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Sure. Trump's an abhorrent human being but that doesn't stop me from respecting their gender identity. I don't go around misgendering people I don't like because I don't like them.…

It's always interesting when people try to Solve Art. Art is inherently subjective, and you have to accept that a lot of it just _sucks_. It's up to you to curate your own taste, a…

There are a million and one online communities where men are welcome. Let us have just this one, please?

Step off it, mate. There is a correct answer: People who call themselves women are women. Simple as that. You're not the arbiter of Gender.

Modern turbofans are basically ducted fans spun by a smaller turbojet engine, so they are basically huge fans!

"Sucking" doesn't actually generate any thrust - In highschool, my physics teacher did a demo with a T-shaped pipe with a fan in the middle, suspended from some string. Without the…

Background App Refresh has been a thing for ages - It took them a while, but Apple solved this problem in a super user-friendly manner.

This reads like a creative writing exercise from the same people who were hurling violent abuse on social media at (ex-)SV people, mainly women and people of colour, who spoke out …

Hang on a sec, I'll move my EU-based company's entirely EU customer base as well as all of our EU citizen staff and EU-based suppliers... oh wait.

This makes me uncomfortable. Private subscriptions were a direct revenue stream for Github, and explained directly how they can afford the infrastructure that provides the service.…

This is a good article, but I think there is a lot more to be written on this subject. I would really like to see a proper "long-read" exploration of what is a very real and under-…

Not everything uses Semver (which is primarily aimed at software libraries). Blender's versioning scheme is consistent and reasonably well documented.

I hear this a lot, but I find Safari to be an entirely usable browser day-to-day - the reduction in power usage is very noticeable vs Firefox or Chrome.

"Do you want to meet them?" is perfectly acceptable. People seem to have no issues using it to refer to me, somebody who doesn't feel particularly at ease with referring to themsel…

iPhone owner since the very first iPhone - I know ;)

> Cross-check with your friends how they feel about the company. This is very important. I have a friend who took a job at a Mysterious Fintech Startup - he told our social circle …

Which is one reason, among many, for YouTube to build a native application.

Makes sense. The NSA can't backdoor the kit if China already have, right? I understand it's oft more nuanced than this, but the comment about glass houses comes to mind.

I say again; Don't be rude. Especially don't be mean about other people's environments for the sake of being mean about their environments. Which is what you just did.

Don't be rude. LabVIEW is used in production in a lot of serious environments.

It's an XKCD1053 event - Somebody discovered something that was new and interesting to them, and probably decided to share it knowing there are other people who also aren't yet awa…

The only thing I remember about Secure Scuttlebutt is that it's anything but secure, but I can't for the life of me remember where I read it - can somebody jog my memory?

In an ideal world that'd be great, but for single-dev projects you can more effectively deliver features if you just pick a database and stick to it. It's a shame it's MySQL (I'm i…

This is probably exactly what I've been looking for as a blogging platform. Definitely giving this a go.

Bloody hell, mate - It's perfectly valid to highlight the fact that somebody's PoV may be biased based on their past contributions, there's no need to bring race into it. They're j…