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I must be living under a rock. I didn’t even realize it was outdated! :-)

I made the switch from a Pixel 2XL to a 7 last year, and dang, the 2XL was better in most every respect. Fingerprint access with the 2 worked 99% of the time on the first try vs. a…

Ironically, the doorbell was the thing that wasn't an Amazon product and wasn't disabled. ;-) And yes, I recanted on the 'firing" part, but I still feel that Amazon's "resolution" …

Okay, "firing" might be too strong, but that policy of "tolerating mistakes" (as long as it doesn't happen twice and lessons are learned) seems to have created a corporate culture …

It's a separate video on his channel which is probably a better listen than this one. This one is a bit of conjecture, perhaps true. The other has been validated by multiple source…

"Code working" isn't necessarily black-and-white. For a new user (the one asking the question), the code may appear to solve the problem, but may have corner-cases or even security…

Sure, but if you try it out, you pretty quickly realize it's a hallucination. Unfortunately the type of GPT content we're now getting on Stack Overflow and its sibling sites is mos…

Agreed - That's the basis of my "responsible use of AI on SO" post at https://meta.stackexchange.com/a/389675/902710

Agree with the middle part - At the moment, the policy implemented by corporate is "Don't ask; don't tell". If someone says they used GPT or other AI for their answer, it's disallo…

And there's the problem on SO. Previously, we could do exactly that - Flag the content for a Mod to review. Now Mods are pretty much prevented from taking any action when we (the c…

Yeah, that may shoot down my "good intentions" theory. According to the event's sponsorship page (linked elsewhere in the comments here), the speaking slot was 1500€ on top of the …

People seem to be attributing "bad intent" here that may not have occurred. In my experience, situations like this occur quite often for various "good intention" reasons. Usually t…

Quoted from some source or are you just extremely quotable. Serious question - That is a great viewpoint!

You seem to be pretty close to Nushell, which was mentioned in the article. The Nushell `ls` (and `ps`, etc.) builtins generate structured data that can be sorted, queried, reduced…

Ironically, on the same page, "Tokay is inspired by awk, but follows its own philosophy and design principles. It might also serve as a general purpose scripting language, but it m…

Most of them have discontinued the service. I think there's one left, maybe Citi IIRC? I've hesitated on opening an account since it seems like only a matter of time before they di…

Thank you for the great video - I'm glad I watched it. Hadn't heard of Helix or Kakoune until now. While I have decades of muscle-memory in the vi key-bindings, it's easy to see th…

For point #1, perhaps neither scenario is "equitable". "Equal pay" may sound equitable given the horribly biased example given, but look at the converse case: > You have two people…

That's a completely fair point, and unfortunately Windows does require a restart on pretty much every Windows update. You're right -- Linux only requires a reboot on a kernel updat…

I am truly curious what terminal app in Linux you feel is better than Windows Terminal at this point. While the terminal experience in Windows languished for many years, Windows Te…

While that's true, I'm not sure that I consider it a "problem" in the first place. I used to, but not any longer. In my experience, there's never a good time to update/reboot. I al…

> you can also pipe output from a PowerShell command to a Linux command. Agreed - PowerShell WSL integration is pretty nice. Just remember (mostly for others reading) that PowerShe…

Got you beat by ... 1 year ;-) It was a pretty big change when our (already outdated at that time) lab in college scrapped the PDP11-44 and replaced it with 20 Windows 3.0 machines…

Windows has a long history of preinstalled games of various quality all the way back to Reversi in Windows 1.0. Solitaire, of course, was the third most popular application in Wind…