No. Your reading of it is unusual, in most contexts. It almost always means “agreement, and I have nothing of substance to add”.

It can be rude if the thing you’ve said should warrant a substantial response. Like if you wrote “my brother just died in a car wreck”, a thumbs up (or probably any emoji) would be an inappropriate response. Heavier stuff warrants whole words.

But if it’s like “Can you get cat food at the store? The kind we always get” then a thumbs up is an acceptable shorthand for "yes, I understand and commit to this request "

true, though sometimes i find the more verbose style easier to read, and more maintainable (eg: you want to do something else in the block, you can just add a line instead of changing your ternary / etc). Small things

I had a thought earlier in the bathroom about AI. It’s like building a fancy indoor toilet when you don’t have plumbing.

If people’s basic needs were met, housing food health care all that, then it wouldn’t really matter as much if people want to fuck around with AI. People who do things for passion could still do so.

But we live in a capitalist hell, this AI stuff will primarily benefit the ownership class while everyone else suffers.

I don’t need a fancy toilet. I need clean running water.

Depends on how it’s set up. If the setting is going into the env it’s a string, so I’d expect some sort of

if os.getenv("this_variable", "false").lower() == "true":   # or maybe "in true, yes, on, 1" if you want to be weird like yaml
  this_variable = True
else:
  this_variable = False

Except maybe a little more elegant and not typed on my phone.

But if the instructions are telling the user to edit the settings directly, like where I wrote this_variable=True, they’d need to case it correctly there.

Is the backend Python and the frontend JavaScript? Because then that would happen and just be normal, because Boolean true is True in python.

I thought mercurial was older than git, but apparently it’s 12 days younger.

I don’t see anything about how the people responsible for flying a confederate flag were removed from positions of authority, nor that they really learned anything.

It’s like the “there must be outgroups for the law to bind but not protect, and in-groups for the law to protect but not bind” thing.

Conservatism has always been about promoting the in-group. It’s not about rules or fairness or consistency. Just the in-group.

It’s a shitty world view.

“taxation without representation” I believe was a slogan, not a legally binding principle.

“They hate every part of capitalism without hating capitalism” comes to mind a lot

Right now, in this particular moment?

Every republican (and those who would vote republican if they were in the US) is round up and shot dead.

Pretty much any system the survivors come up with will be better.

If we make it through this, every republican needs to pay for what they’ve done to the world. No republican should be considered credible on anything ever again. I’d prefer some sort of legal process, but I won’t be upset if one of the other boxes is used instead.

I understood that reference.

I feel like people who say things “aren’t political” need to go back to like an 11th grade Literature course. These people probably would read Dracula and be like “it’s just a story about a guy that bites people THAT’S ALL”. Or say animal farm is just about some talking animals.

Really, the failure of public education is having large impacts everywhere. People seem to be bad at analysis. Like when a story has a married straight couple and that’s not “political” to this sort of person, but a married queer couple is super “political”.

I think “Everyone is entitled to their opinion” is not the rock solid axiom people think it is. Sure, you can like vanilla or chocolate ice cream. That’s opinion, and not really harming anyone.

“I don’t think the queers should be allowed to live” is technically an opinion, but it’s a vile one, and when you act on it you’re hurting people. Refusing vaccination is similar- it leads to people needlessly dying. Don’t sweep these into the same category as ice cream flavors.

Right?

This came up in another thread but folks were talking about how the rich don’t even like build libraries and theaters anymore. They don’t even pretend to care. They just build bunkers and yachts.

I’ll be a killjoy and answer sincerely: just number them. 1st Ave, 2nd Ave, 3rd Ave, etc.

moving mouse targets. Like let’s say you have two pinned items on the start menu, Firefox and steam. You click Firefox and it starts to open. You go to click steam, but Firefox finishes opening and the icon gets bigger. Steam’s icon then moves to the right, so you click where it was but instead just hit Firefox again. It’s stupid.

Note how Firefox has solved this with tabs. Open a bunch of browser tabs. Enough so they shrink a little. Then rapidly close some, starting from the left. Notice how they don’t change size until you’re done closing tabs.

Mouse tunnels. Like you click the “File” menu, and then mouse over “New” and a long sub menu opens. Longer than the original File menu. If you mouse directly from the top of File to the bottom of New, your cursor will briefly be outside either menu. This often will cause the entire menu to close. Mouse tunnel. Have to keep the cursor in the tunnel. Annoying.

Had an old job that insisted this was fine and refused to let me or anyone change the interface to fix it (on a website)

Focus stealing. Like you’re typing, and some other application pops up and takes focus. The absolute worst is when it pops up and puts focus on a dialogue box, and you just happened to hit “enter”. Instead of adding a new line to your document, you just accepted something. Awful.

No one went “straight to murder”. There have been decades of struggle.

You’re also describing the “boxes of liberty” thing. “To be used in order: soap box, ballot box, jury box, ammo box”.

I am reminded again of how we need to organized. A few people here or there defaulting on loans or refusing to pay won’t make a difference. A lot of people not paying, but not talking to each other, is kind of a wild card. But if you and fifty thousand of your closest friends went to DC together to tell your reps this is unacceptable, and if they want to sleep at night it will change, maybe we’d see change.

But organizing is really hard and I don’t know how to go about it effectively.