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Why not?

Most optimal by what metric - length of retirement? Retirement years are worth a lot less than prime years. I think most people in society make this mistake and regret it. Most peo…

In many games with increasing difficulty, this will just get you stuck on the next fight, and now without any potions. That's why people don't do it.

I think if you want to keep it on the cold side, you can still do that. Builds character, isn't dangerous, and saves a couple of bucks. You can also keep it warm when you feel like…

Minmaxxing your finances is maladaptive frugality. You have something even better than 1% extra interest in your account: you have no mortgage . You can do whatever the fuck you wa…

C-Suite are the top level of the company. Above them is only the board of directors, whose power is limited to firing the C-Suite if they don't like what they're doing. In day to d…

You can talk about revolution on the internet. You can't talk about revolution on websites owned by the current elite , such as this one.

What is your BATNA? If you are going to give them money no matter what they do, they have no reason to listen to your feedback. At all.

Windows 1.0, I believe. Xerox PARC invented the WIMP UI paradigm (windows, icons, menus, pointer), Apple commercialised it first, and then Microsoft copied Apple.

For your own trusted devices on a LAN, you should try KDE Connect. KDE is not required.

Slop is content not written by a human. By definition, there can be no de-slop algorithms. There can only be algorithms that remove certain telltale signs, fraudulently attempting …

You're the guinea pig

I'll make a period tracker for you for 5 bucks a month. You won't buy it, because it costs 5 bucks a month. So I'll have to find alternative monetisation strategies.

The spying part requires a server. If you use GrapheneOS, you can enable or disable internet access for each app.

I wonder if people who have never seen or heard of hats will talk about a Hat Man.

Just DNS. If you take over DNS, you can get Let's Encrypt to issue any certificate you want.

Sounds like whoever is getting that money is hamstringing your organization on purpose so they can keep more of your money.

The struggles of living in an economic system while completely rejecting that system and pretending it isn't there.

You can fire Anthropic. Anthropic can decide it's losing too many customers and do something about it.

The AI company has skin in the game which motivates them to produce reliable AIs.

How about the sorcerer's apprentice?

All my backups are inside the same universe as what is being backed up. A boundary must be drawn somewhere and this is one of many reasonable boundaries. As I understand it, the ba…

You haven't met certain humans. Not all humans have internal capacity for accountability. The real meaning of accountability is that you can fire one if you don't like how they wor…