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Oh don't get me wrong, I agree. They are unreasonably effective, but I think that's in large part because people have lost touch with reality. People tend not to think very critica…

Switching to a more ethical model than advertisements hardly helps. Most tech companies are competing for people's attention, so making one platform less addictive just means the a…

If this happens, I'll be listening to music with the most annoying lyrics on repeat.

I work with .NET for my day job and my team doesn't use any commercial libraries. I haven't felt limited in any sense by the .NET ecosystem. Nearly everything is open-source, too.

Yes, but that's just the default behavior. You can implement your own non-boxing version for performance critical applications.

I wonder if you could use this to evaluate how "truly random" a random number generator is.

If you've ever tried to stop doing something, going 90% of the way (e.g "I'll drink one soda per week") is often much harder than quitting entirely. This is particularly true with …

I am a full time .NET developer, experienced with both newer and older .NET versions. They are confusingly named, but this is the gist: - .NET Framework is the older version that i…

I like plain oatmeal. I wouldn't say it's "good" in most qualitative senses. "Cultivating taste" might mean less capacity to tolerate or enjoy things that are fine-but-not-great.