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Difficult. I will attempt to answer this in a way that won't upset people and may be informative? Here are two ways of looking at it: a. People in the USA* have massive fights abou…

Honestly I guess it's just a difference in taste/demenour. My background was originally in C# then Java (plus JavaScript on the side, since most of us have to do that), and when I …

Why would you ever leave a voicemail when you can leave a text message? I think I disagree with all the advice in your comment, but this part has me particularly baffled.

I often write out callstacks/dependency chains on paper. I find that makes it stick. Try actually using the program as an end user would. Read error messages, read code, make predi…

I've had two climated-related jobs, and I would recommend it. I find it very motivating personally. It also means you'll be working with decent people who care about their work. Do…

I don't, sorry, just found it by Googling.

Not knowing anything about how Google works internally, this is very much how it looks from the outside. They just don't seem to be able to make products that anyone wants. And the…

I was originally just going to link to a Colugo, which I think are still pretty cool, and probably good evidence of what early stages of vertebrate flight looked like. Functionally…

The people in the past who broke from mainstream culture and went experimental faced disapproval too. Maybe you just need to hang out with weirder people?

Still gutted they never made Grand Theft Auto: Weston-super-Mare.

> This is true despite the fact that you know exactly when the market will hit a bottom. Even God couldn’t beat dollar-cost averaging. I'm a bit unconvinced by the studies that say…

Ah yes, sorry, I was very unclear there. Mediawiki Visual Editor is fine to use. It's not fine to make plugins for.

I haven't worked with it in almost that long, but I still hate it quite a lot. I try not to be too fussy about tech overall, but Spring is on my "I won't work with this again" list…

Your comment is incomprehensible.

Today I learned that there is another type of pigs-in-blankets. To me pigs-in-blanket are sausages wrapped in bacon, not in bread/pastry.

Other people have given you pretty good answers already, but... If you're an individual with some spare cash, buying stocks during a recession is probably a good idea, even if they…

So why did you go for a mechanical keyboard if you're fine with a laptop keyboard? I ask because to me the point of a mechanical keyboard is that you want more feedback/certainty o…

> Why would that be the assumption? I thought the phrasing of the person I was replying to implied they were grinding that particular axe. Of course there are more complex things t…

You don't need a mechanical keyboard to get full key travel. I do have mechanical keyboards and feel like I get a benefit from them, but I think you can get most of the way there w…

> As a bonus you can replace cheeseburgers with labor and they will say "lump of labor fallacy". The trouble with this simple and seeming obvious hypothesis and labour (by which I …

Love it!

Thanks very much!

Perhaps something a little snappier and with less axe grinding?

Is that documented anywhere? I've been using Nix for about 6 years now, and have mostly been using `nix-env -iA`, `nix-env -qaP --description` and `nix-env -e` the whole time.