I work at a “Microsoft Shop” in a division that was a previously acquired software developer that used and entirely linux based dev stack.

That stack is still all linux and we basically have to do all our work in WSL. It’s a pain.

From the text it seems like a site only gets added to the navigation history if the user interacts with it.

Telling a Debian user that Mint isn’t the most up to date struck me as pretty funny.

i is still a value type, that never changes. Which highlights another issue I have with the explanation as provided. Using the word “reference” in a confusing way. Anonymous methods capture their enclosing scope, so i simply remains in-scope for all calls to those functions, and all those functions share the same enclosing scope. It never changes from being a value type.

I think the explanation they provide is a bit lacking as well. Defining an anonymous function doesn’t “create a reference” to any variables it uses, it captures the scope in which it was defined and retains existing references.

The WTF in the C# example seems to be that people don’t understand anonymous functions and closures?

Even more ridiculous since a 1.4x performance increase is already incredible news for anyone who makes regular of this.

If someone found a software optimization that improved, say, blender performance by 1.4x people would be shouting praises from the rooftops.

It’s not great.

Our production servers are all Linux and we have a fully Linux dev stack. My request for a Linux work machine was denied and we have to work in WSL.

Even if you are confident in your Linux skills this isn’t a bad idea. I’ve seen too many OS installers put things on drives other than the one you choose to risk it at this point.

For those of you who’ve never experienced the joy of PowerBuilder, this could often happen in their IDE due to debug mode actually altering the state of some variables.

More specifically, if you watched a variable or property then it would be initialised to a default value by the debugger if it didn’t already exist, so any errors that were happening due to null values/references would just magically stop.

Another fun one that made debugging difficult, “local” scoping is shared between multiple instances of the same event. So if you had, say, a mouse move event that fired ten times as the cursor transited a row and in that event you set something like integer li_current_x = xpos the most recent assignment would quash the value of li_current_x in every instance of that event that was currently executing.

Steam, well populated torrents, and the Star Citizen patcher are the only things I’ve experienced my full downstream of 1.5Gbps with.

To be fair his prior rant was about how bad he was at using and understanding Linux.

I’m all for more people switching to linux, but a lot of your windows issues sound less like windows issues and more like your specific installation is messed up somehow issues.

One thing I will mention though is that Windows does have native per-application volume control, you don’t need to install EarTrumpet. You can right-click the system tray volume icon and open the mixer, or just search for “volume mixer” in the start menu.

Always 5% higher than it currently is.

Headless server accessed via SSH. Hosting Jellyfin, FoundryVTT, a Discord bot that I just mess around with, and also use it to run an IRC client inside screen.

The machine I have running mint is a fifteen year old Core 2 Duo T6600 laptop. Works great!

Literally the only reason I ever fire up a different browser. Come on guys.

Neither of those points invalidate the idea presented.

Just because it’s not a uniform distribution doesn’t mean the average changes. Most people learning a thing earlier in life doesn’t change the average rate. Even if literally every single person learned a given fact on their ninth birthday, that still averages out to the same rate.

As for your second point, you’re conflating “things everyone knows” with “knowing everything”. Obviously people who are 80 still don’t know everything, but it’s not unreasonable to assume they share a pool of common knowledge most of which was accumulated in their early life.

And even if both of those things were valid criticisms, the thing you’re calling out as “inaccurate pseudoscience” is the suggestion that people shouldn’t be ridiculed for not knowing things, rather we should enjoy the opportunity to share knowledge.

Yes. It’s a commercial signage display, not intended for desktop use.