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The shitty salesman who won't leave your stoop is harassment. Religious evangalists who keep coming to your door after you tell them to stop is harassment. When someone tells you t…

You are exactly the kind of annoyance I'm trying to avoid. I don't care at all what you have to say. I have my own problems and I'm trying to mind my own damn business . You don't …

I can count on one hand the number of times a stranger approached me and didn't either try to harrass me or ask me for money. I don't think my headphones are depriving me of some g…

Morality and law are completely disjoint. On a Venn diagram, it's two circles separated by about a lightyear or so.

Buying a used car instead of new is essentially theft from the manufacturers. Won't someone think of these poor helpless mega-corporations?!

Police no longer feel the need to do their jobs, and Americans in general have just lost any sense of empathy or even awareness of other people. But also we have a serious problem …

This was a huge trend on Tumblr like ten years ago. The millennials got bit bad by this and I guess genz inherited it. Or maybe this is just how young people think when given acces…

The old fashioned way: elbow grease and lots of squinting and swearing at your computer

IME it's less of a "throw more resources" problem and more of a "stop using resources in literally the worst way possible" CI caching is, apparently, extremely difficult. Why spend…

No, it isn't.

That's an interesting point. The absolute hardest part (for me) about learning a language is listening comprehension. I can read, write, and speak French at a reasonable level, but…

Maybe computers wouldn't have gotten slower as time goes on. We definitely would not have Electron and that's a world I want to live in.

If that's the case, why not simply delete all controls and shove them into a smartphone app? Right, because it's fucking ridiculous to expect a driver to fumble through menus while…

By and large these loopholes are only accessible to people with enough money to buy islands. The ultra-rich get tax loopholes and the rest of us have to make up for it with increas…

That's pretty much all the major governments these days. Globally we're sliding back to authoritarianism, likely as a prelude to WWIII

Almost nobody uses it as a currency. The vast majority of people cannot buy daily goods, food, gas with bitcoin. It is an investment vehicle , not a functional currency. For most p…

That goddamn flap on the back that gets stuck folded under the thing every time you back up.

Yes, absolutely. It's maybe not a literary masterpiece and it's suspiciously similar to The Martian if you squint. But not many books can get me laughing out loud the second or thi…

The only games in my library at all that don't work on linux are indie games from the early 2000s, and I'm comfortable blaming the games themselves in this case. I also don't play …

The point is to poison your ad tracking profile so that advertisers can't figure out who you are and what you'll buy. No matter how secure your browser setup is, Google is tracking…

At the startup I work at, we have an AWS instance that only runs our GitLab server. The damn thing runs at 10-15% CPU nearly constantly (because GitLab's founding assumption is tha…

Yup. They even typically come with separate 1x and 10x loops. They're a common pack-in item with low- and high-end clamp meters.

AI is the equivalent of going from stone abacuses straight to smartphones, skipping all computer and calculator development in between. We go from a society where only a very few p…

It's wild watching other Americans trying to carefully avoid acknowledging the absurdity of "get a job and submit to capitalism or die". Admitting that there might be another way a…

First because generally in order to be a good person you have to care what happens to other people. Second because the second order effects of reverting American society to Victori…