprinting

Thing is, while it wasn’t called “browser fingerprinting” immediately, it basically started as soon as JS was around. And feature-detection / media-queries actually make for better compatibility than just User-Agent strings (and other headers).

Content negotiation never really caught on, as best as I can tell. There’s a number of headers that the client can send so that the server can select a version by language, content-type, and a few other things, but in all the web deployments I’ve ever done content-negotiation was never a consideration.

Almost any information can be abused.

Whoa. First, it’s neither your fault nor mine that you might be in that 20% of exercise resistant depression. I mean, it’s like a 1 in 5 chance, so not uncommon.

Also, thanks for letting me know that you have tried that; I’m sorry if you’ve told me before and I forgot. I asked because I didn’t recall. I agree that a 2-3 mile walk every day is “enough” light exercise.

I’m not a professional, so please forgive me if my suggestions aren’t professional-quality. Exposure to nature helps some people. You might make sure your diet has enough Vitamin D, very low levels can affect mood. Are you self-isolating, even if you aren’t lonely? Maybe try to have more IRL social interactions; even if they are superficial, good ones can help confirm that not everyone deserves your anger. Also, maybe anger needs more high-intensity work for less time – or maybe resistance training (weight lifting) instead of cardio?

Have you looked into getting professional help?

My depression often tells me those people don’t care that much either. But, my parents are dead, I don’t have a partner, and maybe my friends aren’t “close” enough.

Talk to the providers, some may be willing to waive that depending on need. Also, that seems expensive; I’m on shitty healthcard.gov insurance and my co-pay per session was only 40 USD. I know when you are struggling, 40 can feel just as unreachable as 200, but getting that price down can be the difference between spiraling down or climbing up and out.

Talk to the people that are offering even shitty help – see if they have ideas for getting you professional help, maybe they could even pay the provider for you, or know about lower-cost services in your area.

As someone with a recurring severe depressive mood disorder diagnosis, I always found the validation helpful. I could complain without pushback to them. And, it help dissuade me that I was actually the source of everything bad. But, ultimately, I needed to get pharmacological help AND focus the core health items: sleep, food/water/diet, exercise/activity.

Fascists and right wingers too?

Probably. Certainly republicans, so fascism isn’t a deal-breaker for them.

the conspiracies tend to be different

Plenty of union members believe in the “jewish deep state”, e.g., so I don’t think the conspiracies are that different.

I agree that freedoms can be abused. And, they can certainly be used for right-wing purposes. I also agree that there are plenty of fallacious arguments for freedom, some of which are based on conspiratorial thinking. But, fighting for freedoms of the people and restrictions on the state is always a left-wing activity.

That said, I don’t know where the balance is or should be between solidarity and rejecting intolerance. At the moment, I’m more in favor of protecting marginalized persons by aggressively excluding intolerant people, particularly if their intolerant behavior is well-documented and they still refuse to reject and remediate it. So, I do see the fascists in open source as a problem.

You’ll find plenty of bigots and conspiracy theorists in unions, too. Union activity is still left-wing activity.

All Open Source / Free Software is building the commons. Strong copyleft is using the weapons of the state to help the commons stay under collective ownership.

a 5 ft fall can genuinely be deadly

Most adults are tall enough that their brain/head/face can get serious injuries in an uncontrolled loss of consciousness. Any additional height simply makes the fall harder to control and increases the energy that needs to be safely dispersed.

Yes, even falls from household ladders are deadly serious.

In addition https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DydIhwLrbMk which tries to make portals act “real” by treating them as spacetime with an unusual (but not mathematically disallowed) geometry.

Yes, they are fictional, so they behave however Valve (and fan works) want them to behave, but trying to bridge the gap between fictions and current physics models and be a fun and enlightening experience.