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50/50 splits don't work well in practice. Splits right in the middle of the eyes. And assumes all tiles have the same importance and deserve equal screen space. Whereas with large …

Given a person A and person B, while both have a very small subset of the 'univeral truth' one of them is closer to it than the other approximation. And better yet the combined sam…

Calling sensory experiences subjective subtly implies that they carry zero bits of useful information and that everything is up to interpretation. That is profoundly defeatist. Whe…

Is WPF dead? And what's it been replaced with?

Which tooling (as far as IDEs go) and for which langs don't fall on it's arse on big projects?

Jetbrains Rider = win/macos/linux Quite competitive with msvs, if not better

There are no universal truths? Math is quite universal. For all intents and purposes empiristic measurements have margin of error small enough to be more than just a subjective exp…

What is the so called excellence and why is it so important?

Touchbar should never have happened in the first place, not now, not ever. It such an obviously bad idea.

Without extensions all web browsers are quite equally unusable. Long gone are the days of Opera presto when browsers shipped fully featured.

Breaking "old" add-ons with no working replacement and no way to implement quite a few of them killed FF for me. What those idiots at Mozilla don't get is that without the add-ons …

Firefox broke off backwards compatibility with massive amount of extensions - without them stock FF is quite shite and unusable. Not only that, some of the features of the old exte…

Global menus assume a single monitor setup. And as such are unsuitable.

About buttons are there to find the exact version of the software you are using - and who is behind it. It is useful. Sometimes to contact the devs.

Which heavy metals did you test for? And what do you think was the source?

What was the issue in the end? And how did you solve it?