Dang. That’s a major UX flaw in BMV and police systems.

Gmail.

Dang, thanks. That’s the link I meant to post.

https://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/license_plate.png

W4, eh? As in “Waiting For?”

I remember reading an article just a few weeks ago about a company that made a combination prosthetic/implant for blind people to be able to see in the…early 2000s, I think? It was an early technology, low-rez, but somewhat miraculous for some.

And then the company went out of business.

As the implants began to wear out, or the software developed bugs, or the patients’ needs changed, things fell apart. They lost their vision and nobody could help them because the hardware and software were proprietary.

Now Elon Musk—with his reputation for quality control and following through with ideas and open source—wants to put things in our brains. Backed by the full faith and credit of Elon Musk.

One day he’s going to push down an update that makes everybody with a Neuralink stop and say “hehe butts” in a funny voice, and the tech bros will say “lol great meme Elon” even though a dozen of them got hit by a car because they were forced to stop while they walked across the street, and thirty of them lost their jobs because they said “hehe butts” to their managers, and one of them was a soldier who said “hehe butts” in an active warzone and blew the whole squad’s cover.

I can’t believe anyone is honestly entertaining this.

Great punch-up. I wish I’d thought of it.

You have Rust. (the knight in this panel looks very cool, wears sunglasses, and probably has a ponytail)

You’ve been told how easy it is to rescue the princess. Absolutely nothing will get in your way, they say; nobody can possibly get access to your plan, and you can even rescue multiple princesses simultaneously! (in this panel, the knight is imagining rescuing three princesses from three different castles at the same time)

You start working on your plan. It’s elegant and beautiful. You write articles on Medium to tell other knights how to rescue their princess. You tell everyone who will listen about your plan. You become a Rust zealot. You never rescue the princess. (In this panel, the knight is nowhere to be seen, and the princess looks bored in her tower. The knight is across the field, at a festival with the banner “RUSTCONF” flying overhead)

The one I wanted to join literally had a notice on the sign up page saying that they didn’t accept email addresses from my host. The one I joined before .world collapsed under the weight of the Reddit migration a couple of days into Spez’s meltdown and still hasn’t come back. .world turned out to be stable and well-built enough for me to actually stick around.

Lemmy needs something like the Mastodon server covenant, I think.

Economists like to pretend that currency is entirely rational, real, finite, and concrete, but it’s really not. That fiction only holds together as long as the bulk of people are willing to believe it.

Besides, these laws would never be two lines long like are written here. They would have addenda and provisions and such, preventing businesses from discriminating against employees based upon commute length, giving an upper limit, preventing a decrease in compensation to accommodate the commute benefit, and so forth.

And in the end would it turn out to be less than worthwhile? Maybe. But current remuneration in Western culture emphatically isn’t working. We need either one big change or lots of little changes, and this would fall in the latter category.

People always bring up this objection, but it’s extremely solvable: just pay employees for their travel respective to the median commute time for that area. Sure, people who live close get a little bonus and people who live far away get slightly less; but it removes all impetus to game the system and helps people who need it.

Did you miss the part about how it’s still the fastest way to boil water? Yes yes, it’s slower than yours, we’re all jealous. Even still, we would all have electric kettles if we needed to boil water all that often because it’s faster than anything else we have. But:

• People don’t make pasta or rice every day, and even when you do you usually have plenty of time for it to come to a boil while you’re chopping or stirring or whatever. People who do make rice that often typically use a rice cooker.
• You can’t really boil enough water in a kettle to cook potatoes or vegetables or anything else.
• Coffee makers of most types typically boil their own water (yes there are pourovers and chemexes, but they aren’t that common and people who use them do buy kettles).

Nobody would buy a kettle for just cooking even if we did have more power delivery, simply because you don’t cook anything by boiling all that often. Case in point: my family drinks tea, and so we own a kettle, but tea is really the only time we boil water (in the kettle or otherwise) for anything on a daily basis.

This is kinda true and kinda not. Even on 110, an electric kettle is faster than a kettle on a gas stove. The real answer is that Americans just don’t drink much tea. My family is unusual in that regard.

Congratulations on the new kiddo, and good luck! The learning curve on that one is steep, and the return policy is draconic, but it’s still one of the most worthwhile things I’ve ever done.

Nah, that’s boomer humor. Since it’s not really expected that we have to get married, and divorce isn’t as frowned upon, generally speaking most people who are married nowadays want to be.

!flashlight@lemmy.world , perhaps?

It’s a sausage & cheese sandwich where some of the pieces are going through some stuff

I sure can!

Report the sites to webcompat!

Might not do anything, but on the other hand it might!

It links, but does it notify?