Betteridge’s law needs allowances for cases where the issue at hand is opinion or speculation. In this case, the non-clickbait headline would be “Germany’s Gold isn’t Safe in New York”, but the facts aren’t there to go to press with that.

Pure cope.

It is extremely possible to work on a product people don’t hate, and still maintain a realistic perspective on your engineering abilities or impact or whatever.

If you’re toiling on a product that’s actively making the world worse, quit now. There are better gigs out there.

These astronauts are trained to use the system NASA puts them in.

And ultimately they have a lot more important things to be doing then learning a different email client than the one they use at their desk on earth. This is an email client on a laptop, not a navigation system.

No they don’t. They’re our best and brightest, and they train for years at their one, important job, which is to use the system they’re given.

The mission of the astronauts on board is to test the damn Orion spacecraft in preparation for a human landing on the moon.

> NASA flight controller and instructor Robert Frost explained the reasoning plainly in a post on Quora (via Forbes). “A Windows laptop is used for the same reasons a majority of people that use computers use Windows. It is a system that people are already familiar with. Why make them learn a new operating system,” he reportedly wrote.

https://www.msn.com/en-in/technology/space-exploration/nasa-...

Maybe he should have designed the rest of the controls to look like the cockpit of 2003 Toyota Camry. It is a system that people are already familiar with. And actually reliable.

Toyota actually is involved in the Artemis program. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lunar_Cruiser

That’s awesome. I’m assuming there’s zero chance it actually gets deployed (for a value of zero that is less than the chance a moon base is actually deployed, also assumed zero) but if it does, apparently the controls will look like this- https://sj.jst.go.jp/stories/2024/s0124-01p.html

The world where any unpatched system is a guaranteed botnet.

You’re going to bring up Phil Spector and not mention the story of Spector threatening the band with a gun in the studio?

How did the Navy recruiting office turn you away from joining up?

The Navy guy tried too hard to sell the upsides without telling me any of the downsides and I knew there were a lot of downsides. Said my asvab score could get me in nuke and great pay, that I could see the world. The Air Froce guy told me like it was. Guess who I trusted more?

I’ve noticed there’s a similar challenge in keeping bad ideas out of your head.

Weight loss, debt recovery, and other habit changes are just that - changes to habit which are much more difficult if you don't admit that's what you're doing.

This has been discussed from time immemorial and confronting it as it is (that in the case of habits we are more animal than rational) is the beginning of change.

An example is that you can't just "cut it out" you have to replace it with something else.

Only if your idea of personality is expressed through a logo tshirt.

Only if your idea of personality is expressed through a textured fabric

Well yes.

Both of those choices express a lot.

Yes, big box sporting goods stores exist outside the west coast. They’re quite common, in fact.

Dead men can’t sue!