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I agree that it's inherent to human psychology.

I'm not "a coder" in a professional sense but I've derived great joy from playing around with code in my spare time over many years. When I come back to a project I've created over many hours, but several years in the past, such that I've forgotten why I've done things the way I've done them, there's a very strong desire to just discard everything and start over. As though this time around I'll be able to find perfect solutions to problems where last time it was all kludges hacks and work arounds.

I'll acknowledge that yes, each iteration of a thing one builds is an incremental improvement on the last. However, I don't think that really explains whats going on here.

My best guess at an explanation is that the process of building or creating or implementing something is far less mentally taxing, or perhaps more rewarding, than the process of trying to understand something.

Yes.

All the numbers in that article seem pretty meaningless to me.

"Most people are not stupid enough to complain about putin. Some people want the war to end.

Even if DOGE was acting in good faith (it wasn't), saving money for any organisation is really hard.

It's obvious hubris to assume that everyone who has been managing something before you is an idiot and that you have some special ability to solve problems (which you don't understand) more cost effectively.

Regardless, in government you can easily "down size" by firing everyone and hiring consultants which are way more expensive. Usually it's politicians wives who own the shares in the companies providing the consultants.

Sadly, while you can cancel Tariffs, take Trump's name off things, and even demolish the Epstein Ballroom, the damage that DOGE did probably can't be reversed in any sensible timeframe.

While the intricacies of administrative law and the terms and conditions on federal grants may seem abstract to some,

Hah. She's talking about Trump.

2 reasons. Firstly I'm just extra shit at buying presents. I like to think I'm generous and thoughtful but I just don't get "presents". Like everyone works and buys the things that they want.

What the fuck is the point of a gift card? "oh I know you like buying things so here's a card which will allow you to buy a selection of things from one or more specific vendors who I assume you regularly shop at."

This has gotten a bit easier as I've gotten older and a bit more financially stable so not so restricted on price I guess. This year in August I saw these great massage guns on sale for half price so I just bought 6 of them to dish out for Christmas presents.

The other is forced social arrangements. Just today my partner said I'm going to this thing for Christmas lunch tomorrow. I said I'm not. She insisted. I didn't respond.

I don't want to be an asshole partner who doesn't go anywhere but... I feel like the only reason she wants me to go is because that's what normal people do. Like lets go to this thing full of people you hate and pretend to be happy and normal. I only have to stick it out for 2 hours so will see how that's going tomorrow.

The "less busy" thing varies by location.

Where I live easter is a real shit show. We're just over-run with people visiting from out of town. I always thought it would be a daft time to go visit the city or something but... turns out everyone has left the city to come visit my town.

I'm not a windows user and haven't used jackett.

This is the relevant issue on github: https://github.com/Jackett/Jackett/issues/16352

The TLDR is, it's a false positive.

The change they think triggered it is that there's an "if" statement to detect the operating system and if so it moves some files.

They've submitted the file to some antivirus vendors so they can improve their false positive detection system. I wouldn't expect a result on that front but who knows.

Nothing is a surety in life but:

• there's a lot of transparency around this issue
• lots of people have reviewed the code regarding this specific issue
• it's a long standing project with good community support and no recent shady changes to maintainers
• false positives do happen

You need to make your own decision but IMO, "very low" risk.

I hear what you're saying but I don't think it's a really good fit.

The sunk cost fallacy requires costs to be sunk. People feel like they need to continue to contribute in order to retrieve the funds already outlaid.

If you do all the MAGA things and wear the hats and have the flags, I understand it's part of your identity, but not wearing the hat doesn't cost anything.

Wait, we have a conservative community on lemmy?!

Amazing.

Their written response is great but I would've flagged this with my boss.