For the same reason I think software developers have the right to choose to release under copyleft, I think they have the right to release under SaaS or copyright. I don’t think it is fair to take those rights from them. (I may choose to avoid SaaS or other proprietary models where possible, but I am not pure about it… I just do so recognizing that proprietary tools are a band-aid and could become unusable when any upgrade or TOS changes.)

As one example, keep in mind that some governments may choose to punish a software developer for making “offensive” (by whatever their standards are) content, and rather than fighting a losing battle in one jurisdiction so you in some other jurisdiction can keep using that controversial software the developer may just choose to cut their losses and turn it off for everyone. If you force them to release it anyway then said punitive government may continue to hold the developer responsible for the existence of that software.

There are rights and responsibilities associated with a proprietary model… and IMO you (and your permissive government) should not be overriding those rights for your own short-sighted benefit.

A) this issue applies to all kinds of software.

B) procuring software is a two-way street … the producer assigns terms by which access is obtained, and you agree to those terms in exchange for that access. If the software is SaaS then if the producer chooses to shut down the service then you are SOL. If the software is provided with a long list of terms via Steam, then you are basically buying SaaS with local caching and execution. Maybe don’t reward producers by agreeing to one-sided deals like SaaS?

This kind of headache is what prompted Richard Stallman to come up with the idea for the GNU license. Maybe you think that is too radical… but maybe imposing your ideas of what licensing terms should look like on (only?) game developers is radical also.

Perhaps re-frame the question: is it expected that you should partake of marijuana on the first date?

Really, a date is about getting to know each other, and any assumptions about the suitability of these kinds of social lubricants may indicate a divergence or convergence of cultural norms.

In other words, arranging a to meet at a bar sends a signal well before the “date” actually begins about how you approach life… if such a proposal is accepted then the other party is at least open to you consuming.

There are quite likely a lot of people who will breeze right past this and proceed to get tipsy to provide a cover story for embarrassing mistakes… and every but of this is fodder for judging how well you will get along if there are further dates. Don’t get depressed if the other person decides against future dates… no matter your feelings if they don’t feel likewise then best to drop it early.

The important thing to do is communicate the kind of person you are… forgiving, uptight, loose, teetotaler… and learn what kind of person the other is… preferably without conflict, and with respect. If alcohol fits with your persona, don’t hide it.

if it is a magnum, shouldn’t it be bigger? /s

Just a note: Windows software for controlling hardware is highly likely to assume a)direct access to the hardware (sometimes mediated thorough ancient APIs and assuming the existence of defunct expansion slots) and b) assume meatspace time can be counted using OS timing ticks (which get stretched out as modern VMs timeshare with other processes underneath the virtulized hardware). It is awfully tough to replace them sometimes.

Bro stair climbing wheelchair. Segway put a lot of design effort into this about 30 years ago before trying to go big with the normal Segway. https://www.scewo.com/en/

Stick with Windows. Microft will deliver paradigm shifts and you will have no say in the matter. They are already removing options for disabling Copilot, and for all the promised backward compatibility they are letting go of features that lots of old Windows software depended on, as they introduce features similar to ones in Linux. I cannot really fault them for all of these changes, but the difference is actually one of choice and privacy, and not really the one you seem to think it is.

TIL. tho maybe TMI.

Oh, my, what a surprise! /s

Maybe if enough people file feedback on the name change they will reconsider. At least they will have a glut of feedback to deal with.

So optimistically assuming that Trump will follow through.

You must have done more than rename a partition… it is looking for the partition UID and not finding it. Since the UID is never supposed to change until the partition gets wiped, this is very odd indeed.

Also, putting external volumes (usb stick?) into fstab is not a good idea… let the automount find it when you put it in and want to access it.

His admiration for "strong’ leaders (dictators) starts to take shape. Supplying weapons to Ukraine to fight military aggression doesn’t seem appropriate when you can simply try to outdo Putin at his own game.

Julius Caesar did this… it is not a new pattern.

Not “debugging” … the value comes before I even try to run the code. The background syntax checker highlights when the types don’t agree into and out of each function call and I don’t get errors like trying to index into an integer.

As for time… I guessed… I did not measure. I have limited time to play with this and don’t optimize unless I find myself waiting excessively for an answer.

Python

Sets of tuples and iteration for both first and second parts. A list of tuples used as a stack for the conversion of recursion to iteration. Dictionary of legal trail moves for traversal. Type hints for antibugging in VSCode. Couple of seconds runtime for each part.

https://github.com/jdnewmil/aocpy/blob/master/aocpy%2Faoc2024%2Fday10.py

So are we at peak DeBeers?

Well, since I solved it by allowing re-traversal in the opposite direction, perhaps you might want to re-think your assessment of my suggestion… whenever you get tired of being stuck on that problem.

I think your step 2 is incorrect. Traversing the direction you came from is perfectly legitimate. But if you move onto a location+heading that you traversed before, that is a loop.

My WAG would be that they need more busywork for the prisoners.

I think you meant “propagated”.

How do you monitor your email functionality? How long would it be before you noticed it was offline? What about paying for and configuring the new email server?