Gating it behind mandatory expensive, difficult-to-schedule appointments with a specialist who is in abruptly short supply where the insurance company is doing their damndest to kick as many of them off their network as they can without getting caught to keep the shortage going is certainly part of that strategy. And the result is “people do not stay on the drug”, which is their goal, and if they don’t meet that goal they have an even bigger problem and can’t continue to exist as a functioning company.

Nothing intelligent is happening. Zero-foresight self-amplifying systems that will inevitably crash out will simply amplify themselves to that point, then cease. Applications to areas outside of oncology are an exercise for the reader.

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Google Drive allows files/folders to be in multiple locations at once. That’s not multiple copies of the file, that’s not shortcuts to a file with one real location, that is one file that is contained in two or more potentially-unrelated paths. Think of it as some kind of spatial anomaly.

A single file reachable by multiple non-shortcut paths is equally in all of those places. A shortcut to a file has one place for the “real” file and a bunch of references to that file. This change will pick a single spot for any files or folders you have that can be reached along multiple distinct file system paths, and put a shortcut to the new (single) path in all the places that used to refer to that file, but were not selected as its “real path”.

So, this has nothing to do with duplicates, and is unlikely to affect your use patterns.

I usually oppose “whataboutism” but I can’t bring myself to do it here. This is a war where the nation of Russia has decided to murder Ukrainians. Means to interfere with Russia’s blood-soaked campaign must be viewed not in isolation, but in the context of what they are attempting to stop.

To be clear, I am not making a general purpose “the end justifies the means” argument. I am making a narrow and specific “the circumstances justify extreme behavior with severe externalities” argument.

War sucks for civilians. It sucks less for the civilians who get some files deleted than for the civilians who get their houses shelled by Russian and Belarusian artillery.

Does the NPM project have a general duty of good stewardship? Of course. Does the NPM project have a duty to interfere with a developer who chooses to increase the misery and pressure applied to a nation that has been committed to a path of an unjust war of aggression, which is deliberately bombing civilians? Fuck no.

Get over yourself.

I'm a professional software engineer and I want dragons and giant robots on my packaging. :(

(writing backends for web services that will never see the light of day outside where I work, of course, so I don't even have any packaging to make a branding argument about.)

Spot on about the UI, though. I just want my command line tools to have dragons and giant robots on their packaging.

Immersive VR requires at least some space to move around in, or set up a big omnidirectional treadmill in. As the human population grows but Earth stays the same size, personal living quarters will always be at a premium, the rent will always be too damn high, and space to set up this awesome VR rig will be prohibitively expensive.

VR machines could be consumer-grade and still draw an audience, because of the people locked out of the market due to lack of space to set up a rig. Consider what we have now that isn't even VR- I don't have space to use a Kinect.

(I am not a frequentist, so my bias may be showing through)