In the early days it seems pike Stack Overflow tried to regulate engagement from trolls. They encouraged support for dumb/newbie questions and discouraged obnoxious behaviors.

I’m guessing that’s just a losing battle. I don’t think there’s much hope of keeping a good moderator for free. It’s a tough, thankless job. Troll/poor moderators are free.

If I didn’t know better, I would say this sounds like Farley giggling and winking in order to make a play for his next CEO gig.

We’re raised by parents that must be obeyed for our own safety. Some people eventually learn to accept their parents are imperfect people and not gods. Many people do not. They look to kings and gods to protect and provide for them.

Those that have power negotiate with kings and gods. People without power attempt to use the only techniques they know to negotiate with their kings and gods: begging and/or pledging loyalty and service in exchange for scraps.

Of course this is but one of many reasons many people worship power.

My bowels have been questioning a lot lately, so it’s not entirely without precedent.

Local natural food store sells Homeopathic medicines. We’re talking water selling at the same price as ink jet printer ink.

Easy.

The dog on the right is wearing pants. Two covered legs = Pa(ir) + nts = ‘Pants’.

The dog on the left is wearing quants. Four covered legs = Qua(d) + nts = ‘Quants”.

Two different clothing items.

Don’t let other people tell you how to eat.

If Italians had been gatekeepering 500 years ago, they wouldn’t have tomato-based dishes today.

zsh: “Z shell”
ssh: S-S-H
sudo: I always think of it as “pseudo”

I’ve read that McDonald’s is pushing kiosks so hard because on average people order more when they use them vs cashier or drive-thru.

Had McDonald’s chicken nuggets in Canada a while back. They were made of real chicken. I’m jealous that Canada gets real food.

When looking for a new web browser, which feature would you prefer most and which would you prefer least?

• A color palette that matches Danny DeVito’s armpit hair.
• Play the theme to Annie at startup.
• Take up all computer resources.

I don’t want any of those. Can’t we just have a browser that filters all of the popups, junk and advertising?

Nope. You can’t progress through the survey without picking one thing you really don’t want and at least one of two things you couldn’t give a shit less about.

A: “We really need this super-important and highly-technical job done.”
B: “We could just hire a bunch of highly-technical people to do it.”
A: “No, we would have to hire people and that would cost us millions.”
B: “We could spend billions on untested technology and hope for the best.”
A: “Excellent work B! Charge the government $100M for our excellent idea.”

Don’t forget the “feature” where the video chases you around the page to force you to watch it. “You scrolled away, but we just know you really want to watch video of our Action News! team reporting on a completely unrelated topic!

While you’re here, do please enjoy a popup that completely blocks access to the page. We felt it necessary to keep the annoying pop-up despite the fact that we have no advertising to put in it. Just the name of our website. Yay us!

Frens only.

What ever happened to micro transactions? Weren’t they supposed to be the way we compensated web producers? Instead we got ads.

I’m honestly surprised the corps haven’t done this to all of their drive-thrus.

Decades ago, a collegue of mine (who once worked in hard drive design) said, “Oh, hard drives stopped reading 1’s and 0’s years ago. Now they compute the probability that the data just read was a 1 or a 0.”

we hope will will see some reviews by western media, with clear comparisons against AMD and Intel solutions.

So Tom’s Hardware is hoping that someone with motherboard expertise will step up and test these things proper so (presumably) Tom’s Hardware can report the results.

/s

I skip the app and use one of Safeway’s “Please Don’t Rape Me” cards that I found in the parking lot.

If you value your privacy and you have a choice between using a browser to access a service vs installing their app, use the browser.

Online services can get much more information about you through an app vs the browser. Browsers are generally locked down more. Apps in general have access to much more information from your device.