That doesn’t describe me or any other programmer I know.

Spam.

Don’t forget Qualcomm either.

The “AI” parts are what they’re saying happens on the device. This isn’t a gotcha.

I’d be really surprised if people who have a neurological abnormality also happen to have a difference in eye anatomy, especially when the neurological anomaly is associated with other sensory processing issues. Occam’s razor suggests that all the sensory processing issues NNT people have are a result of their brains being different.

Office lights tend to be a lot more blue than what’s used in homes.

🙄

At least in the US, the reason 3G isn’t available is that it has been phased out, as has 2G. You may as well complain about how slow it is to send data with smoke signals, because 4G is table stakes for an internet-capable device now.

I’m all for ending homelessness, but that’s really a different problem than we were discussing. I’m pretty confident jQuery isn’t stopping anyone from being housed.

Anyway, there’s no way you’re gonna convince me 32 kB is a lot of data. It’s just not. Even the slowest 3G connections can download that much in half a second. Just the text of this thread is probably more than 32 kB. If you can’t download that much data, you only technically have Internet service at all.

If it was for surveillance, do you really think they’d tell you about it?

At a certain point it makes more sense to subsidize better low-end hardware than to make every web site usable on a 20 year old flip phone. I’d argue that if saving 32 kB is considered a big win, you’re well past that point. Get that homeless guy a £50 phone and quit wasting the time of a bunch of engineers who make more than that in an hour.

If the software is much more expensive to develop, most is it just won’t exist at all. You can get the same effect by just not using software you feel is bloated.

Sometimes a program is slow to start up because it’s so boated that just loading it from the disk takes multiple seconds. Wasting a few kB doesn’t hurt anything, but if you’re doing it thousands of times in one program, your users are gonna have a bad time.

My vote is for bone cancer. Just do an image search and you’ll see what I mean.

I just wish Linux partisans would acknowledge that Linux has serious shortcomings rather than constantly shouting about how there is literally no reason to ever use Windows.

I greatly prefer Linux for tasks like software development, but when I sit down to pay a game, I don’t want to have to debug it first.

DUI is “driving under the influence” of alcohol and DWI is “driving while intoxicated”. So DWI is less specific.

Mandatory service that you can pay to get out of is literally just enslavement of poor people.

I’m about out of hope, but I have enough spite to last many lifetimes.

I hate that people have to prove they have the right ancestry just to be treated like human beings.