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"The ashtray and the paddle game and that's all I need... And this remote control."
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That tool kit is kind of awesome.
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"The ashtray and the paddle game and that's all I need... And this remote control."
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That tool kit is kind of awesome.
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New AirPods leak reveals built-in cameras and Visual Intelligence
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Yeah, as a glasses-wearer, I am seriously thinking about getting some totally rimless glasses so no one thinks I have the pervert glasses…
I grew up on TNG and always wanted my glasses to have the powers of Geordi’s VISOR… but not like this…
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Knowing how many licks it takes is the beginning of wisdom, not the end
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The pre-HD era of screen resolutions was helpful too.
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It's perfect
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You’re correct!
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Bane Mask
Can someone, anyone, tell me where it is that you work where input speed is the bottleneck in software development?
Because I have genuinely never worked at any company where the main thing holding up development was that developers weren’t typing fast enough.
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Leaked Email Suggests Ring Plans to Expand ‘Search Party’ Surveillance Beyond Dogs
I’m shocked! Shocked, I tell you.
Ok… I’m not shocked at all.
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Linux lays down the law on AI-generated code, says yes to Copilot, no to AI slop, and humans take the fall for mistakes — after months of fierce debate, Torvalds and maintainers come to an agreement
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Yeah, that’s also my question. Partially because I am a former-lawyer-turned-software-developer… but, yeah. How are the kernel maintainers supposed to evaluate whether a particular PR contains non-GPL code?
Granted, this was potentially an issue before LLMs too, but nowhere near the scale it will be now.
(In the interests of full disclosure, my legal career had nothing to do with IP law or software licensing - I did public interest law).
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Microsoft releases a new Windows app called Windows App for running Windows apps
The only possible way Microsoft can be this bad at naming things is if they are actively doing it on purpose.
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Life finds a way
Slowly reaches for shotgun…
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GitHub is no longer independent at Microsoft after CEO resignation
The real question is…. WHY DOES AZURE DEVOPS STILL EXIST?!?!?
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Seasoned Pros
I love doing that…
Edit - To be clear, since my reply got some upvotes, I meant that I enjoy being the senior developer diving into the legacy code. I actually really like it!
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Alright nerds, who can guess what this RegEx matches?
This is an example of the old adage that “When you use a regex to solve a problem, you end up with two problems.”
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wait what...
This happens all the time with TypeScript. The transpiled JS that actually runs will naturally have different line numbers than the TS you wrote!
To be fair, the reported line number is usually close enough that I can find the issue without much trouble.
It’s not my favorite back end language, but it’s what everyone on my team knows…
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A senior sys admin selects a monitor that's ripe
You want the monitor to be firm, but give a little in your hands when you squeeze. Too much squish though? That’s no good. That monitor is overripe.
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Data is becoming too smart for his own good
Surely I can’t be the first person to point out that Data is not the “driver” in the sense that he is not at the helm, right? Right???
Data is at Ops - the closest thing the TNG show had to a science station - because he was the Spock-analog.
Basically what I’m saying is that Geordi/Wesley/Ro/unnamed officer (depending on the season/episode) gets to pick the music, not Data!
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Production breaking driven developer
Isn’t test driven development also error driven development though?
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Python vs. Java
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At this point… yeah, probably so.
I mean, assuming the env and dependencies aren’t totally fucked.
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Working in a large corporation is a place where you get paid for
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Ah, white collar haiku…
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Modern problems require modern solutions
Look, an alert is an alert…
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A "Healthy Amount of Cheese" is always an Unhealthy Amount of Cheese.
Did the person happen to have a southern accent?
As someone from the south, that’s what “healthy” means when used to describe an amount of something. It means “a lot”.
Also, if you say someone looks healthy you’re basically calling them fat, depending on tone of voice and inflection.