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I grew up in the 80s and it’s hard to overstate how dominant Arnold was back then. Every little boy wanted to be Commando or Conan. I also remember when he was governor (I live in …

It makes me sad seeing the narrative on forums like this and elsewhere shift to "Tech companies are all bloated and Elon is right". Anyone saying that is missing the point entirely…

When people say "defund the police" this is the kind of shit they are talking about. There is no reason for a police force to have access to lethal robots. None.

> solid 10-15% of folks doing nothing Where are you getting these numbers? You got any real studies or data to back this up?

If you don’t want collaborative editing, don’t use it. I’m saying most users wanted it and started looking elsewhere when EN couldn’t deliver. It’s easier to add a lock on collabor…

I learned three things watching EN snatch defeat from the jaws of victory: 1) There is almost never a case for a total ground up rewrite of your core product. Just don’t do it. 2) …

Just so. Some big Grinch energy coming from one of the wealthiest people on the planet.

> Lot's of twitter employees will suffer This is the only part of this I am speaking to because the rest is exactly what is happening. Musk messed up and now a whole lot of people …

Layoffs are part of business yes (pretty much what I said in my parent post). What I have a problem with is the way this is being done. Forcing people to quit by dropping arbitrary…

The way this entire thing has been run is a f*cking disgrace. Yes they have a business to run. Yes they need to do what they need to do to keep things healthy on that end, but thes…

I bought a System 76 laptop a few years ago and stuff like this is why I went back to Apple. I was always dealing with one weird thing or another. One day it decides it wont wake f…

This is why I tell every senior or “muggle” I know to just get an iPad for their computing needs. Sandboxed. Cheap. Backs everything up for you. Totally managed experience. I’ve sw…

> Of those Gen-Xers who have done something with their lives—Elon Musk, Dave Chapelle, J. K. Rowling, Kanye West, and Jack Dorsey I am GenX and I'd like to think I've done a lot of…

I made the switch to vim a few years ago. You'll want to start with learning the keybindings. Every major IDE and editor out there has a "vim mode" and an "emacs mode" so pick one …

You sound like a fun guy. Enjoy.

Dammit. You have my upvote.

> quite frankly it's where the PHP developers all slithered off to PHP isn't my favorite language but using phrasing like "slither" to describe an entire community of developers is…

SQLAwesome? :)

Someone recently observed that SQLite would be used a lot more in production if it didn't have the word "lite" in its name. I've personally been amazed by what it can do. Really gr…

This whole thing reminds me of the time some renowned wine connoisseurs blind taste tested vintage wines and they slipped 2 buck chuck in there. A few of them picked the 2 buck chu…

If that’s the case that really sucks.

Well I guess we disagree then. As always with these things, it’s more nuanced. The timing of that question was the part that I think was pretty poorly thought out. That wasn’t even…

It was a really boneheaded question to be sure. I feel really bad for “Gary” who is getting dragged in the media left and right now however. Can you imagine? I’d be mortified.

As I said, this particular anecdote does seem extreme. I am just making the point that at a certain scale it gets harder to do out of band tasks if you don't scale up the staffing …