All I see are spy drones.

Now explain PartialEq, and why it’s mandatory.

Does that require admin access? It wasn’t their machine, it was one the school provided for the auditorium.

This wasn’t their machine, it was one the school provided for the auditorium.

I saw that happen once in a big presentation.

There was a team of students presenting their work to ~200 people. Right in the middle, a pop-up says updates are finished and the computer needs to restart. It has a helpful 60-second countdown, but “cancel” is grayed out, so all they can do is watch.

I was only in the audience and I still have nightmares.

UTC is better than most, but leap seconds are still awful. Computers should use GPS or TAI everywhere. Dealing with time zones and leap seconds is for human readability and display purposes only.

CBOR for life, down with JSON.

This 100%. Only a hobbit would bring their favorite cast iron frying pan on a transcontinental hike into hostile territory.

US Army logistics catalogs are organized this way. “Cookies, oatmeal” instead of “Oatmeal cookies” because it’s a lot easier to find what you need an a giant alphabetical list.

This isn’t funny, this is just the sad state of software these days.

Those fish know what they did.

That’s weird, the watermark says, “I have altered the deal. Pray I do not alter it further.”

It’s a matter of trust. This is just the latest in a long and increasing train of Microsoft abusing their market power. They have proven, time and again, that they cannot be trusted.

Anyone who tries to pull an “I have altered the deal, pray I do not alter it further” gets a lifetime boycott.

But do they have a video about Deus Ex?

The monologue is a quote from Deus Ex, talking about one of these electronic gizmos.

Don’t worry, this just means your job is safe from being replaced by AI. No search results means no training data.

Source for this claim?

Pro tip: Use molten lava. Lava is a liquid, but I don’t think anyone describes it as “wet”.

IRL Raven from Snow Crash.

We all know the real reason: THIS IS MY BOOK, AND THEY’LL WALK IF I TELL THEM TO.