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I have GamePass, so I thought: "I'll give this a go. How hard can it be? I'm really good in Elite Dangerous." Turns out: Quite hard. I have a newfound respect for airline pilots. O…

Weirdly, my initial thought there was "that's only 9 years ago", and then did a quick double take when I realised that it wasn't.

They already do to a certain extent. Damaged goods often find their way into the "reduced" section.

I learned to always have one database with every custom schema change in, and run my database unit tests (tSQLt is my favourite) on that one database.

I remember reading "Heirs of Empire" by David Weber, and it casually mentioned that Dakax had a database that was immutable. I remember thinking that was a good idea, and planned t…

I had to zoom in to 400% to be able to see the detail there.

Nice. Bought it and will try it out.

The website says: "accurately identifies upto ten Pantone® colors" What is the ten referring to? Total times you can use it?

I can confirm anecdotally that having a baby crying at all hours of the day and the night also makes humans less interested.

I understand what you mean. There's an incredible amount of tactile information in the real world, and I can't help feeling that there's probably almost as much information flowing…

I never remember to put comments in when I am beer-coding. Caffeine-code is much easier to follow later.

You still have to know exactly the same amount of information to know if someone is working or not, but you only have to know one piece of information per moment, because "what tim…

You are correct. The typical voter does not vote on how much money goes to schools.

One time I had TomTom accidentally switch itself on in my bag on the floor, set to Homer Simpson's voice and trying to redirect me to home. As I got further and further away the "t…

"Please state the nature of the medical emergency"

You could spin up a virtual machine and try it out on there.

Sign language (BSL) uses air keyboard for "programmer": https://www.signbsl.com/sign/computer-programmer

"If the headline is a question, then the answer is no." - Betteridge's law.

I get a security error clicking the link above. Does anyone have another link?

Do you know of a tool which allows two (or more) people to share their screens with each other at the same time? i.e. A can see (at least) one of B's screens, and B can see (at lea…