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  • Just tell him respectfully, sometime.

    As a parent, myself:

    • I totally don't mind if my kids tell me they can hear me. I appreciate knowing our communication lines are open.
    • I am still going to continue having (probably still loud) sex in the house. Unless my kids fully paying a roommate's share of the costs to run the home, they're still kids, not roommates.
    • I'll probably buy the kid some nice noise suppressing audio headset as a shopping surprise, sometime soon.
  • AI: a fork in the road for open source
  • The answer is 2.

    Cling to known humans who write their own code.

    Snake oil salesmen always encourage the public to bet against the experts, with predictable results.

    Someday ethically sourced AI can be used responsibly by trustworthy coders.

    But the key is choosing to collaborate with trustworthy coders.

  • Keir Starmer does not believe trans women are women, No 10 says
  • I'm constantly amazed that this is a hard subject for people. As the golden rule says:

    "I'm not going to reach into your pants, without an invitation. And I prefer no one reach into my pants, because we barely know each-other. Whatever someone tells me is in their pants, I'll take their word for it, as long as they haven't flashed me in public. Also, shitting in practically transparent stalls is awful for everyone, and showering with strangers sucks. Let's all just do less of both."

  • Kodi on Wayland losing focus
  • Does anyone have any clue?

    My best guess would be some relatively passive notification stealing focus.

    As reddeadhead mentioned, there's specific "don't steal focus" settings. I've had good luck with them.

  • Pipelining might be my favorite programming language feature
  • Delightful quote:

    “grug very like type systems make programming easier. for grug, type systems most value when grug hit dot on keyboard and list of things grug can do pop up magic. this 90% of value of type system or more to grug” — grug

  • Why has exercise not improved my mental health? Am I doing something wrong?
  • The actual act of exercise is pretty miserable for most of us. It's the hours in between exercises that for better, for me. I just generally feel better when I'm exercising more.

    It sounds like you're getting plenty of exercise, so it's time to check into vitamins, meditation, mindfulness exercises and whatever else.

    In your shoes, I would keep exercising, to keep that variable controlled while I tried the next change.

  • Replaced my dishwasher
  • There's a bag of parts I don't know what to do with.

    Any leftover unused parts are worth extra points.

    At least, that's what I tell my spouse.

    Maybe I got it done with fewer parts because I found a novel improved solution...

    Sometimes my spouse figures out what the extra parts are for... And doesn't seem to mind that using the parts correctly lowers the score I dreamed up...

  • We dont need one
  • Immutable distros can usually be set to mutable with the correct privileged command.

    It's essentially security by obscurity. But I disagree with "no benefit". An infection miss through dumb luck is still a miss, after all.

  • A three-year UBI study done in Germany shows that a guaranteed monthly check increased labor market exploration and increased work satisfaction.
  • Or add more competition to the market by having government provide cheap alternatives to food/shelter.

    That's the solution I think all civilized nations will land at, plus universal basic income.

    So everyone has an option for effectively free (since their UBI covers it) water, food, shelter, and transportation. But standard free market sources can compete to outdo the public options in any ways the public desires.

    There's plenty still to do, since anyone invotating can outdo the public option, and make some extra money for their effort. While, at the same time, no one has to be quite as dragged down by an aunt with failing health who cannot work, anymore.

    And any mega corporations that try to force everyone into closed lousy situations have to at least compete with the public option.

    Of course, any mega corporations allowed to thrive will immediately try to kill off public options, which we do already see happen.

  • do you guys think that within the next hundred years Europe will fully unify into the United States of Europe?
  • What hateful POS is against worldwide unification?

    Vibrant ecologies have diversity. Fully unified government isnt diverse, and would be bad for at least some people. I hope all of our governments suck less, but still have each-other to compete with.

  • Are We All Just Living Beyond Our Means Now?
  • Where can i make such a bet?

    International stock index funds are, in my option, the best place to make that bet. It's been a losing bet (compared to other index funds) for decades, but you might notice that lots of folks still buy a solid amount as a hedge, anyway, because they agree with you, or at least aren't willing to bet their entire retirement that you're wrong.

  • Are We All Just Living Beyond Our Means Now?
  • Things going to shit, in the US, correlates strongly with Reagen Era economic policies. The term "trickle down economics" says a lot about why it didn't benefit most people.

    In my option, all presidents from both major political parties since Reagan have done more to make it worse, than better.

    My conclusion is that what's really going on is class warfare by the ultra rich against the rest of us...

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