MRW I run git blame to find out who wrote this appalling hack

So they can make a lightweight Windows, they just normally choose not to?

Can you even run Windows on a RPi?

Plenty of people uploaded stuff to youtube for years before it started giving them any money

FYI Lemmy already supports RSS, for instance I could add this feed to any RSS reader to follow you

Imagine you went through the pain of learning it to make a web front end. You want to make back end things too, but they all require knowing different languages. You’re not learning another language, learning this one was hard enough! Easier to keep using the same horrible language for everything, of course.

Was there an original uk one? This one is the only one I’m aware of, it had a moment of doubt a year back but we got new admins before we needed to move.

Relevant xkcd

Blockchain? Get with the times grandpa!

I’m old, Gandalf. I know I don’t look it but I’m beginning to feel it in my heart. I feel thin… sort of stretched, like butter scraped over too much bread.

Does whatever country this is posted from not have a minimum wage? Screenshot says USA, I thought they did have one?

A workaround doesn’t excuse terrible design!

Are you arguing that it’s good design to have invisible characters behave differently or am I missing your point?

Do all three of them still treat tabs and spaces as functionally different? If so then they’re all in the bottom category.

One for !softwaregore@lemmy.world

Relevant

Same in Summit. I guess there needs to be a standard that everyone follows, because currently I have a client which automatically handles normal other-instance links, and these link helpers actively break it!

As if an exe could truly understand unix socks

I suppose technically yes, but not in normal conversation (in Britain at least). It’s not like it’s completely nonsensical, but to us school is primary and secondary education, higher education is university; they’re distinctly different things and saying “gets kicked out of school” would be way less ambiguous.

Yeah but that can be done after you’re finished, definitely shouldn’t be part of planning!