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  • The recommendation changed from car lengths to seconds decades ago, but wasn't well communicated fwict. I learned car lengths from my dad and then seconds when I got my motorcycle endorsement.

    If everyone were leaving 2 seconds of space, it also reduces stop and go traffic that is caused, or at least exacerbated, by the traffic wave phenomenon. But that's even less well socialized.

  • [Solved?] Weird Font problems in desktop icons
  • It looks like the png is getting word wrapped. Line spacing is so large that the png on the second line is getting pushed into the space of the icon below, and the icon below is given a higher Z value, so it goes over it. The different font has a different letter width and can influence the line spacing by being taller than the original font.

    See if you can find an option to reduce line spacing or an option to increase icon spacing (vertical or horizontal). I would expect these to be advanced settings though. Iirc, most Linux desktops don't use ellipses on long names, like some other operating systems (macOS iirc).

  • Should I file bug reports for open source projects even if I am bad at writing bug reports?
  • Yes. I'm not sure what you think makes you bad at writing bug reports, but here are tips I give to everyone (my day job involves working with bug reports).

    Nominally, a decent bug report should have:

    • the steps that got you the bug
    • whether you can reproduce the bug
    • what you expected to happen instead of the bug

    Doing any of these things makes bug reports so much more actionable. You can do it. I believe in you!

    Edit: Including a contact method so the software developer can have a conversation with you can also be helpful but not strictly required. Some bug reporting methods do this implicitly, like email bug reports and GitHub issues.

  • Why are doctors so hands off and unhelpful in the USA?
  • It's exactly this. The policies put in place by "healthcare administrators" (MBAs and such with healthcare flavoring, not people that actually know how to care for people's health like doctors and nurses) are designed to process the most patience in the least amount of face time possible, so that each doctor and nurse can see more patients per day, meaning more office visit fees, meaning higher profit. My dad calls it the "cattle shoot" and I feel that's a pretty apt analogy. It's the same general reason that fast food restaurants and pharmacies and department stores are perpetually understaffed: fewer staff members means lower "overhead" costs.

  • American Airlines flight attendants say their pay is so low, they fight for airplane meals to save money and sleep in their cars—and they're ready to strike
  • The requirement should be that any time an employer makes a demand of an employee's time, they pay.

    FA waiting on your plane to arrive that's 6 hours late? Pay up.

    15 Apple store employees lined up and waiting to get searched by a single manager after a shift? Pay up.

    Require an employee to respond to phone calls or issues after hours? That's not "after hours", that's hours. Pay up.

    Make an employee commute to an office for a job that can be accomplished from home? Believe it or not, pay the hell up.

    Making demands of a person's time for a job is part of the job. They should be compensated for it.

  • US Slows Plans To Retire Coal-Fired Plants as Power Demand From AI Surges
  • Oh, I totally agree -- didn't mean to give any impression otherwise. Filling the energy demand gap as quickly as possible with the least impactful generation source should be very high on societal goals, IMO. And it seems like that is what's happening, mostly. Solar, wind, and storage are the largest share of what's being brought up this year:

    https://www.canarymedia.com/articles/clean-energy/chart-nearly-all-new-us-power-plants-built-in-2024-will-be-clean-energy

  • US Slows Plans To Retire Coal-Fired Plants as Power Demand From AI Surges
  • As I understand it, planning new, grid-scale nuclear power plants takes 10-20 years. While this isn't a reason not to start that process now, it does mean something needs to fill the demand gap until the nuke plants (and other clean sources) come online to displace the dirty generation, or demand has to be artificially held down, through usage regulation or techniques like rolling blackouts, all of which I would imagine is pretty unpalatable.

  • Trump asked if U.S. was better off in his last year. In many ways, the answer is no.
  • Yup. FCC abandoning the Fairness Doctrine under Reagan is what brought us sensationalism in broadcast news. Instead, it should have been expanded to cover anything using the term like "news" and "current events", similar to other protected terminology like "professional engineer". Cable news never being covered by FD was also ridiculous.

    More info: https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/ronald-reagan-fairness-doctrine/

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