It’s honestly not that hard to memorize your times tables. You do it once in third grade and it stays with you for life.

I use it daily, personally. Comes up a ton in gaming. How many of these can I afford? Etc.

Chess is a good one. No calculator allowed. You have six minutes to make 9 moves, how many seconds per move? And don’t take too long because the calculation eats into your time.

It’s also really nice to just be able to do grocery store math without pulling out your phone. Are the 12 packs or the 24 case cheaper?

Because it functions as a base for doing slightly more complicated math in your head.

If you don’t have 7x7 memorized, it’s a lot harder to do 77x70.

Two of the largest drivers are religion, christians wanting their Sharia Law, and Russia taking political control of the US.

Capitalism is in the top three, sure. It’s also part of the driver of that technology.

I don’t think we should worship capitalism as we have, but I don’t think getting rid of capitalism as a whole solves more problems than it creates.

Give me capitalism with heavy socialist controls and political separation please, thanks. The general idea of using money as a measure of what society owes you isn’t terrible. It’s allowing that measure to get so out of whack and have such inordinate control of everything that is the problem.

Because it’s in the screenshot, open kosher online catering?

Watch the video of the Station Nightclub Fire. You’ll be scarred, but you won’t ignore fire alarms.

Parasites. Are those the ones that bring in a bunch of resources and give them to the host?

I’m currently doing this with an angular project that’s a bit of a clusterfuck. So many layers.

I’m still having to break it down into much, much smaller chunks and it’s not able to do much, but it is helpful. Most useful thing was that I started with writing a pure SQL query with several joins and told it “turn this into linq using existing entities”.

I think they’ll completely replace ORMs.

The complaint that got blamed on capitalism was:

The information age gave way for the misinformation age, where everything is fake.

and if there’s one entity/person most responsible for that, it’s Putin or the GOP. Most of it is political, and very little to do with capitalism itself. Except that capitalism surrounds and is intertwined with everything.

Still, if you get rid of capitalism, it doesn’t get rid of politics. I’d argue that the root of the issue is the GOP trying to hoard power (money and otherwise), and power is going to exist with or without capitalism. Is North Korea capitalist? Do they have issues with disinfo?

This Christian Sharia Law movement doesn’t exist for money.

Part of it is cultural and habit and that is something you can just decide to change. It helps if someone brings it up, like this post, or you might not even think of it.

I bought a $10 power strip / surge protector last week. It was the first time this occurred to me. I pulled out the manual to throw it away, and it was only my experience in writing technical documentation that made me stop and consider actually reading/skimming it.

Maybe I’ll change this habit. Maybe I’ll start reading these things.

Of course some of them aren’t meant to be read. But you can usually tell pretty quickly,

Are you? I didn’t see it. If you’re trying to make the opposite point, why don’t you cherry pick the other way. Let’s see what you’ve got or if this headline is just bullshit.

I’m currently running 50/50 windows/Ubuntu. I’m no Windows fanboy. But I’m also a software dev and I understand deprecating useless shit, something Windows doesn’t do much of.

I’m not using any software that doesn’t have an upward swipe gesture for jumplists. How can people stand losing features like this?

the 16-bit Windows on Windows subsystems, which allowed 32-bit versions of Windows to directly run 16-bit DOS and Windows programs

Jesus, what a scam. Why does anyone put up with this?

I feel like half of the blame capitalism gets is valid, but the other half is just society. I don’t care what kind of system you’re under, you’re going to have to deal with other people.

Oh, and if you try the system where you don’t have to deal with people, that just means other people end up handling you.

If you’re into self hosting (or have a friend who is), I’ve found Navidrome (music hosting) and Substeamer app to be great open source alternatives.

It’s just a pun.

Hilarious. When do you expect that goalpost will move?

If you really want to be secure, you can’t do gaming on the same machine as your security sensitive stuff. It’s not limited to these anti-cheats.

Tell me how any other app uploading your entire documents directory is okay then. “Into the kernel” is largely fear mongering. Other, less trustworthy apps can do plenty of damage, and you don’t seem to care about those.

If you really want to be secure, you can’t do gaming on the same machine as your security sensitive stuff. It’s not limited to these anti-cheats.