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It's not irrational to be irritated by bad writing.

All scams are inherently destructive. Everything else is co-morbidity.

Surely GitHub can (and should) find someone less unhinged to run the company.

Maaaaan, this is so cool. I'm geekin'.

I'll not be taking advice on how many hours per week I should work from someone who doesn't work at all.

"purity" is a word that sets off alarm bells for me, every time.

Google's "search results" are the textbook definition of a monopolized good/service. The whole thing is almost a casino, rigged to the point of absurdity. There has been nothing in…

Whatever you decide, don't assume that it would be hard to find devs. There are a lot of us who prefer to work for real businesses offering real products/services, and avoid workin…

That is absolutely one of the A-tier "certain type of a criminal a55hole".

Google's market share was suffering because they have been using their dominance to force everyone to participate in the "game the search engine" scam that Google was selling, whic…

I remain confused as to why anyone would take VCs seriously at all, much less want to be friends with them. They mostly give strong vibes of "sociopath" and "malignant narcissist".…

"One is that these generative AI tools are already good enough to replace many writing tasks, whether it’s writing an article, or a social media post." Good enough to what? Give me…

Maybe you would deign to elaborate? It's not a fun and informative discussion unless you are willing to offer something more specific than "you are wrong". Gift us with specifics.

I'm pretty sure the biggest problem with social media is the staggering number of people spreading disinformation and lies. So that's something you can stop doing to help fix the t…

I miss newsgroups. They were good enough. We didn't need to dress them up. Our incessant chasing of the latest shiny thing, it's all so silly. We keep throwing the baby out with th…

I have only read Lem's "Solaris", and I have also watched the Soderbergh movie. But I don't think I've ever read/seen a more profound meditation on the human experience PLUS the po…

Dick thought everything was artificial, eventually.

Steven Soderbergh's The Limey covers a lot of ground, but I think it expresses as powerful a sense of melancholy as any modern film. Highly recommended.

Agreed. It's handy to have a list of banks I can trust to not do anything stupid with the money.

Though not as technologically impressive, there are quite a few rather "simple" little hydroelectric dams tucked back in the Allegheny Mountains of the eastern USA. They are a marv…

Dudes tease/poke at each other relentlessly, in my experience. It's a fundamental part of many/most male friendship.

That's a great idea, yes.

Defending sociopaths while sounding like a sociopath is no way to go through life.

I think I used the wrong term, sorry! Solo dad + software dev = brain slowly melting away.

It takes a significant chunk of time for any approvals or change requests to show up in the desktop UI, if ever, without just manual refreshing. This is not a niche observation, fw…