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apples to oranges comparison. 1990 is early days for MS. 1990 is gorilla days for IBM.

Yep, if AI could do it so could out-sourcing it to India. AI is great for "almost" but not great at "exact"

"While remaining a going concern." Well, tough. Maybe they should have to find a way. If that means requiring everybody to have to pay to afford the moderators then so be it. All t…

I'm not a sociopath but I believe the concept of tipping to be terrible. Everything should be in the price. up front. what's advertised should be what leaves your account. If you g…

Cut and Paste isn't broken, Copy is broken (in windows). My muscle memory for copying and pasting text is now: ctrl-c, ctrl-c, ctrl-c, ctrl-v.

uh, the webring idea is OLD. Not quite "And some things that should not have been forgotten were lost. History became legend. Legend became myth. And for two and a half thousand ye…

I'm sure it just my personal preference but I hate animations. Most often they do little other than slow an application down i.e. the code of the application could finish the task …

Don't conflate hiit with crossfit. Crossfit is just one (although well known) type of hiit. There are many other type of hiit activities without the training style of crossfit.

Question about merging: How do you handle merging multiple pdf that have forms? Are the form fields renamed to prevent form field name clashes? And what pdf toolkit do you use?

You've got to be able to deploy. Simple as that.

No, you site sources for your response or retract your response. see how that works?

Yep. When I was in Kuwait, admittedly 20 years ago, there were a LOT of non-kuwaitis there as most manual labor jobs were done by foreign workers. I wouldn't be surprised if it's s…

not harmful. why should women in action films need to be held to a higher standard the men? Hollywood's depiction of action movies in general is unrealistic. Stereotypical Good Guy…

Make it look weak to draw fire away from higher value targets?

Exactly this. The telemetry stats will bubble up to some level of management and it will show, "after making the play key launch the music app more people are using it". That's it.…

Bit of a storm in a teacup. The article indicts that they knew it was likely to be a target and removed all personnel from it as it wasn't needed.

Just doing random evil things for no benefit? At this point it's just wanton vandalism. Punks in suits smashing windows and setting fire to cars. Can anyone here, hand of heart, sa…

Too many keystrokes, people won't use it.

I am actually curious in knowing an answer to this: Does anybody think this is a good thing? A benefit to the world? Not if anyone is cheating or scheming or being a rules lawyer, …

I think deep cynicism is the correct mindset to have in the current financial/political climate.

This is going to burn through karma faster than a blowtorch but it seems to me that just because something is a tradition doesn't mean it should be respected. The world changes, tr…

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I think I made a HN comment a few months/years ago about driverless cars having problems with floods across roads after watching a downpour in Kuala Lumpur flood half a street in m…

Painful. A lot of the Microsoft interfaces these days are asynchronous and are built around the dev experience of c#/c++ with libraries/runtimes that do a lot of the heavy lifting.…

Yep, it's 2026 and I'm still 8 hours a day in win32.