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> He mentions in the thread that he had to delete posts offensive to the developers. Maybe that's why? Maybe. As those posts have (allegedly) been deleted, it is now impossible to …

> It's of course work to do, and I'm not super motivated to send them that patch, and there's the question of it it would be merged That's my issue; he calls for people to send pat…

Have a go at it in the wilderness and you’ll realize really rather quickly how disconnected modern … durations have become. But yeah, for some it’s definitely an escape. Particular…

My first programming forays were with the assembler feature of DEBUG.EXE, on an 8088. Extraordinarily cumbersome in retrospect, but it was existing at the time. Definitely a gatewa…

> socially badgering > pressure is not real. > real consequences that I'm aware of (as in legal, regulatory, etc) So if I understand correctly, the argument is that social pressure…

..."pop off"? I get the impression that you're inferring things about me that aren't actually real. Such as a lack of respect for the fallen.

I would guess that having it drilled in from childhood probably has something to do with it. By taking issue with it, you're going against the flow and people in general seem to be…

So in other words, you disagree with the post I'm replying to? > I don't believe there is any pressure whatsoever. You've clearly not been to some of the events that I have. Also, …

In fact, I generally don't. On the other hand, that is not because I am bothered (or not) by such practices. I'm really not sure what this has to do with the opinions being express…

> It's like people forgot that non-web-interface rss readers existed. I'd wager that a lot of people never even knew these existed. To a lot of people, the browser became (or simpl…

Probably, they are like me, meaning we seem not to be on the same page as you regarding the term 'podcast'. To me, a podcast is just an audio talk session, mastered and distributed…

Honestly I struggle to think of a more complicated program than a modern browser that expects to fully support the existing web.

That may be true, and it may be of personal value to pursue this for yourself. That's different from socially badgering others into it at group events.

This is the exact reason* I bought a 4090 for my recent rebuild instead of the rDNA card I actually wanted. I really wanted to go with AMD for the driver integration with the Linux…

The letter or the intent though? Because if it’s the letter, we’d better throw in wheel chairs, surfboards etc. as well. The law does not specify motor vehicles, even though I woul…

Improvements to property often bring little to no return at time of sale —- especially if those improvements have worn in a few years. More than a few years? Forget it. Improvement…

> End of the day, landlords don’t deserve more money and I don’t know why anyone here argues for it. It’s like you want bezos to have even more money - it’s super weird. See, to me…

> If an engineer spends an hour writing a commit message that no one reads, that's an unproductive engineer, compared to where they should be. Okay, maybe don't spend an hour. It w…

> I think it's optimized for discussions before integration, which is largely what PR descriptions and comments are largely used for now. This isn't even a git concept though; it's…

I mean clearly he’s a menace. Something needs to be done about him. That can be true, and it can simultaneously be true that he is not 100% “evil” or anything else. A few incidents…

You know, I'd actually like to add to my earlier comment. > Yeah, it’s not quite the same. I actually don't know quite why I wrote what I did, because the concession really isn't t…

Yeah, it’s not quite the same. On the other hand the tools are mostly very simple and highly standardized. The simple tools are applied to the problem through a combination of appl…

At least in woodworking, tool setup and maintenance is a significant portion of the craft.

He started out with an unpopular but semi-interesting viewpoint, then immediately went down the rabbit hole to somewhere terrifying. Notice how he deleted a bunch of comments (perh…

> It's also why certain groups respond very lively when you call them by their true name: they are utterly in denial about their possible futures give or take an unlucky turn of ev…