Thanks. So it's more for the recent generations of tall flat SUVs and trucks. I've heard the injury stats on those have been pretty bad. I'm glad someone is trying to do something about it.

Those are the two developments in truck safety I've heard in the news this year, so I had a 50/50 chance, but I guessed the wrong one, lol.

I'm not entirely sure how to read this, but I have to wonder if the gist of it is "please don't build sharp edged murder trucks, Elon".

Dunno where this article got it's ideas about raccoons. The average raccoon will rob a person and leave them for dead, given the chance.

They're pretty much cat personalities, just a lot smarter and more wild.

"Definitely don't do that again, or we shall become truly cross."

Sorry for not bringing more empathy here, but we should be past condemning this sort of thing and well into extended sanctions of every kind.

World leaders who cannot keep their fighter jets from harming humanitarian aid workers need to quickly become leaders without access to the kind of finances that allow them to buy fighter jets.

This is great stuff.

My comment from the peanut gallery today is just that there's no law that CI/CD can't be kept under control and run in ten seconds.

Given the choice between a slow out of control CI/CD mess, or a shell script, I too will take the shell script every time.

But I am living my best life today, and have a simple shell script in my CI/CD pipeline.

Wasting time on the Fediverse is so much nicer than the other socal (and beyond! Also social, too.) media I used to waste time on.

You make some great points, but I'm concerned that your preferred solutions may ignore the needs of working with peers. When I've worked with similar solutions before, we had a lot of on call, and it all went to the same person, regardless of who actually answered the phone.

There's nuance to be had in the middle ground:

• The CI/CD pipeline should deliver releases, but shouldn't be the only way to put them into production. People often get this wrong and have to invoke CI/CD to even do a roll back. Putting something into production without CI/CD should be possible, but it should be loud, to avoid nasty surprises, later.
• Infrastructure as code is great. It just happens to be backwards, today. We could all go back to point and click changes, if the infrastructure had full journaling (including who made the change) of changes and full rollback capability. Ironically, I expect k8s (or a fork of it) to finally deliver this.
• the only nice thing I have to say about K8s today is that it's not locking myself into a proprietary cloud, or worse, VMWare. Today, K8s is towering mere centimeters above even worse solutions, all of them objectively awful. I'm not mad at anyone using any of these. We all know we want the freedom of K8s, but no one wants the bullshit interfaces it currently comes with. It will get better.

Anyway, interesting read. Thank you. The only way the current awful state of hosting is going to improve is by having this conversation.

I keep hearing "most people aren't ready for K8S". But there's no such thing. There's just whether K8S (or whatever replaces it) is ready for most people's use cases.

Relationships are about compromise.

But yeah, maybe not worth it.

The suit clearly does not fit him.

You and I remember this film very differently. I could swear it was excellently tailored suit in a number of really close up shots, early in the film. To the point where I thought the film was telling me

::: spoiler A lie that Memento seemed to be telling the audience "This is absolutely his suit. Look how well it fits. Look how expensive it is. There's no way that what is happening here is as simple as he took this off of a dead mobster." :::

That suit had absolutely been tailored to his body. I understand that actors want to look great, and so I figure they let him wear a suit that fit for most of the film.

After the reveal

::: spoiler Memento Spoiler that it's not his suit, :::

they do have some lines about it not fitting, which felt very dishonest, after the earlier close-ups.

I would have been satisfied with a throw away line of dialogue about the suit not fitting before the reveal. I would have laughed at it (the suit clearly fits great in almost every scene), but it at least would have made the reveal cool instead of silly.

I would have also settled for (and I expected) a scene where he gets the suit trailored properly. But if I recall, there was no reasonable way to fit such a scene. Which I get. I'm not saying this film would have been better by addressing my pedantic complaint.

I'm not really mad that actors get to wear clothes that fit - it was just a stand out moment in an otherwise seamless (pun absolutely intended) film.

Not Op, but...

::: spoiler Spoiler for the torture scene in Looper

At the start of that scene, they're inflicting harm that would still allow the dude to do everything he's done so far, just scarred. And the scars are appearing on his future self. It makes a kind of weird sense, if we stretch our imagination.

But they cross well past anything reasonable into injuries that would have just made anyone's past self decide to retire and hide out in the woods in Florida.

It made no sense at all by the end, that his future self was somehow still working for them.

:::

Lol. I noticed that too. But I expected less from Cowboys vs Aliens, so I wasn't as confused by it.

Public transport might be another example, it'd be fairly safe to have a government funded monopoly on public transport as it's unlikely to compete with private industry for resources in a price-inflationary raw resource based manner.

That would be so nice, too.

In Memento

::: spoiler Spoiler about Clothing He just puts on someone else's expensive tailored suit, and it magically re-tailors itself to fit him perfectly.

That's not how fabric or thread works. And it was deeply disorienting in a film that is otherwise careful to ensure that details like that matter and are reasonable. :::

But what if it actually is magic this time? Just this once!? And we miss the hype train?! (This is a sarcastic impression of real conversations I have had.)

How are producers/consumers okay with everything being so mediocre??

"You're always trying to make everything just a little bit worse so that you can feel good about having a lot more of it. I love it. It's so human!" - The Good Place

Yeah.

One thing that gives me some peace is that there was a metric fuck ton of lead (and other dangerous crap) in the previous generation's childhood. I'm sure there's plenty of new threats to my brain health, but at least my baby rattle wasn't lead.

So it's not 100% a guarantee that I'll go that way as I age further.

Oh cool! I haven't tried in some time. Thanks for adding your experience. That's great news. (I'll add a correction above, as well.)

Yeah. I could figure out how to make a PC do all that, but I would rather pay for a Steam console that does all of that for me out of the box.

That being said, it would also put pressure on underdeveloped properties, like your home on a street with rising property values.

Yeah. I feel like people would get out and vote if they understood this.

and for the large majority of people it would decrease appreciably.

I'm still concerned, since I'm planning to own a huge international chain of retail stores when I strike it rich and become a billionaire. (This is Sarcasm.)

Great explanation. Thank you.