Bosch has been making washing machines where replacing the drum bearings is not supported (the bearings are sealed in a plastic housing) for a while now, not sure if this is the case in all of the models or the cheaper ones only.

Not on all of the models.

For the same amount of money employee gets it requires employer to pay out less.

That’s not how income tax works, particularly for minimum wage workers.

It's just supply and demand. It makes working in these industries relatively more attractive, increasing supply of labour and therefore reducing price of labour. So restaurant owners capture some of the benefits

So employees earn more, and restaurants spend less. And this is bad because?

Well, the money doesn't appear with magic, so someone is paying: the government (forfeiting taxes) or the consumer (more pressure to tip).

To me, the bad part is the tax reductions only appear in behavior I don't agree with: high overtime and tipping (when it's semi mandatory).

I'm not American, but this is also showing up in my country.

Because you're artificially favouring one specific industry, at a cost to all other industries.

And because the implication of your argument is we should never tax anything because that's a benefit to both the consumer and the business

Aren't we already in a manufacturing hole and we're incentivizing more service industries over them?

What definition of contact details makes them not private?

Contact details (your phone number, email or address) are definitively private information, you should be the one that decides who gets them and who doesn't.

Literally explained in the second paragraph there.

You can't have private information which is meant to also be shared widely. It is the distinction between Access and Authorization.

But it's not meant to be shared widely, for most people it's meant to be shared with consideration and/or permission.

Also, it's not just about "a desire not be interrupted by people you didn't agree to be interrupted by", it's about not having the data in the first place, for any reason, including tracking of any sorts.

Pre-internet/cell phone nearly everyone had their name/phone number/address in phone books. Libraries had tons of phone books. And you could pay for the operator to find/connect you to people as well.

Contact info being private is a relatively recent concept.

Thread is discussing business contact details.

Give me your personal phone number

How do updates work with postgres?

Well, three ways:

1. Dump a backup to disk, then restore from dump on new version;

2. Stop the old version, then run `pg_upgrade --link` on the data of the old version which should create a new data directory using hardlinks, then start the new version using the new data directory. This is rather quick; or

3. Use Logical Replication to stand up the new version. This has ... a few caveats.

You do a backup on the old version and a restore on the new one.

From what I understood, sometimes the way data is written to disk differently between versions and they're not compatible. I guess due to optimizations or changes in the storage engine?

Bug resolution time is not the only metric of value in software development.

I quote myself:

> _for example_ by it's impact on bug resolution time

Usually the release is fine, but dependencies can be lacking in proper support/testing of the newer versions, so it takes a couple of months.

Also external tooling, like for example NewRelic extension, takes some time to release a version that supports the new release.

Is there an iOS app that supports push messages?

Yes. Snikket, siskin, and monal all make use of push messages (since that's required to work on iOS at all these days)

It looks like you need server support for that as well (makes sense), to bad Prosody doesn't have it in a released version but you have to build it manually.

No need to build anything, it's not a binary or anything like that. Prosody is just a very plugin-oriented project (plugins are written in Lua). For better or worse, we (the Prosody team) have certain standards for inclusion of community modules in the core codebase, and mod_cloud_notify doesn't quite meet them yet.

On Debian and derived systems, you can just 'apt install prosody-modules', and on other systems you can 'prosodyctl install mod_cloud_notify' or otherwise download it directly: https://modules.prosody.im/mod_cloud_notify (no configuration is necessary apart from adding it to the module list in your config).

Thank you, I was reading https://github.com/monal-im/Monal/wiki/Considerations-for-XM... and misread the requirements, 0.13 is required for SASL2, not for cloud_notify.

I really like Prosody because it was trivial to reuse the same user store I use for Postfix/Dovecot so every email account gets an XMPP account automatically.

AFAIK, it wasn't like that on Windows 3.11, it would be interesting to know when this was added.

I believe the commenter is in US where you are allowed to make a right turn on a red light but you must stop and make sure it's safe to do so.

There is old Woody Allen joke: The only advantage of LA over NYC is right turn on red light is allowed.