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I also find that I'm constantly stressed that the plug is going to snap.

That being said, in ten plus years of using USB-c.. this has never happened to me or anyone that I know.

It's actually kind of impressive, all things considered.

I struggled with a dock and a MBP and connecting consistently to a monitor. It was a high-quality USB-C to HDMI cable. I was sure it wasn't that.

Turns out it was that.

Am I the only one who thinks that Google Analytics and its brethren are TERRIBLE in actually providing useful data for making decisions for marketing and sales purposes?

I've always played the game that tests are only as useful as you have resources to attribute to them. Mostly all modern development is a compromise between new features and stuff that supports those new features (tests included, but also reviews, code maintenance, docs, etc.).

If LLMs can be utilized to quickly make deep testing possible, I think that's probably a net-positive.

I'm curious. Do you attribute this to weak and/or incomplete tests? How granular should tests be to have complete coverage so that an AI won't create a converted codebase that "passes tests" but is still functionally inaccurate?

And configuring a bot for Telegram is incredibly easy.

Sounds like you are working on something naughty :)

What about cost?

We read to them from a very young age, and kept doing it. They are 13, 11, and 7 now and we still read books together every night for the littlest one, and most nights for the older two. My wife loves doing it and finds that it is solid bonding time.

We also instilled in them that it's a good thing for people to do on their own, and have slowly been providing them guidance on what "good literature" is by providing a constant stream of recommendations. We let them choose whatever they want, of course, and don't for anything on them. They are in total control.

Beyond that, we've taught them that the library is a nice place to just hang out. It's quiet, safe, and theirs as much as anybody else's. We are stuck living in a tiny apartment in a city in the US, and for them being able to just go to the library and have time to themselves is a positive for everyone.

Lastly, we've tried to give them a sense that language itself is fun and beautiful. Lots of word games. Lots of learning weird, esoteric words that nobody else seems to know. They get a kick out of it and so do we.

My kids are active, voracious readers. At least one book (500-700 pages) a week. It feels like one of the only things that I've really done right as a parent.

It's not just appetite. The market is crazy right now and people don't have money to drop $600-800 on a new console.

I guess that makes sense. Thanks for the answer and the trip down memory lane.

I miss the Amiga.

So what am I remembering that A/UX needed to boot from ROM?

If I remember correctly, there's an interesting historical reason for this: a lot of the original functionality that we'd today consider "part of the OS" was actually in ROM on hardware in really old Macs. Mouse functionality, basic windowing, etc. This meant that to get A/UX running you first had to bootstrap into a light version of Mac OS and then boot into A/UX.

I eventually stopped. For the longest time I used CMD+S as a "thinking tool" and would just tap it.

And you don't have to compulsively save anymore! Autosave is everywhere!

You and I both know that capitalism values corporations over individuals.

I'm torn between "this was so bad, there's no way that they can forget" and "god, there's just enough time for just enough people to forget". I hate this.

I love these types of threads the most. I learn so much.

I didn't even bother adding them to miserablyunemployed.com. I asked a bunch of our users and zero said they wanted them. I built other stuff instead.

Not using adware seems like a big upgrade to me.

Use Firefox. It's an excellent browser and needs your support.

Have you tried to admin a large team using Google's admin? :(

I think that people aren't seeing what Apple is doing through the lens of efficiency, and the wider impact that has on their software and hardware.

Them not having to support 30+ year old software means that they can be more nimble and make better hardware choices.

Look at the mess that Microsoft has made for itself by setting the requirement that software made in the 90s must still run on modern OSs and hardware. It's bonkers and is slowly killing the company.

I'm so grateful that people are starting to see that Tailwind is insanity. Just write your class and your CSS as CSS. We don't need to pollute templates with endless hard to parse and reason about tailwind nonsense.

There's no amount of progress that will make me go back to Windows.

1. Microsoft accounts. No. 2. Ads in my OS. No. 3. Slow copying of files. No. 4. A maddening mix of UI/UX paradigms and implementations. No. 5. AI deeply embedded in my OS. No.

I don't know wtf their design team is doing.

Why wouldn't they? There seems to be no real consequences for these huge corporations, and all of the potential profit incentives.

Indeed. If you can't spend two minutes (MAX) writing a sentence or two explaining what the commit is for, then what are we doing as developers? Commits are for future you and your future team. They are a tool. Please, use them.

This is a team lead/CTO problem. A good leader will be explicit in their expectations that developers write good commit messages. I've certainly had good leaders that expect this.