“Suddenly”? Remember all the “net neutrality” bullshit years ago that was all about begging the government to regulate the Internet? This has been going on since the early 00s probably. If you’re old enough to remember the 90s and earlier Internet then yes, it’s a strange thing to see, but that ship has sailed, circumnavigated the globe, and been decommissioned.

Hope all your programs are written in machine code. Wouldn’t want to be proud of compiler output.

When LLMs are remotely comparable to compilers, your analogy might hold water. But in the world of today, it holds none.

I mean yeah? Wouldn't you be more proud of your ability to write a program in machine code than you would in assembly? Or more proud of assembly than of C? Or more proud of C than of Python?

Each stage takes greater effort, effort which creates skill. Those hard-earned skills are accomplishments to be proud of.

Wait, he didn’t have to import 237 NPM packages?

Exactly! Can't even imagine how this runs?

Smirks and shruggs...

Well, hmm. well.. how many jira tickets were needed?

I know laptops have a bit of a different standard, but for real keyboards, IBM perfected keyboard design in 1985 and all deviations from that are a mistake.

Are you talking about the dual rows of 12 function keys across the top, as in the old mainframe 3270 terminals?

Or the "Model F" keyboard with the two vertical rows of 5 keys on the left edge of the keyboard?

For me, full-size function keys are the minimum. Granted that real-estate is at a premium on laptops but this isn't an impossible ask IMO.

Well he did say they designed it in 1985 which somewhat narrows it down.

I have to agree with gp, the Model M layout is what I consider the "default" and there is very little reason to deviate from it.

There are several? Venues around here use AXS, Seetickets/Eventim, Opendate. I buy more non-TM tickets than TM.

“So you hate waffles?”

https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/no-bitch-dats-a-whole-new-x-w...

More formally that's an "F attachment", lowering the key of the instrument (assuming a standard tenor trombone) from B♭ to F. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trombone#Valve_attachments

See also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brass_instrument#Trigger_or_th...

On iOS you don't have to do anything, -- gets autocorrected to an em-dash. This has been in iOS for almost 10 years IIRC.

“I used to hate writing assignments, but now I enjoy them. I realized that the purpose of writing is to inflate weak ideas, obscure poor reasoning and inhibit clarity. With a little practice, writing can be an intimidating and impenetrable fog!”

https://www.gocomics.com/calvinandhobbes/1993/02/11

"Writing is nature's way of letting you know how sloppy your thinking is." -- Richard Guindon, Michigan So Far, 1991.

The comic has been quoted online many times, but I had to buy an old copy of Michigan So Far on eBay to actually see the comic: https://25thandClement.com/~william/links/img/Writing-Guindo...

Or, as prep school teachers and college professors told students who asked the question "How long does the paper have to be?", "Short if you have a lot of time and long if you don't.

I (now) fondly remember getting my first English paper back as a hs freshman with an F. Shook me to my core. I had, after all, gotten into this good school as one of the select few. That was a good lesson and it's served me pretty well.

Heh, I've always thought this too. The most value I got out of writing assignments was making the research and outline. The step to turn the outline into the essay mostly involved adding BS fluff and transitions.