There’s a little historical baggage, but look at Windows: multiple letters for drives, and all of the paths can be modified, so you have to ask Windows where any important directory is physically mapped (like SystemRoot or Documents or Temp or Roaming AppData or many others), because it doesn’t have this nice consistent structure like Linux. Linux presents a logical layer and manages the physical location automatically. Windows makes you do the logical lookup yourself, but doesn’t enforce it, so inexperienced programmers make assumptions and put stuff where the path usually is.

That’s part of why logging in to Windows over a slow connection can take forever if you have a bunch of Electron apps installed: they’ve mismapped their temp/cache directory under the Roaming AppData, so it gets synched at every login, often GiB of data, and they refuse to fix it.

His communications director who?

Saw this on Mastodon:

Did it? I didn’t bother with the article, and only shared a screenshot of a post about the headline.

I’m in!

On top of the likelihood that a ban would be very politically expensive, distracting, and watered down to pointlessness.

The pouches seem like less plastic.

Skill issue 😉

All true. I feel like the Arlington scandal has legs, though.

Especially EVs, or especially Teslas?

When did brute force switch from being an antipattern to the preferred pattern?

Just strategically, doesn’t AIPAC contribute too much to Republicans to be considered an ally?

“LGBTQ advocates say”? This seems objectively marginalizing.

This all presumes your arrogant take is correct. But please, continue your lonely war against platitudes by using platitudes. I just won’t see it.

Take your topic policing elsewhere, please.

You don’t get to declare a related topic as out of bounds like that.

Its not contextually relevant to the situation of the article.

😶

The societal indictment is exactly how I read it. Why would people take it the worst possible way?

That’s not how I read it. Se my other reply.

That argument applies to virtually the entire country, zoned specifically to sell cars, with few recent exceptions. I’m not blaming the mom for that situation, I’m not sure why anyone would think that. This is just another death that seems to at least partially implicate big oil, big auto, and corrupt politicians.