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Windows itself is malware.

Planke plastics

I struggled with weight for decades but this last year I've lost 60+ pounds, and I will lose more. All the weird tips in the world won't help IMO. I used an app that worked for me finally. It worked because I was able to get the education, and mindset / motivation I needed. Little tips and tricks won't work, you need a comprehensive solution that works for you. I'm not shilling for some company, this was the only thing that has worked consistently for me after decades of trying. Anyway, at the risk of sounding like an advert which this is not, it was noom. It takes a lot of work and persistence but having the reasons and knowledge to make it all come together and be consistent is what is key.

That’s too bad. That helps me understand why it isn’t favoured as much as I would think/like.

Anytime I learn a new language (I regularly write code in several) I start asking how is testing done, where are the libraries, where is this, and how do I do that? I already have all of that and more at my fingertips. Also, Groovy is vastly underrated. It’s the most economical and easiest to understand language I know meaning I can do more with less code and faster in general.

Every complaint I’ve ever seen about OOP (and other tools) amounts to “we misused and abused the tool/language/whatever so therefore the tool itself is bad “

Inflation of the money supply leads to prices that end up higher than they otherwise would have been.

This does not necessarily mean nominally higher prices.

This is a distinction that leads people to say things like: Obama did it and prices didn't go up. With the implication that it might be ok to inflate to infinity.

Agreed. No one knows.

I think the causal nature of this relationship is way overestimated.

Not building garbage software in the first place is an option

The point here for me is team dynamics, maturity, and skill level.

If you have a team that can't competently write and maintain a monolith that is modular and built/tested via automation, then that team has no business trying to build and maintain microservices.

No single person understands everything about how a pencil is made.

I use the rule that if something is non-obvious I write comments in the code with references to how I solved the problem.

It was alluded to in the list but I like this great quote:

"the best way to deal with complexity is to remove it"

Use react-bootstrap. Nearly all of the styling is already done. If you can live with something with simple but tasteful styling, then react-bootstrap can do the trick.

As soon as you decide to make something custom, you will need to learn CSS and several other skills.

Where is the study on the detrimental impacts of commuting?

Are they referring to bash or zsh?

Without a doubt the article is fascinating but without defining what we mean by sophisticated how can we debate this?

The Decorator pattern is your friend.

It is a username and not relevant at all.

For a competent team, arbitrary dates, generally leaving not enough time, only serve to limit scope. A competent team will produce as fast as is possible, given a specified scope.

Fuck off with this priveledge bullshit.

What one should do, if one was a politician with the power to do so, is less.

I forgot to add, if you don't like the job a charity is doing, you can give your money to a different charity. With government, not so much.

People with higher incomes give more to charity. People with more disposable income give more to charity. Government "charity" consumes about 70 percent of the money in bureaucratic overhead. Private charity overheads are typically below 30 percent, and much better in many cases. What you want is more money in the pockets of people so that they can give more to charity. Any dollar spent on voluntary charity vs taxes is much more efficiently used to help the needy directly. If you really care about poor people you should want more money going directly to private charities not the government. In fact, private charities were a much bigger part of day to day society before the welfare state and poverty was decreasing between the 40s and 60s. When the government steps in it changes people's behaviour and takes away more and more of their disposable income. I know you'll find this hard to believe but its true the richest in our society give more than anyone else to charity.

^ This

I think I was quicker and smarter when I was younger. Now I have experience and a broad skill set with which my younger self would not be able to compete. And in ten years from now I plan to be saying that again about my current self. The stuff I produce now is rock solid and well architected. I don't need to work 12-15 hour days because I know how to get things done right, I know the appropriate solutions for a wide variety of problems. I know what works and what doesn't.

I have unplugged my work phone. No one has noticed or mentioned it. Most messages are emails and texts on my cell. I don't answer the cell unless I know who is calling.

Vilify Microsoft if you like; I won't object, there's plenty there to work with. But really, what's the core problem here? The core of it is that the government is able to use force to control people/corporations. You might be OK with that when it works for you but when it goes the other way you might want to pay attention as well. Does anyone really expect that politicians from Europe (or anywhere else for that matter) are going to make correct decisions about regulating the internet? Well, given their stellar record I suppose they'll do a fantastic job. Much better to let consumers decide.

And if monopoly means the most number of people choose to use your product because you've produced the best product at the lowest price, then what exactly is wrong with that?

In actuality, there are far more heinous monopolies created by way of gov't regulation than in any other way. Massive regulation is an advantage to bigger dominant companies because it creates large barriers to entry into a market. Some companies lobby for more regulations because it helps them to ensure that others cannot enter the market.

Otherwise, smaller more nimble companies would come along and undercut the dominant company. This is how capitalism is meant to work but in these days or massive government interference in the economy things don't work this way anymore.