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More generally, I think that this game is about jurisprudence in general, and interpretation of laws in particular. It’s not about mathematics or group theory. If it was framed as “in preparation for your PhD in statistics, you need to count 1 for each instance of ‘vehicle in the park’ group” I would count 1 for toy vehicle in the park. And for many more, too.

The way the game is framed as “interpretation of the law,” it includes the supposed intent of the law.

Nope, I think that toy vehicle is a vehicle, but it does not violate the intent of the rule.

> If ... the game simply asked "is this a vehicle in the park?" the disagreement would be resolved.

But the question is not "is this a vehicle in the park," it's "whether or not this situation constitutes 'a vehicle in the park' for the sole purpose of what was the lawmakers' intent when they made a 'no vehicles in the park' rule."

A toy vehicle in the park most definitely is "a vehicle in the park." But prohibiting toys in the park most definitely wasn't the lawmakers' intent.

I've only pointed out that GP created a new ambiguity as a result of their effort to resolve all ambiguities.

> No motorized vehicles in the park unless for emergencies

Well, let's play "what is emergency in the park" now. This is a game about language and rules. It consists of 27 questions, but after the first seven, you can skip to the end.

You must be mistaking me for someone else, I'm not in any position to enforce anything onto anyone.

With that, sometimes the society needs to pick one option out of several, like what side of the road to drive. The options are not ideal, however not picking any side whatsoever would quickly lead to an unmitigated disaster. If you feel like the society is forcing you to do things against your will, you can move to an uninhabited island and not march to any beat of anyone's drum but your own.

I'd guess they are either before children, after children (teenagers can get themselves ready), or in a situation where their families provide some help — a spouse with a different schedule, grandparents, older children taking care of the younger ones, etc.

The closest answer to your question is probably: Malaysia.

Of course there is no such thing as "summer" or "winter" in Malaysia, as they are pretty close to the equator. For the same reason, they have about 12 hours of light and 12 hours of darkness — every day, every season. In this situation, the reasonable options for setting clocks with regards to sunlight are either 6-18, or 7-19. Malaysia went with 7-19 option. "Solar noon" happens in Kuala Lumpur around 13:10, with the earliest at 12:56 (beginning of November) and the latest at 13:27 (middle of February).

> I suggest you take the bus or the metro once at 5 in the morning.

In order to do that I would need to drop the kids at 4:50 at the (closed) doors of the school, and it will end very badly very quickly.

> start at 6 so that they can finish work before citizens start calling

How happy you must be to live in a country where you can (still) simply call your public services.

Most working adults are also parents, and so their working hours are wrapped around the daycare hours.

In any case, you’re talking about a societal change which is much broader than just a clock-setting issue.

Not sure why you're wearing a watch then? You can just look outside.

I need a watch because the kids start school at 8, so they need to be up at 7. This is true whether the sun is already up (June) or not (December.)

> there is a case to be made for a timezone split between northern Europe and southern Europe

There absolutely is. The north is getting very little sun in the winter (about 6 hours) and very much in the summer (about 19 hours), while the south has a lot less variance (10 vs 14 hrs for south of Spain.) My argument would be that the south needs DST more than the north.

You haven't "solved" anything, as the position of the sun is not more relevant to the modern lifestyle than the phase of the moon. It's "good to know" I guess but solves no actual issue.

You can take it in any direction you want, but I have pretty low expectations of schools willing to teach my kids from 10 to 16, or mechanics willing to fix my car at 20, or doctors willing to take my blood exam at 22 — all that just because that would be convenient for me.

The modern society started with the Industrial Revolution, when the people understood that there are some very tangible benefits when everyone starts working at the same hour, and started building around that. This building included discarding "local time" (an astronomical fact) in favour of standard time (social contract.)

It only works when you don't have children (kindergartens and schools start at 8) or spouse (who can have a different schedule) or office work (so you don't have to be at the office at 9.)

Time has stopped being an astronomical fact, and is a social contract nowadays. It's possible that you can afford to opt out of that contract, but most people can't.

You might have heard of this "sovereignty" movement: sovereign OS, sovereign cloud, sovereign AI?

