The litany of “tragic accident” in the comments on the article remind me just how far we have to go in the crash vs accident battle.

I love this in general, unfortunately for me my dad is a retired network engineer 😫

Love that NJB quote:

Engineers get paid to build roads, they don’t get paid to not build roads.

Smacks of all the talk of “closing the border”. Like, okay, so no one and nothing is coming in or out of the USA, is that what you want?

“of course not”

Okay you need a border, with staff, right?

“yes to keep the bad guys out”

Okay so you understand people aren’t perfect and some times the bad guys will get in?

“that’s why we need to close the border!!”

😫

Hmm, tripped me up too, but I assumed it was the extra “'s”, i.e. it should be :“that went away”.

A bit meta: That people who were wrong or mistaken about something just needed it explaining more clearly, and then they would stop saying things which are wrong or mistaken.

I wasted far too many years of my life trying to convince father-in-law of so many things, only to realize there is nothing that can be said to disabuse him. The problem wasn’t the lack of facts or clarity of explanation, it’s that he is fundamentally incapable of acquiring new information if it’s inconsistent with his prior understanding or belief.

Moreover I realized that where I am ashamed of being inaccurate or uneducated about something (and so am keen to correct myself), for him it’s always the case that I must be wrong or mistaken, because he can never be wrong or mistaken.

If you have 20 minutes to spare this video really helped clear it up for me.

It might seem unrelated at first, but bonds will be discussed approx. 5 minutes in, and the preceding parts helps lay the groundwork.

I’d later come to understand this is called Modern monetary theory.

Until lemmy gold is a thing please have these medals, I wish I could offer more: 🏅🏅🏅🏅🏅🏅

When I was much younger: that normal people could see much further than me.

One of my oldest memories is going into a McDonald’s for the first time with glasses; I stopped and read the entire menu, because I couldn’t believe normal people could read it as soon as you walked in. I always had to get up to the counter to make it out.

I got a lot better in school after that!

Alas I sold my soul to VSCode a long time ago.

Also, ew, emacs 😝

Well played 👏👏

I guess I just got, recurse rolled?

Amazing. OC?

Being a content creator.

Yes yes, combined with git add -P makes small, meaningful commits so much easier.

https://github.com/eggert/tz/blob/main/calendars has entered the chat.

Can’t spell hatred without red hat…

Whatever you pick checkout Yousician if they have it. It’s great for learning.

Someone did: https://www.flightradar24.com/data/aircraft/vh-mxj#358c41b9

Boeing engineers traced the leak to a flange.

I expected software issues, maybe avionics, but a flange? How.

Forgive me for only TLDW and not watching, but was ack mentioned?

I’ve never looked back.