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"unbecoming" is the first word that comes to mind. Can't say it really surprises me, though.

It's a bit of semantics, sure, but there's a subtle difference. In something like Java, there's a very distinct complication phase, the compilation is successful (type checks pass)…

> So they are useless. My car warns me even if i don't look. No, they serve a very specific purpose -- (attempting) to ensure the driver is at the controls and paying attention. Do…

I remember a lot of, 'a sad lad had glad fad'. And then yes, it descended into nonsense from there on out.

Probably a subtle push to sell the cloud-hosted Enterprise version. I bet the on-prem Enterprise will slowly stop getting all the latest-and-greatest features. Producing and suppor…

Here's a good follow-up video from the same news org: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s8ICG0iaHqw Spoiler: They ended up dragging the husband through the (raging, debris filled) ri…

From Southwest 4Q and Full Year 2023 results [1]: > Full year 2023 operating revenues were a record $26.1 billion, a 9.6 percent increase, year-over-year > Full year net income of …

They make millions of dollars every year. They can afford the training, they'd just rather have better metrics and not pay for expensive training, just to make the stock look bette…

That would match with the leading mis-navigation theory. She and her navigator were fine and healthy, as was the plane. They were looking for the island to land on, but had messed …

You missed the joke. It's been so long now since HL2 that the joke is to find any implication of "3" (or even work back to three via vague associations between random things) and s…

How do you make "organic detergent"? Was it grown without synthetic pesticides, or...? I'm pretty skeptical of the word "organic" getting thrown around in marketing... so I'm reall…

This return a 404 now. Anyone have a better link?

I was never impressed with Nouveau, mostly because I pretty quickly ran into this system-crashing bug that I've had open for six years. It's "high critical" importance, plenty of r…

In the interview I asked the technical lead, "So, what sort of version control do you use?" Answer: "Well, we just open the file on the server and Vim will tell you if someone else…

I guess you like those cookie warnings that pollute the Internet these days? Because this would be cookie warnings all over again. Any site that's reasonably popular uses a CDN to …

The IBM MBAs have finally taken over Redhat. Anything to squeeze another dollar out, even if it's counterproductive in the long term. We knew it would happen. Honestly I'm surprise…

The yellow background is a bit abrasive, so I was happy to see a dark mode switch.. but yea, fuck me.

SpaceX used to sell a version of this in their online store. I bought one for my son. I'm not sure what company manufactured it, but it doesn't seem to have an Estes branding. You …

I'd argue it's two different products with very different levels of support effort. Larger customers require much more time/effort than smaller customers. I could list an hourly ra…

I'm the CTO of a bootstrapped SaaS product targeting the higher education market. We don't list a price on the website because there are many variables that affect the final price.…

It's very clearly Beta. No one claimed it's perfect/done/finished. Why is everyone so shocked that beta software has bugs? We can certainly debate whether it's ethical to put beta …

Restore from off-site tape backup. The kind of service where you ship them ~dozen new tapes in a lockbox each week and they ship you the oldest dozen back. It's supposed to be the …

> all teachers are represented by a union that negotiates on their behalf No, this is not true. Some teachers are represented by unions. In our state (North Carolina), public emplo…

Ohh, and yes. We spent plenty ($100's) of our own money on school supplies at Wal-mart and teacher supply stores. The kids also had an extensive supply list that parents were asked…