I truly cannot stress enough how utterly socially unacceptable it is to correct someone’s pronunciation of their own name. In this respect, names are different from other kinds of words. Please reconsider this embarrassing position of yours.

Any recommendations for a Hyprland refugee? Thinking of trying out niri…

https://www.ifixit.com/Wiki/Do_Not_Put_Your_Device_in_Rice

“download” It is my car.

Adult size! That’s a relief. Anyway, goodbye forever.

just being silly :D

this image is a screenshot of a Blender viewport; you can see the object origin (orange dot, left) and the 3D cursor (red and white circle, bottom left)

hello 3d cursor 👀

Omit the “and”, and you’ve got it; otherwise, a regular old comma would be the right punctuation there.

Yes, you get it. Speaking as a software engineer, users need to adapt their behavior to accommodate the product, not the other way around.

It’s impossible to account for every fanciful scenario or ethical edge case - remember, software exists in a vacuum of pure logic. So if a braindead algorithm dredges up a painful memory of yours every year and tactlessly features it alongside a lighthearted quip from the marketing team, it’s nobody’s fault.

Well, it’s your fault for not avoiding Facebook on that day. What I mean is, it’s not my fault and it’s not Facebook’s fault, whatever that means. It’s just the computer doing its thing.

Just kidding!!! I am using sarcasm to express my contempt for this mentality! It is correct to criticize tech companies for catastrophic UX failures! I believe it is in very poor taste to offer workarounds in reply to an anecdote like this!

I suspect it’s just an autocorrect typo for “beginning to work”.

it not me

If you see me reading a book in public you are absolutely invited to strike up a conversation and nerd out with me about it. I wish we had better mechanisms than body language to signal this!

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Stored in memory is still stored.

Given what I know about how computers accept user input, I am fascinated to hear what the alternative is.

This comment is a joke and you wouldn’t want to do it like that in reality, but here are some related keywords you could look up: “Unix cat”, “Unix pipeline”, “grep”, “output redirection”, “command substitution”.

one time i had a fever dream that was like, “I know how to fix this, I’ll just ssh in and see what’s up” :|