The article is utter garbage and misunderstands dimensions.

The new strategy allows for pads to be closer together not for the whole thing to be flatter. It allows to shrink sideways, not in height.

Sure, the car is red, so it must sell for $100k.

It’s on the same level as the rest of your post. Pure lies, nothing else.

Username does check out.

You know what’s better than guesstimates and gut feelings?

Actual statistics: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/10575677211036498

In adjusted 2020 USD, the economic yield from panhandling is most often  $2–$16 per hour, $20–$60 per day, and $200–$500 per month

Slightly less than your projected $45 for 8 hours a day.

Yes, he’s heard that from a reliable source on facebook and/or his drunk buddy.

His buddy is also able to make up any statistic he could need right on the spot.

Sure, starving is a much better way to go.

I use a toilet for that.

Isn’t that the same statement twice?

Problem is that you now have no new experiences at all anymore, only the old ones remain.

I watched a let’s play and the beginning was incredibly cool and then the grind hit. It became even too boring to just watch next to work.

Unless it’s lua, then screw anyone programming with it.

Have to use lua for my current project and the 1-based indexing is really screwing with me.

I read it like that first and thought it was one of these illegal apps to track your partner without them knowing.

We have pumpkin seed oil in Austria, and apparently its enough to give us 5 weeks PTO per year, 2 weeks of paid nursing leave and up to 72 sick weeks for a single illness.

I made a physiotherapy game console for kids that logs physiotherapy executions to a .csv on a fat32 formatted sdcard ;)

The part that is growing is how many tools rely on apps and other connected features.

I have a blood pressure monitor, and it just outputs the result to a built-in screen. I can then log the values however I want, and it’s probably easier and quicker to manually enter the three numbers each consisting of 2-3 digits into an app than to wait for the bluetooth connection to be established.

This battery monitor will never be remotely shutdown, because there is no remote function. And if the blood pressure tracking app shuts down, I can just use any other.

Flatpaks mean you don’t have to compile everything from scratch and solve dependency conflicts if you want a newer version of a program than what’s available in your distro’s repo, of if it’s something that doesn’t have a native version at all.

If this is about a counter for users in the chat, sure. But if this is an array of users indexed by an 8-bit number, then it will fit 256 slots with the first slot being numbered 0.

I’m not doubting you at all, but how dumb does one have to be to tailgate a bus? As if you can force a bus into anything.

If you tailgate a larger vehicle, all you do is put yourself into mortal danger.

It’s not just petty, it’s safety.

You can’t influence the size of the safety margin between you and the car behind you. But you can influence the speed at which the person behind you slams into you in case of an accident, by reducing the speed that both of you drive.

I suspect people (not billionaires) are realising that they can get by with less. And that the planet needs that too. And that working 40+ hours a week isn’t giving people what they really want either.

Tbh, I don’t think that’s the case. If you look at any of the relevant metrics (CO², energy consumption, plastic waste, …) they only know one direction globally and that’s up.

I think the actual issues are

• Russian invasion of Ukraine and associated sanctions on one of the main energy providers of Europe
• Trump’s “trade wars” which make global supply lines unreliable and costs incalculable (global supply chains love nothing more than uncertainty)
• Uncertainty in regards to China/Taiwan
• Boomers retiring in western countries, which for the first time since pretty much ever means that the work force is shrinking instead of growing. Economical growth was mostly driven by population growth for the last half century with per-capita productivity staying very close to inflation.
• Disrupting changes in key industries like cars and energy. The west has been sleeping on may of these developments (e.g. electric cars, batteries, solar) and now China is curbstomping the rest of the world in regards to market share.
• High key interest rates (which are applied to reduce high inflation due to some of the reason above) reduce demand on financial investments into companies. The low interest rates of the 2010s and also before lead to more investments into companies. With interest going back up, investments dry up.

All these changes mean that companies, countries and people in the west have much less free cash available.

There’s also the value of money has never been lower either.

That’s been the case since every. Inflation has always been a thing and with that the value of money is monotonically decreasing. But that doesn’t really matter for the whole argument, since the absolute value of money doesn’t matter, only the relative value.

To put it differently: If you earn €100 and the thing you want to buy costs €10, that is equivalent to if you earn €1000 and the thing you want to buy costing €100. The value of money dropping is only relevant for savings, and if people are saving too much then the economy slows down and jobs are cut, thus some inflation is positive or even required.

What is an actual issue is that wages are not increasing at the same rate as the cost of things, but that’s not a “value of the money” issue.

You can totally host something on carrier-grade NAT using techniques like NAT hole punching.