Yeah, zero tolerance might as well just be called zero thought or zero effort.
It would be ironic that schools so often pick the policy that avoids thought if I still believed schools were about teaching kids to think.
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Yeah, would make sense, they just aren't filtering the things I'd filter during that conversation.
Is that just another name for libertarians?
A man calls a waiter over to complain about his soup.
"Waiter, there's a hair in my soup!"
"Shhh, not so loud or the other customers might get jealous!"
The sous chef minding the soup was wearing a hair net but disturbed it to scratch an itch on his scalp. Upon discovery of this while reviewing the kitchen footage (nothing to do with the complaint, the owner was just a control freak), said sous chef was fired. Which coincidentally benefited the customer because it meant the sous chef wasn't able to buy the last toy both of their daughters wanted, so the customer got it and won that year's competition of "buying daughter's love over divorced wife", but later bit him in the ass when his spoiled daughter threw a huge tantrum because the Mercedes he bought for her 16th birthday didn't have the right trim package.
Of course, society was collapsing around them and this all became a moot point when the maintainer of a critical piece of software was put to death for daring to glance at a party member without even bobbing his head and even the best AIs couldn't fix the bug that popped up the next day (because they also relied on that critical piece of software) and the LLC that did the hostile takeover of his estate refused to let anyone see the source code unless they paid a billion dollars, which they wanted to but payment systems also depended on that software, so instead society just finished collapsing.
And I hate how windows did everything it could to enable that shit, too. Like I've had devices (specifically wireless headphones and mice) that worked fine when plugged in, and then suddenly some installer pops up by the company that made the device because windows is all too happy to automatically run shit when you plug a device in. I hope there's at least some kind of authentication back end where it recognizes a device ID and grabs the installer like that, but I suspect that it just uses a standardized way to grab an url and just runs whatever is on the other side of that.
Should have switched autorun anything to default off after the Sony rootkits over twenty fucking years ago. It should have never even been a thing in the first place, since viruses on floppies existed before CDs (where autorun first showed up) even existed.
He caught up in a flash!
Yeah, I used to have the mindset that either I loved or hated foods and would only want the ones I loved. But eventually, I realized that there's a middle category of foods that I don't go crazy for but aren't bad, plus two reasons to revisit the ones that I still didn't like: good cooking can make almost any food delicious, and tastes change as you age (and/or nutrition needs vary).
I have trouble respecting picky eaters after that. As long as your body isn't trying to reject the food entirely (and I do understand that some people's bodies will reject things that mine is fine with), it's just sensations that you can get past. It's a mental block that if you can get past it, you'll eventually look back and wonder what was so hard about it.
Though my mindset plays a role. I like novelty more than familiarity (though ironically I don't think we test our new things enough to really determine their safety... I like the new stuff but also side-eye it).
I carried around a floppy drive (like through moves, not day to day) for a long time after I last used it but eventually realized tech has gotten to the point where I'll probably never use one again.
But I did get an external bluray drive instead of throwing away all those discs I burned back in the day. Even though, in the process of checking them for data loss and ripping to move them to m-discs, I realized I didn't really care if any had lost data (though none have so far).
I've been enjoying Tales of Maj'Eyal lately. It's a roguelike, though you can set it to give several lives or infinite lives. But I've been enjoying just going until I die and then rolling a different build. You usually only die because you get overconfident and I'll leave figuring out the specifics of that to you :)
It also has over 1100 achievements if you like chasing those.
Ah damn, I hadn't even thought of that but of course they'd be just working on tritium fusion rather than H1 fusion. So not even the power of a brown dwarf, which fuses deuterium. Hydrogen is very abundant but tritium much less so. That might be a game breaker on its own, since the price of tritium will only go up when it is in demand for scaled fusion.
I've also wondered if fusion reactors will have a "plasma jet" mode of failure where the magnetic field containing the highly pressurized plasma partially fails and shoots out a beam of plasma that will quickly cut through anything in its path.
I agree that they should keep working on it (though not expecting big things from this particular company, other than maybe nuclear arms production). But it's starting to look similar to space travel outside of our immediate neighborhood: a nice idea that physics will probably laugh and say not so fast!
Similar line of thought regarding public vs private service providers. There's nothing preventing public services from being as good as or better than private ones, but private ones will always want to extract more value than they provide as profit (which is the extra money left over after paying for everything, including staff). Plus they pay a whole team of people whose whole job is about maximizing profit, which can come at the expense of the quality of the service.
And with public vs private healthcare, there's a whole health insurance industry extracting wealth from the public for the privilege of limiting their healthcare options (otherwise the healthcare providers would be the ones doing the fleecing by recommending unnecessary procedures, which probably still happens anyways). And on top of that, there's an attitude of "just try it, even if it would be illegal, consequences are always avoided by backing down before it gets to court".
Autosave requires the file be saved on onedrive.
I was going to say that the only way to make it worse is if it showed ads while it autosaved, but autosave itself is literally an ad for onedrive.
If you try any of the other decent options, some of them free, you might come to understand the contempt people have for word, because there's nothing special about it that the others can't do, and you have to put up with design decisions made because they have market dominance and can use that to push people towards other shit that makes them money.
That one looks like it's both. Not sure their eyes can turn that far to the sides, but the sockets seem to be positioned for both good focus ahead and a wide peripheral.
If there's a limit to how much heat a surface can radiate, cooling a more intense heat source just requires more surface area to radiate heat from.