Meanwhile in the cat gossip magazines

• FIVE SIGNS your human is HIDING TREATS!
• Top LICKING TECHNIQUES for the SILKIEST FUR
• Your CHRISTMEOWS HOROSCOPE presented by MYSTIC MISS MITTENS

Bad PO: “So it will only increase the chance of bugs if we don’t do it? There won’t necessarily be any. So we can skip it and just put the feature in.”

I hope you have a good PO who is on the same page as you, but to a bad PO, it still sounds optional.

A civil engineer doesn’t say “If we don’t put supports there’s a chance the ceiling will fall in and people may die,” because history has shown there are plenty of unscrupulous project managers who are quite willing to take construction risks, even with people’s lives. As a result of this there are now plenty of laws in construction, and a civil engineer has a convenient fallback of saying “If we don’t put supports it won’t pass inspection, and we won’t get paid.”

Everyone wants to get paid.

In software we don’t have many laws we can fall back on to justify our work, but we can still treat our tech debt and refactoring as if it’s equally mandatory.

“To add feature x, we need to resolve problem y. The feature can’t be added until we’ve completed this prerequisite.”

Perhaps the most successful attempt at convergence so far has been the Europlug, but only because it’s a weird compromise. Did you know the europlug prongs aren’t actually parallel? They angle inwards slightly and have a little flex, so they can be accepted in multiple European countries’ sockets that actually have slightly different dimensions! It’s a cool design, but you wouldn’t intentionally design it that way if you had the opportunity to standardise the world from scratch.

I would love if recipe writers could form a consensus on what the terms “minced” or “crushed” mean when it comes to garlic.

Sometimes “minced” means finely chopped, while other times it means as a paste.

Some recipes use “crushed” to mean the paste, while other times that means to squash a clove with the flat of your knife so it cracks and the oil runs, but still leave whole.

You can normally work it out from context, but it really keeps you guessing.

This is a defence only until it isn’t - although thank you for the tip.

That’s how Windows has been going for years - adding more and more crap and make it all default enabled, and people are like “Oh just turn it off bro.”

Then every update adds more unwanted options that get increasingly difficult to turn off, or randomly turn themselves back on, and before you know it we’ve reached a point where every new install soon needs an entire checklist to go through to make things actually usable again.

That is not how life should be. I want something that respects me by default, and if it wants me to try a feature I might find even slightly objectional, I should have to explicitly opt-in and say YES.

Firefox is setting a precedent by moving in this direction, and they’ve showed their hand. There’s only more where this came from, and I won’t tolerate it, even if I can turn it off.

When the Firefox terms and conditions drama happened some months back, that was the push I needed to switch to Librewolf. It’s a Firefox fork with privacy-respecting settings out of the gate, no sponsored content, no ads, uBlock pre-installed, and absolutely zero AI. If you’re a Firefox user, I recommend you try it too.

The difference between the two signs (both visual and textual) got me wondering how official these ones are.

They don’t appear in the list of Japanese road signs on wiki which does have warnings for some animals (but not cats) and so I’m wondering, are local areas allowed to provide supplemental signs at the prefectural or city level?

Or are these actually completely unofficial signs, put up by a village, or neighbourhood group, or even by individual residents?

And if they aren’t official, what’s the legality? In many places in the world, putting up custom signs which mimic the appearance of actual road signs is a definite no-no.

They’re cute signs and I love them, but I’m curious now and I wish I had some answers lol.

Here you go fam

I guess the beefier your system is the less you will notice the impact of a greedy OS (because thats a fixed/absolute overhead) while the performance hit of having to translate directx through Proton will always be there (because that’s a percent-based overhead for each rendered frame)

So for the most top-end rigs, probably still Windows will squeeze a few more FPS. But it’s close.

At the end of the day Linux and Windows are both pretty comparable for gaming performance, so we shouldn’t worry about that as a deciding factor in which OS to choose, and can decide based on other merits.

On the other hand, some testing has found that running games on Linux with Proton is actually faster than with Windows on the same hardware, because Windows is such a resource hog.

The hardware in in this test being the Legion Go steamdeck rival.

Also, every interview:

“So, why do you want to work with us, specifically?”

I’ve been specifically avoiding Ubuntu because of snaps, instead preferring Ubuntu derivatives that don’t use it, like Mint and Pop.

And more recently, trying an entirely different approach with Arch.

And yes - I could get rid of snaps in Ubuntu if I wanted. But everything is just a little more annoying when you are going against the conventions of your distro.