I believe strongly in customizing one’s tools

The irony of saying this about a Mac.

Human communication sucks. It should be illegal.

Wait wait wait. Have we been lied to? Are Michelangelo, Raphael, Donatello, and Leonardo tortoises?

“Almost but not quite” is exactly my experience with Claude.

The only time I’ve had real success is telling it to do a simple API change that touches a dozen files. It took a while and I’m not sure it was faster than doing it manually, but at least it was less boring.

Possibly important context: I only started really using it a few weeks ago.

What kind of a title is that? Vance has no place at all in Hungarian elections, so doing anything is too much - not too little.

The original article mentions the sabotaging only as historical evidence for a trend of pushing its tech onto people. It is not saying Microsoft is currently doing it specifically to sabotage anyone. Bullshit title.

The original article also mentions several things as fact that are not, and omits other facts, but that’s a different discussion.

On to Wayland I guess.

There’s a couple of pigeons that made a nest in my backyard two years ago. It’s located right next to a wall that’s frequented by cats. It’s also right next to the back door, so every time we go out the birds leave the nest in a panic, leaving the chicks behind. That is, if there would be any chicks - the nest has such big holes that the eggs just fall out onto the ground.

After watching Gen V, “fuck cars” got a different connotation.

This distinction — between “design” and “content” — sounds reasonable for about three seconds. Then you realize it falls apart completely.

Bull fucking shit. This is not about platforms being held responsible for user content. This is about adding points and badges and achievements and all kinds of things designed to reward engagement with dopamine.

The author’s example of all content being drying paint would absolutely be addictive if the platform added an achievement for watching 10 different colours. Or: Congratulations, you’ve watched paint dry for 100 hours! As a reward, you get a new fancy emote! THAT is what these platforms do, and that is what is addictive. And that is what they’ve been convicted for.

Is not a loophole to get around section 230 as the author claims.

When we implemented week numbers we actually had to support both systems because customers expected the number to match that in their other applications - some of which followed the standard, and some didn’t.

Most people are born on the same date their whole life.

Downloading Linux? Mandatory psych evaluation. For your protection.

Pretty quickly after the lockdowns ended the 100% wfh became 60% in my company, and that’s where we still are. From what I hear, many other companies also have mixed policies. I have not seen a huge push for complete rto.

I recently discovered this thing called books that also works great outside. And it’s a lot more fun than laptop work!

Did you just mix up Michael Myers, Candyman, and the Blair Witch?

Pee Duff

To be fair, some mouse designs back then really did look like a foot pedal, albeit rather small for a foot.

Props on figuring it out and being able to help her.

I prefer http://motherfuckingwebsite.com/ because it doesn’t think it knows better than I do what width I want my window to be.

As someone who does cross-platform development: everything on Mac takes twice as long, and breaks with every OS update. And that’s without even the switch from PPC to Intel 32 bit to Intel 64 bit to ARM.

I’m exaggerating a bit, and I’m sure in many environments Mac is easy enough. But for us - there’s a reason we have more Mac developers than Windows and Linux combined, and it’s not because people want a Mac.