I have considered it. I agree to your proposal.

I just finished chapter 2 last night. So far this game does all the things a sequel is supposed to. It feels like more of the first game, but with new content added.

Im not sure exactly how the system works, but if I were designing one, there would be 3 approaches I can think of.

The first is to equip the lock with a GPS system and dictate that it locks if it's not within range of a particular location. This one would be the most expensive to implement, but should come with minimal opportunity for messing with it.

Next down the list is each lock is equipped with a radio to connect to a wifi or sub-GHz broadcaster, and as soon as it misses enough heartbeats to a central control point, it locks the wheels. This could be disrupted by jamming the signal, but jammers of this type are highly illegal, and easily trackable.

Last is the cheapest option, which is to include an RFID module tied to the lock and a system to broadcast a signal at the perimeter. If a cart comes within range for a long enough period then the RFID tag is activated and the wheels lock.

I suspect it's probably a sub-GHz radio situation, with the broadcast power tuned to be within a few hundred meters of the store. If you had some kind of SDR you could probably pinpoint the signal they use and repeat it, letting you wheel a cart outside the zone, but as soon as you stop the signal the wheels will lock.

Ubuntu server is okay, but I've come to really appreciate a minimal, stable Debian install instead.

"The brand new car I bought has been out of commission for roughly 25% of the time Ive owned it. Is it a bad car?"

"All the people telling me this car is bad are wrong because it's the best car in the world, but my question still stands. Is it a bad car?"

You're right. This movie rules

This is heinous, but at 3am after too many beers, I would demolish these.

It's just regular misogyny this time, in that they only see "real" women as capable of giving birth, and then tried to cover up medical problems that would get in the way of that with the word "intention".

This is Microsoft Licensing in a nutshell.

I have a tinfoil hat theory that they keep it complicated on purpose to add value to 365 certifications

I work in an office as a network administrator. Largely my day to day is a meeting every morning to go over what everyone is doing for the day, then looking through and responding to all the alerts that came up from all the servers I manage(things like failing backups, unexpected reboots, stopped services, strange login behavior, etc)

Then, if I still have time in the day, I put time towards some of the long term projects I have which largely consists of finding things that can be automated and scripting up solutions to that

I tend to just take the defaults when I'm deploying. I wouldn't get any benefit of having home or tmp on a separate partition, but it's nice that it's an option.

This is the short of it. Tate explains in no uncertain terms that society is to blame for the insecurities they feel, and provides an easy answer on how to fix it that kind of works, because it emulates self-confidence.

I got one a while back and did exactly the same thing. Don't respond, block the number, report as spam.

The infantalization of the internet solely so that advertisers feel comfortable is becoming a problem.

Sometimes people need to talk about heavy topics like suicide or sexual assult in a way that's mostly anonymous. Ads are a whole separate issue, but I don't really feel any different about them based on the content surrounding them. Bounty can still sell paper towels if someone says "fuck" next to the ad.

Every drug dealer I've ever dealt with was just a metalhead in an apartment that got into growing weed as a hobby. Not sure if I ever encountered a "real" dealer, but my interactions with them was just going over to their place, smoking a bowl and watching a movie or playing Mario Kart for a couple hours, then leaving with a bag.

This is probably the best choice. There is basically no failure state, so there is no impetus to act under pressure, which is probably the biggest demotivator if someone is at that stage of learning how to play video games.

Minecraft is pretty mechanically complex if you're at the "need to learn how to move in a video game" stage

I live in a small town and even I had to wait about 15 minutes in line.

Last election, I was the only one there outside of the volunteers and was in and out in about a minute. I want to think this is a good thing and we'll see massive voter turnout

Yeah, that tracks for Canadian politics as a whole.

Conservatives and Liberals haven't really changed their tune and are both running essentially the same platforms they were in the mid-2000s. The NDP is headed by someone who got into politics to really try and change things for the better, and get outplayed every time by the establishment. And the Bloc really only cares about the culture of Quebec, which makes them a non-candidate for anyone far away from Quebec

Lobbyists as they exist now? Definitely.

The original concept for them is an important thing to have in a democratic system. You can't expect politicians to be intimately familiar with the ins and outs of every industry, which leads to ineffective regulation. It makes sense to have a person whose job it is to translate the needs of the industry to the politicians.

The problems come when that person has an incentive and a sizable budget to twist policy to the advantage of shareholders rather than consumers or workers.