The article essentially says the reason is that price tags aren’t being updated to reflect the prices in the computer system. I’d be interested to see if any items ring up cheaper at the register, or if the error is always coincidentally in favor of the store.

I update when I log on, then again before I log off. I use Arch, btw.

Neuromancer by William Gibson contains some similar themes.

Hello friend, us Belters need the OPA to protect our rights, you know?

The “cooking blog” style where a simple answer to a simple question has to be padded with eight paragraphs of garbage. Like, I just want to know how to put a comment in a YAML file. I don’t need a table of contents for this, I don’t need to hear a brief history of how the comment was invented, just tell me the character to type.

Oye kopeng, beltalowda need dem OPA to protect our rights. Sasa ke?

The six-fingered man!

“You are, without doubt, the worst skyjacker I have ever heard of.”

You need to follow it up with an applesauce enema to replace the electrolytes.

And by swamp, well let’s just say Bubba’s peenits

Word of the day: hypocrat

TempleOS is the only correct answer.

It’s a good question and years ago I might have asked the same thing. I’m a minimalist and I really dislike all the extra crap that comes with all-in-one distros these days. Not just installed programs, but also daemons and services that start by default. I hate the idea that I have to go in and manually turn them all off on new installs. I used Ubuntu for a long time but slowly got more and more annoyed at the bloat. The snap situation was the final straw that pushed me to explore other distros. I landed on Arch and really liked it. A new Arch install can be incredibly clean, basically providing nothing more than a command prompt from which you can install what you need. The only stuff running on your machine is what you explicitly put on it. There are a couple things I get annoyed with in Arch, like some baked-in drivers for hardware I don’t have, however it’s minor enough that I can let it go. I also played with Gentoo but couldn’t get comfortable enough to make it my daily driver. Arch is my personal best-balance between cleanliness and effort.

Privacy

Sorry, I didn’t mean to trivialize that amount of money.

Just ballparking that there are 250 million non-high-earners, at $2k a pop that’s $500 billion. Two thousand dollars won’t change anyone’s life, but $500bn is a big chunk of the federal budget.

Russia doesn’t stand a chance against this man.

Mazel tov. The next step down the rabbit hole is to get a tiling window manager like i3.

Quarter notes should be called “beat notes” or something, since they’re equal to one beat in the measure.

What could possibly go wrong.