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I was thinking “The Poot-Trumpin’ Fart Tube”, but yours might be more suitable for business purposes.

There’s a minimum temperature for indoor work in Britain, but no maximum. The minimum for sedentary work used to be 17°C, but they reduced it to 16°C during the last government. Notably, it hasn’t been increased again under the current one. (For active indoor work, it’s 13°C. Outdoor work has no limits otherwise the country would be even less functional in extreme weather than it already is.)

Yoti is British. I get you were talking about Sony, but I wouldn’t want people to get the impression that this is a strictly Japanese thing.

Zelenskyy would have to be foolish to expect anything else at this point, so this had to have been for another reason. Possibly to prove that Putin remains a terrible person and to keep the conflict in the news.

Oh. Well that’s much better.

I don’t remember seeing it in my distro’s package manager previously, but I have a feeling I might have rejected it for being a Qt app. By default their look and feel doesn’t match my window manager choices, and my distro hasn’t ever handled that automatically, so I may have decided I didn’t like the look of it.

Now I’m aware of qt5ct (changes some of the look and feel of Qt5 apps) so that’s not as much of a problem any more.

I would have recommended WinDirStat myself. I never did like the pie chart style views in programs like Filelight and Baobab.

(I use Graphical Disk Map on Linux. Not quite as full featured as WinDirStat but works in a pinch.)

That’d be great if software still had the same small footprint it had back then.

Stopped clocks and all that.

Totalitarian governments have two aces up their sleeve when it comes to pushing through totalitarian legislation: 1) Child safety and 2) National security.

Any guesses for which they’ll choose to excuse this one?

Permit me to reiterate an idea I had the last time a self-driving car did something illegal:

All of these cars are being driven by the same software “driver”. That driver is in contempt of the law. Thus it needs to be punished like any other driver in contempt of the law. All fines to be paid by its representative human or company. All incarceration to be for as long as is necessary for the driver to be rehabilitated. If no such rehabilitation is possible, the driver is permanently banned from driving.

By which I mean, all Waymos need to be taken off the road until they’re provably rehabilitated and it is certain that this won’t happen again.

And if Waymo the company thinks that would be detrimental to their business, tough. Take some responsibility and fix your damn cars.

Two excellent reasons to not play on that course then. Either out of, you know, respect, or if you lack that, some equally disrespectful pissed-off Vietnamese might have chosen to set up some war-era style surprises.

Would you risk it?

If Putin hadn’t decided to forcibly annex parts of Ukraine in the first place, many Russian sons would still be alive and Zelenskyy perhaps wouldn’t be seeking help from the “wrong” people (not that I think that’s an entirely valid way to think about it.)

And as best as I can tell Zelenskyy is not in favour of the way Israel is going about what they’re doing in Palestine, and I’m sure he very much recognises the parallels with what’s happening to his own country.

Of course. If you can’t be loud and obnoxious, you can’t compensate for the fact you have a tiny penis.

Which I wish they’d quit because they’re giving the rest of us with tiny penises a bad name.

Both definitely happen, but this is almost certainly a formal writing versus common vernacular thing.

As for why, I’d guess the pronunciation as a word could be mistaken for the actual word “vat” or, worse, “fat”. Most people want fat on their goods almost as much as they want V.A.T., but now there’s confusion added into the mix.

Well, I suppose there’s precedent elsewhere in the animal kingdom. Specifically anyone who likes stinky cheese, or enjoys tucking into things like hakárl or lutefisk.

The italic text in Vim threw me for a loop. But I realised it makes sense.

Syntax highlighting already exists in editors. Terminal based ones often implement this in terms of terminal escapes or similar. Most modern terminal emulators support the enable-italic escape. Thus, some combination of these can effectively emulate markdown.

What I do note is that my root Linux consoles (Ctrl+Alt+F[1-6]), and LMDE) don’t support italics, suggesting the Vim instance is running in a full-screen terminal emulator under some windowing system or another.

That seems like overkill just for italics in an otherwise text-only interface, but maybe I’m missing something (patience being one possibility).

Regardless of who the star turn is, this is grounds for a class action lawsuit if ever I heard one.

On the other hand, there’s very little chance that would go well for Owens or her would-be audience.

… how do we convince them to push for it?

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You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.

Tough times require tough measures. Either you find what the students do in there acceptable or you don’t. If you don’t, someone needs to check, and if not that sysadmin, then it’s going to have to be someone even further away.

One alternative would be to have the restrooms be locked and to be unlocked on request. How key management works with that I leave open.

This would be ideal if there was a suite of unitary WCs, because one key per room per person.

Not ideal in the case of emergencies, I grant you, but then, you don’t want to be using a filthy restroom in an emergency either, so I guess go the whole way into that and put a chemical toilet somewhere outside nearby. OR the old outhouse with hole in the ground if you can’t stretch to that.

The attendant doesn’t have to be a custodian. The member of staff with the office closest to each bathroom is now responsible for at least checking that bathroom once an hour. It’s a budget crunch. Everyone has to do their part!

And if that doesn’t fix the budget crunch within a week or two, the bathrooms are now being checked.