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Isn’t that expected, though? If 100 of us were to write a five page essay on the chaffing mechanics of an Underoos wedgie, the likelihood that any of them are the same is pretty sm…

I'm a writer with what may be an unpopular opinion. I have a college degree in creative writing; I do technical writing and programming for a living, and I used to publish technica…

Yes. They work fine in Chrome. Mellel is the only app I can think of where they don’t work.

Vitamin D is a lifesaver for me. I'm severely deficient, and if I don't take about 10,000 IU a day, I seem to get colds every five minutes.

Yes. Basic emacs keybindings work pretty much everywhere in macOS. I have run into a couple of apps that don’t behave correctly, but 99% of the time they work.

I was going to trade in an old truck and buy my daughter a Tiguan this weekend. I guess I’ll rethink that.

Self-help non-fiction books killed themselves by focusing on entertainment, in the form of amusing anecdotes, rather than substance. Most self-help books could be reduced to a 3-by…

I use Karabiner-Elements on macOS, and finding keyd was a godsend on Linux. I cannot deal with standard keyboard mappings and the lack of hold/tap keys.

I made a modal editor, like Vim and Helix, in Rust that has some prose features I wanted, and with a keybinding system I find more logical and consistent.

I've found that if I apply for any company that uses Workday, it's an immediate rejection, so I don't bother with them anymore.

Neither do I.

LLMs seem to have an easy time with Elixir and Phoenix in my testing.

I find Elixir's memory and threading models much more compelling than Go's for web services. There are many great libraries for Elixir as well, but if you need something else, Elix…

I just found my BeOS 5 and BeProductive CDs from the late 90s. I wish I had something to run them on.

Philips is the company that came up with the term "Compact Disc" for CDs, so we can blame them for goofing up the regional spellings and making the world more confusing. I think Al…

I have been around for a similar amount of time. Another change I have seen over the years is the shift from programming being an exercise in creative excellence at work to being a…

I'm currently using Niri+Noctalia just to try them out, but I typically use Gnome and like it quite a bit for its simple, clean interface. I use macOS and Linux, and the way GNOME …

Django is perfectly capable. I'd use Phoenix for its scalability and performance, if it were me, but I've built large-scale projects in Django before, and it worked well.

I feel sorry for this woman. Meta did this to me because they're discriminatory dicks, so I know how she felt. Fortunately, I have a tremendous amount of family support.

I have the same question. I've been in the software industry since the early 90s and I've seen the "static types are the best thing since sex" fad fade in and out repeatedly during…

No worries, and I forgive you for the sardonic Japanese. I wish you the best.

Hi, ursAxZA. Yes, you're describing an "elision," which is where speakers drop or blur sounds together to make speech more fluid, like the way some people say, "Sup?" when they mea…

You're welcome. I'm sure at some point, Gleam will figure it all out.

We are talking about writing/spelling, aren't we? Why would you want to confuse the hell out of those learning Japanese by spelling せんせい (sensei) using an E with a macron, a la "se…

> In Japanese, an E column kana followed by I sometimes makes a long E, like in 先生 (sen + sei -> sensē). While it is sometimes difficult to discern the combined E and I sound, espe…