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Why on earth would I go to a game store to buy a code?

It guarantees a minimum balance of corn and rye in the resulting blend. If you have a whiskey that you know has an appropriate mash bill (e.g. Rittenhouse BiB) then you could be bo…

> Why was there so much stress, overwork and burnout even before AI started churning out 5000-line PRs? Programming used to be a rare skill. Not so much now. In fact, it hasn't bee…

The downward spiral continues.

> People really did not like Trump they just didn't like incumbents more. In 2016 Trump got 63M votes. Clinton got 66M. In 2020 Trump got 74M votes. Biden got 81M. In 2024 Trump go…

Sentiments like this are why things will not improve. Neither side needs to practice any introspection because they're the good side and when the bad side wins it's just unavoidabl…

That's what I said?

Trump 1 was so bad, people showed up in droves to vote for anything else. That's how we ended up with a dimensia president. Biden was so bad, people showed up in droves to vote for…

I even wonder how much of the 1/3 who voted for him now regret it.

I don't understand the water usage fears. I'm much more concerned with electricity usage.

> Or was it just some companies were overvalued? That's what a bubble is. Calling AI a "bubble" is not calling it useless or a fad. It's just pointing out that companies in the sec…

Coding litterally is cheap. We outsource it for wages that you'd expect of a bottom-level fast food employee. We've been doing that for many years. It doesn't take a 4 year educati…

I'd say "coding" has been solved, but that was never the bottleneck. Coding is cheap. It has been for a long time. Ten years ago my company was outsorcing all its coding to the che…

Whenever I see posts like this I'm always surprised to see these people are still using Chrome. I agree it's another user hostile move by Chrome, but if this is a big deal to you t…

Stop buying LG TVs.

I'm left wondering why I should bother adopting - much less paying for - these kinds of projects. If it's that trivial to throw together, what value are you even delivering for me?…

Graphs tell stories and the only story this one actually tells is "29-year high". It doesn't do a good job of establishing trends and its sample size is too low to discern how sign…

Unconscionable.

OSM is great as a map, but the biggest thing keeping me from switching from Google Maps to any OSM solution is the "white pages". My most common use case for a maps app is location…

It surprises me that there isn't simply an option to postpone the update for up to 12 hours until shutdown. I'd much rather let my system take 10 minutes to shutdown when I'm done …

Fine, but then what am I? I'm certainly not a scientist. And calling me a "programmer" is like calling an accountant a "calculator". I design solutions to computational problems. I…

"I buying isn't owning, piracy isn't stealing."

Idk why anyone thought this would be a "PC console killer" type of product. Consoles are subsidized because they act as the entry point to closed hardware/software ecosystems. You …

A hundred bottles in my cabinet and I'm still always missing one to make the drink I want. And so the collection keeps growing...

You'd need physical access while it is running as the target is using it.