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Not to be That Guy, but it's been over 20 years since FL Studio was called Fruity Loops
Re:Why can't you combine .tar.gz files with cat? on Wednesday September 02, 2026 @08:08AM (#49535058)
Nothing says "handwritten" quite like omnipresent groups of 3 bullet points, all with bolded item headers.
Re:How does IKEA come up with names for its products? on Wednesday August 19, 2026 @03:23AM (#49358104)
No joke, I came across a cosmetics brand recently called "Pooplunch"
Re:OpenClaw Is Changing My Life on Sunday February 08, 2026 @02:21AM (#46932078)
> My answer is: become a “super manager.”

Honestly I'd rather die

Re:Wikipedia: Sandbox on Sunday February 01, 2026 @04:35AM (#46844830)
> so we’ll basically reinvent Lisp expressions, but worse

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greenspun%27s_tenth_rule

I'm on Gmail and getting flooded with it... About half of it is going to the Spam folder, which makes me wonder how it decides which of them are likely spam, since they're all very similar content-wise.
Re:As AI gobbles up chips, prices for devices may rise on Monday December 29, 2025 @07:32AM (#46420020)
> Compute keeps getting vastly cheaper and more capable; AI speeds that up.

???

Very obvious AI writing
Re:Is Mozilla trying hard to kill itself? on Saturday December 20, 2025 @06:55AM (#46335520)
For me:

- Enable Color Management and HDR display on non-MacOS platforms

- Play HDR video

- Support common and rising media codecs and container formats (HEVC, MKV, JXL)

- Support WebXR properly on desktop

Re:I ignore the spotlight as a staff engineer on Thursday December 04, 2025 @02:46PM (#46151971)
Do they even do cost-of-living raises anymore? When I was at FAANG, my raises in the same role didn't even match inflation.
Re:Rust in Android: move fast and fix things on Thursday November 13, 2025 @09:50PM (#45923331)
Not to mention out-of-bounds access, uninitialized memory, invalid type casting, and a ton of insidious sources of undefined behavior
Re:Rust in Android: move fast and fix things on Thursday November 13, 2025 @08:49PM (#45922943)
I don't think materially contrasting yourself with your direct competition quite constitutes a "feud war"
Re:You will own nothing and be (un)happy on Wednesday November 12, 2025 @04:55AM (#45898287)
Congratulations, I guess? Not everybody is lucky enough to be in your situation.
Re:Affinity Studio Now Free on Thursday October 30, 2025 @12:20PM (#45761739)
If you're not paying, you are the product.
Re:Je Suis Charlie on Friday September 12, 2025 @11:26PM (#45229051)
Absolutely ridiculous to write a piece like this about a fascist heading a media empire
Re:Nano Banana image examples on Thursday September 11, 2025 @10:22PM (#45218047)
"Solved" is a strong word...
I'll offer a different interpretation:

If a professional can't give critical feedback in a professional setting without being rude or belittling others, then they need to improve their communication skills.

Re:StarDict sends X11 clipboard to remote servers on Tuesday August 12, 2025 @04:33AM (#44873820)
> But the plugin actually reaches out to its backend servers — dict.youdao.com and dict.cn — over unsecured HTTP.

What year is it?

Re:Ultrathin business card runs a fluid simulation on Friday August 08, 2025 @11:50PM (#44843901)
My defaults are sans-serif Helvetica or Roboto, serif Roboto Serif, and monospace Fira Code
Re:PNG Is Back on Wednesday June 25, 2025 @04:41PM (#44381619)
Asset pipelines for media creation benefit greatly from better compression of lossless images and video
Re:Jonathan Blow on Removing Dependencies on Monday May 19, 2025 @05:41PM (#44035200)
This sure does attribute a lot to malice what could be adequately explained by stupidity.
Re:The Perverse Incentives of Vibe Coding on Wednesday May 14, 2025 @08:47PM (#43990717)
If you consider your marriage or your kids to be a gamble, that's a sign that you shouldn't get married or have kids.
If we haven't managed to stop them brutalizing and killing unethically yet, then I don't think we'll stop them violating privacy unethically any time soon.
Well, one of the biggest drivers of consumer Linux adoption in recent years has been the Steam Deck, and compatibility with Steam games. The article explicitly calls out how this improves performance for this use case. I think your opinion is an unpopular one.
Re:FFmpeg School of Assembly Language on Saturday February 22, 2025 @03:21PM (#43142793)
Now that's what I call an unpopular opinion.
Re:Windows 7 boots slower if you set a solid background color on Wednesday January 29, 2025 @02:48AM (#42862585)
I use Middle Gray at work, and everyone thinks I'm weird for it

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Middle_gray

> Never have I, in my development career, been so overloaded with assignments as to be continuously engaged with actual work.

You must not have been working for Amazon then.

Re:Riven on Sunday May 19, 2024 @12:05PM (#40407810)
I'm not sure that holds anymore, since that article is 6 years old now and Obduction is coming up on 8... Better to compare it to the upcoming Riven remake: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1712350/Riven/

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