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I disagree. I prefer talks, most of the time, especially on stuff that isn't nitty gritty technical. Do I want someone explaining to me on stage how to install minikube and deploy …

That's perverse. You shouldn't have to self-censor out of fear. The fact that Amazon (Doordash, Google, ...) can get away with just cancelling people's accounts willy nilly and the…

There are crucial differences between Java applets and JS. - Applets tried to render their own GUI, Wasm doesn't and defers to the browser. - applets needed a big, slow to start an…

I disagree. As a software engineer, R is a nuisance, it's a terrible language, and I hate doing complicated things in it. But it's very powerful, it's exactly right for these use c…

On my 6 year old mobile phone, I can do the same thing in Signal. Takes seconds to find arbitrary strings in years long very active conversations. Honestly, I've no idea how we can…

I did not claim Macromedia birthed Flash! :D But I also didn't know about FutureSplash Animator. Thanks, learned something new.

Adobe did not birth Flash, they bought it, through Macromedia. Also, Flash gets a lot of flak, but it saved us from applets and ActiveX. It also enabled multi media content on a we…

Says who? Says you. Based on what? I hear this sentiment a lot, and its proponents usually don't spend any thought on disproving other views. Such as, maybe it's better to have eve…

Because we're humans and not profit-seeking self serving automatons. Or at least I aspire to not be one If there is suffering, and if we can, we ease the suffering. The US and EU h…

The BBC is publicly funded. The entire idea behind publicly funded news and broadcast is that they shouldn't care about eyeballs, singe they don't need and money.

Visa will probably follow suit.

This is just a conjecture: If it is indeed abuse related (whether there was any abuse or Google's algorithm just decided there was some abuse) then telling the abuser what got them…

If you are concerned about your privacy, you can use an OSS keyboard app. Hacker's keyboard is one for android. There are some on F-Droid. You may even prefer them to Google's offe…

The idiomatic error handling mechanism of Java is the checked exception. This mechanism does not work with higher order functions. You can emulate Rust's approach with Java, by cre…

Try to stick a function that may fail into a higher order function. The best example would be .map on streams/collections. You can only do it with unchecked exceptions in Java. In …

I really, really dislike exceptions. Unchecked exceptions don't tell the caller something might go wrong. Fine for Python, where strong guarantees aren't a thing anyway, but any st…

> - but I'm only half-joking when I quip that PHP has evolved from its roots as a cargo cult version of Perl into a cargo cult version of Java. It's a joke in so far as it is funny…

I would like to say that not all git front ends are like that. I used to be a CLI only user, but now you can pry magit from my cold, dead hands. It's very close to the command line…

Back in the pre-smartphone days I used to swear by Cowon devices. They're still around. This might suit your needs: http://m.cowonglobal.com/product/iAUDIOE3/ Nowadays I listen to …

I started using Vim in mid/late 2000s, and successfully switched to Emacs. Without knowing your specific gripes, it's hard no know what'll end up helping you, but here are my two c…

We linguists have a saying. A language is a dialect with an army. There are, perhaps, few places where this is more true than in the Balkans. At least none come to mind.

But I'm not proposing a solution. What I'm saying is that a vicious cycle isn't broken by shrugging and conceding defeat to whatever you feel "macroeconomics" is. It's easy pointin…

As they say, those who seek to combat traffic jams by building more roads, would also attempt to lose weight by undoing their belts. It's not different with phones. Your 2 year old…

Same story here. I was looking for a static site gen that was a bit more comfortable than my previous shell scripts around pandoc approach. I settled on Hugo because it ticked all …

Not only are they available online, they're better! Since internet distribution don't suffer from the same time slot problem broadcast media suffer from, they frequently add some e…