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Your non-engineers shouldn't have to understand or use git. If they do there's an org or process problem.

Git is not that complicated. If you can't grok git I am seriously concerned about your ability to be an effective software engineer.

Edit: I had assumed the OP was one of the many people I have met who have a Tech Lead title but are not really very technical due to the grandiose request to deprecate checkout. But looking into the blog more I realize that instead the author is more new in their career and I don't mean to be as harsh to someone in that position. Instead to them I would say; when you encoutner something established you don't understand, take it as an opportunity to learn. Git isn't beyond you, it won't take as long to fully understand as you think.

What's hard to grasp is how you think this applies to a discussion about differing facts based on political leaning. Nobody disagrees with the facts here, only on what should be done going forward. So, not really relevant to the discussion.

How? Whether it should remain illegal is not a factual question. You are being deliberately obtuse to avoid admitting you are wrong.

Nobody disagrees whether it is illegal. Whether it should stay illegal is the thing people disagree on.

What about them? That they exist? No one disputes that. That illegal immigrants cause crime? We have hard data on that; it's not true. That they are a drain on society via social programs? We have data on that too; they get taxes witheld but cannot claim refunds and cannot enroll in social benefit programs due to their lack of SSN.

On any topic you want to pick it's typically the radical right wing who have their fingers in their ears.

Bill Gates is not some great thinker. He was born on third base and in the right place at the right time, and then absolutely ruthless once Microsoft had power in the industry. As a thought leader he is extremely mediocre.

Only by insane american portion sizes. It's normal for an italian restaurant. And it's plenty of food.

They aren't using the same water for a week. The GP comment is nonsense.

You're missing the nuance that while they are invented they are used in real ways and cause real effects. That's what I tried to point out to you in my original response. So your assertion that it's either they are based on nothing or people can say it matters is a false dichotomy. They are invented but also the have been used throughout history to segregate people and cause peope to have differing life experiences. So it's not unjustified for someone to say their race has a lot of impact on their personal life experience and thus identity.

I don't follow your logic. We have separation of church and state. Having religious symbols displayed by publicly funded schools violates that principle and favors the displayed religion(s). Protecting everyone's right to religious freedom requires not favoring any specific religions. This is pro first amendment.

An LGBT flag is a symbol of support for people who are not cis and straight. It is not a religious symbol. It is not infringing on any individual's right to practice their own religion. This is pro first amendment.

Banning burqas is oppressing muslim students' right to practice their religion, and is anti first amendment.

Definitely a case for the Futurama "I'm shocked" meme. OpenAI has a lot of talented people that work there but it's clear @sama only cares about chasing the biggest possible payday and nothing else means anything.

This is a link to an editorial by John Gruber, so not necessarily the same discussion.

The same logic can be used to justify all kinds of awful stuff though. From putting a scantily dressed woman in the thumbnail to just straight up lying in the video to blow people's minds. You have to draw the line somewhere because you just don't want to do crappy things, unless you're a narcissist and/or sociopath.

I obviously wasn't doing an actual appeal to authority. I'm anonymous on here, so it would hold no weight even if it wasn't a poor argument. I was just being snarky because the ignorant objections are so very stupid.

I didn't argue big tech isn't doing user capture. I pointed out webauthn is a standard and does not necessitate getting into bed with "big tech".

This is an extremely bad take. Webauthn and Passkeys do not necessitate handing over control to "big tech". They are standards implemented by open source projects as well as megacorps. Webauthn offers substantially better security than passwords, which we should all be moving away from by now.

Disclaimer; I work in security so my opinions are informed by actually knowing what I'm talking about.

The nostalgia based belief that "things were better before" is generally not supported by the facts. Cars in the past were much less reliable than they are today. This goes for most consumer products. That doesn't mean there aren't problems today that should be addressed, but the golden times of the past are largely imaginary.

Well luckily we don't have to go on vibes and there's data that shows modern cars last longer than older ones, on average.

The body panels are more and more often plastic or aluminum these days. There's still often steel in the suspension and subframe, though.

The point of the article, though, is lots of people still spread FUD a out EV batteries and the data we have shows that batteries are not a problem. They last longer than transmissions and engines on average.

ICE engines and transmissions are the same way. And batteries are proving to last way longer on average with no regular maintenance needed. In Norway there are already many dedicated EV repair shops and more and more are popping up in the US.

I played the preview of Glitch and it really wasn't much of a game. But the chat was good. I told them as much, as others probably did as well.

Does everyone else have access to the data mining that Google has on every Chrome and Android user? Does every other company have unfettered access to Google Maps without providing identifying data? Does every other company have the ability to utilize Youtube vidoes as they wish?

You are comparing Apple's primary product/service against a throwaway part of Google's. Google has walled gardens around its primary business too. But they are so deeply ingrained into our world that nobody questions it, because there's also no viable competitors.

Why the legal focus on Apple when Android devices are much more popular and Google and other providers have plenty of locked features?

Yeah you can dispute them but it's by no means guaranteed and it can cause further problems. You certainly would not dispute them in the case mentioned by the GP poster. So bringing up disputes is just muddying the waters.

Refusing chargebacks and not issuing refunds are two very different things with distinct language. And if you don't issue refunds for a case like the GP described, where thousands of customers were incorrectly billed, you certainly would be flooded with chargebacks and likely put your merchant account in jeopardy. (Most of the big processors would close your account if they get evidence you are fraudulently billing customers and actively resisting making it right.)

It's clearly a made up story by someone with no experience actually managing credit card payments for a real business.

This is not a true story because as a merchant you cannot "refuse chargebacks". In fact too many chargebacks will result in a loss of your merchant account. You should really stop making things up.

We are now in the midst of a multi-year, industry wide wage fixing effort. I hope people speak with as much fervor about the CEOs currently trying to suppress wages as they do about Jobs.

Yeah but having the water hit the grounds at the right temperature is what separates a great machine from an average machine. Yours doesn't do that. Congratz on everything you've done so far but I am your target customer and won't consider a machine that doesn't also manage the water temperature.

Sorry to be pedantic but there are cars on the road where the voltages go below even 300 and the Lucid Air Grand Touring is over 900 when it gets near full. So chargers actually need to be able to handle more like 200-1000.

Yeah the V2s are also slow enough most people wouldn't want to use them anyway. They are already drastically outnumbered too.

This is not at all accurate. There have only ever been 3 DC Fast Charging connectors in use in North America. CCS1, Tesla's and Chademo. Chademo was only really used on a couple of cars and most popularly on the Nissan Leaf. Chademo is effectively dead in the US. Which leaves CCS1 and Tesla/NACS/J3400 (which is all the same thing.) All manufacturers are migrating to Tesla's plug. This will take time as it's not a trivial change. Any EV driver is well served to carry an adapter, but it's not totally necessary. My BMW EV does not have accesd to Tesla's supercharging network (so no need for an adapter) and I have driven over 50k miles in the last 18 months on road trips all over the US.

Please stop spreading misinformation.