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> I do miss silence! Yeah, me too. Mine is most likely from cumulative exposure to loud noise w/o protection before I was 20 (power tools, firearms, fireworks, live rock, punk, & h…

It's almost certainly my own damn fault I have it, but after at least 35-40 years dealing with it,tinitus sure as hell isn't my friend. Mine is high pitched, and varries in intensi…

You might well end up being right, but if you are, I believe it'll be because "most developers" will have become worse at programming, not because GenAI has become massively better…

And many people find it depressing getting going in the morning when it's still dark. Plus, in Winter most people at best get off work around dusk anyway. In addition, most studies…

As usual, when Congress finally moves to address an issue, they manage to do it in the stupidest possible way. Permanent Standard Time is the better choice in nearly every way.

I'm not personally, since I don't use GenAI at all. Especially given the comments I see here and on other tech and programming forums, I hate the direction things are going. I stil…

That would be amazing. Ubiquitous infinite scroll is one of the things I hate most about "modern" UI design.

Send these teachers to remedial courses in game theory and statistics, please. What if less that 20% of the class do "exceptional" work? What if more do? Those pushing this either …

Upvoted because you've captured the overall point pretty well, but I will say that the Flying V can be pretty dang comfortable seated if you hold in the classical position (i.e., r…

Yes, and in fact even Windows conhost hast supported ANSI escapes since 2016.

If it isn't possible to turn any syntax highlighting an the like off, I will personally look for alternatives. Not reconfigure individual settings, turn off syntax highlighting all…

> I worked for a while selling fractional nurses into for-profit nursing/retirement homes If that sentence fragment isn't a dystopian summary of the current state of at least US so…

The load bearing word being "feel".

To do better? It's demonstrably possible. And further, why does what some portion of Microsoft, a huge, multi-headed beast, does qualify as the bar for what is reasonable for users…

Huh. Haven't experienced that myself, having used a Master MX for several years (now in use by my wife), a VX Revolution for a few years before that (now my son's backpack mouse), …

Nope. We need to bring the entire extraction class to heel. They are degrading, even destroying, society.

> They do affect the future population count and this will affect the pension of everyone. They also will result in persons not being born. So does abstention. By your logic, then,…

Prepare to be delighted: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dash#En_dash

What was widely reported was that he disavowed Project 2025. Those denials were seldom challenged, nor were the many Heritage Foundation related people that were also in Trump's in…

Who is "we", Kimosabe? Personally, I have no time for gen-AI in pretty much any context, at least given the current landscape. And plenty of people seem to accept, if not love, gen…

This is going to be hell for the farmers in the region this growing season, not to mention for those buying groceries.

I'm not yet "elderly " -- contrary to what a troublingly large fraction of younger software developers seem to believe -- but I do have occasional issues with touch screens, for se…