I would love something like this that puts me in my own shell. Like a light CTF that is really just shell commands rather than breaking into a VM

I went searching and realized overthewire has a bash specific course called "Bandit". Still a VM you SSH to

You won't be given a year's supply of medication.

You will be cursed with years of calling every pharmacy in town once a month to figure out which one has your medication in stock this time, and once you figure that out, you stay on the phone with them until you walk into the store to pick it up so they don't give it to someone else.

Plus now a lot of doctors are requiring drug tests to make sure you're taking it, but not too much, and not taking other drugs, including legal ones.

Why did you copy the dictionary's definition nearly perfectly, but then add "without logic"?

In many cases, the conservative approach to a problem is prudent because the old ways work whereas there is more risk and uncertainty with new.

That's not fear, it's wisdom.

Where does "providing a choice to people in tough situations" end? When is it wrong to terminate a life because you're in a tough situation?

That's the point of any ethical/moral discussions. Is self-defence a situation that does allow you to kill another person?

Does a mother who forgets to pull the hand break of the car and kills her son, should do jail time?

Does a police officer who shots and kills a person which is in a degraded mental state but threats his life, be accused of murdering?

Does a police officer who shoots a known murderer fugitive without following the standard procedure be prosecuted as a homicide?

See the point?

Reading the article, I thought every positive mentioned is also in VS Code, but VS Code has a larger more mature community.

What drew you to Zed over VS Code?

VSCode is currently more complete than Zed but Zed is more configurable. Also I suspect that Zed will improve rapidly and VSCode is mostly already plateaued due to Zed being new and open source and VSCode being old and made by Microsoft.

Also I’m not immune to hype I suppose

ISO 8601 is the only correct date format.

I don't care if people laugh at me when I sign documents and date them with "2025-01-16"

The one time I considered cancelling my current provider (Comcast where I have gigabit), I found the alternative was CenturyLink with 20 Mbps.

As if to rub salt in the wound, Comcast then upgraded me to 2000 Mbps which I can't even use with my current hardware.

I don't see that anything went wrong.

I don't know about other property seized as evidence, but my car costs a nontrivial amount for me to own and maintain, and it's critical for my way of life. Losing my car for even a couple of days would be a very serious disruption of my life.

I think you are woefully underestimating the apathy that the justice system (or any other large bureaucracy, public or private) has for the collateral damage it causes to peoples lives in pursuit of executing policy.

Reminds me when my daughter made her Roblox account. They had some rule "don't use your real name" but they never asked her for her real name, so couldn't validate. They would arbitrarily fail a lot of chosen usernames that were made up fake names.

When she tried a variation of "Taylor Swift" it worked fine.