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"Would you like to try the digestive tract remapping first? It's a lot less invasive, but, if it doesn't work you'll be depressed the entire time you're making a mess of yourself."…

Today is the day that florianwueest learns that "spoken language" is actually a really controversial topic lol Seriously though, I bet finishing up this project felt great, then po…

the point here being: the perception of being surveilled by "language police" on its own is either anxiety inducing or the result of an existing anxious disposition. The actual act…

RIP. Likely the Platonic Ideal of an abrasive programmer. I'd put mid 00s Linus Torvalds as the apotheosis. Despite being an incredibly abrasive person, he has left a mark on histo…

literally right there in the comment. "swore at regularly". Anyways, I definitely agree that swearing isn't the same as abrasive, but swearing at people is definitely an abrasive t…

"Oh, THEY are policing my language. THEY are watching everything I say!" You're reading the idea of language policing as some actual thing, like people are hanging over someone wat…

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S187704281... It's really not a big leap, though. People who are afraid of violating a code of conduct because they're "under the …

The best programmers I've worked with swore at their coworkers regularly, but never in their code. They were not great people, and I'd happily kick them in the face if I would enco…

I honestly can't tell if you're an arts supporter writing satire, or a bean counter who is serious.

... you completely missed the relevant part with the "1999" part. The relevant part is the "2012" part. Things used to get better, do more, and faster. The last 15 years, the "do m…

so, I can't reply to your latest message because it's too far down but... Let me just hop on my wifi and browse the web. Lets do it on a computer from 1999. 2000. 2001. 2002. 2003.…

Sure does. Does the switch to 64 bit slow things down enough to explain what happened between Windows 2000 and XP? Does the operating system have to support virtual machines? Seems…

no, no, and no. Lets see if we can petition Microsoft to add them, and then we'll see if Win2000 still runs decently fast on a P4 with 4gb of ram. My guess is: yes, it will. Someho…

Windows 2000 was peak Windows, minus security. Security is miles and miles better today. Nothing will change my mind about this, ever. It's been downhill since then.

I don't know... I've been on there on and off all day, and it's honestly better today than it has been for a long, long time.

Well, with Canada giving billions of dollars to whoever asks (or threatens to stop construction, after finishing 10% of a project) for it, it's not much of a surprise.

And once that hardware is selected for a given range of vehicles, it's literally impossible to change. Updates to some parts of the software stack are also basically impossible at …

ah, there is some regulatory oversight and there's awareness of the safety aspects. Not much, but, there is some. After working on infotainment, I'm doing my best to avoid purchasi…

I worked on an infotainment system some years back. Trust me: we hated the response times more than you do, and I'm sure you hate them a lot. There were, and are, layers and layers…

You can have perfect crypto on your devices, and great operations, and your messages can still be intercepted several ways. The feds are almost never in a rush. If they want you, t…

Some of the higher tiers of AWS enterprise support are INCREDIBLE. They're close the level of support I'm contracted to provide as a full time IC. Stuff like turnaround within hour…

You're not wrong, or the other half of the Lebowski quote, honestly. It's just going to be another one of the recent (~15 years back) technology items that are pushing the general …

Just imagine this as a subscription service. Lovely! When a loved one dies, you donate their cellphone and provide delegated access to their messages to their social media, and all…

Yes, it is. And in a grocery store, how is a product handled when it comes in on a shipment and doesn't match the previous shipments and/or bills of lading? By a person, in every s…

It's armchair quarterbacking, for sure. Nobody at Amazon is going to read some random news article, even if they are here slacking at work, and say "That's the ticket! Lets do that…