BoxOfRain

My early 2015 Macbook Pro can be a little sluggish when I have lots of stuff open on my 4K monitor, but I think it'd be a little harsh to judge a six year old machine for that! This laptop's…

>"where would our technology be if we had continued improving on simple things like the plow, without using combustion engines" I really enjoy questions like this! One area you can see th…

I think lots of people are uncomfortable with language being changed in a top-down way by people who aren't particularly democratically accountable more than anything. To be honest I'm not s…

This kind of corporate "we need to be seen to be doing something rather than nothing" stuff does wind me up, it just makes people more annoyed (by breaking scripts and causing unnecessary …

I guess my language was a bit imprecise, by "software developers" I meant "people involved in the software development process" rather than the specific role of the person writing …

My British state education really did feel like "memorise just enough to jump through these arbitrary hoops which keep the government off our backs" sometimes. It's very exam-driven r…

That's a very absolutist statement, personally I'm more productive at home where I don't have the interruptions of an open office and there's no feeling of having people watching o…

One of my real pet hates is software developers who assume everyone's running their software on an excellent internet connection. Badly written SPAs are the worst offenders but I also pretty much…

Out of all the things I expected to see today, a very detailed description of the conditions required to set an NeXT cube on fire was pretty near the bottom of the list.

If the pandemic is anything to go by, the collective action will harm the common people (especially the poor) while the elites get to play by entirely separate rules! While there's no doubt that …

Apparently AberMUD (way before my time but developed in Aberystwyth where I was a student) was written in B.

There'll never be a time I won't be up for a bit of Jira-bashing! Can't stand the bloody software, chiefly because it's an unstable mess of a product that perfectly recreates the s…

No worries, and thanks for the advice about /r/visualsnow. I hope that advances in the understanding of one condition ends up helping both of them because that link definitely makes sense!

No worries! It started when I was about fifteen or so, I noticed the sky looked "wrong" during a PE lesson. I'd developed what looked like TV static over my whole vision along with seei…

That's the one, must be the UK autocorrect!

It’s not even necessarily the culture, it’s occasionally bit me as a native English speaker but not of American English. It’s a very minor annoyance on par with “colour” versus “color” when writing CS…

It does feel like a similar sort of thing to how fag packets are this horrible murky brown with bleak pictures in them in the UK.

I think a lot of city dwellers fail to realise not everyone is attracted to urban life and some people actively disdain it. I really don’t like being in built up areas for more than a few days, if I l…

As someone with a rare neurological disorder that hadn’t even been clinically recognised when I contracted it (it was seen as a weird subset of migraine in the few places it’d been studied systematica…

Currently using a 27" 4K monitor and I've never been happier! I have my laptop as a second screen though for a chat window, music, and other things like that while I'll have a browser, …

I’m grateful for having a friend group that’s mostly not in the tech industry but just accepts my nerdiness nonetheless. This kind of technical culture has been around donkey’s years, if you read some…

I wonder how the elite will approach climate change when it really starts to bite? If I wanted to survive a dystopia I'd be making friends with the common people and using my considerable persona…