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As a software engineer who's had to interact with Discord only a handful of times, I had no idea when other people could hear me or where I had to click to find people I was looking for.

I've only rarely used it for voice, so I think I'm not in the right demographic. But I find its text/chat UI janky as hell.

Can't resist taking this bait, but I feel like the consensus is pretty much that as an individual, choosing to wear a helmet will make you safer, and as a society, mandating bike helmets (and other measures that will cause people to use transportation methods that are more dangerous to others) will make everyone less safe.

Of course, it's hard to prove. But I think you'll generally find that, if you compare the number of injuries/deaths while cycling in countries with mandatory helmets per km will be higher than it is in the Netherlands, where they are not mandatory.


Comparing the Netherlands with some of the best, if not the best bike infrastructure to other countries without said infrastructure seems very reductionist. To get anywhere near an interesting number you would have to compare the number of injuries to the total number of accidents including cyclists in countries with comparable bike infrastructure and differing helmet policies.

It sounds to me like the goal there is to spell out everything you don't want the agent to make assumptions about. If you let the agent make the plan, it'll still make those assumptions for you.

FWIW, NLNet is distributing EU funds, not Dutch funds.

That said, the Dutch government is collaborating with La Suite (fr) and OpenDesk (de): https://minbzk.github.io/mijn-bureau/


> People always will want the fastest, best, easiest setup method

When there are no other downsides, sure. But when the frontier companies start tightening the thumbscrews, price will influence what people consider good enough.


As I understand it, it's not all of it in Solvinity's hands; I think it's mostly infrastructure. Still, apparently it's not a matter of pushing a button to migrate off of that infrastructure.

All they'd learn that way is that that phone number has a Signal account, when it was registered, and when it was last active. In other words, it doesn't tell them whether it's part of a given Signal group. (See https://signal.org/bigbrother/.)

I think it was mostly a joke about IE being horrible.


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