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Re:Done Answering Questions Stack Overflow on Tuesday February 16, 2021 @11:38PM (#26162759)
Very unfortunate. Stack overflow is toxic no doubt. Very useful, but toxic
The co-founder of the company, Mark Perlin, is said to have argued against source code analysis by claiming that the program, consisting of 170,000 lines of MATLAB code, is so dense it would take eight and a half years to review at a rate of ten lines an hour.

This is hilarious. As if you need to read every damn line and you can’t skip blank lines? You can skip whole files that aren’t relevant. Weak excuse

Re:Google adds Black-owned business label to product results on Friday February 05, 2021 @12:28PM (#26038756)
Literally. Double edge sword if I’ve ever seen one.
Re:Google adds Black-owned business label to product results on Friday February 05, 2021 @12:25PM (#26038729)
I feel that. Doesn’t seem right
Re:macOS to FreeBSD migration a.k.a. why I left macOS on Tuesday December 01, 2020 @11:37PM (#25273315)
Without first hand macos 'power user' experience I can understand why it might be difficult to wrap your head around. Sometimes things that might take you 5 seconds on Linux take your 8 hours for some reason. Like installing Python. And the. A version changes something and you need to reinstall python but everything is broken and nothing works. And then all of a sudden home brew doesn't work and you need to spend a week researching why and it turns out you need to boot into single user mode and chmod every folder in some directory for everything to work. Pure nightmare
Re:Nvidia to Acquire Arm for $40B on Monday September 14, 2020 @01:20PM (#24472634)
Nvidia mend. Lol
Re:Nvidia to Acquire Arm for $40B on Monday September 14, 2020 @01:17PM (#24472609)
Why would Nvidia spend $40B to ruin Arm? I can't see them making a return on this investment. No one wants to work with Nvidia they are notoriously roothless. I'm sure everyone is making plans to move to something else ASAP. Maybe RISC-V
From experience: it's worse. Words can't describe it