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Why are people who make questionnaires so bad at making questionnaires? It’s baffling. This post is particularly glaring but I always find stupid errors or assumptions like this.

How bad can it be, it’s not like we’re sharing state secrets

Is this satire or real? I really can’t tell

Like the Concorde?

When a news headline ends with a question mark, the answer is no.

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• Trump gets elected

Well it’s always about finding a good balance isn’t it. Too many features like in C++ has negative consequences. Preferably you want something that lets you do all that you need to do, but not more. The trick to designing a good language is to let developers achieve as much as possible with as few features as possible, while keeping the code easy to reason about and understand.

This is obviously both subjective and highly dependent on what problem you are trying to solve, but I can’t think of any situation in my career where C# would not have been a better a choice than Java from a strictly technical perspective. It’s not just that the C# language is better, it’s that the Java ecosystem is founded on poor design choices that result in code bloat and implicit behavior that is hard to troubleshoot and secure. See e.g. Spring, which automatically picks up and loads any logging library that happens to be in the user’s path, even if that is an exploitable version of log4J. Java has become corrupted by enterprise architects. This satirical project demonstrates what I mean.

I say this as someone who is currently developing a FOSS Java library in my spare time, out of frustration with the Java code I had to endure at work.

So why not sell only the cloud version? Does that version somehow prevent management from another cloud key? If not, having the functionality dormant costs nothing.

Well if it was a human it wouldn’t be a peer, would it

Ubiquiti devices. What’s the difference between “UniFi Gateway Fiber” and “UniFi Cloud Gateway Fiber”? Last I checked they were even the same price.

Someone made millions off of that Xeet.

I prefer to call them Xcrements

If the safeguards can be so easily removed, what’s the point of putting them there in the first place

You implied that an egalitarian person doesn’t have the goal of furthering equality, did you not?

The Wikipedia article on egalitarianism says:

By promoting equal opportunities, egalitarianism aims to level the playing field and reduce disparities that result from social inequalities.

and

Egalitarian doctrines have supported many modern social movements, including the Enlightenment, feminism, civil rights, and international human rights.

Do you not feel that what you claim and what Wikipedia says are in conflict? At any rate, what I mean by being egalitarian is also to work toward achieving an egalitarian society, and in practice I do work toward that goal.

I disagree and as far as I can tell, so does Wikipedia.

I prefer to call myself egalitarian

The number of assholes calling themselves feminists vastly outnumber the actual feminists. They have lost control of the word.

Or more generally, anything that has a beginning has an end

Sounds to me like Miyazaki needs to lighten up.

4-hour planning? I wish. Try 16-hour planning.

And also, a meeting to plan for the planning meeting.