Gods no.

Hahahahahaah fair.

Minnesota is in a strange place where they were ruled unconstitutional, and they disappeared for many years. Now they are back, and to get around that they are not a misdemeanor, aren't a ding against your license or insurance, and you're under no obligation to pay them.

I don't know, I personally find it kind of disrespectful.

My initial gut reaction was "he can't even be bothered to use his shift-key while dramatically altering 4,000 people's lives?"

It's just too casual for what is happening.

Stop adding features to notepad. It was feature complete in 1995

There was an active shooter in our area a number of years ago and they locked the building down. No one was injured, it was a domestic dispute in a neighborhood a few blocks away. The police caught the guy hiding in some bushes.

In response to the perceived need to "do something", my company put cameras in the hallway we share with other companies and gave the receptionist monitors for the cameras and a panic button that locks all the doors.

It's not a terrible thing, it's largely security theater though. Someone would have to be clearly brandishing a weapon and our receptionist would have to notice this amongst all her other duties and out of all the people in the hall. It could happen, but it seems unlikely.

Coming from the Midwest I visited Fry's for the first time in early 2020 weeks before COVID. I had always heard amazing things about the store, for years. It was on my short list of places to visit on the west coast. That place was not a healthy operation. Close to half the shelves were empty, the place was generally a mess and needed a deep clean, and worst of all the employees seemed entirely disinterested in helping me.

When news came that they had shut down I was entirely unsurprised.

COVID might have sped things up a little but that location at least was on its last legs.

They were already very much going out of business in 2020. They were dying throughout the 2010's.

It was not healthy in 2015 either, which is around the last time I visited.

For me, as a two thumb typer, I feel like if you had kept the letters generally on the same side (left/right) as Qwerty, even if nowhere near the same location, I could adapt to it much more quickly.

I go to spell something as simple as my name on this and none of the keys are anywhere near where 40 years of muscle memory expect.

Frankly, I just want to hit the letters with the same thumb.

I understand not wanting to copy, to be a purely original creation, but you could certainly help adoption by making it a little less painful.

It's interesting to me every time one of these "I just figured out I can use git without GitHub" posts comes up.

The entire design of git was intended to be decentralized. You really don't even need the centralized bare repo! You can just point your machines at each other. With Tailscale these days that's especially easy.

Admittedly, I'm getting old, but for the first couple years I used git professionally ~2008-2011 we just pulled from each other's machines. Directly over SSH. We worked in an office, all had each other's machines as remotes. "Hey, is that feature done? Cool, I'll pull it". It worked really well.

Eventually we tossed a bare repo up on a server in the office and switched to push instead of pull. Finish a feature? Push it up! At some point our devops guy installed Gitlab around that, but we never really used the web ui.

Winds changed, we moved to GitHub, eventually a pull request / code review workflow. Here we are now.

GitHub did an incredibly good job of capturing mindspace around git, to the extent that many users don’t realize that there is any distinction between the tool and the hosting platform.

I’m not sure if this is a large scale thing, but I know it’s definitely true for myself and some others.

My first exposure to Git and GitHub was through GitHub Pages. I was told to use the GitHub web editor, ignore all the ‘git’ stuff, and just write the HTML files there. Then I grew into using GitHub desktop and later VSCode’s git integration. At no point did I have to use ‘git’ on the command line so I didn’t really understand what the tool did or why. I think many people simply don’t see git without GitHub. Some even see GitHub without touching git eg. see the infamous ‘I am new to GitHub and I have lots to say’ post https://www.reddit.com/r/github/comments/1at9br4/i_am_new_to...

Indeed.

The best way to make the distinction really obvious is the phrase: "Github is to git what Pornhub is to porn".

Alas, not a phrase you can use in an educational setting though. And I haven't really found other "hub" examples which would be as instantly recognisable and demonstrative of the difference.

It's a good metaphor, and one could easily substitute "YouTube" into the explanation in really sensitive situations. In less sensitive situations, you might be able to still use "PornHub" so long as you do enough throat-clearing to make it seem like you're not speaking glowingly of it, and YouTube is helpful here, too.

PornHub didn't invent online videos, and the fact that just because someone was talking about watching a video online doesn't mean it wouldn't be really weird for someone else to assume that they meant it was something on PornHub, instead of just an ordinary video on YouTube.

Yeah, you can even just push to an USB stick, if you don't have an Ethernet cable available.

I sometimes clone stuff around my local filesystem and pretty much yeah it's a shame GitHub has captured so much of the mindshare around git.

> Admittedly, I'm getting old, but for the first couple years I used git professionally ~2008-2011 we just pulled from each other's machines. Directly over SSH. We worked in an office, all had each other's machines as remotes. "Hey, is that feature done? Cool, I'll pull it". It worked really well.

Haha I'm jealous.

We used Airdrop.

And then I was like "shouldn't we use git?"

"Nah, this works fine, you have the code you need now, don't you?"

I was still in my second year of my information science bachelor and he was +60 years old and had programmed for over 2 decades. I was not going to argue with someone that experienced. In retrospect, I should have. But I'd probably been shot down with being "that youngster that always wants to use new technologies" (despite git not being that new anymore).

I recall a time when github was having an outage at the same time me and a coworker were trying to fix a high priority issue. I had pushed my changes before the outage but he couldn't pull them. I proposed that I share my repo locally so he could pull from me, but he looked confused and didn't get it, so I let it drop.

Exactly! I was in university around that time. Our team project needed a non-public repo for us to sync to. Free/Personal Github at the time did not allow for private repos, so I just used my Dropbox folder as the "server". Worked well enough for a bunch of students to use that as a centralized repo.

Funny you mentioned Tailscale, since the Author seems to work there.

My Facebook is bad, but I still see a bunch of posts by friends. Instagram on the other hand went from a stream of artsy photos my friends posted of their vacations to a literal river of AI generated garbage.

Until about a year ago I really liked Instagram because it had been the last bastion of content by friends.

Now my feed goes

    - maybe one post from friends if I am lucky
    - 1-2 posts from content creators or local stores I like but don't follow 
    - endless stream of rage bait / slop / thirst traps 

I just don't feel compelled to even open instagram anymore.