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> Why can't we build nice things anymore? Well.. first start by defining "beautiful", we're waiting. Also, it's a 50 year old structure.. we stopped building "nice" things after WW…

I dont know how you can read that quote and come away with anything other than "He thinks the programmers are too stupid"

> If you don’t like it, just use something wise. The reason this stuff comes up is because many folks are forced to use a language for commercial reasons due to job. It's not as si…

Two sides of the same coin! Use something that solves 1000 use cases of which yours is one. Some would say that's simplicity while others would say that's complexity. When it break…

While not over they have a tough battle ahead. This was a case brought by the Trump Admin and carried on under Biden. I don't see a conservative Federal judge gutting this ruling a…

Incredibly vague, but what it means is that state AG's in incredibly conservative states will not be as easily able to target LGBTQ+ resources. The federal bureaucracy is often mar…

Well OK, you convinced me I want one but that website sucks. How do I buy it?

Microsoft sees ads as an add-on to existing revenue streams. It's core is software and software services. They couldn't be more different other than both being tech companies.

I use commit history a little bit more than that, but mostly agree. I had another dev recently give me crap about the mess of "WIP" commits on a feature branch because they review …

It'll be interesting to see how well the Cybertruck sells... it's rather niche mostly because it's fucking hideous.

> There's no way an "enterprise grade" cloud vendor like AWS would allow co-tenancy of containers (for ECS, Lambda etc) from different customers within a single VM - it's the reaso…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6xG4oFny2Pk

> Solving cultural problems with technology generally doesn't work. Solving cultural problems is indeed difficult but most of us are not going to be at a company long enough to giv…

Won for now. Supreme Court decisions are reversible in time.

Eh... I loved SC4, but the peak of the franchise was 2000 and 3000 (either one is fantastic). SC4 trended heavily towards unnecessary complexity.

If you can find the Win95 version it's preferable over the GoG DOS version. You need this guys patchers tho: http://www.krimsky.net/patchers.html

I would be terrified on introducing that into a project and worrying about its long-term support...

A corporation and a monarchy aren't all that different. I dunno why people think the idea of a corporation being the state is so wild.

Have you considered you fit the mold?

Wait really? How does Docker macOS work on M1/M2? Or does it not?