On a related note, it would be nice if there was a shared storage option for self hosting. It wouldn’t be the same as self hosting, but more like distributed hosting where everyone pools storage they have available and we could have an encrypted sharing option.

My guess is that he thinks SQL is an app or implementation like MS-SQL. It would be pretty surprising if the government didn’t use SQL as in relational databases, but if it doesn’t it’s even more unlikely that he understands even the first part over whether having duplicate SS numbers is in any way unexpected or unreasonable. Most likely one of the junior devs somewhere along the lines misunderstood a query and said something uninformed and mocking, and he took that as a good dig to toss into a tweet.

I did actually read that, and the donation was a good direction, but still equated to selling the car on the regular market which puts her in the regular sales cycle and doesn’t have much impact in that way. A donation and auction could have been more impactful.

Not sure how you came to that conclusion… If she donated the car and it was then sold, it’s the same but distancing herself from the sale while also potentially raising even more awareness at the charity and advertising a ‘discarded’ car vs a sale and donation of funds.

I would say the bigger takeaway is that reducing supply by one car can be more than made up for by raising awareness and this potentially reducing demand. At least she accomplished part of this by the announcement, even if it could technical raise demand by those that would react out of spite.

Any recommendation as far as something that’s convenient to carry but still worthwhile? Most seem too bulky to justify their occasional use when the phone will do in a pinch.

I know the rabbit hole is pretty deep and it seems like it would take someone with experience to recognize that niche between inconvenience of having another thing to carry/charge vs how often a phone is good enough or a larger/dedicated working is worth keeping where it’s needed.

Right, but now instead of ‘aligning’ with musk, she’s aligning with someone who want to align with musk. She doesn’t want to own the car, but she’s willing to take money from someone else who does want to own the car and whatever she thinks that signifies.

At minimum she could have donated it to a cause or something, it could still be sold but without an alignment between her and the buyer and some place with a little less agency than herself could benefit and take the mildly hypocritical hit.

I think it’s worth noting that the bigger issue here might not be the drm, but the access Amazon has into your device. Regardless if you can download ‘another’ version of the book or not (that is something you can find out for yourself relatively quickly) there is no reason it should be considered ok for the company to insist that it can connect to a device you own and modify the contents of it. Even with ownership of the books being a topic, certainly there should be little questions of whether you own the device, and along with that being able to control access to it.

Surely there is something in the user agreement that states accessing the download functionality also grants Amazon permission to go in and claw back things they’ve uploaded to the device, but i think that should be at least half the argument. Restrict whatever they want up front, I’ve downloaded it to my device and they consider that a fair exchange for my money, but to then say they screwed up on their end so they’re taking it back (assumedly without giving up the money they made as part of the agreement) is where things should be breaking.

Ha, good call on the closest stall, I’ll have to keep that in mind. That said, i will use the accessible stall if all others are taken, since i wouldn’t necessarily use a public restroom if it weren’t at least moderately urgent.

He’s doing it ironically to own the libs and mock them for thinking he was a Nazi.

The playbook isn’t all that deep.

He’s talking about basically bathroom stalls, not parking spots. No one should use the parking spots if they didn’t need them and there are even fines for doing so. Bathroom stalls are a little more ambiguous.

Your ‘timing’ thing would probably work, but if not, mounting the the ring away from the gun would only protect the gun, not the ring. I could see a timing or slowed effect could allow the ball to pass through before it expanded

Would be fun watching him each time he carefully loaded it too… Probably a broken toe or two if he isn’t careful :)

No, is just a reaction from two molecules into two other molecules. Oversimplification, but you know how vinegar and baking soda react when the come together all fuzzy and bubble? It’s the same when oxygen and hydrocarbons meet, except that it take heat to get it going, and conveniently releases more heat, which is usually enough to cause more reaction, often until it runs out of either oxygen or the hydrocarbon.

It would be an even better parallel if vinegar and baking soda didn’t react if they were both below a certain temperature, and if the bubbling created heat, which warmed up the stuff next to it. If that were the case you could see a cool thing where you could keep them could, and just touch one spot to start them reacting, and it would spread like ‘fire’

Or, if you want to shut it down, the plan works, but since the magic effect has a range, to ball begins expanding before it makes it to the ring, taking the end of the barrel and the ring with it. If the ring is indestructible the character has to go on a search for the ring at the point of impact every time, it i expands within the ring, meaning you have a canon ball that explodes at the end of your gun with shrapnel, or you have to melt the ball down to retrieve the ring downrange.

If it dispels magic before it gets to the ring it’s going to be an issue…

I think the engineering part kicks in once the cannonball leaves the ring, or maybe around the mass of the shrunken ball. If the cannon ball retains it’s mass in it’s shrunken size does the gun have enough power to move it? If it does, then the gun is a ship cannon already, just a convenient size. If it doesn’t and can only shoot because the balls are as easy to fire as regular shot, then as soon as the ball exits the ring it is a cannonball being moved with the force of a small shot and likely drops to the ground an inch or so past the muzzle.

I think you might be on the wrong side of the argument here, as others are pointing out the ‘quiet’ part of that sentence isn’t meant to be low volume, but more along the lines of secret or unspoken, and the ‘out loud’ part doesn’t mean volume, it means ‘spoken’.

If it helps, it’s like when someone says something they were thinking and goes ‘oh no, did i say that out loud?!’… They’re not specifically worried about how loudly they said it, but that they said it audibly at all when they meant to only think it.

Maybe you don’t only need vitamins?

Might have to look at that though, it’s possible once the funds have been allocated to a department Congress extra less control over how there are used. As long as there’s some loophole where the money can be spent on severance, and it doesn’t cost more money than was allocated for the year(how can it? It’s just paying people for not working)

That’s kind of my point though, nothing is every really designed for the food of humanity, we evolved in an environment and adapt or die. It may seem hopeless while we’re living through it, and it may be ‘different’ than the past, but it’s always different, from the wheel to agriculture to the printing press to mass production, things are always taken advantage of by those with the means to do so, and we always come out different in the other side, were just living through this one and everyone feels special in the time they’re living through. Just imagine the days of the printing press and how powerful those who owned the press would appear.