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I approve of Latin jokes. Well done.

I'll bet someone's trying to run the New Outlook and classic Outlook at the same time.

No indication that the licking was consentual.

I am from a town that gets national news coverage only for Shenanigans like this.

Many of us — perhaps even the best of us — can sometimes be mistaken for AI bots.

Two of the things I love intersect here: good punctuation and engineering documents. AI stole the em-dash from my toolkit. I have memorized a group of useful Alt-codes for engineer…

... slowly losing all functionality until, suddenly, death.

As someone who has done architectural renderings for fun and profit, I highly approve of this. The greatest downfall of our contemporary "built environment," as folks call it, is h…

Thanks for that link. Great starting point for me.

Things like this have had me scratching my head for decades. Why would local governments annex property, upgrade utilities, and build new roads without moving that burden to the en…

^ This right here.

Apple only gets a free pass from folks who are invested in that particular kind of ... relationship.

I see my comment was downvoted, and I apologize. I meant to agree entirely with the parent comment by showing one specific way in which Win2K SP4 is far superior to Windows 11. In …

Interesting. I don't find the TC to be ugly; I find it to be dissonant. It hurts my brain like missed harmonics in a musical performance do. Here are my reasons: First thing I noti…

> It's my strong opinion that Windows 2000 Server, SP4 was the best desktop OS ever. Meanwhile, in 2025, with 64GB RAM and solid state drives, we hear, "Windows 11 Task Manager rea…

> Nearly nobody cares about ... That's an accurate and sad truth about humanity in general, isn't it? We all feel safer and saner if we avoid thinking about how things really are. …

My favorite reading of _Frog and Toad Together_ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fmHh29UfAco

Why is it ugly?

As someone who works on the design and construction of datacenters, I cannot stress enough how apropos this comment is. Even before the first conversation in your IDE starts, the l…

1958 Chevy Corvette. Looks way more futuristic.

As a utility designer in my day job who frequents HN for real fun, this comment hits hard.

In so far as it makes me feel the relief, awe, and pleasure of picking up a good tool, then by all means. The mouse trail made me feel something else.

Let's test that: 1. Nothing stored in /dev/null is durable. 2. Nothing is stored in /dev/null. 3. Ergo, /dev/null exhibits durability. Thank you, I'll take my check at the door.

Here's the rest of it: > ... well-constructed sentence.

This is a great question. One of the hardest lessons I've learned is that some people don't know that the choices they're making are going to hurt them. There are children who are …