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My guesses were so consistently wrong that I at first thought the site was making up frog/toad names based on the opposite of my answer. Then I guessed "toad" for what turned out t…

Perhaps this is different for logged in users, but I’m seeing a page containing a single tweet and no way to find the rest.

I thought it was a great example of unintended effects in a large complex system... and the CDC asking Blizzard "if they could use data from what they perceived as a planned diseas…

The cut in pay is likely to drive you back to software pretty quickly, but: the debugging and problem-solving involved in electrical work on old houses bears a striking resemblance…

Ha! Sorry. This was decades ago, anyway. Right after the sort-of-botched IPO he drove off in his shiny new Ferrari never to be seen again (like, seriously, that exit is the last me…

I should have spotted it but didn't: They took me out skiing one day between interviews (they were courting me pretty hard, and good snow was a selling point for the region) and I …

Definitely! The original post and discussion was an eye-opener for me; before that I never understood why some people would say "yes" to a request but then act put upon anyway, or …

The original MetaFilter comment lays the idea out in a much more balanced way than this article does, imo. The discussion of the idea here looks to be well on its way to mirroring …

I'm just enjoying the image of wealthy mind-hackers filling their workspaces with a helium-oxygen atmosphere. Sure, they might be able to think nine percent faster, but will anyone…

The "denatured" part means it contains additives that make it poisonous and foul-tasting.

Yep, I was looking in YouTube settings instead. I wouldn't have thought to leave YouTube to change a setting that affects YouTube, but it's a reasonable-in-hindsight design decisio…

You're absolutely right, thank you. I was so hung up on "preferences" or "settings" being the place to look that I missed the link that was literally named the thing I was looking …

I'll admit I was pleasantly surprised at the lack of dark patterns involved in turning these settings off: https://myactivity.google.com/u/1/activitycontrols Disabling a setting as…

OK! Those are good and reasonable answers, I appreciate the response!

I appreciate the intent here, but these are the immediate issues that leap to mind: * "Do work, but get paid only if we use it" feels potentially exploitative. You do mention a "ba…

Went to the demo, instinctively used `cmd-w` to close one of the "desktop" windows, and was quickly reminded of one of the limitations of building an application like this inside a…

The one where I struggled the longest was trying to put together the right webpack configuration to generate multiple static files based on input in markdown format. It kept switch…

When I've tried using it I've generally found that it leads me in circles between incompatible versions of a framework or tool -- it'll give me syntax that's correct for one versio…

The few times I've tried using ChatGPT or another LLM as a coding assist, the "confidently wrong answer that looks correct" was the entirety of my experience. (Mostly the failure m…

Personally I go back and forth on whether the hostile, aggressive gatekeeping is part of why stack overflow is failing, or is part of what kept it functioning as long as it did. Pr…

For sure. And their overall shiftiness whenever anyone calls attention to their plans ("oh, that FAQ's out of date," "oh that's a future feature," "oh that's not what we planned, e…

The parts that could most safely be described as "scam", to my point of view, are * lying to users about protecting their privacy, while gathering and reselling more information th…

> I feel the original intent, to be able to contribute directly back to page authors, was a noble one. It may not have played out as intended, but it wasn't a scam. The original in…

"HTML First" versus "HTML Only" aside, I hadn't heard of this one before, and it looks promising. I've been looking for simpler frameworks that do less, because I'm tired of coming…