…and then when you look confused [Holmes] is like “ah… had you not arrived at that conclusion yet?” and wafts away… leaving you in a gender crisis

Of course, Holmes knew perfectly well you hadn’t figured it out yet – that was the most obvious deduction of all. He deliberately broke the news to you for his own amusement.

No, I mean two lines showing the change in each over time, not the correlation between each other.

Now I want to see a line graph of left handedness and LGBTQ over time.

They don’t give a flying fuck if you can afford it; they’re perfectly happy to brainwash you into going into debt for it.

Yeah, it’s kinda crazy how Openstreetmap in general still isn’t capable of accurately searching for an address. I don’t understand why that’s still a problem.

In order for Openstreetmap to do that, it would have to either:

• Crowdsource the data from people running an Openstreetmap mobile app with location data collection, which doesn’t exist and wouldn’t be accepted by the sorts of privacy-conscious people who prefer Openstreetmap, or
• Buy traffic data from a company like INRIX that actually goes to the expense of building and maintaining sensors along roadways, which it can’t afford because it doesn’t get that sweet exploitative advertising or surveillance capitalism revenue.

I suppose it’s possible that apps like OsmAnd could provide a feature for users to log into and receive traffic data from their own INRIX subscription that they bought themselves directly, but that would be such a niche feature it probably wouldn’t be worth the development effort.

Ah, so you mean this:

Alright, I’ll admit it: my first computer ran Tandy Deskmate, not just plain DOS.

Still, I did have to exit to a command line to run certain games, I think.

Pop quiz: which graphics mode is that screenshot?

Listen here you little shit.

Where’re all the DOS kids at?! 5 hours and 66 comments, but not a single mention yet.

Never mind solving problems with Windows; shit gets real when the thing boots to aC:\> prompt and you need to know things like the difference between CGA/EGA/VGA/Hercules graphics modes and WTF an IRQ is just to install your games in the first place.

Unfun fact: it switched from bash to zsh because Apple was butthurt and paranoid about GPL v3. Fuckin’ cowards.

OSX is basically just stable pretty Linux literally BSD, including licensing the UNIX trademark to make it official

FTFY.

For tech people, OS X is basically a BSD with a pretty UI that comes preinstalled on nice hardware (which is important mainly because corporate IT procurement is only gonna give you a choice between a Mac or a [Dell|HP|Lenovo] business-line machine running Windows (and with corporate policy that prohibits installing Linux). The Mac is a much nicer choice in that situation.

Also remember that, although they’ve backed away from it now, there was a time back in the 2000s when Apple was leaning into the UNIX hackability of the OS – they were coming out with stuff like XServe and Automator and went out of their way to design their machines for toolless upgrades of things like RAM. Some of the popularity of Macs among technical people stems from that era, and memories of it.

iOS, by the way, has always been an entirely different story. Your experience with a cracked iPhone isn’t even slightly representative of the experience using an OS X Mac.

Bullshit. You were absolutely talking about the CEO, and trying to retcon it only makes you look dishonest and weak.

Makes it all the more ironic that he was less neoliberal than her in the ways that actually mattered.

Imagine defending a sociopath and then having the utter gall to claim the moral high ground.

Not at midnight around here, that’s for fuckin’ sure!

You ever been in a big city in the South? They aren’t the densely packed walkable and/or public transportation heavy big towns like New York or Chicago. The old parts of town that were designed before cars now have narrow densely trafficked streets paved through them with inadequate parking and no real “park here and take public transport in,” nearly none of them have commuter rail, some might have bus services. The majority of the city is just heavy suburbs, miles upon miles of retail strip malls and tract housing.

– an Atlantan