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Nobody in this thread is claiming Apple is perfect, just ahead of MS in UI consistency and _less_ buggy

The use case could be e.g. exactly processing an old trove of logs into something more easily indexed and queryable, and you might want to use jq as part of that processing pipelin…

The good ones have original thoughts and can combine knowledge from different domains in nontrivial ways

I think the ”Indian” there referred to India the country and Gandhi’s nonviolent protest as background

I think the easy play in that situation is to ask that someone else to show the menu to you

I don’t see any signs of bad parenting here, but a lot of signs of carrying on of a suicidal conversation by ChatGPT indeed, to the point of encouraging the suicide.

I've seen the `itsdangerous` [1] package (which is a dependency for lot of Python projects) raise some eyebrows several times. [1] https://itsdangerous.palletsprojects.com/en/stabl…

Based on my experience living here in Helsinki for 30 years, people drive cars _more_ in the winter rather than less. That’s because the alternative is usually some combination of …

I use profiles on Firefox daily and they work fine https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/profile-manager-create-...

I had pretty much the exact same experience with Game Maker too. In retrospect, feels like a very powerful pedagogical tool. Even when I wasn't really trying to "learn coding" but …

At least in my clique in Finland, BeReal is alive and kicking. Definitely nothing like Instagram in terms of popularity, but quite active

So there is a clip of someone dropping multiple ballots in a drop box. Apparently [1] that is not necessarily fraudulent, you can drop multiple ballots from family members. There w…

No, I haven’t seen evidence of that, and a quick googling for “2020 us ballot stuffing” doesn’t show me such

IMO Dunning-Krueger has become such a cliche that it’s more refreshing to _not_ read a reference to it in a piece where one could’ve been made. Kinda like quantum mechanics and tha…

At least in Finland, no, that wouldn’t be normal. I’m sure there are people who drink a bottle of wine (or equivalent) during lunch, but that would definitely raise some serious ey…

One potential mechanism is people staying indoors more in winter, making all kinds of illnesses spread more easily.

In this case it’s the fault of the author in either not including all the source code, or having undocumented dependencies

I also started off around the same age with GameMaker; if it’s even half as good still as it was in the 2000s, can definitely recommend it! In the beginning all I did was fool arou…

If I download a song from, let’s say, The Pirate Bay, I never agree to any terms. Futher, it’s debatable whether clicking “I agree” on a pages-long EULA where there is no realistic…

> Unlike nuclear, which Finland had to shut down recently because it just wasn't worth the money to keep it running... What are you referring to here? Nuclear power has not been sh…

I think the argument was that if the society loses the ability to manage nuclear waste, it would have been due to some societal collapse caused by other reasons.

This feels like such a Microsoft thing to do

I’m sure some will move, but that number is going to be closer to 0 than 20M

One can be happy that something exists while at the same time lamenting that the design isn’t ideal (Edit: though incidentally, it turns out that the inventor of the dishwasher — o…