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VimEscapeArtist

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About VimEscapeArtist

Currently stuck in normal mode

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    Comment #48843619

    I like GitHub and I'm not going to ditch anything, but I have to admit it's currently one of the few MS products that still holds up. Curious what it'll look like in a few years. J…

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    Comment #48843522

    Cloudflare gives me mixed feelings. The services are good and well priced. What bothers me is that they've become infrastructure nobody opted into - you don't have an account, you …

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    Comment #48479163

    You got me. Canceling would hurt me more than them, and that math is the whole problem.

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    Comment #48413672

    Oh wow, the first AI-generated Linux! Will it suck monkey balls just as much as Windows 11?

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    Comment #48291339

    I've only had one terrible interview as the candidate, but there's one I conducted myself that weighs on my conscience. It was my first job in IT, and I was still a student back th…

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    Comment #48233610

    Let’s measure temperature :)

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    Comment #48204444

    Wait until he discovers PowerShell ;D

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    Comment #48199936

    F# is arguably one of the biggest wasted opportunities in programming languaguages history

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    Comment #48199868

    I vote F#

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    Comment #48182832

    I use 2 computers without a KVM. My keyboard, mouse, and soundbar all support Bluetooth. All wired to the PC by default. When I switch to the Mac, I just flip each device to Blueto…

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    Comment #48173015

    Anyone remember “Using TrueCrypt is not secure as it may contain unfixed security issues”? ;)

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    Comment #48081474

    These AI images are an absolute plague these days. I’m glad more people think they’re genuinely awful. To me they’re absolutely disgusting. I think I’d honestly prefer Macromedia F…

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    Comment #48081446

    You might want to mention the comedy series Microsoft used to run on MSDN. I think it was called “The .NET Show” or “VBTV”. It featured characters like the “VB Rapper” and “Head in…

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    Comment #48065760

    I live in Poland. This headline is misleading. Poland didn't build a top-20 economy. Western Europe and the US built their economy in Poland, because the labor is educated and chea…

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    Comment #48065347

    The comments here are fascinating. A generation of men who've never been in a physical confrontation in their lives are absolutely certain that physical consequences don't work. Ho…

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    Comment #48027667

    OK but just use Zed anyway

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    Comment #47984717

    $244,094,488.19 per picture?

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    Comment #47912229

    I considered Flickr as a place for my photography portfolio, but I can't recommend it to anyone. Try sharing a portfolio link with someone who doesn't have an account there. It'll …

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    Comment #47723312

    Wait, people still download unsigned exes from PHP-era websites in 2026? And then act surprised when the download link starts pointing to malware? At this point if your software is…

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    Comment #47694317

    Gamey Boy / Modretro Chromatic / LSDJ / Dirtywave M8 / anything F# / MiniDisc community

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    Comment #47658944

    AI-generated graphics make my eyes bleed