Also, people should start with small doses and work their way up.

In fact, there’s a lot of research and care people should do beforehand. Mushrooms can be a wonderful experience, but can also be a traumatic one. Learning about them ahead of time goes a long way.

Then you have to explain how her bum was like a mountain goat, and ain’t nobody want to do that.

I’m not sure where you’re getting that Nintendo sells at a loss. They don’t have amazing margins on hardware, but they don’t like selling at a loss. IIRC, commodity prices and a price drop meant the GameCube was briefly sold at a loss, but it wasn’t long, and it wasn’t by much.

Whatever else you can say about Nintendo, they are really good at managing manufacturing costs.

There’s a little wiggle track burned into PSX discs that’s impossible to duplicate with burners, and it won’t boot up unless it sees that. There’s workarounds that eventually came out, but console copy protection doesn’t have to last forever. It only has to last most of its primary life until the next gen comes out, and PSX managed that.

There was a project where the next console would have been the Genesis, 32X, and CD in one box with a new name. I don’t know if that would work, or if it’d be viewed as something of an in-between generation, like the Turbografx, and people ignore it.

It’s probably be easier to develop games for, unlike the Saturn. It’s not the only thing that held the Saturn back, but it didn’t help.

Not sure about GP, but that’s basically what we did under “SAFe” (Scaled Agile Framework). PI planning means taking most of a sprint to plan everything for the next quarter or so. It’s like a whole week of ticket refinement meetings. Or perhaps 3 days, but when you’ve had 3 days of ticket refinement meetings, it might as well be the whole work week for as much a stuff as you’re going to get done otherwise.

It’s as horrible as you’re thinking, and after a lot of agitating, we stopped doing that shit.

Cops are government employees, and hopefully the government cares about losing $175k over bullshit their employee did.

Yeah, they can afford to lose one or two, but if we all start flipping off cops and start getting charged, it’s going to add up.

Here’s India’s inflation chart for the past few years: https://www.equentis.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/image-87.png

Here’s the US: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/MEDCPIM158SFRBCLE

They aren’t easing anything.

Pretty sure signing over your soul is a requirement for HR positions. They do blatantly illegal things all the time and do not care. So yes, they will happily tell the truth in an anonymous survey.

Manufacturer must provide either a comparable replacement vehicle or a full refund.

In my state (Wisconsin), it’s considered a lemon if it’s no more than a year old and under warranty, and:

• It has a serious defect the manufacturer or dealer(s) didn’t fix in four tries, or
• It has one or more defects that prevent you from using it for 30 days or more (the 30 days need not be consecutive).

Cybertruck probably won’t trigger the first clause, but I wonder about that second one.

Good chance you could at this point.

India would be perfectly valid if it wasn’t experiencing high inflation just like everyone else. Which it is.

https://finimize.com/content/rbi-chief-urges-india-to-cut-inflation-despite-strong-growth

You can’t fix inflation just by setting a max price. It leads to shortages or (more common in India’s case) retailers finding loopholes:

https://www.thehindu.com/opinion/op-ed/maximum-retail-price-is-an-archaic-dysfunctional-mechanism/article7452745.ece

You know who is most fed up with YouTube’s policies? Content creators on YouTube. They’re locked in, they know it, and they hate it.

Gmail and other big providers tend to consider new domains to be spam until they’ve proven otherwise. Can’t prove otherwise until you’ve been up and running for a while. Catch-22. The way out of that is to host with an existing provider for a few years.

Does it cut down on spam? Perhaps. Does it favor existing providers like Gmail? Yes, definitely.

Honestly, hosting email has long been difficult to setup, and all the more so if you don’t want your box to be a spam host within three seconds of plugging it in.

What country would you point to as a success for this policy?

I wonder about Microsoft’s liability on this one. People store all sorts of things in there, some personal, and some corporate things that are at least non-public, if not outright sensitive. Yeah, people should be using an encrypted drive for especially sensitive info (not that this would stop Microsoft when they own the OS), but they don’t, and it’s not for Microsoft to force the issue.

Did their legal department actually sign off on this? Or did someone in MS legal just shit a brick when they saw the headlines?

Not how that should work. They don’t get permission to all that unless I say so.

Coincidentally, they make it harder to use a local account with every update.

Vote this up higher. I wouldn’t be surprised at all if everything ends up in their models.