Whatever the solution is here, it must not, under any circumstance, involve an analysis of why people are so willing to steal from one another. All that matters is me getting my iPhone.

Are you saying there is some hidden reason why people are doing this? The straightforward reason is that this is a valuable fungible good that you can easily fence. This kind of thing has always been a target for the criminal element. Watches before this. Chains.

We don’t need another social science thesis over this. Just like the blonde millionaire in San Diego who organized a crime ring in California, there are people who know how to run other criminal organizations.

Yet somehow - just like school shootings - this appears to be a much worse problem in the US compared to many other countries.

Its only a problem in certain parts of the US. There are some towns where people don't lock their car doors.

Other people are saying that it's the norm in some other countries for couriers to require a OTP at delivery, something that is very rare in the US.

Doesn't that imply that those places have package thievery problems far worse than in the US?

Why do you think that?

> The only year that beat it – again – was 2020 when universal mail-in voting was more widely available.

You answered your own question. Voting was made more difficult in 2024, so fewer votes were cast.

You’ll be able to one day!

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I must have saved upwards of 10 minutes so far by tying my laces with the Ian Knot [1]. If anyone knows of a faster knot I’m all ears, otherwise, cheers to Ian and his innovation in the shoe lace knot space.

[1] https://www.fieggen.com/shoelace/ianknot.htm

In case you don't realise, you're tying a regular shoe-lace knot, a square knot, it's just a different technique.

Not just time saving, but since I use it I did not have to re-tie my laces during the day, it looks very symmetrical, and I regularly have the silly but satisfying experience of people seeing me tie my shoes and say "how did you do that?". This is the knot I am teaching my kids (my wife can take care of the "standard" one).

My kids only know this way of tying it, I was surprised how easy they learnt it vs what other parents refer to me for more traditional ways

How do you keep the tension when tying that? With a regular shoelace knot, I have a spare thumb to place on the base knot so that it maintains the tension I initially selected with the base knot. With the Ian knot, it feels like I just get whatever it feels like giving me.

I use my pinky or ring finger to apply pressure on the base knot

Same here, it felt good knowing that I could at least crank something to the max.

As an aside, does anyone know why console games will sometimes opt to use a very low AF setting? It’s something that comes up in Digital Foundry videos and I was curious if anyone familiar with console dev could shed some light.

I believe it's because they lack memory bandwidth. On pc you have spare bandwidth so it has 0 performance impact.

I think “useless” is the wrong aspect to focus on. Having someone sit at a desk doing nothing except answer a couple of phone calls sounds terrible. It’s good from the firm’s perspective because they get their receptionist, but the person in that role likely doesn’t get anything more than a pay check out of it.

> the person in that role likely doesn’t get anything more than a pay check out of it.

but why is there an expectation that they get anything more than a paycheque out of it? It's called a job for a reason.

Because people spend a large portion of their lives at work. I think it’s sad that so many people have to work these kinds of jobs because their talents aren’t monetisable. A person shouldn’t have to justify their need for shelter or food.

> A person shouldn’t have to justify their need for shelter or food.

while a good moral argument, the world has not reached a point where such outcomes can be had. At some point in the future, when there's post-scarcity for all basic resources, then it would be possible that people shouldn't have to justify their own shelter or food.

I honestly believe this could have been achieved already, at least in my country. But opportunities to push us in that direction are avoided more often than not. Maybe the same characteristics that advanced developed nations will also be their downfall?

I believe the same is possible. Especially the fact that we end up spending more money to make it not possible.

Is calloc avoided for a good reason? Or is it something that people should be doing in most cases?

There is often a small amount of extra runtime cost to zero-initialize the buffer. Other than that, no reason other than inertia.

it has two arguments

Solarisation is a photographic technique

It’s still called RPC. https://telefunc.com/RPC-vs-GraphQL-REST

I was making a joke

Perhaps that’s how banks and the justice system view art. Two pillars of society that are perfect just the way they are.