I booked a flight recently, the translation engine was obviously having issues so instead of giving helpful labels for form fields it was stuff like: "{{ name.first }}", which I could figure out for the most part, but then on submission I got an error with no description at all. I opened the dev tools and resubmitted the form to find the API response which gave me the actual error. 2 pages previously a form field hadn't been set correctly by the web page (it was a drop-down, I selected an option, the error said it was null). I managed to force the field to populate properly and hey presto, submission works. Ridiculous.

I can't even beat regular-length war. Damn snake lady and her BS action economy...

It's up to you. You're allowed to read/play/watch whatever you want, don't let us internet weirdos (who might not even be real people) dissuade you. My wife loves harry potter but hates Rowling's politics. That's ok. You don't have to justify your actions to anyone, least of all internet strangers! If you want a justification to play the game, as others have said, she's already made her money from the game and won't make more directly from you playing it, so she doesn't benefit. Also, by a few accounts I've heard it's a pretty mediocre game, so don't feel like you're missing out if you decide not to!

The game wasn't lynched though, it sold phenomenally well despite the commentary. There aren't enough people paying attention to her statements to be in a position to make a conscious choice about her one way or the other. Most people just see harry potter and go "cool, new harry potter thing, I liked that as a kid/like it now, let's give it a shot". If it does get brought up in conversation I still find people are surprised when I say I don't buy or participate in harry potter stuff because they genuinely don't know, or think its massively overblown (coverage of her statements, not necessarily the content of them). We're in a corner of a tiny pocket of the internet, even on Reddit.

TLDR This will make HBO tonnes of money from people who don't care or don't know about Rowling's obsession with trans people, just like every other HP side project.

Is there any sort of cognitive dissonance happening on a national level around this? America and it's media have been touting the "land of the free", "home of democracy" slogans for decades, is there not an identity crisis happening amongst those who believe it? I understand the left vs right, democrat vs republican arguments most of the time but surely no matter which side you're on this must be a shock?

I love the argument about c having type safety with the little side-swipe at rust. "AcTuAlLy C does have type safety! You just have to jump through the following 50 hoops to get it!". I'm an outsider to both C and Rust but it's still funny.

Most people just want a thing to work though. One member of my family has issues with her iPhone at the moment where the signal is just all over the place. Sometimes not able to receive calls, sometimes not able to make them, sometimes inaudible when the call is made. She's googled and gone to apple tech support who have given her a list of basic troubleshooting tasks to do, stuff like checking settings. She said to me "I don't want to go hunting for these things I just want to hand it to someone and they can make it work!"

Linux and computer enthusiasts are happy to assemble things as we need them because the problem solving stuff is satisfying to us, for other people it's just a slog.

Cries in European prices...

Genuine question, what good things? Part of the problem of only getting news from podcasts and social media is that I very loudly get all the bad things and maybe the good things are being drowned out.

Right, but my point is that that wasn't explained in the post, and it's not the only thing in the article that is stated as "you should do this thing" without telling the reader why.

Only heard a couple people talk about it online (that I trust to be reasonable) and they basically said it was fine but didn't blow them away. And that's fine but it makes for boring "cOnTeNt".

I wouldn't call this "beginner" but some useful stuff nonetheless. Some of the points could use some justification or a reason to do it, eg using 127.1 over 127.0.0.1.

Yeah this is basically the argument for universal basic income, on top of eliminating poverty.

I'm all for supporting low-to-middle incomes but it's still a huge investment for those not in (or just outside) that bracket. I can't spend 10k now to see the return in 20 years, assuming the rates stay decent. It's not practical.

Rock and stone

Incels. Incels and gullible teenagers who later become incels.

It's just elitism. They think because they've suffered to learn C and have learned all the footguns of the language that they are smarter than people who haven't, so they see anything higher level than C as being a baby language for babies. 30 years ago I'm sure there was the equivalent of people who exclusively worked in assembly who thought the same about C programmers.

Ah yes, it's the immigrants' fault that education has been underfunded for years and teaching is such a woefully underpaid career. Definitely the immigrants' fault. No no don't look at the last 14 years of Tory rule that included austerity!

After spending a bit of time today debugging a systemd issue I can start to sympathise with this. Not come across or really looked for viable alternatives that aren't just a return to random bash init scripts though.

Ok hear me out. I'm a book author, I write a book and try to sell it for £100 while all my peers are selling books at 60 or 70. I spend the most money imaginable making my book. It's quite possibly the largest book in existence thanks to the effort of me and 5000 other people. I lie awake at night worrying that we'll never make back the money we've spent on it.

Wait what's this? Some team of less than 10 people has written a 3-page book and sold it for 2.50? And people are... Buying it?! But why? Look at the size of my book, clearly it must be better because it's so big, so fancy, so expensive! Every letter cost me millions! I read the 3-page book. It doesn't have money dropping from each letter like mine. It has a beginning, middle and end but mine has 500 acts each more expensive than the last. Surely it's not that good... It's pretty great actually. I have learned nothing from this experience, even though it's happened a hundred times. I will still make more money than entire countries, somehow.