Notices by Elias Mårtenson (loke@functional.cafe), page 4

@thomasfuchs what's MPC that they claim they are supporting?

@properlypurple @jon Submitting it online is OK, I think. The nonsense the US people have to go through is absolutely insane though.

I do remember seeing my parents slave over the tax returns back in Sweden in what must have been the early 80's. That was gone by the time I got my first paycheck (probably in 1990)

@jon Same here in Singapore. And if you want to make an amendment (like an extra deduction), you can log in to a webpage and fill it in.

I just checked with an Indian colleague, and it was explained to me that they do it the same way. The employer send the information to the tax authority and everything is handled automatically. India also has different states, and they manage to do it where the US fails.

@NanoRaptor Oh no. At first I thought it was real, and then I saw who posted it.

Damn you for getting my hopes up.

@thomasfuchs Mine was the bank calling me to remind me that I had forgot to pay the November car loan payment.

The fact that they waited until January to let me know tells me something about the bank. I have reasonable argument for it being either good or bad. 🙂

@liztai Death and tragedy? You should watch some Swedish ones. 🙂

@Alexis @codl I live in a multilingual country. Unfortunately none of those languages are Swedish, so everybody gets it wrong. Even after I explain how to pronounce it.

@clacke @veer66 What are the small shops?

Using a search engine to find reliable information is very rapidly becoming impossible. The only somewhat still reliable way is to look for a year, and if it's after 2021 or so, ignore it.

I'm lucky I wasn't looking for new information.

@mike Well, I can see it, so that means that at least some part of it is working.

Does replies work too?

@tfb @clacke The delayed sending is a feature of the Outlook UI, I would guess.

@tfb @clacke This is the feature I'm talking about:

@tfb @clacke I'll be the first one to poop on Microsoft at any opportunity I can get, but in this case the functionality is there. It's up to users to use it.

That said, the existence of the "recall" feature is bad, and it should be removed. It tricks people into believing that you can recall emails, which is of course not possible.

@clacke Outlook does have that, and I have enabled it. It has saved me a ridiculous number of times when sending work mails.

@artmck @thomasfuchs me too. It means we're old. Yet it wasn't the first (second right?)

@tilton same. For me, it started back in 1995 when I needed to implement a case management system at work, and I was asking on Usenet what was the best UI toolkit to use. Someone suggested building it as a web application. That sounded crazy to me, an application as a web site? This was really enough that few people had tried it.

So me and a colleague built it in Perl and it worked really well.

That was also one of the last times I enjoyed web development. A few years later I built a web based UI for a chat application. This was around 1998 and I Amherst started to dislike it, but it wasn't until the 00's when it started to get really horrible, and the horror just accelerated until we reach today, and it's just the absolute worst. And what's really remais that people just keep making it even worse, even though you'd assume it couldn't possibly get worse than it was last week, yet every week you get new surprises.

Who will win?

• Some square monster
• One squiggly boi

@kaia

@jalefkowit Are they still saying "stay and fight"?

@codinghorror It was only after getting an EV myself that I realise just how dirty and smelly petrol cars are.

"Oh you drive a Ferrari? How quaint and last century of you"

@aral @shoq I know nothing about this guy, but this post was very poorly written. Directionless, and made a weird turn into UK politics before it just ended without any conclusion.