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I used to manage a small fleet of about 6 XPS laptops at my old job. 3 of them needed motherboard replacements under warranty within a year. People would put them on standby and pu…

> Wouldn’t a language designed for vibe coding naturally dispense with much of what is convenient and ergonomic for humans in favor of what is convenient and ergonomic for machines…

I became interested in the language after a brief relationship with a Ukrainian.

The idea that child brains are better at learning languages is a myth. Adults struggle with languages because traditional language education is not fit for purpose. If you took a c…

Comprehensible input does seem to be the most effective way. i.e. get a lot of input that is only slightly beyond your current level (i+1). I'm learning Ukrainian and there is a po…

Exactly this. I remember when it was just a couple small links in a yellow banner you could scroll past. Same with YouTube, the ads used to just be a banner under or beside the vid…

I had no problem with ads when they were just a banner next to the video. Now youtube is borderline unusable without an ad blocker. That said they are free to try and stop me, and …

So many of the so-called "C alternatives" end up doing way too much. I don't need algebraic data types or classes or an integrated build system or a package manager. What I would l…

He isn't? The patch of green on the finger is his middle knuckle. His finger is well outside the trigger guard.

> If you weld 2 sticks of metal together end to end, then bash them on the ground, they're likely to break at the weld This doesn't sound even remotely true to me, except in the ca…

> Is there a library for that? What? Are there really people out there relying on libraries for every peripheral? I've never seen anyone use a third party library for peripherals l…

> I just don't see any of the upsides that so many people seem to. The way I see it I'm going to be paying a mortgage either way. I'd rather it be my own than my landlord's.

> It’s not uncommon for borrowers to extend their loans until their deaths How is this possible? I can't imagine any bank giving me a loan knowing there's a good chance I won't be …

The MISRA guidelines are awful.

I know we all generally just do what the boss tells us but: > being able to write complex UIs that can work on any browser, any device, with all assistive technologies, and all lan…

Many countries do this for immigration. In New Zealand they say your test result doesn't affect your application. Whether that's true I don't know.

> It is much easier to set a kid straight than try to fix an adult Is this true? Adults have free will & personal responsibility, kids are sort of at the whim of their parents and …

In terms of the physics involved, a head-on collision with a similar vehicle traveling at the same speed as you is equivalent to hitting a concrete wall.

I find C89 to be much nicer to be honest.

The actual application step might take that long, assuming you have all your supporting documents ready. The trouble is you often need to adapt your CV to the job & write a cover l…

Hit the nail on the head. A more appropriate comparison would be if one worker went on strike, not all of them.

In my view, bachelor's degree is beginner, especially if you haven't got any further knowledge than that from work experience or anything.

> I wonder how we will prevent ourselves from making this and similar mistakes in the future Just listen to the teachers, parents, and students. In high school I was among the last…

That doesn't mean the death rate of children due to firearms is high, it could just mean there isn't really anything else that kills children i.e. they mostly have parents looking …

> shortcuts like bagged premixed salad, bottled dressing ... At what point is something no longer a shortcut? Do you also consider the time it takes you to track, shoot, carry, & b…