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id02009 | 2 years ago | on: Reddit Strike Has Started

That's true if you talk about content posted on those subs. But I'm yet to be banned from a conservative sub just because I'm involved in wrong other sub. I once posted on a sub criticizing vaccines, my post was not even friendly to the post- I was debunking flawed logic. And I got autobanned in few other places just for posting there.

id02009 | 2 years ago | on: The brand new Thunderbird logo

I have high hopes for the Thunderbird resurrection. I was using it in the 2000s but then Gmail was just so convenient. I hope to make the switch back

id02009 | 3 years ago | on: Study finds that buttons in cars are safer and quicker to use than touchscreens

I recently had to rent a car, and oh boy. I knew I need to set up mirrors etc for safety. But I did not foresee the need to familiarize myself with a radio. And when it started blasting a little too loud, finding a volume option on the touchscreen was an adventure when driving on a road i couldn't immediately stop on.

I'm never buying touchscreen car...

id02009 | 3 years ago | on: Automatic snow tires throw chains at your wheels [video]

Do you have any thoughts about how they help with breaking? The "rotation of the wheel rotates the chain" makes me think they'll not help during breaking that much. They would probably slip from under the tire, and the next chain would not go under...

id02009 | 3 years ago | on: Drowning in AI Generated Garbage: the silent war we are fighting

This text captures how I felt about this stuff, but could not put it in words. The "art" feels empty, repetitive, derivative. The text sounds like BS, like a student trying to make up the answer as they go. Today someone in my work channel posted a ChatGPT's text about our company and ompetitors. It was all wrong, but sounds "probable".

id02009 | 3 years ago | on: DRY is an over-rated programming principle?

I view strict DRY (and only DRY) adherence asa sign of less experienced devs. I was like this in my early days, almost religiously following this creating wrong abstractions. Thanks a lot for those examples.

id02009 | 3 years ago | on: French fighter jet joy ride goes très, très wrong (2020)

This one flew right above me, what does that mean? It's it something like driving open convertible is referred to as fresco? Where I come from fresco was just a brand of cheap wine that students drank when we dabbling in sophistication an inch above vodka and beer...

id02009 | 3 years ago | on: No one expects young men to do anything and they are responding by doing nothing

> Absent fathers and broken family units are major factors for many social ills. It’s obvious but no one wants to talk about it.

This is just not true. It's almost constantly talked about, it's even a trope in movies, jokes, singers saying about it.

What is really not discussed is the other side of the equation. Who chooses those men?

Are women equally capable to make moral choices (I believe they are). Or are they just kind-of-sentient robots that are programmed to have kids, will grab any man that will make them pregnant and deserve only compassion when that "random choice" does not turn out to be a good dad?

I think (in terms of culture) this is closer (than what the author claims) to the truth: Complain about men not pulling their weight. Never mention women responsibility. It's taboo to discuss it openly in a good faith. So now we have a fringe claiming men are only victims of women evil, which is another side of this stupid-coin. We can't meet in the middle anymore.

id02009 | 4 years ago | on: The end of the nice GTK button

I think designer's easily forget that trends exist, and what people want is a mix of what's useful but also new and popular.

id02009 | 4 years ago | on: Applebee’s exec urges using high gas prices to push lower wages, sparks walkout

> Even the thought that anything would be communicated

The fact that the director of communication never says he disagrees with the actual sentiment tells me all I need to know about their culture.

He's either confused and claims he doesn't know what the email in question is. Or he's expressing disappointment about the communication.

He is against communicating such things, but he failed to communicate that tearing people that way is disgusting.

id02009 | 4 years ago | on: CSS's !important was added because of laws about font size for some text

I feel slightly annoyed TBH. If it was supposed to be used only for fonts why does the system allow using it for (almost?) everything else. I'd say people understand CSS very well, but sometimes have deadlines and legacy code and don't have time for redoing the system perfectly (just as Steven and his CSS yeah did not)
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