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  • For my personal devices:

    • Microsoft products from MS DOS 6.x or so through Windows Vista
    • Ubuntu 6.06 through maybe 9.04 or so
    • Arch Linux from 2009 through 2015
    • MacOS from 2011 through current
    • Arch Linux from 2022 through current

    I’ve worked with work systems that used RedHat and Ubuntu back in the late 2000’s, plus decades of work computers with Windows. But I’m no longer in a technical career field so I haven’t kept on top of the latest and greatest.







  • There are quite a few classifications of trucks. In the U.S.:

    Class 1: 0 - 6000 lbs
    Class 2: 6,001 - 10,000 lbs
    Class 3: 10,001 - 14,000 lbs
    Class 4: 14,001 - 16,000 lbs
    Class 5: 16,001 - 19,500 lbs
    Class 6: 19,501 - 26,000 lbs
    Class 7: 26,001 - 33,000 lbs
    Class 8: Over 33,000 lbs

    Classes 1 through 2 are considered “light” truck, 3/ through 6 is “medium,” and 7 and 8 are “heavy.”

    Classes 7 and 8 require a commercial driver’s license.

    Generally, Class 3 starts to have 4 wheels on the back axle, and Class 6 generally starts having multiple axles on the back. At a certain point, you’re up to 18 wheels on a tractor and trailer.

    OP’s picture is probably of a Class 2 truck, while you’re thinking of Class 1 trucks.


  • I wouldn’t describe it as a reversal, the actual serenity prayer as stated already has the “courage to change the things I can,” so anything that is within the speaker’s ability to change should already be covered. And the last part, the wisdom to know the difference, already asks to have the ability to discern the two categories, and seeks to avoid accepting the things that can be changed.

    It’s clever, but doesn’t actually say anything the serenity prayer itself doesn’t already say.


  • When I share a google doc, it’s not only over a email service of the same vendor, it’s just a link I can send anywhere.

    Well you’re sending a link to a Google hosted service. The other side necessarily needs to interact with a Google service in order to make sense of that link, and, if they so choose, make edits directly in that Google service or export with Google’s export functionality. If you send that link, a Microsoft Office user won’t simply be able to open it in Microsoft Word (and even if Microsoft implements that functionality it would require Microsoft to actively maintain an API key with the Google service).

    If you’re sharing a calendar entry between the current big 3 (Microsoft Outlook, Google Calendar, Apple Calendar), it sends an email to the other. From the users perspective, a Google user never has to interact with Apple’s servers, or a Microsoft server (whether a local Exchange server or a cloud-based 365 one), because everything necessary comes to that users own server through a federated messaging service (email). You just send an invite to user@domain and it just works, but the protocols all simply assume that user@domain is an email address and that sending email to that address will cause the other user’s email service to process and process that calendar invite for that user.


  • He did sell the stock, like $23 billion worth. He entered the agreement to buy Twitter to show that he had another use for that cash, so that Tesla investors didn’t get spooked and sell off when they see the biggest shareholder selling (along with the downward price pressure that comes from selling a significant percentage of a company’s stock).

    There was some speculation at the time that he entered the agreement with Twitter with no intention to close, just to cover his desire to cash out of Tesla at its high. Then the courts actually held him to that.




  • I think by painting it as a bunch of buzzwords people were reading into the comment as either an endorsement that the items in the list were the same, which isn’t what I meant. I’m just trying to give a description of the various buzzwords I remember being thrown around by a combination of scammers, hucksters, cargo cultists simply mimicking the latest trends without understanding them, and actual legitimate business models, without actually giving my views on which ones actually delivered on the hype, which ones overpromised, or which ones totally fizzed out (or are going to).


  • A list of business fads in the tech world, from what I remember:

    • Personal computers
    • Multimedia
    • Networks: Internet, E-mail, World Wide Web, all the stupid names for it like cyberspace, information superhighway.
    • Web 2.0: AJAX and the long tail, user generated content, democratized information exchange and discovery without gatekeepers
    • Social Media
    • The Cloud
    • Mobile Apps
    • Blockchain, cryptocurrency, decentralized finance, smart contracts, Web 3.0, NFTs
    • VR, AR, XR
    • Generative AI, LLMs, GANs, Deep Learning, etc.

  • You have to be creeping up on 20MPH and still in a heavy forward lean for the system to hard fail like that.

    Wait so this particular failure mode occurs if you’re in a forward lean when it approaches its top speed? And as soon as it isn’t able to push hard enough to offset the lean the front dips so that it catches the edge and the rider flips off of it?

    If simply exceeding the top speed leads to catastrophic failure, and there’s literally no way to safely engineer in a speed limiter, that’s an inherently dangerous design.




  • But aren’t jpegxl and webp meant for completely different uses? Like jpeg and png are. Jpeg is better for photos and png for graphics.

    No. JPEG XL is designed to be better at pretty much everything than webp (which was just adapted from a video format that was designed to be really efficient at video but without touching any patents). JPEG is best at photographs at screen resolutions, and PNG is best for screenshots of computer interfaces with lots of repeated colors, and DNG/TIFF are great for high resolution and bit depth (like for professional printing and publishing, or raw image capture from the camera). JPEG XL does a good job at all of those.