Because all the other programmers suck.

As a Canadian… try and snag us some good doctors as the American healthcare system collapses.

Ahem - there is a debate… it’s over / vs. -. As is proper - all true debates should be over minor formatting decisions (soft tabs over my fucking dead body).

You must not know many programmers that have had to deal with American date formatting then.

As a programmer I agree. I have fucked around with trying to parse unrestricted user inputs of dates and I have found out.

Year first is the only way I can actually know which value is day vs. month.

Thank you for introducing my new favorite word for my least favorite thing!

It’s probably a bug.

Fuck, if we’re in a simulation I’d be most amazed that nobody has managed to trigger a null pointer exception to crash the whole thing yet.

Oh, also, infinite recursion… and we got so close with https://youtu.be/xz6OGVCdov8

I’d prefer clear pricing (even if that raises prices) to have the comforting knowledge that some asshole can’t underpay a server and leave them short of paying a bill just 'cause. Servers deserve predictable income and customers should feel obligated to be polite themselves to receive politeness in turn.

Because it’s not a fair market. Health insurance is a cartel market.

Let’s say you break your ankle - maybe a reasonable cost for resetting the bone would be 240$ - the hospital will set a list price somewhere like 1300$ for the operation and then Anthem/UHC/whatever will send a rep out to be like “Hey, what if, when it’s one of our people, you only charged 300$” suddenly the rep gets a bonus for getting a “good deal” the insured patient is happy to pay well below “market” price and the hospital might get a small kick back for being so generous.

In this scenario most people only ever feel the 300$ price - but uninsured people or people out of network get absolutely fucked.

Since the current system entrenches all the existing players none of the participants (except the patients who usually don’t even get to choose their insurer) want to change anything.

Young people can struggle with this until they realize how thoroughly fucked we all are. There’s a weird culture of height significance in dating that’s a pretty entrenched meme at this point. So it’s something there is a lot of insecurity around it.

Your view is the correct one, of course, we just need to fucking deal with what we are aka “have the grace to accept the things I cannot change”.

I am sure, sure, that no Isreali settlers are salivating over the “free” real estate.

If you find the guy who offended you let me know - I’ll give him the clamps.

Silver - the gold standard of scores was set by Curtis Mayfield.

Futurama - though I expect that’s showing my age.

I fully agree - though my Canadian coworkers weren’t even offered a vote!

You’d be amazed the kinds of excuses companies can come up with to avoid doing something they don’t want to do.

The easiest route is to buy a server from someone like digital ocean, set up a VPN daemon, register a cert with it (that’s the hardest technical part) then set up something like openVPN on your client machine and install a matching cert there.

Oh no worries, my response wasn’t meant in a negative way either (I just swear like a fucking sailor). I’ve seen coworkers hold off on living life until retirement and then end up unable to actually do anything.

As long as you’re not burning money I’d encourage everyone to make sure to enjoy life in moderation constantly.

Enjoy your high seas m’hearty.

Then you’ll want a commercial offering since they’ll have nodes across the world.

Is that ad supported and does it allow downloading content for offline viewing? I usually watch shows when traveling and an offline mode is a must for me (and I have ADHD so I’ll literally murder any service that’s ad supported).