Homemakers aren't doing nothing, they're just not represented.

In practice, it stabilizes corporate hierarchies by implying that everyone is exactly where they belong.

The people below you are there for a reason, or they'd be somewhere else, and everyone above you is simultaneously less incompetent than you but not perfectly competent, so you should work hard and strive to beat them. If you don't participate or you fail, hey, you just discovered your level of incompetence.

If you can think of any examples that might disprove this principle, then you've merely highlighted where Peter demonstrated his own level of incompetence, proving its validity. Obviously, though, we don't need to worry about that, because if there were anyone more competent than him, we'd all be using their principle instead.

I'm being ridiculous, but so is this.

Whether you can't describe the analog circuits that correspond to the opcodes of the major mobile architectures running the platform of the app you're designing a UI for, or you couldn't have built any of the services you're hosting on from scratch, no one is going to be disappointed.

There are more people making more money off whatever we're currently calling making computers do things than ever before in history. The rest is largely business as usual.

It's a game of cultural tribalism. The only thing worse for one than not engaging is to upset the status quo unblessed.

It's an extension of a much older, more insidious idea - blood purity. There are still people who would pretend to trace their own lineage back through every scholar, king, and prophet to Adam, while choosing to believe that everyone else is a mongrel line, inferior and subservient to them in some way.

Just like there was no meaningful way to discuss individual data rights and privacy, or anything else that might have broken our proverbial Googles over the past two decades.

Effluent and wastewater companies have been getting greedy. If one suddenly 100x's your cost, you're fucked until you build onsite treatment or find a way to ship it out.

It took a month of calling around before a nurse who worked between departments took pity and leaked her the common billing codes. Once she got a quote, the estimates dropped from thousands out of pocket on her insurance to a few hundred, to an office comping the procedure.

She works in healthcare. I wouldn't have even known where to begin after being told no.

Android 16 also has native limiting under Settings > Battery > Battery Health > Charging Optimization > Limit to 80%

If you're not power limiting in nvidia-smi, start.

There are lots of platforms for ticket sales and venue management. That's how they run high school and college events, local theaters, etc. Ticketmaster is doing something completely different.

And whether you care about them or not, they have access to your kids, your neighbors, your friends, your family, anywhere that social media promotes them, and you can't turn them off.

Our relative isolation was our best defense against destabilizing ideas, but we can't see inside the algorithms, and these people aren't teaching alternative value systems or ethics and civic behavior. They're role models for exploitation, preying on algorithmically selected vulnerable demographics.

And not seeing them doesn't mean you're successfully attenuating their reach, it just means that you're being excluded because you're not their mark. They know who they're looking for, and they know how to recruit. That's what we're up against.

I'm not a gamer, but I hear with how often there are required updates before playing, slower internet is pretty disruptive to quick drop-in multiplayer sessions with friends.

youtube.com/playlist?list=PL7nj3G6Jpv2G6Gp6NvN1kUtQuW8QshBWE

Emby still offers lifetime for $119 with a 30 device limit, but I'm not sure what it offers over Jellyfin.

Are there any advantages to Plex outside of being able to easily share and manage library access to many users? It's been a decade since I've used it.

I don't think companies should be on the hook for maintaining moderation, hosting, and development at no cost in perpetuity, but addressing not providing any legal way to access or modify content from a onetime sale forces companies to pick a model so consumers can make informed purchases.

I've often wondered how the gaming industry has gotten away for so long muddying whether they're selling products or services.