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Stop spreading misinformation. People have always had the ability to create work-specific accounts for use on corporate devices. I’m shocked that it’s not common knowledge that cor…

Chronic fatigue syndrome has long been known to often start with a viral infection (for example: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/21756995/ ). Other issues can arise as a consequenc…

I’m in the same boat. Due to security restrictions of my employer I can’t use cloud services to store work related stuff. I was really bummed when I discovered that a lot of the in…

Reinventing known things and claiming that they’re novel is sort of his shtick. That said, he often does do interesting work - it just takes quite a bit of patience (which many peo…

Part of me wants to disagree since some of these features make my code shorter, but I have to agree since they commit a sin of language design that I dislike - implicit magic. Deco…

I’m getting a little tired of articles or chats with people where you get the impression that people think the vaccines will create some sort of covid-proof bubble around them. Thi…

The details of Windows executables are all well documented and open - it's very easy to parse a windows executable and run it. The part that's missing to run it without Windows is …

I'm not sure it's a question of FOSS OS vs non-FOSS OS. Working with MacOS has always felt similar to working with other non-Linuxes -- it's different. When OSX first came along wi…

Oh come on. Even before the pandemic your typical anti-vaccine person also wasn’t universally against all vaccines. They usually had some subset that represented their favorite rat…

Competitive programming is fun. It’s amazing that some people seem to think everything is about career path optimization. Are we not allowed to do things for fun or just to pass th…

I wouldn’t overthink the tools. I found a mostly minimal toolset was sufficient when I did my PhD: actively used repositories to make sure I never lost my work (private repos so I …

I don’t get it. Why would you sign in with any personal information on a work device? Just create a free account and use it for work. I have zero sympathy for people who use person…

That’s not that hard in an FP language. I routinely write code with multiple structures referring to the same thing. My usual solution is to have an identifier for the thing that i…

I think the point is that yes, they have always had the power to do these things - but they haven't thus far. We rely on entities with power (companies, governments, people) to exe…

I’ve seen the same thing occurring in central Oregon in spots that usually are busy in the summer. You see places closing early or not opening due to staffing issues, right in the …

I think others addressed the "why proof not empirical data" question well, but one additional point. A logical proof is only as solid as its weakest component. In mathematics any r…

This is very important. I personally like old technologies and languages where the designers considered users who had limited technical skills, and most importantly, assumed that t…

Exactly. These are restrictions that have been viewed as favorable for security purposes for decades. It’s nice to see a mainstream OS actually implementing them. The resistance to…

It’s an easier mode for me when standing and holding the iPad with one hand and the stylus in the other. The keyboard is nice when sitting and using both hands for sure. Same was t…

I write comments based on what I expect I will need to know if I close the editor and don’t look at the code again for a couple years and will need to jump back into it as quickly …

It seems like broadly speaking everyone has just been stressed here for a few years. Not stressed about work? How about healthcare? Or the economy? Or one of many social topics? Ma…

I'm sure somewhere in the big pile of comments someone else is saying this, but as another voice saying it: 1. The pandemic was weird, and likely a time when people didn't want to …