Considering it's not rocket science you've spectacularly missed the mark. Cellphones haven't cannibalized tablet sales, tablets have. Every mum, dad, and kid who can afford one have a tablet already. For most the tablet is good enough. When the battery dies, or the screen cracks, or the latest iOS renders the device so slow as to be useless then they will buy another.
Just about everything tastes better when you add sugar and fat.
It sounds like your tastebuds have been ruined by overexposure to sugary substances. Quit sugar for a month and you will in fact find that most things taste like shit when sugar is added just to sweeten.
So, a person is "addicted" if they like to have a cigarette with his smoking friends when they meet on the weekend for poker and pizza?
You're confusing yourself with definitions. Addiction doesn't have anything to do with "like". Quite the opposite. It has to do with "need" even if you don't "like". If you have a cigarette once a month then you're not addicted to them. In general withdrawal symptoms to addictive substances don't take more than a couple of days to screw you up.
What addiction looks like: You want to give up smoking, but you can't. You give up coffee and start chewing paracetamol tablets to get the headaches under control for the next week (my own experience). You give up sugar and bite the head off everyone who talks to you for a week in ways that not even a hormonally raged psycho on her period could possibly do (my own experience with someone else). You say "I can stop ${thing} anytime I want!" And yet when you actually need to stop you continue doing ${thing} because the very brain that wants to stop is also dependent on the status quo.
I think you're self justifying the need to define addiction differently. The reality is that most people can understand the difference between an occasional craving and an addiction quite well.
Sounds like you're a white coffee kinda guy. I just had a triple espresso without sugar and the beans were stale. Show me the researchers! I need to punch some fools.
It is related to these things called "schedules" that are an externally shared resource.
No it's not. The sun determines no one's schedule. The clock does.
you would simply specific which side of the line the schedule was reporting. When you walk across the line, nothing changed
So you agree the position of the sun relative to time is not unsettling at all. So what was your original complaint? You're not unsettled, schedules are preserved, and even your alarm clock automatically compensates for the problem so you don't even wake up late / early. Sounds like you're actually completely indifferent to DST.
Why? Like I'm really struggling to understand why some people have a mental affinity to linking a certain arbitrary time to the location of the sun.
Also the GP is was perfectly right. If you live anywhere near the edge of a timezone, then you will literally be unsettled just by walking across a border. How would you cope?
The absolute worst part of DST is the stupid semiannual bitchfest on Slashdot.
Thanks to George Dabelyua Bush the DST changes in the USA and Europe are not out of sync and we get to enjoy this deep, meaningful and eye-opening discussion that has successfully changed the opinions and minds of millions not twice, but four times a year.
You're crazy. And yes they should. But that isn't at all relevant. Making a car and making an e-bike are many orders of magnitude different in difficulty and in required resourcing.
Of course they can. And then all the parents can change their work time, and then society can adjust itself to suit the new working schedules, and at that point someone will point out that the sky is not in sync with the time people spend active and will adjust the clocks.
I think hand writing with a pen or pencil requires much more physical dexterity than smearing your fingers onto a flat surface. Schooling used to require daily hand written exercise for years, even just taking notes for a few minutes each day - I do think it matters.
It's ironic actually that the people who spent the most time at school (doctors and surgeons) are also the ones with famously horrible handwriting:-)
If you can't say "fuck" people will just find a new way to convey the same sentiment
Well that's kind of the point. Its amazing how we can convey sentiment without an expletive filled rant. If you need to use the same language and hide the expletive with a few asterisks then you don't really have a solid grasp of the language.
Oh fuck off. We do *not* enable new random drivers by default. And we most *definitely* don't do it when they are odd-ball ones that most people have never heard of.
Yet the new "BigBen Interactive" driver that was added this merge window did exactly that.
Just don't fucking do it.
Yes, yes, you always thinks that your driver is so special and so magically important that it should be enabled by default. But no. When we have thousands of drivers, we don't randomly pick one new driver to be enabled by default just because some developer thinks they are special. You're not. Don't fucking do things like this.
I don't see how that is any more polite than before.
Let me educate you on what he said in the past:
Mauro, SHUT THE FUCK UP! "It's a bug alright -- in the kernel. How long have you been a maintainer? And you *still* haven't learnt the first rule of kernel maintenance?" "Shut up, Mauro. And I don't _ever_ want to hear that kind of obvious garbage and idiocy from a kernel maintainer again. Seriously. Fix your fucking 'compliance tool,' because it is obviously broken. And fix your approach to kernel programming."
So: No expletives, no attacks on the developer, and used Ps and Qs. If you don't see this as being more polite than before then I really have to wonder if you know what "polite" actually means.
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I can't believe you get jetlagged by an hour change in sleep patterns. In what other ways are you unable to function like a normal person?
I'd rather have some quality headphones with a USB-C connector.
I'd rather not spend money on a quality anything that severely limits it's usability to a select few devices.
Not rocket science here.
Considering it's not rocket science you've spectacularly missed the mark. Cellphones haven't cannibalized tablet sales, tablets have. Every mum, dad, and kid who can afford one have a tablet already. For most the tablet is good enough. When the battery dies, or the screen cracks, or the latest iOS renders the device so slow as to be useless then they will buy another.
Endless growth is a fantasy.
Just about everything tastes better when you add sugar and fat.
