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Because most users aren’t computer savvy and victims in a hurry probably don’t have time for a lesson. On top of that, informing users requires them to open up the website in the f…

From the linked article, it was a press release, not just to his employees. > The incident began Monday when ATI, which supplies graphics cards for all Apple's current models, issu…

I recently got into 3D printing and, of course, after seeing countless ads on YouTube for OnShape, that was my first choice. Anyone having used both can share their thoughts about …

Let my geriatric self rephrase this for you and make the point more obvious: "[...] who just discovered [insert latest design pattern trend of your choice] and insists on trying it…

> Is that an easy mistake to make and a hard one to recover from, in your experience? If you're alone in a codebase? Probably not. In a company with many contributors of varying de…

Not an opinion on Pulumi specifically, but an opinion on using imperative programming languages for infrastructure configuration: don't do it. (This includes using things like CDKT…

I wish timoni[1] would take off. It’s based on Cue and doesn’t rely on templating. [1] timoni.sh

There’s a difference between passively listening to a meeting and actively participating, while being in the bathroom. I would never do either. But one is less weird than the other…

I wonder who the target is for such language. What's difficult with programming isn't the language itself, it's everything else: understanding concepts, algorithms, programming pat…

This past month, I have spent a decent amount of hours (7+) trying to setup nix on my mac with nix-darwin, and failed. Most tutorial out there encourage you to download someone els…

what are you trying to say here?

> but would fail hard if you intend to support multiple release versions of an app, which happens often in the embedded world with multiple hardware targets, or self-hosted, large …

Branches are mutable and regularly point to a new commit. Branching is selecting an active line of development, a set of commits that change over time. That's why git also offer ta…

> There's nothing inherently wrong with having per-env branches There is when you stop thinking in terms of dev, staging and prod, and you realize that you might have thousands of …

> Tools are just there, it's people who misuse them. Absolutely. And it doesn't help when people write guides actively encouraging mis-using tools

Somewhat related... At [company x] someone wrote a starter guide that tells developers to create a "production", "staging" and "dev" branch for any new repo. We have tons of reposi…

As a bilingual, non-native, English speaker, grug brain is particularly hard to read and understand. I don’t understand what « grug » is supposed to mean for example. That being sa…

Since when? Where did you get this information from?

People can have opinions and instincts on a subject matter without a formal education in said matter.

The original statement is not just "we do not facilitate copyright infringement". It has a whole lot of other words. If your original comment is solely about this revised 6 words s…

TL;DR: I am nitpicking on the use of "objectively untrue" and the implication this disclaimer serves no purpose. > The creators knew that when they wrote that disclaimer and we all…

I think it's fair to say that the software itself could/does facilitate illegal uses cases. But with that line of argumentation, then all software facilitates illegal use-cases jus…

Torrented material is not necessarily copyrighted material. It's not unlawful to use bittorent.