Agreed. Depending on the business sector, the PR damage could be worse than the cost of litigation.

My company has a very expensive software product they sell to other businesses (to the tune of millions of dollars a year per customer), and the cost is a hurdle the salespeople have to overcome. If there was litigation against them over trampling another business, that doesn’t exactly instill confidence in a trustworthy business relationship. So they pay their licensing costs.

TIL a new thing in computer science.

KiwiFarms, a forum dedicated to doxxing and IRL harassing of LGBTQ people, women, and anyone else they didn’t like. It was is a breeding ground for Nazis and other Conservative bigots and their ideologies, and they successfully harassed people into moving and hiding (or worse).

Edit: they’re still around

The only silver lining is that it might be relegated to ARM systems initially, so we’ve all got time to figure out a plan to shift to Linux.

And then QA sends it back with a bunch of regressions, then you go, “Why would somebody do it like that‽” and finally remember that the end user is dumb.

Just use emacs.

bool_ via Numpy is its own object, and it’s fundamentally different from bool in Python (which is itself a subclass of int, whereas bool_ is not).

They are used similarly, but they’re similar in the same way a fork and a spork can both be used to eat spaghetti.

Maybe you need better signage. Maybe you need to reverse the direction of the door. Maybe you could automate the door. Or maybe the user is just fucking stupid. 😄

And that’s precisely why QA still exists and why it shouldn’t be the devs. And yet, you’ll still wind up with weird situations, despite your best efforts!

“Ugh, it works, but it was overly complicated to get what I needed.”

Dunno what to tell you. I do QA for a living. I see postings all the time for QA positions in other companies, and my company has had QA for at least two decades, with the department expanding over the last three years.

I’m not claiming it’s ubiquitous, but maybe you’re just out of the loop.

A) Yes. Large companies have entire departments dedicated to QA, and it’s best not to leave QA to devs, if you can afford it. Dunno what you mean by “still,” since the job never went away.

B) Okay?

I do QA for a living. If that’s the end result, it wasn’t intuitive. 😅

The main machines at work still do upgrades via tapes. The main program can communicate with lots of online services, but it still updates via tape. Probably too hard to spend the time to figure out how to implement OTA upgrades, since it was first created back in the 80s.

But the 512KB was more of a vague gesture towards the limitations back then. We had a separate floppy drive, with which I would load up a big black rectangle that had 1-5 very basic games on it. There’s something special about locking down the disk which you can’t get even with its smaller successor…

Neat. Sounds very confusing for future maintenance, but when you only have 512KB of storage, you do what you gotta do!

It’s only the Conservatives doing that, anymore. I don’t think most folks from Austin, Houston, and Dallas are really under any illusions, anymore.

And to be fair, Texas has a lot going for it, if only you could excise the cancer that is the Republican party. They ratfuck the state and still somehow manage to scare their followers into believing it would be worse without them.

Exactly. Almost as if trans women are actually women…

The whole, “They’ll dominate women’s sports!” is an ignorant statement at best and a blatant strawman at worst.

I mean, it was 15-20 years ago, so not like it’s exactly recent memory!

T9 is the predictive word one. That Nokia used the original single-letter-at-a-time method, and it got me when I guessed that it was T9 (which was around for much longer than the single-letter method).

Also, were millennials into Different Strokes? Because I didn’t know a single person who watched that show. It ran from '78-86, a time when millennials were either non-existent or just being born (1981+). There’s a whole paragraph about it, and I feel like the author either had a unique experience growing up or thinks that’s what millennials were into.

The Nokia got me, but only because it was hard to read, and I was expecting T9 mode. Manually typing each letter was only around for a couple years before T9 changed everything.