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January 01 race to open hundreds of "update year in readme" PRs

It's quite strange though when you consider the fastest way to get egg on your face is to do something badly because you didn't understand and just made it up instead of looking it…

> I genuinely don’t understand how front-end developers accept this level of needless complexity. in my anecdotal experience as a bit of an old fogey with a greying beard, the enth…

> Back to tsunami. Whenever I hear the word mispronounced by those who ought to know better it just grates badly, the mangled mispronunciation distracts my attention from what's ac…

> We are now building a new product focused on agentic development This is sad. It seems innovation has all but stopped for IDEs intended for a human as the primary driver.

There's more to life than GDP and "free speech".

Noah's Automatic Reference Counter

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I like LLM stuff sometimes. But it's too obnoxious, over-eager, loud and incorrect by default. I wish it were modal and I could have an entirely AI-free "normal" mode for when I kn…

Same here in London.

They'll all sink when they crash in to the dumped Lime bike reef (purchased from China)

I thought it was going to be about the shell

Sizes tend to be a lot smaller. One poster above said a large soda in the USA is almost one litre! In the UK it's roughly half that size at 500ml. As the sugar level is directly pr…

Ok cool, this bodes well for my "disposing of household waste by dropping a nuclear bomb on it in Central Park" startup

This doesn't seem like a very sensible policy. There are a great many harms that once done, cannot be undone.

We have always been at war with Eurasian beavers (Castor fiber).

I had a horrible time with Localstack. It's very similar to AWS but not exactly the same, so you hit all kinds of annoying edges and subtle bugs or differences and you're basically…

> Software teams at apple really need to get their act together. WatchOS 26 has rendered my Apple Watch almost useless. It's gone from lasting a whole day including 2 cycling 'work…

if the language or std lib already allows for chaining then pipes aren't as attractive. They're a much nicer alternative when the other answer is nested function calls. e.g. So thi…

Often mine is relatively empty on arrival and I fill it with wines and other souvenirs to take home

why do you need one? I see a lot of "edc" stuff online where people seem to carry knives and tools with them everywhere they go. I've never found a need to do so and never been cau…

Disney characters work too, from what I hear.

There's also the "south east Qld option" (which I'm certain is the region you're describing in your comment) where the government is so roadbrained that all public transport soluti…

Nothing. But you'll get a constraint error as they aren't unique.