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Which is precisely why powers will try to make all these illegal

The oxford comma debate is so annoying because it clearly has nothing but advantages. Removing commas from a delimited list does nothing to resolve ambiguity, whether lexicographic…

I have found AI great in alot of scenarios but If I have a specific workflow, then the answer is specific and the ai will get it wrong 100% of the time. You have a great point here…

Office because lawyers send docs in .docx format like it was written in the blood of the Benjamin Franklin DirectX because steam defacto runs on Windows only for the vast majority …

This was a fun thing to realize in my early days of programming in Delphi. I guess the author will soon realize why old systems name things ticket "00001" and so on.

In 2012 managing the JVM was a nightmare. Java is fine now.

If the thing standing in your way to engineering a great product was syntax, and a bunch of gate-kept and inconsistent linux cli tooling, then its fine to call it engineering. I du…

Make the price of houses $250K instead of $500K and I will gladly buy an $80 game.

Man I miss Chef. It was wildly good for its time with a vibrant community. Habitat was cool but tried to carve into some niches that were too ambitious. And InSpec was an incredibl…

Honestly yeah, Raycast is the replacement I'd recommend these days for spotlight.

Is this what it feels like to become one of the gray bearded engineers? This sounds like a bunch of intentionally confusing marketing drivel. When capitalism has pilfered everythin…

And? Git is "idiot" in British parlance. I don't think software should be made to appease some false idea of corporate politeness.

And the journalists know if they reveal their sources that the people behind them will subsequently have their lives destroyed by the powerful.

Death by a thousand cuts. Microsoft Recall in a vacuum isn't the issue, but rather a decade of - Forced Cortana (oops no let's shut that down) - Forced OS Updates (oops your comput…

Anecdotally I am seeing communities I am part of gone from Reddit and other public social media in favor of private or semiprivate ones like Discord, or avoiding digital entirely i…

Maybe the closest thing to this is a Blackmagic box of some sort. I use a the Ultrastudio 4K to capture 4K60 output, pipe through OBS and pass through as well. Will run you $1K tho…

QA was literally invented for the airline industry. Software QA when actually practiced is more advanced now than airline QA.

> request was denied > mac mini proxy server I love that the programmer's solution is more expensive than doing it the right way had OP's request been approved.

Absolutely nobody is arguing that optional items are what is making it tough on people. It's housing and basic groceries. In 2005 I managed to wiggle my way out of poverty by split…

There is a keyboard and mouse attached to the server already, but few if any services run, and if they do they're fairly locked down, or in some degraded state. It's not a server I…