dmd

well aware

I didn't know Trump held an academic appointment. (Other than John G. Trump, I mean.)

Huh that's really interesting because my 12 year old has been using a school-provided chromebook for 3 years now and she and all her peers almost NEVER use the touchscreen, they use the trackpad almost exclusively. And I've watched her using her ipad too, and she uses the touchscreen when she's in (her words) "that kind of app" but if she's in Google Docs she's 100% trackpad.

We have a Brother laser ("just get this one, it's fine") and probably use it 4 or 5 times a week. UPS and other postal labels. To-do/checklists for kids. Sewing templates. Kids' homework for the one teacher who's not on Google Classroom. It's really in kind of constant use.

I picked the wrong week

Gneiss!

I'm guessing you've only ever worked at startups?

Large company codebases are very much not like that. I've worked on systems (e.g., banking) that have accreted still-running code for as much as 60 years. Nobody understands how it works. Nobody ever understood how the whole worked, and many of the parts were never actually intended to work together.

HN readers - and even more so HN commentators - are not typical though. Literally 99% of people interacting really are asking a question answered by the FAQ, just like 99% of people calling the customer service number for their credit card want to pay their bill or find out their balance.

Once again - I’d rather be alive than right.

If all the many many other drivers on the road are passing you, going 20 mph (30km/h) faster, you are driving unsafely, regardless of the speed limit.

Ok? When I was learning to drive, I was taught to drive safely, whether that was under the speed limit or not. As my dad put it, "would you rather be right or alive?"