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They should probably rename it from "tail" to "neck" and watch the attitudes shift immediately.

Haven't tried this, but talking to Claude in its app is so much better than talking to Siri that Apple should be ashamed. It got every word perfectly the first time, including prog…

I also use Qustodio, and it has some pretty major rough spots, imo. ScreenTime does as well. They are both very bad at things like my kids listening to Spotify with the screen off.…

I personally can't stand audiobooks (or podcasts, or videos), so I'm with you there. I just read way too fast, and they feel so slow . On the other hand, one of my kids has a prett…

The point is that "doing hard things" is required to be a successful adult. Meanwhile, the bar for what constitutes a "hard thing" is dropping fast.

It's worse than this. I have kids in school. Our school system is one of the top in Connecticut, which is the quintessential "school" state (if any rich kid on TV goes away to scho…

on iOS this is basically impossible

On the other hand, if you swap "Linux" and "Windows" in your complaint, you get my experience. Windows is a hassle to get working for advanced use cases, and then every quarter the…

This article was eye opening. I'll admit I find ibuprofen to be a bit of a wonder drug. When I have a cold or flu, ibuprofen by itself is the most impactful medicine I take. The an…

A minority of people who drink are addicted to alcohol. Basically everyone who smokes/etc is addicted to nicotine. They aren't the same at all.

As someone who has never seen these or paid attention to them I was thinking "how heavy could they possibly be?" Then I saw 13.6 oz and I was blown away. That's actually really hea…

The idea made sense to me, but the execution was trash. Settings was slow, it wasn't any easier than control panel, and if you wanted to do anything that mattered you ended up in c…

Yes, it was like the same price (close enough) as a regular Sony DVD player, which was nuts. There were cheaper off-brand DVD players, of course. You did have to buy a remote separ…

I went from Linux to Mac to Windows and every single one is death by a thousand UX paper cuts.

20% seems like a "significant portion" to me

And then you fire off 100k emails, they all bounce, and your mail service shuts you off...

It's an interesting idea, but I'm thrown by "a count" in "should be taken into a count by future translations"

I went from Linux (10 years) to Mac (4 years) to Windows (8 months) to back to Mac. (I have not upgraded to Tahoe, and didn't even realize it was so different until recently) IMO, …

They can still sell it if its in the public domain. Just not exclusively.

No, we don't do any coding tests, just discussions of what you've done and how deep your knowledge of your tools goes. .NET folks are far less likely to understand much beyond the …

As a counter-point, my company was original purely .NET, then added Python (and later JS). For us, hiring .NET is WAY harder than the other stacks. We get a lot more applicants in …

Not sure that's fair, given most Linux gamers look like Windows gamers to the metrics. That said, devices like the SteamDeck run games on Linux (and that's without considering that…

Weird, I used to play LoL on linux all the time a few years back. I assume something changed

"Linux is too hard for people"

I mean, my father made a Steam account 20 years ago and he's almost 70.