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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Choose a number, 1-5!⁩ ⁨⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Definitely not 5 because it looks like it’s trying to be a spoon, but you can’t eat soup with a fork (well, technically you can but it’d take a long time).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Remember the Nega-Wojak.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I feel ya bro. Every time there’s an English accent on an American program you know that’s going to turn out to be a baddie.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Europe's cloud customers eyeing exit from US hyperscalers⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  If CIVO are in the UK then why the fuck are their prices in dollars!!!

  (yeah probably for easier comparison with the US stuff but even so)

• What's with "*checks notes*" everywhere?
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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨China has stopped exporting rare earths to everyone, not just the U.S., cutting off critical materials for tech, autos, aerospace, and defense⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  They have a nuclear policy of non-first-use

  Until they decide they don’t. See Russia

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Am I going crazy, or has people's spelling gotten awful lately?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  You’re not crazy. Nobody wants their grammar correcting; they lash out and call people who do that “grammar nazis” instead of thanking them for helping them improve. So they get to post whatever they like, and of course as more people see stuff spelt incorrectly they assume that’s correct and use those errors themselves, but intentionally. And of course the dictionary writers realise they are descriptive, not proscriptive, so the argument “the dictionary says…” is voided.

  Autocorrect is OK to an extent but it’s not smart enough yet to understand what people are actually saying. So it gets switched off.

  Also it is worth mentioning that English is a complex language with many inconsistencies. “extream” is incorrect, but “stream” isn’t, and that “eam/eme” is pronounced the same way. So “extream” is at least understandable. It’s similar to “ect” instead of “etc”, which is commonly mispronounced as “ek-setera” so you can see why people think the C is after the E.

  I used to try to help people a lot but just got a whole load of abuse back. These days I only query something if I genuinely can’t grok what they’re trying to say. Or I just ignore it. If the question is so badly garbled that I can’t understand it I just assume they won’t be able to understand may answer, which will probably be quite detailed.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Do it⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots in my Arse

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Do you use your blinker in a car?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  If it makes a difference to someone, yes. Otherwise I don’t bother.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A funny thing about Americans and calendar dates⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Don’t you mean Eramicans?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Moist Ron in the dry US sounds terse

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Car safety experts at NHTSA, which regulates Tesla, axed by DOGE⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Plot twist: NHTSA are the only people that approve new designs, so Tesla can’t sell any more cars.

  Well we can dream.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Interesting logic⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Well God is an alien, by definition.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A 'US-Made iPhone' Is Pure Fantasy⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Just because you can make phones with an army of cheap Chinese labour doesn’t mean that’s the only or best way. With suitable “design for manufacture”, pick and place robots like those used in PCB design could relatively easily be adopted to screw screws in where needed. Use plugs instead of those flat cable things, then the whole lot could be easily automated. Remove any aspect of the design that needs fingers and the whole process can be automated.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do people insist on not answering ALL the questions in an email or text message?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It annoys the heck out of me too. Generally what I do is reply with the remaining questions they haven’t answered; sometimes they get the message and answer all of them, sometimes we go round and round until I have all the answers I need.

  I work in IT so for the most part, if I have 5 questions, that’s because there are 5 things I need to know. And I need to know because they want me to solve their problem, so if they want to do this one question at a time that’s fine, but if I start out going one at a time I get complained at for being too slow.

  I’ve also tried everything I can think of short of being explicitly rude in my messages. Numbering them doesn’t work. Bullet-points don’t work. One question per paragraph doesn’t work. Asking them explicitly to answer all questions doesn’t work (how did these people ever pass an exam?).

  (And yes I’m aware I haven’t answered all your questions (-: )

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is this picture idea immature?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Do it. Who cares what girls think! But if you’re trying to attract one then maybe wait a bit before showing her the dumb shit you like doing with your mates.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Shopify CEO Tobi Lütke tells employees to prove AI can’t do the job before asking for resources.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Funny I was just wondering the other day if companies that practice vibe programming also practice vibe management.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Trump Threatens 104% Tariffs on China as the Mad King Plays Chicken With the Global Economy⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Is a bafoon a cross between a baboon and a buffoon?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨China Just Turned Off U.S. Supplies Of Minerals Critical For Defense & Cleantech⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  These are the lyrics Lennon rejected.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨6* months away now. If you're on 10, do you plan to upgrade? Make the jump to Linux?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I wiped it after I left my last job so there’s next to nothing on it anyway now. They did give me a laptop but due to a stupid conflict between the AV and VPN one of the processor threads was maxed out causing the fan to run on full noise mode all the time.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨6* months away now. If you're on 10, do you plan to upgrade? Make the jump to Linux?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  My laptop still works perfectly well so if Microsoft don’t want to support it any more then I’ll bung Linux on it. I’ve already got my Mint stick ready, just need to get round to it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Today's Survey. One point for everything that you have NEVER DONE⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Null pwang! Maybe I should consider entering Eurovision.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Another 122.88TB SSD just launched and this one comes from an obscure Chinese startup you've probably never encountered⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Very good but can someone please invent a 4TB drive that costs less than it did five years ago?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Trump says U.S. will 'get Greenland,' military force may not be needed but not ruled out⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  USA population: 346m. EU population: 449m, i.e. about 29% higher.

  www.worldometers.info/…/us-population/

  worldometers.info/…/countries-in-the-eu-by-popula…

  What percentage over the USA domestic market would we need to be to be not “too few”?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Rocky rock rocking⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Ceci n’est pas une pierre.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Rocky rock rocking⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The scale isn’t too clear from the image but it looks more like a pebble to me.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Have I Been Pwned owner, pwned.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Any company that does that needs to be sent on a mandatory awareness training for failing an obvious fake phishing exercise. It’s far too easy to whitelist that and send it to an “ignore” folder.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨C64 Retro Battlestation⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Quint, because some of the keys double up as joystick buttons.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Definitely didn't waste half an hour making this⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  As long as it Just Writes™ I don’t care. I want to pick it up, and I want to write. I don’t want to try writing only to find it’s dried up and I have to scribble on some other bit of paper before it comes back to life. Now OK if I’ve left the lid off then that’s my bad, but if I haven’t then it should just flipping work.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is it safe to travel with your phone right now?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Depends where you’re going. Anywhere first world with a robust democracy that invites opposition and criticism will be safe. Heck in the UK we’ve even got people who openly hate our way of life and want to destroy it.

  But if you’re going to one of the less tolerant places where opposing the incumbent can get you in serious trouble, like Russia, North Korea, Iran, or the USA, probably best take a burner phone with some basic stuff on it that can’t possibly be interpreted as any kind of negativity towards the delicate leader and leave your main one switched off somewhere safe at home. In fact unless you enjoy risk it’s probably best to avoid places like that until they get some proper freedoms in place.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Type C⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  G