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The US is the only country that uses non-metric units when doing anything industrial though. I might buy a pint of milk but I’m not going to measure in anything but metres and centimetres.

We occasionally get engineering diagrams from clients in the US and they’re always going on about screws that are 2/3 of an inch long. It’s not just that you’re not using metric you’re using a weird fraction and not a decimal.

It’s super confusing when you get into high precision stuff because then they start going on about 128th of an inch. Just tell me how big you want it, stop telling me what fraction of a different measurement it is. Surely there is something below inch that you could use. I still wouldn’t know what you were talking about, but at least it would look less stupid when you wrote it down.

Isn’t the picture just the picture of the business. I don’t think it’s a photo attached to the review.

Plus if you ever get bored and there’s a police helicopter hanging around you can always just take it outside and just hold it.

I still don’t accept the fundamental core point of the arguement which is that rust necessarily makes it impossible to commit certain errors. Rust has its rules as such as only programming language does but that doesn’t mean that mistakes are impossible.

The vast majority of errors are logic errors not memory leaks in standard functions.

I’m completely confused by why they seem to think it’s impossible to have coding errors in rust. I’m also confused as to why they seem to think that errors are actually a problem. You get them you fix them. Who cares about what language you do it in.

This stinks of somebody who’s been in the industry for about 2 years and now thinks they’re hot shit.

So there is apparently a problem with languages such as JavaScript and the solution is to use languages such as TypeScript.

Wut?

I mean not with GitHub but I do the same thing with mega scans. I have a lot of rocks in my collection.

Unfortunately some users are just about bright enough to work that one out.

Animals would be preferable. I reckon a chipmunk would be able to understand the instructions, it’s only humans that fuck it up that bad.

Because who else would raise a support ticket because the first name field doesn’t allow emoji? Or ask for a Braille language option, it’s still English Karen, it’s basically just a font, and there’s no point anyway without a braille output, just putting the dots on the screen isn’t helpful. That one got closed as it “won’t fix” since there’s no one in the organisation who’s blind and it’s mostly a hardware problem anyway.

If it isn’t, it never will be.

Linux has everything going for it in '26, people pissed with Microsoft, Apple still not doing anything in the space, no one cares about CoD any more, and Valve have their computer coming out.

Because it doesn’t have that kind of access to the file system. It can pull and push files from the system but that’s it. It has to interact with the file system via an API, it’s not got direct access.

Given the tendency of these systems to randomly implode (as demonstrated) I’m unconvinced they’re going to be a long-term threat.

Any company that desires to replace its employees with an AI is really just giving them an unpaid vacation. Not even a particularly long one if history is any judge.

What’s this version control stuff? I don’t need that, I have an AI.

- An actual quote from Deap-Hyena492

You don’t know what you’re talking about.

As much as I would love to go over to a purely Linux system there just isn’t the support. I would not relish the prospect of trying to administer 5,000 laptops, and 300 desktops without the benefit of active directory user groups. Even with all of the messing about that Microsoft has done with Entra, it is still a far better mass device management platform than anything available on Linux and Apple haven’t even tried.

No the keyboard is important. There are so many truly awful keyboards out there that have no travel on the keys.

I absolutely cannot stand the keyboard on the MacBook air. It’s so incredibly cheap and it appears to be made out of the same material that they package luxury chocolates in.

What if we’re not American have never had guns in the first place?

Why is every discussion of left vs right politics always couched as if only the United States has politics and the rest of the world essentially doesn’t exist in any real meaningful sense?

What’s does the bat say?

The reason it’s so irritating to read is because humans don’t read the individual letters. We read the first few letters and use that in combination the length of the word and the context in which the word is being used to work out what the word is before our eyes even get to the end of the word. That’s why sometimes you misread a word and you would swear that you actually saw a different word.

Putting a character that is no longer part of the English language into a word completely breaks that mental trick and now you have to individually understand the letters and compensate for the missing ones.

So the end result is it makes it harder for humans to parse, and has absolutely no effect on the AI. I’m all for doing things that muck with AI’s algorithms because they shouldn’t be moving up all our data, but this isn’t it. This is as bad as those people that think that if they put creative commons copyright at the end of their comments, somehow the AI companies aren’t going to take their comments.

We’ve had this discussion with them, it doesn’t work, but they don’t want to know, so instead they’re just going to annoy everyone for no reason.

AI ingest huge amounts of data and then vectorise it, to the point at which it’s no longer even a language.

So they literally see no difference between “Mercury is the first planet in the solar system” and “Mercury obedo lobo mukwongo i kin jami ma ki lwongo ni solar system ma ineno man pe ineno”. That’s why AI companies keep going on about multimodality, text and video and images are all the same to an AI, they’re just different ways of representing the same concepts.

So putting a thorn on everything won’t be effective if it is used consistently, as the AI will just treat it as a different language, and vectorise it away into weird AI math language where the thorn no longer exists.