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The devs have been co-opted into marketing roles now, too - they have to say it's that good to keep the money coming in. IMO this reinforces the original post - this all feels like…

Those FOIAs are requested by politicians owned by industry in an effort by industry to scrape whatever leverage they can. FOIAs themselves are not problematic, obviously, but their…

You're not wrong about funding, but OP is correct about industry influence. It varies a little by division/subject matter, but they basically have to run everything by industry and…

I can't imagine using MS products for anything important these days. There are more reliable options for servers, databases, and OS, and those options all have better docs.

Lots of anecdotes and opinions in the thread. Read the post and the science.

Agreed. Additionally, negative sanctions have been part of human life since the beginning. Anyone who has raised a child or pet understands this. This discussion of far more nuance…

The answers to stay until you find something else are correct. I would also add that it's probably pretty easy to fake it - in my experience management, especially executive level,…

Hard not to feel this way sometimes given the quality of some job listings and the negativity bias here and broader media. In such moments of despair I recall two axioms: change is…

Metafilter, hands down.

Lots of good answers here about part of your question: is it hype or not? In that it likely isn't going away, and is becoming a valid force multiplier, it's not. However, this ques…

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What, exactly, are you basing this assumption on?

Sure looks like documentation to me, but I don't need pretty webpages. 'man' is more than sufficient for tools like these.

> does the world really FEEL that different now, than pre-internet? Yes. You said it yourself: you used to have to WALK somewhere to look things up. Added convenience isn't the onl…

Sleeping in more than one long chunk of time is called polyphasic sleeping [0]. It's postulated that sleeping in one go is an industrial age phenomenon. Anecdotal, but I embraced a…

The idea that only these 2 companies can provide a platform for secure apps is patently absurd. What's stopping another company other than these companies' stranglehold? If you wan…

Rewriting history and books is actually exactly what's happening in Florida under ostensibly fascist rule, which is precisely what Orwell was referring to. I don't want my street n…

Agreed. I was always on the fence about children, and eventually decided/realized a strong desire to have children is a responsible prerequisite.

Yup. I work at the Space Telescope Science Institute, where we maintain pipelines for astronomical data that move petabytes, among other things. All of the heavy lifting is done in…

This is, unequivocally, rubbish. Denouncing recovered memories is precisely how the Baltimore Archdiocese covered up years of sexual abuse by Catholic priests. Only utter dirtbags …

What philosophical issues do you have with Gitlab?

And?

What about that?

Your comment indicates you can't differentiate between LSD and dangerous opioids. Cheese is the opioid supplying immediate gratification. LSD, and other hallucinogens, work much, m…

I've done LSD numerous times, including "heroic" doses, as have many of my friends, starting 30 years ago (I haven't in a while as i no longer feel the need to blow open those door…