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In my experience, many people who are athletic, or have practiced enough of a sport to be considered athletic, just crave competition.

Could you explain why you care?

I completely agree with you, and that is an amazing quote.

Premature abstraction is one of the worst pitfalls when writing software. It's paid for up front, it costs developer time to understand and work with, it adds complexity (tech debt), increases likeliness of bugs, and increases refactor time. All for someone to say "if we ever want to do X". If we wanted to do it, we'd do it now.

I truly believe this comes from devs who want to feel smart by "architecting" solutions to future problems before those problems have become well defined.

Not who you're responding to, but I'm not a huge fan of vibe coding for 2 reasons: I don't want to use crappy software, and I don't want to inherit crappy software.

Your second example of a choice is a consequence of a choice. Those companies chose not to comply with new reporting rules which resulted in having their Pentagon access revoked. This is an important distinction when given "choices" that aren't really choices but mandates.

As far as how this YouTube scenario is different, people can host their content elsewhere, but there's only one Pentagon in the US.

This may be the "cell phones in public" stage, but society has completely failed to adapt well to ubiquitous cell phone usage. There are many new psychological and behavioral issues associated with cell phone usage.

It provides a perverse incentive for those running prisons (usually the government but also private owners) to put more people in prison for their slave labor.

Rectangle is amazing and I highly recommend it, but it's a window manager and not a display manager.

I'd call your ISP, because mine is not small and offers "business" class service which costs the same as residential, reserves a static ip, and slightly boosts uplink speeds.

I think it's whatever their company pays for! If this hard hat means lower insurance costs for the company then it's just a math problem.

None of them, since they basically all copied Netflix! The grid view limits users to slowly looking over limited categories of content. Any list based tree structure would be better in my opinion.

I never felt like this was too terrible...

  NSString* result = [NSString stringWithFormat:@"%@ %@", @"Hello", @"World"];

There are book binders that will do one offs, and the binding will probably be better than the original if you get it sowed & glued correctly!

Could this be because every privacy relevant permission, except internet access, now requires a manual approval dialog? Why list every permission when it's only used for specific feature X which is requested upon usage?