Woo!

We’re still on 3.11, but it’s been some time since I last checked compatibility with the later releases. Good job everyone, I’m going to be playing with this over the next couple weeks to see if we can upgrade to it.

poetry has made the package tooling generally not suck for me, and uv seems to be getting better. Just a few more PEPs to go until uv does what I want. Here’s hoping.

It’s a lot easier to produce large amounts of electricity than explosives IMO, especially in war-time when your supply lines are all messed up. As long as you have batteries/capacitors available for your weaponry, you can get creative on how you charge them.

Yup, and that’s generally what I do.

I honestly just want to put $20 in a pool or something and have the browser deduct from that balance when I visit a site. The sites I visit more get more of my money, and I’ll get a record of how much each site changes per visitor to decide whether I want to keep going there. If they use something like GNU Taler for the accounting, the sites can’t track me at all, they’ll just get micropayments and settle up with Mozilla at some interval.

Yet Mozilla seems to not consider this at all. Their entire messaging is “better ads,” not “alternatives to ads.”

card counters

Yup, but these systems are a lot less sophisticated than many people make them out to be. It’s also not illegal to count cards, the casinos just aren’t big fans of losing money, so they’ll enforce their right to refuse service to anyone if they suspect you of counting cards.

police obviously won’t care

Unless you’re taking pictures of police vehicles, in which case they definitely care. Still not illegal, but they’ll most likely harass you for it.

But hey, you can make a living suing police departments, there are worse things to spend your time on.

Exactly. Cops hate plate obfuscation and will probably pull you over on that alone. Having a bike rack? They’ll probably let it slide.

Ours apparently does, but nobody follows that law, and I’ve never seen it enforced.

• a - easy fix, drive a beater
• b - the only tolls in my area use a sensor

If you didn’t want to use a tracking sensor for tolls, can’t you just pay cash? Whenever I visit Florida, that’s what I do. It sucks when the machine is busted, but then I just chuck my change at it and go.

But is it illegal to intentionally always be ready to carry bikes?

So, go to work an hour or two earlier. I don’t see the problem, it’s just a number.

And it’s really not that hard to do, I’ve seen plenty of places with seasonal hours in tourist areas.

Cool, got 2999 more?

Wouldn’t the modern approach largely use synchronized magnets? I suppose you could synchronize explosive charges, but that seems way more complicated than a rail gun.

To be fair, I might stick it out if I thought wonder waffles were coming.

I’d be cool swapping with the driver so they can take a load off in the passenger seat.

Yup, CGNAT sucks. But STUN works fine for me, and most games support it, so it’s not a huge issue.

I could pay extra for a public IP, but for the same price I can get a VPS and do other cool stuff, so I just went the WireGuard VPN route. Same end result with a little more latency, but also more flexibility. I host a few static sites directly on the VPS, with everything else going through the VPN, so that’s nice.

I have four:

• wall clock - battery powered, no date function
• oven - not “smart,” nor do I want it to be smart
• two cars - they’re old enough to not have smart features

Changing them isn’t an issue, and I often don’t get to it for a few days because I rarely actually use them. But it still pisses me off way more than it should.

I honestly don’t think about it. I get up more than an hour before work, and I go to bed early enough to not need an alarm. I only have 4 clocks that don’t change automatically (wall clock, oven, two cars), and I just go by the time on my phone, so I just change those when I notice they’re wrong.

That said, I think the whole thing is stupid. It throws my sleep off for no reason (less/more time in the morning when it changes), so why keep it?

Does it really matter which time it is? If it says 4:30 or 5:30 on the clock, that doesn’t change anything related to the work being done, so the choice between daylight savings and standard time isn’t particularly important.

I currently need to be at work at 9. I don’t care if the clock says 8 or 10, I just need to know when to be at work.

I think all the complaining about which time to use is really silly, I honestly do not care which we choose, provided we eliminate changing clocks. Just pick one. Flip a coin, I honestly don’t care.

Right, but let’s say you travel to another country across the globe and want to communicate with someone back home. You don’t need to calculate timezones, you just remember what a reasonable time is for where you come from.

So I think the problem is a little simpler this way, though it doesn’t eliminate the innate complexities of timezones. I do think it solves a lot of those problems, because chances are you’re dealing with the same small set of timezones and can easily remember what times are reasonable. I already do that today, so nothing is really changing here other than the numbers we send to each other get simpler.

I don’t think it’s necessarily worse than what we have right now, and moving to a single timezone solves some other weird issues (e.g. the weird 30 min and 15 min offsets in India and Nepal).

If everyone used UTC, we’d still be confused setting up meetings and whatnot, but it’s basically a simplified form of the same confusion we have now. The main thing we’d lose is the notion of what a reasonable time is when traveling, but that should be pretty easy to adjust to (and honestly, “is the sun up” is basically the same as “is now a reasonable time”).

And when space travel becomes more of a thing, having a standard Earth time makes communication with other planets a lot more reasonable. I would hate to be communicating with someone on Mars and trying to not only coordinate communication delays and planetary rotation, but also dozens of time zones on each planet. Screw that, there should be an “Earth” time, “Mars” time, and perhaps a “solar” time as well, and you’d use exactly one of those depending on who’s talking (i.e. sol time for Earth <-> Mars communication).