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This makes me mad every time. And every single thing has a different shortcut for "Paste without style", if they even have one.

Yes. Code is read many more times than it's written, so optimise for the common case.

Yes, fully agree. The only thing worse than code you have written is code you haven't.

I am a staunch code minimalist. Less code is (almost?) always better. The best, fastest, cleanest code is the code that doesn't exist at all. Always aim to write the least code. Less code is less…

"Forget megahertz. We're talking gigaflops." https://neatdesigns.net/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/728.jpg …

Not neccessarily. Humans are social creatures, our genes' survival is not solely dependent on our individual ability to pass them on, since we share genes with our siblings and parents as well as…

I fully suspect us to get different pricing. Until it was banned it was a classic cause of consumer frustration with Ryanair: getting to the payment step, and being charged extra to pay by credit card…

Although the article was written in an extremely straightforward and dry technical manner, this was comedy gold.

The longer they leave it, the larger the unprecedented amout of e-waste will be. The only alternative is to hold off... forever?

It's not about you, it's about your parents and grandparents.

It's hard to tell. It could be that Parler's systems were set up to just fail the wrong way if the Twilio auth system didn't respond (on error: allow). Whatever the case, this is going …

> not easily removed or destroyed So like a lock? It's an arms race, and if these things did really take off, bike thieves would find a way to defeat them (easy enough to detect if a bike has …

By extension: it seems to have been a great year for bike thieves, in the UK at least. Anecdotally, bike theft is through the roof.

So a cold T1000?

He's anticipating (planning?) further attacks on the Capitol and wants to be a safe distance away?

> Second: after it took two days to invent a defense against the disease, spending eleven months deciding to use it. Then, eleven months later, not already having made enough for everyone. Seriousl…

...and then we're back to square one...

I built my own with a raspberry pi, touch screen, and tiny webserver (on Hetzner). It doesn't use voice. It works perfectly in the kitchen, and perfectly on my phone while shopping. https:/…

While I'd use this, how do I persuade (less privacy conscious) others to join this instead of a Facebook Group on the platform they're already on?

I put in my email address and hit 'sign up'. It cleared my email address so I had to put it in again. It then went to another screen where I had to put in a username, and my email address _a…