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I expect the modern equivalent would be "-inator" as a suffix.

Here's a similar take from Joel Spolsky: A long time ago, it became fashionable, even recommended, to disable menu items when they could not be used. Don’t do this. Users see the d…

It seems like this knowledge has been bouncing around for nearly a decade. Why the slow adoption? This should be a slam-dunk. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/24465524/

It's funny how the author in the same paragraph notes that solar power isn't common in the "Sunshine State" of Florida, and then also points out the problem of hurricanes. Turns ou…

Get a bike and you don't have to worry about roads or fuel either.

Still waiting to hear what punishment is befitting a person of non-belief. Really, just say it. Say the quiet part out loud.

It's clear you've not researched ethics thoroughly. I guess all those philosophers just needed to agree to use the same exact interpretation of the same holy books and there would …

Religion is in no way a force for bringing people together. Anti-Semitism is rampant among many Christians. Catholics and Protestants have quite a history of not seeing eye-to-eye.…

>We need only concern ourselves with what's external and the impact it has on society. This I can wholeheartedly agree with. In what way is atheism a danger or harm to society exce…

I do want to hear what they have to say. It sounds like they have some pretty out-of-the-box ideas about how society should function. Admittedly, it seems as though I would oppose …

I have so many questions. How would one determine whether I were a non-believer? What is an appropriate punishment? Why are Abrahamic religions whe ones which are allowable but all…

This article is accurate, but it doesn't talk about causes. Is the market looking for larger vehicles? Are the auto-makers in cahoots with the oil industry to use larger engines? I…

Do you really think that ChatGPT can analyze the work done by a human and provide meaningful and accurate feedback? It's very easy to make a claim, but have you perhaps tried it? M…

Are we laughing at the death of middle-schoolers now? Yeah, if that's your view, you and the "good" Lord can fuck off.

Would the House be more or less effective if there were 10,000+ representatives to meet the 30,000:1 ratio in the original Constitutional setup?

This text in in bold in the concluding paragraph >>Once you factor out interview data from both men and women who quit after one or two bad interviews, the disparity goes away enti…

The article seemed largely focused on database performance being the deciding factor in scaling. If everything else has been low-code with a traditional rdbms (even if cloud-hosted…

The argument seems a bit myopic. The author is talking about errors and vulnerabilities found in libraries while ignoring those same factors in bespoke code. At best that's a "secu…

Document everything. Have copies of things in multiple safe (non-work) locations. CYA. Note all dates, times, locations, methods of communication, and as much physical evidence as …

This is the primary reason why I stopped using my bank card for anything but the ATM at said bank. A scammer wiping out my checking account is more than an inconvenience, even if t…

If you could even get it! Think about all the millions of dollars dealing with the Log4J issues last December. How much has that prompted sponsorship of any logging libraries by th…

You’re far more gracious than I. If someone were to call something I’m clearly passionate about “silly” I don’t think I’d respond genially.

Is this at all surprising? Spotify paid a lot of money to have Rogan on their platform because he (supposedly) makes them more money. Young gave a request of the "choose-him-or-me"…

Strumming my pain with his fingers Singing my life with his words...

The version of Defrag from DOS 6.22 I remember differentiated between unused, partially used, and used (full) blocks. When you'd see a lot of partially used blocks get condensed in…