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pauldbourkeon Gemini can't show me the fastest way to copy memory in C# because it's unethical

It flat out refused to give me openssl commands to generate self signed certificates which I found very surprising.

"The music and tech industries are at a juncture, and it’s time that we as workers have a seat at the table to weigh in on the challenges and opportunities of this moment."

Can someone explain this in plain english?

pauldbourkeon Exceptions for control flow considered perfectly acceptable

I was going to do a post rebuking the points made, but rather unsurprisingly it seems plenty of others already have done so, in a manner much less arrogant than OP's.

http://www.javaspecialists.eu/archive/Issue187.html and http://onjava.com/pub/a/onjava/2003/11/19/exceptions.html?pa... are two well written sources of many that Google turned up on the subject.

pauldbourkeon Flickr Has the Opportunity to Become the Next Flickr

Here you go: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.bourke.gli... (though Android not iOS)