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I am unlikely to notice what goes on here for months on end.
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- __del__an icon for "save" will suffice to help me find the portion of the menu with "save as", "save a copy", and "export". when all four have the same icon, or slight variations, i'm back to reading each one to discern the difference.
- i'll never give up the em dash. and i will continue to evangelize the en dash from now–forever (hint hint, ranges should use en dashes instead of hyphens).
- this has been my casual finding as well. why would i want all that conversational crap in the context window?
- i had ONE cassette unwind. my less careful friend was always winding them with a pencil. the culprit? button mashing between fast-forward and play.
- clarity is good. i believe that was a reference to the futility of posting "i do not consent" messages on social media.
- sometimes we make silly errors for years or decades and no one spots them. if you've been saying you hate java bloat/frameworks/whatever and meaning you hate javascript bloat/frameworks/whatever, people would probably agree with both. no one would be the wiser.
- for those who think brainfuck is too pedestrian, have a browse through the esolang wiki:
- i'm also curious. i used that thing until last year.
- "My Documents" comes to mind. it seemed somehow infantilizing. yes, yes i know whose documents they are.
- that's an interesting pursuit. we've got the code, or at least we've got the stubs calling windows dlls.
- i did this in the 90s for some kewl showoff programs generating something or other. i assumed there would be a modern graphics framework and API now. still just intercepting that paint event eh?
- It's not abundantly clear that merely booting this operating system FORMATS YOUR DISK. Yes, there's a grub menu, but it has something like a 2 second timeout before it destroys all your data.
- they're suggesting that "open source" has won (attention, mind share, funding, whatever) while "free software" as defined by richard stallman has not
- these look great. haven't heard the name soft dorothy in ages.
- two $30 hard drives. many of us handle this sort of thing as a matter of course in our daily lives, and the walled ecosystem chases us out.
- if we're aiming to present fiction, we should replace phrases like "not 100% accurate," with "not accurate."
too many dummies read a line like not 100% accurate and assume the content must be something like 90% accurate.
- perhaps "Delete pages/general-information-and-resources/psychological-safety.md" will inspire a less ambiguous response
- on occasion the distinct shape of a rare uppercase word like SANCTIMONIOUSNESS is just alien enough to trigger the first effect, though you might not realize why
- i agree with the nibling comment that this name works precisely because it provokes curiosity about its relevance.
i can't be the only dev who saw this headline and wondered whether some entity was pushing for a csv standardization (e.g. guarantees about encoding, escaping, etc.)