If you’ve never had to debug code. Are you really a developer?

There is zero chance you have never written a big so… Who is fixing them?

Unless you just leave them because you work for Infosys or worse but then I ask again - are you really a developer?

Are you paranoid if you’re right?

Doesn’t that just mean you schedule calls over text? That step is not very boomer of you

The word you are looking for is virtue signaling. There is a limited amount of good you can do.

The vast vast majority of those people aren’t doing shit. It’s like when they wanted us to bang pots n pans outside for nurses. It meant nothing.

The car seat what?

Nobody, and I mean nobody, would take my old kids car seat. They all told me to just throw it out.

(Is there any sane alternative to SQL?)

Well there is our lord and savior, or so I’m told by many MBA(s), No SQL

Oh wait you said Sane. Nevermind.

Yeah fast food is a lot more stressful.

Every single job in my entire life I have made more money, and my workload has gotten easier. I am grateful everyday I escaped the trap. Very few do.

You’re absolutely right…

• the dude’s reply

Don’t marry someone just because the Wi-Fi is shared

But there’s no place like 192.168.1.2

Where exactly did you get them? Can’t you just return them?

Sorry no can do, Old Man! I’ve suffered enough

• Your younger self… Probably

Isn’t this basically just rich IT guy vs poor IT guy?

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The cruelty is the point

It is almost always best to ‘wait and see’ for most things.

But of course if everyone did that - it would never have taken off in the first place.

This is because of everyone’s favorite topic SEO

Windows 11 came out before AI entered the dogma.

They are using Windows 11 to push TPU to control your hardware for reason that will become clearer in the future. They also pushed it to sell new hardware and thus more licenses. Windows 11 demands you buy a new laptop despite your perfectly functioning one.

We’ve hit the point where PCs aren’t getting that much faster, and so people aren’t upgrading as much. This makes a few powerful people very upset.

Articles for 2013 are still available? It was ~10% for all laptops launched in 2013.

https://www.pcworld.com/article/451973/touchscreen-notebooks-snag-10-percent-of-the-laptop-market-report-claims.html

In 2023 The penetration is ~20% so by these metrics they did double the number of touch enabled PCs. It just took a decade too long.

In fact in 2012 - Intel did a study that said 80% of users prefer a touch screen. https://www.neowin.net/news/intel-80-percent-of-pc-users-prefer-touch-screens/

That’s literally what Windows 10 was supposed to be. “The last version of windows”. Does no one remember that?

Yes it is very ill advised as people often do important tasks on the PC including banking. In fact most people will delegate their most vulnerable tasks on the PC rather than the potentially more-secure mobile device.

To put this in perspective. There were 1,360 Vulnerabilities reported in 2024 for Windows. Not a single one will be patched after end-of-life.

There were unreported vulnerabilities that were waiting for end-of-life to be exploited.

If I release my malware a month before EOL and it’s caught then I have to start from scratch. If I do it after EOL then I can reap the benefits forever.

https://www.insurancejournal.com/news/national/2025/04/21/820580.htm