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It's not inevitable. It can be resisted. It takes a leader who can stand up to the pressure and say no. That's not a trivial thing. The pressure is considerable, especially these d…

That reminds me of this webcomic from 2001. "Only once you can successfully wrestle a herd of monkeys will you truly be ready to manage your forum." https://megatokyo.com/strip/209…

> Well service depends on where you live. Tell me about it. I have to drive about 100 miles to the nearest Audi dealership to get my Audi fixed. The nearest Tesla service center is…

> Ten years from now no one will even remember or care that master/slave was a term in computing. I don't think it will take them that long to regret this change. Now that everyone…

Did they ever fix that memory leak?

> Talking to other Mac users, this seems to be common knowledge - I guess only Windows users moving to OSX should be wary. It's common knowledge because very single Mac OS X user h…

Because it actually works, most of the time. The controller isn't horrible. The commonly used apps, like Twitch, Youtube, Netflix, Amazon Prime, etc all work. I got so fed up with …

Sysadmins do.

It's not just Desktop OS's. Mobile, TV and Car OS's are mostly terrible as well. Are OS's really that hard to do well?

Have you tried any other TV OS? FireTV is the best of a bad bunch.

The gifs in the readme showing the functionality you want to highlight is a nice touch. I wish more projects did that.

Do you have any regrets with sticking with mercurial instead of hopping on the git bandwagon?

I switched from Evernote to Notion 6 months ago. Their block-based editing system drives me up the wall. But, they really nailed their media integration in a way nobody else has, s…

"we mainly use phabricator now at my day job (which I love love love)" What do you love about phabricator? It looks interesting, even if it is written in php. (just joking...)

I'd buy an Intel mac from 2015. The modern ones all have their well-documented problems. The ARM based macs will almost certainly have a small period of instability and incompatibi…

For the visually oriented, this description of UX in image form can't be beat: https://imgur.com/mAttwt6

https://imgur.com/a/Q8KemVp

And yet we allow people to drive cars, which has a much higher mortality rate than covid. Also, you don't find the timing curious? Everybody forgot about covid for a few weeks whil…

How about suspending the rights of the people burning down businesses, tearing down statues and killing people in the streets instead? > or death Stop being dramatic. You have a be…

One of the core foundations of our entire civilization is a cliche to you? And it is handcuffs. Literally. It's a judicial order.