Hard disagree. No books should ever be burned. Don’t legitimize the practice.

Are you lost? I didn’t talk about hiring practices.

Graceful degradation - pfft.

Progressive enhancement - yeah!

I think I see where you’re coming from. I don’t hear grifters in that phrase, personally. I’d almost say the opposite; workaholics are more likely to invoke the phrase. Or, to put it another way, victims of upper management gaslighting.

working hard is not a virtue

I have to disagree here. Well, probably. I figure, if you’re not lazy/half-assing your job, you’re pretty much working hard, right? I see it as being diligent about your job, and yes, I do see some virtue in that.

But you also wrote “indicator of poor management” which makes me think you’re using “working hard” as a label for something like “unpaid overtime”. That would be a whole different ballgame.

I don’t think this post is a good fit. The name of the community is “mildly infuriating”, not “absolutely enraging”!

Yeah, basically you’d have to cut those figures down to 1/4 of what they are before I’d consider them reasonable.

I do agree with you in principle – if the organizer is feeding everyone, it’s only decent to pitch in a few bucks to cover the groceries.

Looking at the post, it’s $345 for commuters – or about $70 per meal.

For people staying in the accommodations, it’s about $210 per night.

Overall, that seems expensive for a camping trip on Meetup.

Is it not an ID because of that? I don’t see the relevance of mentioning address here.

Edit: oh, proof of residence? I went back and re-read the GP. It makes more sense in that context.

United States ID card

Passport seems like it sorta fits, but it’s hardly universal.

I use podman at work, mostly just a Docker replacement. My biggest problem with it is typing “pdoman” in commands by mistake.

I just hope they actually have their social security card. A quick googling told me that you need a current ID to get the social security administration to issue a replacement card. Talk about a vicious cycle!

I’m on board as soon as we verify that Putin has completely disarmed.

What do you get when you cross Family guy with BTTF?

1.21 giggetywatts!

Stop patronizing restaurants where they don’t pay their staff a livable wage.

In most parts of the US, that’s all of them. This position is de facto “never eat out or order takeout”. I’m not sure that’s entirely realistic.

Thank you for writing 57°F instead of 57.20°F :)

I’m listening ;)

when there are well designed and vetted ones available?

I’m not convinced of this, tbh. IIRC the RFC can’t be described in a regex at all.

And given that the appliance needs to communicate with the app on your phone while you’re not home in the first place, there probably isn’t even a separate tracking API vs. data just being harvested as part of normal operations. So “back door” doesn’t really fit. “Broken by design” or “spyware” would be more apt, I think.

Still, I’m really not a fan of calling any spying/data harvesting a “front door” – IIRC, the term was coined by an FBI head pushing for back doors in our phones so the FBI could scan our messages. But he called it a “front door” as a way to dodge the reasons why building back doors in our security software is a terrible idea.

It’s just another step in the terrible trend of “let’s pretend that this horrible idea is ok if we just rename it” :(

What would the “front door” even be in this case? What comes to my mind is the corresponding app on your phone, but that doesn’t really make sense in this context.