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Good grief! I can count at least 6 logical fallacies in your 3 sentences.

You're trying to follow an out-of-date map. Our technology-infused growth of the past 50 years has produced more widespread mental illness and psycopathy than someone in the 80's c…

Does your place review every line of every update patch note? Do you think you would catch this implication?

> the larger economy hasn't failed It's only a matter of time until Social Security starts to fail, right after we've paid all the boomers their full benefits (and just in time for…

Companies are already following a bunch of standards like SOX, SOC2, HIPAA, etc., and documenting their adherence to checking all of the boxes, but incidents still happen every wee…

When a megacorp funds a network of non-profits to lobby a bunch of politicians, draft legislation, and tell them to take it to committee, that can happen without much visibility, e…

You literally blamed these moves on US religious prudishness, and then said that they were only about surveillance. Which is it? Just kidding. We all know it's nothing more than su…

I'm sorry, but what!? Right back atcha. If you'd have bothered to have looked at the chart in link I posted, you'd have seen that market share of "consumer compute" for Windows was…

I've said this for years. The amount of money Microsoft makes from the OS apart from corporations is a rounding error. What little they do make is from preinstalled systems, and, h…

I was converting all the views in my Rails app from HAML to ERB. It was doing each one perfectly, so I told it to do the rest. It went through a few, then asked me if it could writ…

At some point, doesn't humankind rise up and demand that our governments stop... you know... actually fucking us like this? After all the trust-busting at the turn of the century, …

Just more proof that the merger/acquisition should never have been allowed in the first place.

Sorry, but what's "bogus" about benchmarking your specific workloads? What benchmark do you think he should have run?

I had no idea, and I've been a "Rails guy" for 15 years, and keenly interested in high-profile successful Ruby projects for a long time. Even clicking through to their actual site …

Tron 2.0 was great, and another game that has been lost to time. I got the Steam version working with a hack many years ago, but I doubt it would still work. That's another one tha…

Per?... month?

For years I've said that if you could take corporate purchases out of the Gartner numbers, you'd see that Apple was better than 50/50 when it came to personal use. I sure would lik…

The amount of effort apparently required to satisfy all the checkboxes around "a cheap PC and Microsoft 365" is astounding. My Fortune 250 laptop runs 3 different security "endpoin…

I'm also squarely GenX. While studying mechanical engineering, one of my roommates was in psychology. He said "we" didn't need sleep. He said one of his professors told them that. …

In our modern world, every last vestige of trust is being abused. Government bureaucracy is an increasingly-visible problem, and a lot of it is insulation to protect lobbied intere…

> Then you can look how much of the signal has truly been affected by your 1000 bucks silver speaker cable. I have a friend who has spent ridiculous sums of money on audio gear. Li…

It would appear that neither party actually does anything to change the rate of CO2 emissions. https://x.com/ChrisMartzWX/status/1854161121193714102