I know this opinion is wildly unpopular, but I think pirating is unethical. If you canβt afford something, or you disagree with spending money for it, then fine. Donβt watch that show/listen to that song/play that game. But the people who make things deserve to get paid. Itβs not right to refuse to pay for something while also consuming that content. Many of the justifications for pirating just feel like entitlement to me.
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I believe physical books are better than e books.
However, physical work documents are not better than PDFs! Why the hell do boomers print so damn much?
I hate music streaming services and rather buy the songs to play them locally on my smartphone.
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I don't want your fucking Sheets link. Email me the Excel file with _v1 at the end.
Containerization seems overrated. I haven't really played with it much, but as far as I can tell, the way it's most commonly used is just static linking with extra steps and extra performance overhead. I can think of situations where containers would actually be useful, like running continuous integration builds for someone you don't entirely trust, but for just deploying a plain old application on a plain old server, I don't see the point of wrapping it in a container.
Mac OS 7 looked cool. So did Windows 95.
Phones are useful, but they're not a replacement for a PC.
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I want to store my files on my computer, not someone else's.
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- Haven't seen macOS 7,but 100% agree on Windows 95. 2000 is better though.
- Still can't believe someone actually believe they are
- 100% agree
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Idea is that you can have different apps that require different versions of dependency X, and that could stop you with traditional package managment, but would be OK with containers
That's what I mean by βstatic linking with extra stepsβ. This problem was already solved a very long time ago. You only get these version conflicts if your dependencies are dynamically linked, and you don't have to dynamically link your dependencies.
Yes, you don't have to dynamically link dependecies, but you don't want to recompile your app just to change dependency version.
Don't I? Recompiling avoids ABI stability issues and will reliably fail if there is a breaking API change, whereas not recompiling will cause undefined behavior if either of those things happens.
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I'll trade the large phone display for a physical keyboard.
I remember being one of the many who thought touchscreens wouldn't catch on because people loved physical keyboards too much. Of course, touchscreens weren't quite what they are today. Haptic feedback and multi-touch were game changers.
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- In cars knobs are better than touch screens.
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Dude I don't wanna think about cleaning a machine like that... or rather the lack of cleaning....
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