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co-founder stackoverflow.com, discourse.org, blogger. I have no idea what I'm doing, but I know I'm doing it really, really well. Let's be kind to each other. searchable

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"Every person who confuses correlation and causation ends up dying."

codinghorror, to random

They were all in love with dyin'
They were doing it in Texas

codinghorror, to random

A quality bidet is so choice. If you have the means, I highly recommend it. 🚽💦

codinghorror, to random

It's strange, but I feel the overarching lesson of Twitter was "how snarkily funny can I be" whereas on Mastodon it's "how kind and generous can I be" and good lord I am so here for this change, even if it results in less clickbait and "engagement"

codinghorror, to random

Men, please read this article and really take it to heart. And I mean me too. https://medium.com/

codinghorror,

@CommonMugwort 💯

codinghorror, to random

When someone really loves you, they delete all that ridiculous querystring nonsense from the end of the hyperlink before sending it to you. 💘

paulrickards, (edited ) to random
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Are there any hacks to modern MacOS 14 that forces windows to have an actual title bar at the top of them? You know, an area that contains the application title or document title and allows you to move is easily?

For instance, with Firefox and lots of tabs open, the window itself has no tittle bar at the top. Moving the window is difficult and only possible on the far left or right of the top of the window. It also doesn't identify itself.

Update: see replies!

codinghorror,

@paulrickards I agree with the conditional scroll bar hiding though; it's only really needed while you scroll and who in their right mind moves the mouse allll the way over to the right side and grabs and drags, in a world of touchscreens and mousewheels?

codinghorror,

@stilescrisis @paulrickards yeah this is my point basically. Not sure I would argue about window outlines or title bars, need to think more about that.

codinghorror, to random

I wanna publish zines and rage against machines

codinghorror, to random

Bow down before the one you serve, you’re going to get what you deserve

codinghorror, to random

I have difficulty with the "I only use lower case" folks. I mean, e e cummings could pull that off, so.. what you're implicitly telling us you are as talented as e e cummings? OK .. I .. guess?

codinghorror,

@trenchworms At some point this becomes "agree to disagree". Writing is meant to be read, and demonstrating a basic level of respect for the reader is the starting point for that. If you are writing only for yourself, fine.

codinghorror,

@trenchworms I will read those all lower case pieces, but I will resent the writer, unless they are literally as talented as e e cummings. So.. good luck, I guess?

codinghorror,

@trenchworms More deeply, the art is in what you are saying, not the technical details of how you are saying it. So it's a distraction, a deflection, a kind of lie. Again, unless you are e e cummings and writing poetry :)

codinghorror,

@trenchworms I apologize for going so deep on this, but the all lowercase people are kinda like the "we don't want to use semicolons" JavaScript people. Verdict? "As a best practice, we should use standard conventions within our projects, and in these particular cases, that convention should include using semicolons because even if you don’t add them, the language needs them anyway and will try—but not always succeed—to fix them with ASI."

codinghorror,

@jwz yeah it's complicated. On the one hand, I believe in letting people be themselves, on the other hand.. I dunno

codinghorror,

@malwareminigun sorry I can't hear you

codinghorror,

@ToddPM if you said it as "Mister Capital E, Capital E", I am so down

codinghorror,

But ya know, I'm a programmer. I love rules. I love living by rules. I think rules are negotiable, but they generally make the world better and more survivable long term. If anything I want more rules. People who say "the rules don't apply to me" make me deeply uncomfortable.

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This Happiness Lab podcast episode "Unhappy Millionaire" is kind of blowing my mind. I've written about Dan Gilbert before, he's a genius, and it just gets better and better from there. Hard recommend (minus the annoying hard-coded ads) -- I guarantee this will surprise you in ways you absolutely don't see coming https://www.pushkin.fm/podcasts/the-happiness-lab-with-dr-laurie-santos/the-unhappy-millionaire

codinghorror,

@Honkon 🙇 that is so very kind of you, thank you

codinghorror,

@andreimoment not sure but that sounds correct

codinghorror, to random

And finally, no one can roast Bill Ackman harder than Bill Ackman can roast himself:

“…the Financial Times published a quiz testing readers’ ability to tell the difference between Ackman’s tweeting and Patrick Bateman’s unhinged inner monologue from American Psycho. ‘I took the quiz,’ Ackman told me. ‘And I got a perfect score.’”

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