It sounds like your tastebuds have been ruined by overexposure to sugary substances. Quit sugar for a month and you will in fact find that most things taste like shit when sugar is added just to sweeten.
Someone had some black coffee this morning...
So, a person is "addicted" if they like to have a cigarette with his smoking friends when they meet on the weekend for poker and pizza?
You're confusing yourself with definitions. Addiction doesn't have anything to do with "like". Quite the opposite. It has to do with "need" even if you don't "like". If you have a cigarette once a month then you're not addicted to them. In general withdrawal symptoms to addictive substances don't take more than a couple of days to screw you up.
What addiction looks like:
You want to give up smoking, but you can't.
You give up coffee and start chewing paracetamol tablets to get the headaches under control for the next week (my own experience).
You give up sugar and bite the head off everyone who talks to you for a week in ways that not even a hormonally raged psycho on her period could possibly do (my own experience with someone else).
You say "I can stop ${thing} anytime I want!" And yet when you actually need to stop you continue doing ${thing} because the very brain that wants to stop is also dependent on the status quo.
I think you're self justifying the need to define addiction differently. The reality is that most people can understand the difference between an occasional craving and an addiction quite well.
Sounds like you're a white coffee kinda guy. I just had a triple espresso without sugar and the beans were stale. Show me the researchers! I need to punch some fools.
We've been Slashdot sparing partners for many years now. Has anything in my posting history suggested I live anywhere on that side of the planet?
Noon is always at 1200. That's how it is defined. DST doesn't change that.
Seriously for a pedant such as yourself that comment was a gross misstep. Are you not on your posting game today? ;-)
It is related to these things called "schedules" that are an externally shared resource.
No it's not. The sun determines no one's schedule. The clock does.
you would simply specific which side of the line the schedule was reporting. When you walk across the line, nothing changed
So you agree the position of the sun relative to time is not unsettling at all. So what was your original complaint? You're not unsettled, schedules are preserved, and even your alarm clock automatically compensates for the problem so you don't even wake up late / early. Sounds like you're actually completely indifferent to DST.
it actually kills people.
Yeah but it only kills the weak which in turn makes the human race stronger.
How I drive to work is irrelevant compared to my ability to do an outdoor activity after work.
It is quite unsettling.
Why? Like I'm really struggling to understand why some people have a mental affinity to linking a certain arbitrary time to the location of the sun.
Also the GP is was perfectly right. If you live anywhere near the edge of a timezone, then you will literally be unsettled just by walking across a border. How would you cope?
The absolute worst part of DST is the stupid semiannual bitchfest on Slashdot.
Thanks to George Dabelyua Bush the DST changes in the USA and Europe are not out of sync and we get to enjoy this deep, meaningful and eye-opening discussion that has successfully changed the opinions and minds of millions not twice, but four times a year.
It wasn't a serious question, it was a quip at your problem which has across the world an incredibly obvious and easy solution.
You're crazy. And yes they should. But that isn't at all relevant. Making a car and making an e-bike are many orders of magnitude different in difficulty and in required resourcing.
*or* they could just change when school starts.
Of course they can. And then all the parents can change their work time, and then society can adjust itself to suit the new working schedules, and at that point someone will point out that the sky is not in sync with the time people spend active and will adjust the clocks.
I know that would've meant waiting for the school bus in darkness each morning
They don't have streetlights where you live?
That's an excuse, not a reason.
An excuse is story made up about something within your control.
A reason is a story made up about something outside of your control.
Unless you think the GP arbitrarily is able to decide when other people should go to work then he provided a reason, not an excuse.
Apparently Linus is better at C than English?
To be fair English is his 3rd language after C and Finnish :)
during the ridiculous times in Summer.
It's Winter that has ridiculous times :-P
I think hand writing with a pen or pencil requires much more physical dexterity than smearing your fingers onto a flat surface. Schooling used to require daily hand written exercise for years, even just taking notes for a few minutes each day - I do think it matters.
It's ironic actually that the people who spent the most time at school (doctors and surgeons) are also the ones with famously horrible handwriting :-)
If you can't say "fuck" people will just find a new way to convey the same sentiment
Well that's kind of the point. Its amazing how we can convey sentiment without an expletive filled rant. If you need to use the same language and hide the expletive with a few asterisks then you don't really have a solid grasp of the language.
Oh fuck off. We do *not* enable new random drivers by default. And we most *definitely* don't do it when they are odd-ball ones that most people have never heard of.
Yet the new "BigBen Interactive" driver that was added this merge window did exactly that.
Just don't fucking do it.
Yes, yes, you always thinks that your driver is so special and so magically important that it should be enabled by default. But no. When we have thousands of drivers, we don't randomly pick one new driver to be enabled by default just because some developer thinks they are special. You're not. Don't fucking do things like this.
I don't see how that is any more polite than before.
Let me educate you on what he said in the past:
Mauro, SHUT THE FUCK UP!
"It's a bug alright -- in the kernel. How long have you been a maintainer? And you *still* haven't learnt the first rule of kernel maintenance?"
"Shut up, Mauro. And I don't _ever_ want to hear that kind of obvious garbage and idiocy from a kernel maintainer again. Seriously. Fix your fucking 'compliance tool,' because it is obviously broken. And fix your approach to kernel programming."
So: No expletives, no attacks on the developer, and used Ps and Qs. If you don't see this as being more polite than before then I really have to wonder if you know what "polite" actually means.