It depends on why you want to avoid being wrong.

If it’s just about being a good person by your own standards, then I’d agree that you can follow a moral code that doesn’t line up with any community you’re a part of.

If you want to avoid your communities turning on you, which could mean anything from silent looks of disapproval, reduced willingness to cooperate with you, complete shunning/exile/boycott, being targeted for others’ immoral acts, or legal consequences, then it’s a good idea to at least be aware of the differences between your personal morality and that of those around you.

And even if it’s relatively safe to follow your own moral code today, that doesn’t mean it will still be tomorrow. Even for “sins” committed today.

Yeah, words aren’t determined by dictionary committees or English teachers. They are determined by people using and understanding them.

All languages (other than ones designed deliberately, like Esperanto, Klingon, and Tolkien’s elvish) started from the same root and diverged when populations reduced regular contact and all words and grammars were made up along the way.

If a shortcut creates ambiguity, then the only way to avoid that ambiguity is to avoid the shortcut.

You can try to define it a certain way, but it won’t work if it depends on people seeing your definition because most people won’t see it. And even if they did see it, they’d need to agree with it.

Personally, I’m not a big fan of interpreting single letters as the name of the letter instead of the sound, unless it’s an initial. I don’t feel strongly enough to complain about it if I see someone use “u” instead of “you”, but your post made me realize I don’t even think of “why” when I see y, I just think “yes”, though context probably affects that.

Yeah, that’s why I said might, since any evidence is circumstantial and could have another explanation. I did not intend to present that as fact but merely a possibility of even more extreme environment changes than jungle to grasslands that we might have had in our ancient past.

Depends on how far you go back. Grasslands came after jungles/forests.

Based on some of our traits (nose shape good for diving, can control our breathing voluntarily, fingers get more grippy when wet, lack of fur), we might have even been semi-aquatic for a while.

IMO with the Chinese attitude towards education, community, and government investment in contrast to the US attitude, it’s only a matter of time before they take the lead in many tech categories.

Oh yeah, you just reminded me of how unusable teams was for scrolling back up in a chat to look at older messages on a slower machine. Skype was at least capable of that because it had the history stored locally. But teams unloads the message as soon as it was out of view and needs to fetch it from the server and must have done it very inefficiently because I started giving up on checking chat history until I got my newer machine.

Or:

Hey, check out the new calendar! We have <features>! Want a tour?

No, you’re describing features that have been in it for a while now, it’s not that new anymore

A few days later: Hey, check out the new calendar! We have <same list of features>! Want a tour?

Still no, and I don’t mean later, I just mean no

The first time I saw excel open in a web browser, I was impressed that they managed to get it running in a web browser but also appalled that they wanted to get it running in a web browser for actually using it in a web browser instead of just for the novelty, like running doom on anything with a cpu and display.

First thing I do whenever a document opens on the browser version is click the buttons to open it in the native app if I intend to edit it.

They made it shitty to try to justify making it a subscription.

As I understand it, TSMC and Taiwan themselves have a plan to blow up the foundries should a China invasion look like it’s going to succeed. They are already rigged with the explosives from what I understand.

Black eyes, and I’m getting a sense of dread… Darth Vader?

It was a home hardware and most of the longer ones with nice features were inches only. There were a bunch of metric only ones, too, but it’s nice to have both when some furniture descriptions have only one or the other because the tape then handles the conversion without having to remember if that 2.2 factor is inches to cm or kg to lbs or both.

Though it could be that whoever decides what products to stock at home Depot is just better at their job than whoever does it at home hardware, or maybe I’m in the minority locally of wanting both and preferring metric if I have to choose one.

Yeah, a good chunk of the ones available here only have inches, too. It was hard to find one with both when I bought my last tape measure.

I used to have the FF7 battle music as my ring tone. Because phone calls were random encounters. Certain ones got the boss battle music instead.

Hearing that randomly in public from someone else’s phone would have made me excited to see a kindred spirit. Closest I ever did see was someone using the victory music, but that would have been more appropriate as a hang up tone.

I should do that again. It’s funny because I think it was moving to a new phone and not wanting to figure out how to set custom ring tones that made me put it off until I forgot it, even though the phone that had it was a flip phone that I had to use a special connector to even hook it up to my PC and had to find a program to encode the song in the arcane format used by dumb phones and the phone that replaced it probably just needed me to drop the songs into the right folder or find out how to browse the file system when setting ring tone.

Edit: Just checked, out of curiosity.

On my graphene os phone, they have a list of ring tones it comes with and at the bottom of the list is a plus that opens up the file system browser.

On my Samsung phone, it’s just a list. There’s a plus at the top but that opens up some Samsung music app or something that I’ve never used. It looks like I can add songs to that by putting them in a samsung music folder, though I did have to look twice to see that and wouldn’t be surprised if it only shows approved files that came from them, knowing what Samsung is like with software.

Separate rant but the other day I looked in the bixby settings and noticed there was a button to remove it entirely, so I did so, thinking I might finally get full control of that button. Nope, even less control now, it just launches a “install Bixby” screen instead of letting me set some other action for some of the presses (as long as one of them still opens the voice assistant I don’t want and never asked for).

Yeah, I’ve wondered if the ones that come with heat sinks really need them or if it’s just a gimmick to make people think the performance is better.

I want one of those heat cameras some use in hardware reviews. I don’t need one, but Iwant one lol.

Passive cooling could be enough. Even a bunch of ssd chips wouldn’t take up all of the vertical space, so top of the case could just be a heat sink. Though it might need instructions to only install it in an enclosure that has a fan blowing air past it (and not use the spots behind the mobo that don’t get much airflow).

A lot of motherboards come with metal styling that acts as a heat sink for nvme drives without even using fins, though they still have more surface area than a 3.5" drive and only have to deal with the heat from one or two chips.

But maybe it isn’t realistic and that’s why we don’t see SSDs like that on the market (in addition to price).

Yeah, nvme drives show how little space the storage takes up. Just stick a bunch of them inside the 3.5" format, along with a controller and cooling, and that would be great for a large/slow (relative to NVME) drive capped by SATA speeds.

I don’t miss the noise hard drives make, plus it’s nice to not really worry as much about what kind of magnetic activity might be going on around it, like is my subwoofer too close or what if my kid somehow gets her hands on a powerful magnet and wants to see if it will stick to my PC case.

Those captcha problems were difficult for automated tools to figure out a decade ago but it’s getting close to a decade since some AI image categorizers have gotten better at the task than the average human.

In order to reduce the cost of space launches, executive order gravity to be smaller.

The same method is used to determine market cap of publically traded companies. Whatever the most recent trade price was * total number of shares = what the company is supposedly worth.