parens

parens , 4 months ago to The Onion in Left-Wing Group Too Disorganized For FBI Agents To Infiltrate

Is this even satire? It's true

parens , 4 months ago to Web Development in Open Letter to Tim Cook: Sabotaging Web Apps Is Indefensible

Apple should be called Malus, honestly. It's the Latin designation for "common apple" and sounds evil: exactly what Apple is.

parens , 4 months ago to Web Development in Open Letter to Tim Cook: Sabotaging Web Apps Is Indefensible

And if you're European, participate in the elections in June to get more parties into the EU bodies that will take legislative action against companies like Apple. The EU is the reason Apple is even attempting this silliness because Apple was designated a gatekeeper in the Digital Markets Act: one of the great EU acts for consumers.

parens OP , 4 months ago to CSCareerQuestions in Has anybody been recruited "automatically"?

I've had multiple responses asking to take a test before any call or interview. A fair bit, actually. Only agreed to it once and won't do it again either, but in this economy, it wouldn't surprise me if desperation drove people to just do it.

parens , 6 months ago to Nix / NixOS in Flakes aren't real and cannot hurt you: a guide to using Nix flakes the non-flake way

Flakes are optional

I think the bigger point is that they are experimental. Who wants to go into production with experimental stuff? Unfortunately, if my employer were to read a suggestion of using experimental stuff in production, it would be immediately rejected.
nix itself, however, has been getting some people interested at work and if things go well, might be integrated into production solutions we sell to customers.