I truly cannot stress enough how utterly socially unacceptable it is to correct someone’s pronunciation of their own name. In this respect, names are different from other kinds of words. Please reconsider this embarrassing position of yours.
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Any recommendations for a Hyprland refugee? Thinking of trying out niri…
Hey-hey, planting is simple! It’s just planting things in the plant! You guys can plant, can’t ya? This is easy!
Cave carrots! Stone squash! Pebble peas! Cave squash! Pebble carrots squash! Stone peas!
I’d also like to offer Moregon or Oreagain
Yes, you get it. Speaking as a software engineer, users need to adapt their behavior to accommodate the product, not the other way around.
It’s impossible to account for every fanciful scenario or ethical edge case - remember, software exists in a vacuum of pure logic. So if a braindead algorithm dredges up a painful memory of yours every year and tactlessly features it alongside a lighthearted quip from the marketing team, it’s nobody’s fault.
Well, it’s your fault for not avoiding Facebook on that day. What I mean is, it’s not my fault and it’s not Facebook’s fault, whatever that means. It’s just the computer doing its thing.
Just kidding!!! I am using sarcasm to express my contempt for this mentality! It is correct to criticize tech companies for catastrophic UX failures! I believe it is in very poor taste to offer workarounds in reply to an anecdote like this!
60·1 year agoI suspect it’s just an autocorrect typo for “beginning to work”.
244·1 year agoStored in memory is still stored.
Given what I know about how computers accept user input, I am fascinated to hear what the alternative is.
31·1 year agoThis comment is a joke and you wouldn’t want to do it like that in reality, but here are some related keywords you could look up: “Unix cat”, “Unix pipeline”, “grep”, “output redirection”, “command substitution”.
Glimpse, but it died in 2021.