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This! The most cogent and concise explanation I've heard for something this!!

I had to read it twice to get your point, well said!

So true, voting with your wallet (for myriad of practical reasons) isn't always possible. And sometimes you/spouse/friend/whoever will often say "how bad can it be"! And often we o…

> ...deeply incentivized to openly praise... Sadly, you're not far off from describing the reality in many cases!

This is true, but is effective only if the dogfooders' feedback is accepted and worked upon. Which is not the case, I can tell you this from first-hand experience (currently work a…

It most certainly would be a very interesting experiment... Alas, the real powers-be would never let such an experiment off the ground... EVER!

Really? Are you suggesting you getting solid 9h on full charge, while developing on Windows+wsl?? That's very hard to believe, but if that's true color me impressed. I get no where…

Pretty sure I'm not touching any app that starts with AA0* (esp. if that name isn't relevant to app's functionality in some way)! But I get the point you are making, on how current…

I have recently discovered a combo of white-noise + music, but I must tell you crackling fire noise makes me too relaxed, making me feel I need a quick nap! Rainfall sound works be…

You didn't tell yours yet! :-)

> Lately it has definitely felt as though Microsoft is resurrecting Ballmer's old meme as "AI! AI! AI!" You nailed it! Having spent significant time (as low-level minion) under bot…

> The current commercial alternatives for Lightroom unfortunately are still lacking, last time I looked at them (Capture One, DxO Photo Lab) Genuine question, how do you find DxO P…

I used to use MAFF (Mozilla Archive Format)[1] a lot back in the day. I was very upset when they ended the support[2]. I never dug deeper whether I can unzip and decode the packing…

In a recent org-wide all-hands a member from senior leadership (C-suite) did explicitly say that they always have a much higher budget for new hires than the budget for rewarding/r…

In no particular order... 0. Made in Japan: Akio Morita and Sony, by Akio Morita, Edwin M. Reingold, Mitsuko Shimomura 1. The Practice of Programming (TPOP) , by Brian W. Kernighan…

I believe they are talking about ASML fab for semiconductors[1]. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ASML_Holding

Interested in doing this, can you please share the details of the product you purchased?

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How do they even come up with such puny fines! 650k is not even a drop in the bucket for them to change their practices :-(

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Thank you for sharing, it was an excellent read!