Who knows! If it's a stepping stone, then actual growth would trail it.

Yeah exactly, we can only speculate, rather than claiming definitively that it's one or the other.

(I do think that, if Linux was the more popular option, and folks would notice that most of the things they're running under Wine, that would remove one reason for them not to switch to Windows. But yes, it will also be reason for others to stay on Linux.)

Growing on Windows 11 is not helping promote freedom from proprietary software

I mean, it might. It could very well be a stepping stone to full Linux.

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Potverdikke ik ben er weer ingetrapt. Dit veel te lang zitten kijken, maar die vent is natuurlijk gewoon een boosmakertje, zonde van de tijd.

Gottem.

It says that referring to this source, but none of it refers to any particular athleticism, just that it was "flying low".

Appears to be a mistake, but needs gorhill to appeal to make the reviewer aware of the mistake and to be able to fix it, which he doesn't feel like doing because he thinks it's unlikely to have been a mistake.

Update: now reversed, but gorhill removed it himself just to not have to deal with the review process and the possibility of human error anymore.

If TypeScript still is a fad at this point, his definition of fad is far lengthier than mine is.

I'm fairly sure TypeScript will remain in popular use longer than whatever project you're working on 😅

They've committed to not changing any displayed text ("strings"), so that translators have time to translate everything.

I'll always upvote StreetComplete.

This sounds exactly like the type of nontechnical nonsense they're complaining about: attacking a strawman ("they're trying to prevent people from refactoring C code and making them rewrite everything in the current fancy language") even after explicitly calling out that that was not going to happen ("and to reiterate, no one is trying force anyone else to learn Rust nor prevent refactorings of C code").

Is the joke that nobody knows what it says on the blackboard?

I'm glad I live in a place where this would give you almost no info.

Because there's more than two options.

It's a good thing we're no longer this narrow-minded, right? Right?

I mean, it'll be harder to search for "burger" on my supermarket's website to find vegetarian alternatives to burgers. They'll get more expensive because they have to relabel things. And my EP representatives have to waste their time on this instead of important issues.

As a child it's so hard to know what is actually bad and what your parents don't really care about.

Honestly the biggest takeaway for me is that apparently, they talk like this in private as well. In other words, they do seem to actually believe what they say. Or at least believe that they have to keep up appearances to each other.

I think "You do now." probably works better than "Now you have one!" It feels more threatening.

(Disclaimer: I'm a native speaker or neither English nor Spanish.)

That person in the audience was really grinding my gears. Just let the folks you're talking to answer you; no need to keep going on your diatribe when it's based on a false assumption and waste the whole room's time.