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And yet here we all are, reading your comment. Maybe the algorithms on some platforms are that aggressive, but certainly not here.

Yeah, and the tax is only on the profit they make, not the entire selling price.

Literally yes, from what I remember when reading about this a few days ago. It’s an exhibit on impeachment in general, not specifically just about Trump’s impeachments.

It seems that AI really is good for some things after all

I agree with your main point, although I think your example of COBOL being used to this day in financial institutions is actually the opposite problem. The guys that originally developed that shit were damn good programmers, but they were severely constrained by the available hardware, limitations of the language, etc. So they had to get really clever in order to make these massive, complicated systems work. In my experience, those really old legacy systems tend to be rock solid with near 100% uptime and almost no errors. They’ve never been rewritten because doing so would be a multi-year effort costing millions of dollars, and the end result would be a system that is most likely slower, buggier, and has less functionality.

TLDR: The old COBOL systems are unmaintainable messes not because of incompetent developers, but because the limitations of the available technology when they were originally developed forced a bunch of really good devs to have to get extremely creative and hacky with their solutions.

It’s cute that he thinks that Wall St hedge fund guys are Democrats

I sure fucking hope not.

Yes - they are completely different.

If your windows are 40+ years old, then sure. But that’s not a thing anymore for modern windows.

Double hung windows don’t seal quite as well as casement windows, but honestly, unless you’re going to the absolute best energy efficiency possible, like a net-zero house, then it’s really not a big difference. Any halfway decent quality, properly installed window won’t have any noticeable drafts. Plus, as others have mentioned, double hung windows are far cheaper than casement.

Hard disagree on Tool, their sound has definitely evolved over the years but I think that Fear Inoculum is a damn masterpiece. I totally get it though if the more prog rock/experimental style isn’t your thing.

Yes, to an extent. But the algorithms of all the major social media sites kick this into overdrive. Seriously, how many times have you clicked on a random YouTube video about some obscure topic and then for the next week it seems like every other recommended video is about that same topic? Even if you just watched a little bit of the original video and then clicked away because it wasn’t interesting. I see the same thing with the Google Feed on my Android phone - I click on one random article and then it just assumes that one topic is my new primary interest.

There’s also “you guys” if you use “guys” as gender-neutral, since there’s no particularly good feminine version of “guys”. There’s just “gals”, which sounds incredibly old fashioned, or “girls”, which sounds totally condescending when talking about adult women, or maybe “ladies”.

What if you want to be at the spot where you actually clicked the mouse?

F12 opens dev tools in most browsers, so I use that one all the time.

Well now I wish I had thought of this for my wedding

Is it that hard to understand that some people just value convenience?

Unfortunately, he has more support in the Republican primary than the other 5 candidates combined. Ignoring him won’t make him go away.

Because Trump just ignores laws that aren’t convenient to him.

There’s a white board inside the bathroom? Why?