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Oddly, I’m conflicted on Flutter so far, but I have loved working in Dart. So much so that I ended up writing a queueing app for scheduling batches of sequential tasks on the serve…

In my case, it was almost out of existential need. I could see myself falling apart to the point of not being functional or even doing something to myself, and I knew that my paren…

I certainly did. In fact, the opening paragraphs of this piece immediately brought me back to my own state of mind when my Mom was diagnosed with cancer. There was at least a year …

Slowly but surely, I’m beginning to learn that whenever a US government agency has a problem with something, the problem isn’t that they are genuinely concerned about the thing the…

I’ve often wondered of the feasibility of some kind of special built LED monitor with a custom chip to handle real-time (within a frame or two) scan line generation and CRT mask / …

With no other context, I would not suggest stock Ubuntu. It’s had incremental improvements, but as a desktop OS, it’s a bit rough in my recent (within the last 1.5 years) experienc…

I tend to argue that “slippery slope” is not actually a logical fallacy the way others (e.g. straw man) are. A slippery slope is often a legitimate concern. Using it as the sole me…

I bought one with an AMD 4800U in early 2022 to be used as a cheap, dedicated Linux device for work (mostly Remote Desktop plus some local docker development environments) and it’s…

One of the many paradoxes that I’ve found (but never figured a reason for) is why I’m able to quickly memorize and find my way to common functions via text-based toolbar menus, but…

I know this is the mantra, but my experience has been highly mixed and only generalizable to how low in the stack it sits. For, say, security implementations for authorization and …

The senior developer above me is like this for me, and it’s rough because it shakes my self esteem AND often leads to me having to support and extend a fragile and changing 3rd par…

I’ve noticed this as well - they don’t view software building as a form of engineering that can be learned from basic principles of computer science, but instead as magic. So the g…

Potentially anyone involved in the making of the report. Each part of the process, from investigating and gathering facts, writing, and presentation, presents an opportunity for bi…

The problem is, the original article itself doesn’t really differentiate. It DOES call out longer form pieces like books or magazines as better alternatives (suggesting the article…

It is due to a problem space that’s poorly defined, but that’s not always indicative of ticket padding or a useless product. I’ve dealt many times with real people, who present me …

Additionally, the news does not present fact-centered, honest information about your government. It’s sensationalized, biased, partisan, and framed in an inflammatory manner to mak…

I get it, but that’s definitely a larger first world problem affecting the people of many countries, I presume including Canada. You have plenty of people both willing and unwillin…

As an American, it’s strange seeing this discussed so openly. In the US, any notion of “protecting the culture” is considered taboo. Implying that outside influence would not be yo…

I hear that. Whenever some new tools or tech comes along that can help us solve real, tangible problems we deal with, the resistance to learning something new is palpable. Adding t…

I wouldn’t say ghoulish - I can fully understand the reaction, especially going solely off the linked article. However, piecing together more of the case over time, it appears just…

Personally, I’m less invested in the tools I’m using, and more invested in what I’m creating. Granted, it is frustrating sometimes to see tools that you really enjoy using, be repl…

Fully agreed. I anxiously clicked, expecting to see an overly simple, flat, gradient filled shape with no character. But this is perhaps one of the few I’ve seen in a long time tha…

Much as I wish it weren’t the case, anecdotally, I have yet to find a substitute for sweets that doesn’t encourage the same feedback loop of craving more sweets, and more calories,…