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by fifticon 1y ago
I'm pretty sure this is the correct and intuitive reason. In a competition to be 'ever above everything else', tragically it selects for the most pathologically ruthless behaviour pattern, be it Musk or Putin. If there were
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by fifticon 1y ago
To elaborate on that: They were the handle on the code lines, for anything. You would often use the line number to either edit a given line number, or to remove it. 'Clever' people would even do mis-guided arithmetic on them, e.g.
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by fifticon 1y ago
I can answer part of that. Very few areas are even opened up to allow building private housing, all kinds of "neighbours" can veto anything, just to name two problems
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by fifticon 1y ago
peoples' outrage at this book appears to be inversely proportional to how much they have read or understood it.
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by fifticon 1y ago
I have become disillusioned with consumer laptops in this price range. In the past 1-2 years, I have had two different Asus Vivobooks die on me just outside the 24month warranty window. In both cases, I had to pay addiotional money to then
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by fifticon 1y ago
I hate the modern dark-pattern shop UIs, which tries to make it as difficult as possible to enumerate what is actually available. One example is when queries reply with 'what is most like' what you asked for, instead of honestly a
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by fifticon 1y ago
artificial indians?
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by fifticon 2y ago
Part of the appeal of refurbished computers is that currently, fresh new laptops and tablets have reached a horrible minimum-quality. I have chewed myself and our household through a possibly obscene number of laptops, tablets and smartphon
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by fifticon 2y ago
shouldn't be too long at the rate we are going.
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by fifticon 2y ago
but the process to serve 5 terabytes hasn't.
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by fifticon 2y ago
as a 30+y employed systems programmer, when I read a story like this, I get angry at the highly piled brittle system,not at the guy having sl installed. I am aware there exists a third option of not getting angry in the first place, but I h
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by fifticon 2y ago
OSB wood?
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by fifticon 2y ago
Driving the rest of the non-schoolchildren population around? The driver, which instead gets an - at least in europe - somewhat awkward job, having to work two tiny shifts with a useless break in the middle. Source: Worked twenty years in
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by fifticon 2y ago
I am worried about them as a substitute for search engines. My reasoning is that classic google web-scraping and SEO, as shitty as it may be, is 'open-source' (or at least, 'open-citation') in nature - you can 'insp
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by fifticon 2y ago
Something I have noticed over the last 20 years: Male underwear. The stuff I used to buy in the 1990's would function until it fell apart because of holes worn in the actual cloth. The stuff I buy now (boxer shorts) appears designed
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by fifticon 2y ago
I wish the 'find anywhere' instead expanded and highlighted the correct place of that command in the menu. In that way, it would teach me gradually a mental map of the shape and set of commands I have available, ie I imagine it wo
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by fifticon 2y ago
nice to see all the fern tramplers signing in, sigh :-/
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by fifticon 2y ago
I've had colleagues like that since the 1990's :-) :-( But yes, we would like AIs to be better than Kevin..
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by fifticon 2y ago
it is a mega-OS, an application forming an OS on top of the actual OS, and dwarfing said OS. It's like our original OS'ses now form a sort of BIOS :-/, necessary evils to host the 'browser OS'. It is what MS feared
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by fifticon 2y ago
your argument sounds like "some people choose to do the dishes, some of us choose to let other people do the dishes". Some of the "free choices" you claim people can make, will only be possible if some other people don&#
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by fifticon 2y ago
well, they've got an orange unprincipled opportunist and his 'friends' on their team now, so it appears they will be able to pull through
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by fifticon 2y ago
I wholeheartedly agree. For decades, MS management have treated UI dev strategy as an 'almost forgot' afterthought, and the result means halfassed and soon-orphaned attempts at quickly 'reinventing everythimg' every few
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by fifticon 2y ago
basically MS has dropped the ball on UI since the time of WPF (I maintain apps stuck in WPF at work). It looks like the crayon electron browser kids are running the ship now adays :-/ I find WPF incredibly unsexy; unfortunately every
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by fifticon 2y ago
erh you can do this somehow,I did it to mine? now what _I_ want, is to be able to resize the taskbar again. also, I would prefer win11 didn't disable just about everything I had configured, particularly preview for file types. and -
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by fifticon 2y ago
these are not aeroplanes, but planes for making wood flat and smooth. Though I have little doubt this guy could have made aeroplanes if he had set his mind to it.
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by fifticon 2y ago
I have been peeing on corporate for years, but I am very discrete about it, lest they find out it is me.
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by fifticon 2y ago
in my country there are plenty of critical services you basically can't access without mobile apps. e.g. interacting with medical services, and official personal id app.
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by fifticon 2y ago
No conspiracy neeeded. The simple reasons they bought it was: 1 to buy the users 2 to reign in an upstart empire 3 to buy the goodwill towards a 'cool' brand 4 to be able to peddle 'Lync' They mismanaged the entire thing
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by fifticon 2y ago
by jove, old green terminal fonts make me nostalgic. So much Moria played, so much NN news-reading.
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by fifticon 2y ago
this curtismania comment should be flagged as spam, but I can't do so from the interface. I don't know what he is eating, but it is not carbon-based. Possibly he has been eating marketing-copy, directly.

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