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Yeah that's cringey, "high speed" is enough. Sounds like a junior reporter trying to hit a word count.

Most people aren't very discerning about user interface intricacies. Most people's reaction to the iOS 7 design disaster was: "ooh this feels like a whole new phone". So there's th…

Apple design nowadays should be something we point to and laugh at, not something to imitate. Apple lost the plot on design after Steve Jobs died and Jony Ive assumed full control.…

I don't know much about Gemini beyond a cursory look, but I don't think inline media is impossible. IIUC it is up to the Gemini client to decide if it displays media inline. My und…

That's right, "in" works, but "count" and "of" don't. Here are some of my favorites: union funi funion fution (sounds like fussion) fu fuc fucton (as noted by a fellow commenter)

This feature really isn't all that bad! > To declare a function, you can use any letters from the word function (as long as they're in order): > function add (a, b) => a + b! > fun…

> add a bunch of water to the pan and steam them This is pretty ironic in a thread about the misuse of the term "caramelize". It's not steaming if you put water into the food direc…

> adding water at the beginning and essentially steaming the onions This is pretty ironic in a thread about the misuse of the term "caramelize". It's not steaming if you put water …

I haven't seen "to no end" being used to mean "for no purpose". But I see GP's usage of "to no end" a lot.

You may enjoy this SNL song Short-Ass Movies: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-UKbwz6s6VY

> It is not about 'looking and pushing' the button. > It's about stateful UI. Yes it is about 'looking and pushing' the button. And yes it's about stateful UI. Both can be true at …

XML? That's so ... turn of the century. Thankfully the industry has mostly woken up from the collective nightmare that was XML. But apparently a few poor souls are still painfully …

Absolutely. XML is rarely a good solution for any problem, and usually the worst. > I’d like to do the same for Android projects, but Google is hellbent on the XML usage if you’re …

Java generics has got to be the least bang for the most buck in the entire history of programming languages. Turning the once clear API documentation of the entire standard library…

Yep, it's almost always the mouse. Many people, developers included, use the mouse to point and click when they need to change the caret position while editing text. If you do enou…

> There's nearly no reason to use almost any product you find in a cosmetic store Hear hear, I only use two: toothpaste and soap. > although sunscreen is its own chemical minefield…

I've learned while raising my babies that making them laugh or cry can cure their hiccups. Crying is obviously not an attractive option for adults, but I suppose faking a laugh mig…

> Apologize for TMI. Thanks for sharing! Here comes mine. > pass rock hard stool once every 3ish days. I go once every 3 days, sometimes even 4, without any drama. I quite like the…

Fanless mini-PC running Ubuntu acting as a router, with WiFi routers running in access-point mode to cover the house. Rule-based routing of traffic through different VPNs depending…

XML is a huge abomination, period. But I don't think anyone is arguing that it's completely useless. It just hasn't earned it's current privileged position in the computing world. …

Thanks for the link! That's truly surprising! I stand corrected. To quote two of the tweets: > Web browsing on the iPhone was always on the feature list, so WebKit would be there, …

I don't believe this is true. Where did you get that impression? Do you have a source? A WebView may or may not be great for text editing, but it'd definitely be overkill for simpl…

>> Older VPN scripts used to override your default route in the main table when connecting to the VPN and restore it when disconnecting. Sometimes this wouldn’t work, and after dis…

To me it's the exact opposite, OpenLook was just UGLY . CDE/Motif didn't look that great either, but it was at least serviceable. It's very telling that no one at Sun would look at…

Having read a lot of the comments here, I tend to agree with you. Leap seconds have not sit well with me ever since I learned about them. Messing with the number of seconds in a ce…