Hall monitor Karen brought a 4yo child to an event where she was ready to commit assault.

Did you read the article? It wasn’t counter-protestors, it was self-appointed hall monitor Karen.

I have genuinely had realtors say that’s just something you need to buy. It’s so weird. I tried to leave behind a curtain rod at one such place and they said to remove it.

Games without minimaps but with full maps are just stupid. I’d accept it if they make you discover the maps, but most games don’t work that way.

This one sounds like there’s no maps at all, which is a choice a company can make. Their little thematic bullshit (it’s an expedition) is fine but easily, easily solvable with fog of war.

I don’t understand the anxiety then. Almost nothing Microsoft kills is actually dead just rebranded. Calendar isnt dead. Cortana is copilot. They do have some recent vr stuff that’s actually dead I guess, but…

The things you really need to worry about are successful products Microsoft buys, like Skype, because they are only buying to destroy. Discord could’ve been dead by now if Microsoft bought it. But then…they’d also have integrated teams with both Xbox and steam.

Because you quit your job in Redmond?

Syncthing

It ended up being a way for college students to make content for interview presentations for their first engineering job. At some point that transitioned over to every project being like those quadcopter things. Not sure what it is now.

It never really released afaik. It was supposed to come out with win 11 and didn’t.

Ah perfect, slap that on the meme

This really doesn’t hit quite as hard. Googles page is just 53 variants of hangouts that each lasted less than 2 years. This is “after 18 years and a full decade of phase out, teams replaced Skype”.

Or “we rebranded calendar as outlook after 18 years so technically it’s dead but there is a compatible replacement available for free” vs “we shut down this service because we couldn’t find a way to shove ads in it”

The ancient Greeks used units invented in the 1790s? I mean at least miles were from the same millennium.

Ah, the no true Scotsman fallacy. Neat.

Your lack of rational thought backed up by facts rather than feelings is why you’re a bad developer.

See I can do it too.

But honestly even saying “nothing about the git cli is archaic” is…well, it’s either disqualifying or Stockholm syndrome, and Stockholm syndrome isn’t real.

That’s tortoise, and have I got news for you: tortoisegit exists.

Why learn an archaic and honestly horrifying command line interface, possibly the worst CLI ever made in the history of computing…when nice normal graphical interfaces work better, have discoverability, have troubleshooting tools, and don’t require memorizing scripture?

Congrats discord now owns your code forever

Hey now that’s real close to the 65,535 16-bit limit (from 20 years ago)

I’m not

60k is laughably, embarrassingly small. It’s still sqlite-sized.

So your proof someone was tricked/scammed/defrauded is that they spent more money on something than you would?

They key point you seem intent on avoiding is that you have not shown a single example of someone actually being tricked/scammed/defrauded. Someone buying a thing that is arbitrarily priced well outside of it’s practical value or actual cost is not a scam, it’s literally the definition of a luxury good. Is every person who buys a diamond getting scammed, in your mind? What about those $1000 shoes people buy as an “investment”? Were they scammed in your imagination?