One man's "little known company with no cybersecurity muscle" is another one's "sovereign certificate infrastructure."

> sued into oblivion

Being bad at choosing random numbers is not a crime, I am afraid.

I can imagine them being sued for "securities fraud" (as Matt Levine suggests) but only if they were a US publicly traded company.

The horse population in the US has dropped by more than 70% in the last 100 years (21M to 6.6M). In the same timeframe, the human population has increased 320% (105M to 320M), so the drop in "relative horses" is from 0.20 horse per human to 0.02 horse per human, or 90%.

How cool are you with the odds of your entire family surviving the next 100 years standing at about 10%?

Where possible I do, of course, but some compute resources either don't allow to ssh in (e.g. k8s) or are configured to refuse ssh from anyone but root. I can become root on a jump box and ssh from there, but I lose agent forwarding in the process.

This works for some scenarios but not other ones. I, for one, deal with ephemeral VMs.

When I was checking out their git hosting service (AWS CodeCommit), they only allowed for rsa keys (and not ed25519, for example.)

> No key files (like ~/.ssh/id_ed25519.pub and friends) littering the file system; and there’s no risk of mistakenly deleting them either.

Or backing them up, or copying them to your new computer. You're just one spilled coffee cup away from losing the key.

One can be an anti-Semite ("Jew hater") and pro-Zionist ("Israel supporter") at the same time: "I hate them so much that I want them out of my country and into their own country".

This however speaks nothing of anti-Zionism.

> I don't like all of them

I hate all of them with a passion, because they look like a glyph (i.e. "something you can erase with a single backspace") but aren't. This confuses me first, and annoys me second. "Just because we could" doesn't mean that we should.

Imagine having to use Backspace twice to erase e.g. Ö or Ñ, or being able to place your cursor halfway inside Æ.

This prima facie logical fallacy of "here's a nice £0 you can multiply anything with" has been addressed long ago:

> At this point, it’s pretty common for people to try to confuse things by saying, “aha! But Linux is FREE!” OK. First of all, when an economist considers price, they consider the total price, including some intangible things like the time it takes to set up, reeducate everyone, and convert existing processes. All the things that we like to call “total cost of ownership.”

https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2002/06/12/strategy-letter-v/

Not sure if your comment is sarcastic or not, but I heard that the best way to start a fight in a pub in Lithuania is to ask several people a question about stress.

I went to research your examples with Google, and interestingly enough, it now thinks that it's a "classic textbook example" while citing one source — this comment of yours (20 min old at the time):

> In typography, ligatures should be used in "truffle" but should not be used in "cufflink."

> This specific pair of words is a classic textbook example used by typographers and software developers to demonstrate the limitations of basic, automated font-rendering rules.

What a world to live in.

On the same point of yours, bad two-letter ligatures also exist: surfing (fi), selfless (fl), halftime (ft), etc. "Swordfish" is fine but "dwarfish" is not.

As long as the non-in-person option exists, the results won't be trusted.

In the US, there was a lot of discussion that the Biden win over Trump in 2020 is a result of the younger family members quarantined on Covid with their parents and mail-voting for them. I don't believe that's what's happened, but this discussion could not have taken place at all in a world where mail-voting is not an option.

You cannot solve it with cryptography. I understand cryptography but my parents don’t, so I will be voting instead of my parents. This way, I get three votes while they get zero votes each.[0]

I'll quote Bruce Schneier [1]:

   If you think cryptography can solve your problem, *you don’t understand your problem* and you don’t understand cryptography.

0: I already do anything related to any interaction with a computer system for them (including payments, social security, medical, travel, etc.)

1: He dug into the origins of this here: https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2026/05/laurie-anders...

> so that solar noon might not happen at 12:00 anymore

The solar noon never happens at 12:00 anywhere anymore. We've left that era about 200 years ago when we synched clocks with the capital city for the benefit of train schedules.

P.S. Well, technically the solar noon happens at 12:00 in New York on January 2nd, Chicago on Jan 14, Denver on Dec 25th, Los Angeles on Jan 9, etc. (on other dates, it's off.) In Santiago de Compostela — where they want to be on the same clock as Warsaw — solar noon happens as "early" as 13:18 and as late as 14:40.