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the amount of code i've seen either allowing * when it shouldn't because someone was desperately trying to make their code work is astounding. contractors, "specialists", etc. who …

100% been saying this for a while now. the main thing AI will be able to replace is a C suite.

100% and I’m a software developer and have been for ~30 years. Good QA people know how to find regression and bugs _that you didn’t think about_ which is the whole reason why it sh…

(and yes — i do love a good emdash, and despise that it makes me look like AI)

I'll add that Libre Office can be great but if you already have an ecosystem you like, most of those have online editors too which can handle most of the average user needs.

Oh wow. That's wide open then, just about any of them. I run Mint on older mac hardware (happily cruising along on an 11" MacBook Air), I'm a sucker for Ubuntu's default look and f…

Just a quick note for anyone thinking about making the jump. I’ve been in the Unix/Linux world for about 30 years now, going back to SPARC. I used macOS for a long time because of …

Get off social media, and go do things you enjoy that aren’t centered around consuming. Volunteer at a museum if you like art, etc. You just have to go live and bump into other peo…

this. despite all the ghost stories and war stories. it’s how apple sells you the watch to save you from that bear attack or that time you got trapped somewhere. the stories are re…

not a dig, but it reminds me of how much i used to like tiddly wiki. https://tiddlywiki.com/

“zero hidden costs” — lol. maybe one?

lofl. no. like… did they try any 2nd order thinking here?

for anyone else not able to get past the paywall: from the article, only around 14% think DE&I efforts are "too much", while 54% say "about right", 17% "not sure", 15% "too little"…

This is totally true more often than not (in my experience).

you make good points but i'd argue it's both. i'm talking about the subconscious bias aspect of racism (to your point it's a relic of racism, but it's an active relic) as well - th…

“No one”?!? Poorly written headline for a very thin article. Sure, lots of people who are white and deny systemic racism or the effects of it exist. That’s literally the problem we…

(i'd add that as someone who's made most of my living developing integration software - i'm hoping once things are cemented a bit that there's a non-ridiculous path to having a 2-w…

i agree with a lot of that. i run a Pleroma server (less overhead than Masto), i think the winning combination will be the group that comes up with a universal baseline for online …

i'm sure it's not popular with the dude-bros or reactionaries on here but it's wild how ill informed (it's open source) or poorly researched some of the takes are on here. is it pe…

I see a comment I’m not going to engage with, but I have two kids and I had them happily in a Honda Fit and a VW GTI (3 door) when they were little. I came here to say this is a gr…

This is fantastic - (note: confirmation bias on my part) - it's quite similar to the list I keep in my head and have been trying to gently teach my daughters as they are growing up…

100% literally came here to make sure someone said this.

Yikes - thanks for sharing. I'm one of the few people I know who occasionally call to verify anything on CVs, especially when the interview feels off.

You can do this (crudely but effective enough) with a any watch if you take a second to make a simple sundial. Rotate it with the stick (or whatever) until the shadow reflects the …

I still host some things from home, but Linode, Scaleway, etc. are so cheap for tiny machines it might make more sense to build some APIs that the webserver can call on a machine r…