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True story: my dad is confused by basically all technology and all modern user interfaces. The one site he finds usable without assistance? Craigslist.

I never thought trendy modern GUI design would get so bad that looking at screenshots of programs running on Windows 98 would feel instantly and overwhelmingly relaxing, like settl…

The appeal is that they need something on-trend to put in their portfolios for career advancement. It's their version of résumé-driven development. Project managers have similar in…

Oh is that what it is? I was trying to figure out why it looked so bad when not zoomed uncomfortably far "in", when I didn't recall that ever being a problem before. I think that's…

> My hypothesis is the point is to compete with Jira. When they start making everything drag & droppable at a huge cost to UI latency and bundle size (plus, for some reason, idle r…

Oh man, they've made it way harder to quickly evaluate the state of a repo, which has always (for me) been about 90% of the appeal of Github. Moving releases out of the tab list hu…

> How are you managing to break apt not once, but "way too many times?" Raises hand my home server (running Debian) is currently in a weird state where a whole bunch of packages wo…

Strongly agreed, I haven't even kinda liked Windows since Win7. Still, it's not as bad as the constant oops-rebooted-there-goes-your-work fest I recall from early Win10. I forget i…

Hahaha, yeah, same smallish town's cops love to hassle people with late or early shifts playing "20 questions" fishing for drunks or I-don't-even-know-what ("5:30's awfully early t…

> I will not be migrating from Mojave to Catalina, and will use my current generation of Macs until they are obsolete, while finally making the transition to Linux I've recently be…

The fluidity is about keeping activity on the screen tightly in sync with motion on the trackpad and having zero or no unexpected behavior or jank when e.g. reversing a motion part…

Once saw a police car in a smallish town whip a u-turn for no clear reason, no lights, nothing, nearly hit a car that was pulling out of a bank parking lot and the driver of which …

Hey, it's me a couple months ago! With a side dose of "we may or may not fire you, we dunno yet" for several weeks (they did, abruptly, the day after once again saying they maybe w…

Factoring is the point at which a lot of people start truly hating math. As in going from having a weakly negative or even somewhat positive opinion of the field to hating it. I'd …

> email client I hear a lot of "my email", as in "I opened up my email" or "where's my email?" Sure they could mean their email inbox, but they also mean the email client with that…

> Is everyone insane or is there something I'm missing. Difference in taste based on class-related norms & values, mostly, is what I'd say you're missing. Can make a thing really i…

Yeah, I dunno why it is, but that could well be. I suspect it has something to do with whatever's resulting in women attending and completing college at a higher rate than men, but…

> Women I know who wrote software kept finding new roles where they'd be in management instead and then they moan that they liked writing code and miss it. Maybe that tells us that…

Yeah, you're on to something. I'd guess it's intense and precise coaching paired with people who don't do this sort of thing very often. It seemed to get a lot worse soon after the…

They've been trending that way even at the live events. Last few years the obviousness of all the coaching and rehearsal has been extremely distracting. I mean it was there before …

Ages 0-22: zero times, basically never sick, never had strep or a sinus infection even once. Maybe, maybe had very mild cases of the flu once or twice when very young but then neve…

By the time I get them for those things I'm usually sitting at about 4 hours of sleep over the last 48-72(!) hours and unable to eat or (sometimes) even keep water down, so yeah, I…

If I could get antibiotics for strep or sinus infections without going to them, I'd pretty much never go. Those visits are really dumb because I already know what's wrong, and just…

IMHO Perfect Dark is one of the oldest shooters that holds up (play the version on the Xbox 360, maybe also the XBone, not sure). Yeah yeah it's a console shooter, but it's outstan…

At launch the boss fights were much worse. They updated it to provide alternative solutions to most or all of them, at some point.