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I think you might be imposing an America-centric view on the BBC. I doubt that was the intention.

I don’t think I’ve ever heard anyone accuse anything Apple made of being garish.

I think operating system is much more common of a term than OpenSearch?

This doesn't contribute to the discussion. Nor make sense?

I agree, no examples means I have to download and try it out - no thanks .

Effective Java by Joshua Bloch is fantastic for covering up to Java 9. There have been incremental updates since then but this book will get you 95% of the way, and it is very well written.

Is this beat-poet anti-Microsoft thing a character or how you are in real life?

Depends if you cook. A lot of people are going to want a stove. I would never consider renting an apartment without a stove and oven and I am willing to wager that nor would a large percentage of the population. So you are kinda forced to have one if you own an apartment you are renting.

If you own it and live in it sure you can not have a stove or oven if you want. But then if you ever sell it and the next person wants one... its going to hurt the value I imagine.

They sell black ties and white shirts still, perhaps you can buy them and live out this fantasy.

Heat stroke at 25c! Is this in 100% humidity?

I honestly mean this with no disrespect but having written code exclusively in vim in the terminal for several years and the same in IntelliJ, I am confident that either: - you don't have to write Java full time, and/or - you don't have to work in a large Java code base, and/or - you haven't been exposed to IntelliJ's features and how they can save you time

I love vim, I really do, but IntelliJ is a Java-specific IDE and there is absolutely no way that vim or emacs or vscode can compete on features. You can refactor code in a split second in ways that are just not possible in vim/emacs. IntelliJ has an understand of the structure of your Java code that vim simply doesn't have and will never catch up to having as its a general purpose tool and IntelliJ is a specific tool. Its vim mode is also pretty good. The only downside of Jetbrains IDEs is that they can be slow when indexing large projects and they can be slow in general. But I would still 10 times out of 10 choose to make a commit in IntelliJ over vim for a Java project that is non-trivial.

If you write Java I would (as strongly as possible) recommend giving IntelliJ another go and looking into its refactoring and other features.

The design is really bad imo as well. I would prefer no css or styling at all than this. Its very difficult to tell what is going on.

This feels like another in a long line of questionably written essays that get posted here. As an example:

Right now, every ML “breakthrough” is going towards making addictive media products more addictive and towards advertising that exerts more control over consumers. So this needs to change.

Luckily, regulation is doable! As is fighting the system. I mean, it’s won’t be easy, but local organizations everywhere, such as social democratic organizations, are working together to push for positive economic change. And they’re quite social.

A claim backed up by zero evidence . We need "more regulation"? To what end? Even the long form article doesn't illustrate the point. It says

If we made a pie chart representing the money that is made from deep learning

but doesn't bother to present neither a pie chart nor any underlying facts to back up this claim. It also talks about regulating political donations which seems... difficult to connect to the topic at hand.

I am in favour of people trying to improve their writing and publishing blog posts but this just looks like the author didn't spend much time collecting their thoughts. If they have edited this down, they could have fooled me.

I don't mean to discourage the author - I am confident they can improve their writing and should definitely attempt to do so. I am just trying to understand why these articles are being upvoted when to my eyes they aren't of high quality.

Ignoring who is wrong or right here - you made the claim, it's not very helpful if you refuse to substantiate it or suggest someone else needs to substantiate it for you.

Completely agree. This is a low quality blog post.

Fair enough, I was referring to the fact that Microsoft buying PowerPoint didn't happen recently. But that wasn't clear from my comment.

One could probably infer that no?

Ah yes you only said:

My personal observation is that most pro office folks are seeking to substitute gaps in their personal lives with onsite work. A drain on their coworkers to be frank. Lack of friends, proper housing, lack of exercise you name it. A tiring hindrance on those...

This is an unfair and spiteful characterisation of people who happen to have a different viewpoint than you. We can do better than that.

I think its farcical to claim that a 4 day week is a 'scam' because you find it offensive for whatever reason. Its still an improvement on the 5 day week and something atypical. I am not sure what you think a 'scam' is but we have different definitions.

The number of people who are working from home will not be 100% nor will the number of companies working from home exclusively be 100%.

Given we have had limited time to run this experiment, perhaps it would be good if we didn't just jump to conclusions that working from home is the be all and end all. The office has had a pretty good run of productivity over the last century.

You can’t hate the law/regulation then call it in when you need it.

Why not?

Boxing having multiple world championships is not really a good thing.

You have the WBC, WBO, WBA (Super), WBA (Regular), IBF, The Ring and Lineal world champions. Having SEVEN possible different world champions at the same time doesn't seem like a great thing to me.

The only thing it does is increase marketability of more boxers and allow for more fights to be world title fights.

In Chess it might be good if we get some other "World Championship" that is more watchable than the FIDE version that can increase viewership. But I'm skeptical.

In Australia it’s not uncommon but that’s also exceptional.

I'm going to assume this isn't trolling and if it is, you fooled me.

I've use Vim professionally, as well as VSCode and Jetbrains IDEs and dabbled in Emacs - the idea that one can replicate what IntelliJ does for Java for instance in any other IDE or text editor is to me, nonsensical. The amount of configuration it would require in vim/neovim/vscode to replicate the refactoring ability of IntelliJ alone would take you longer to setup than it would to code whatever project you're working on.

Saying that Vim or Emacs have "zero fiddling" compared to Jetbrains IDEs is a statement that is so vastly different to my experience (doing plenty of fiddling in both) that I would love to hear the backstory of how IDEs hurt you.

I'm using Fish with vim mode and something seems to have gone wrong, where the prompt displays the currently mode of vim (here [I] for insert) your terminal seems to interpret this as a command, so nothing works unless I delete the [I] at the start of the line.

  [I] [I]ls
  fish: Unknown command: '[I]ls'

I agree. I use Moom https://manytricks.com/buy/moom and https://www.alfredapp.com/ which I think add most of the stuff I like. To each their own but I think if you are willing to spend maybe $20 then you can probably find something (though I agree it should be customizable with stock OS!)

For me $10 for Moom which I use every single day is okay. I mean, if you're using a Mac you probably have to resign yourself to paying a slight premium for everything so if you're not willing to do that then I can see how it might be a frustrating operating system.

You don't need an iPhone to use a Mac.

All of your daily use items will work nicely on MacOS. In addition the look/feel + performance of the new M1 Macbooks is excellent. Keyboard is a vast improvement.

One point is that the 16 inch mac is quite heavy. I have a 14 inch Macbook Pro, its great and a bit lighter as long as you are happy with the smaller screen.

I would recommend MacOS. I think most people enjoy it once they get used to it.

To me the Mac + MacOS is the best developer experience - it has many of the developer Unix tools available that you would want from linux, plus it "just works" and devices (audio, keyboards, bluetooth etc) all work without me having to think about it. The display is beautiful and if it breaks, you can just take it to an Apple store (though I've never had an issue). More bespoke linux laptop setups can be nice but I think you're introducing some fragility into your life when you do that, compared with just using a Mac.

I am assume this doesn't refer to "volume of coffee beverage" consumed. As far as I'm aware only the US seems to gravitate towards these extremely large coffee beverages. Other nations drink more coffee, but in smaller serving sizes less diluted by milk/sugar.

Perhaps the US used to drink espressos in the 1940s, I'm not sure. That's if this fact is even accurate.

Theres a lot more to a casino than the roulette table is how I might phrase it using your analogy.

It seems pointless to discuss chess.com without mentioning the paid features like game analysis which are much more user-friendly than Lichess.

Just because no one is right 100% of the time (clearly not possible) doesn't mean that no one knows what they are talking about.

There's also a lot more to finance than stock picking.