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It's a sad, sad day. First Guido, and now Linus have given up. Can't blame them, under this grinding onslaught. There is something very Randian about it all though.

It's really not hateful to say that people are terrible for expressing those beliefs

Propaganda aside, a black person in the USA is living in the best possible place.

Latin American countries are a shitshow. Cynically I cannot but wonder what might be if they got their shit 6ogeth4t

I love my dog, but a clone would not be the same dog, with the experiences that make her the way she is. I cannot think about dog cloning without remembering Fry's speech upon thro…

IBM really, really does not want anything to do with further developing or supporting Lotus software products. I believe that they gave that whole business over to HCL not long ago…

Calling this a "system" or "platform" is probably being very generous. It sounds like a very loosely related glom of Domino databases that grew up organically, probably with a litt…

Nay. I do not understand the obsession with whiteboards. I've had coworkers that went gaga when they discovered that whiteboard paint was a thing, and they could cover their office…

If it's running well, he might never have to touch it. We sell some Notes-based products with some considerable customers (still!) and only get a couple emails a week or month. Ann…

Man, if you could cash that voucher in for other educational materials, that would be an idea. What a library I could have had... Even in the broke, rural, low-cost-of-living area …

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siege_of_Baghdad_(1258) The impact of the Mongol conquest almost cannot be overstated.

I am far too old and uncool to have any idea that that kind of thing existed. I'm more in the barstool sports/onion/fuckjerry/animalsdoingthings wheelhouse. Pure stupid entertainme…

The only part of the New York Times worth paying money for is the crossword. I was a subscriber for a couple years, but after a while you start noticing that all the opinion pieces…

> Part of the reason Instagram has surged in popularity lately is because it's generally real humans posting the content rather than endless automated shitposts (I'm not saying the…

If you do have broad shoulders however, narrower keyboards are rather painful to use. Right now, I'm using a Logitech G710+, which is a full-sized IBM-syle keyboard, with an extra …

Definitely doable if you're not in places where real estate has gone completely bonkers. There are lots of places where it isn't unreasonable to rent an entire house on a single in…

Brave shows how many ads and trackers it has blocked, as well as a number that's labeled Time Saved. How that is calculated I haven't the foggiest, but it must be related to downlo…

It's too much to hope that products could just focus on doing what they do, and doing it well, rather than bodging on miscellaneous shit until it resembles the Homermobile. Build a…

Beating around the bush to say somebody is doing something dumb without hurting their feelings takes extra effort, and lessens the impact, unfortunately.

This used to be a common feature of the type of forums that predated SO... For example, https://www.gamedev.net/forums/forum/71-for-beginners/

Generally, I write everything in plain-text, and then as a final processing step, bring it into Word and format it. I hit on this process when I was in college, since SVN, which I …

No shit. Protectionism is only bad when we do it, for some reason.

Go has a bit of a niche, and Rust is trying real hard, but they aren't Javascript or Java, or C#, or Python, or Rails, or PHP, or C++, or Objective-C or... Out in the wider world, …

There are remarkable parallels between the two, it could be argued. There is something of a myth of Chinese continuity which isn't really warranted at face value when you examine t…

Fracking, and development of all that domestic shale oil that became economical to exploit when oil prices were through the roof previously, as I understand it.