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.

What if you don’t figure it out before losing both arms?

Don’t log in on YouTube. Unless you’re uploading, there’s no point.

“IT malware installation test"

rofl that is gorgeous.

My experience with IT is watching them slowly do all the things I already tried, with long pauses to check their script. And a lot of confusion when they see none of Chrome, Firefox, or Edge has ever been booted since they pushed them.

Researchers’ work has always been abused by others. The advancement and free distribution of knowledge should not be curtailed for fear of malicious parties.

Your above average use of the word “one” and variations like “one’s” could be quite telling.

As could my correction of “it’s” in the above sentence.

I’m pretty sure living human braincells were playing Doom last century already. Including mine.

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