It is a text parsing bug, plain and simple, unless you want to argue that an ampersand isn't valid text and should never be used in text messages, which is incredibly stupid if so. Only an idiot would call this a feature.

The whole reason they block that kind of thing to begin with is basically to work around the fact that the software that underlies apple products is dogshit. There are right ways and wrong ways to things. Blocking a commonly used symbol in everyday text because you're infamously bad at parsing text in ways that really break shit is, without question, the wrong way. The fact that you can't use a commonly used symbol is yet more proof that apple products are way more about form than function. Ampersands just aren't "hip" enough, so guess what? iFans can't use them.

Tell us again how you can consume an insane excess of calories compared to your natural burn rate and not have your body do what it is biologically programmed to do: store said calories? Oh and limit your answer to those which don't include taking drugs.

It annoys me most laptops don't have serial ports anymore. Yeah, they make USB adapters, but if you work with console equipment a lot the adapters are a PITA.

An admission that a piece of your childhood was missed? Like seriously I didn't know anyone in the world doesn't know Uno.

My kids and I made our own version of Uno. You can definitely stack action cards in our game. Watch out for that Draw 16 card and a bunch of others the kids made up.

There are a number of places that will print custom playing cards. A little graphics work and some imagination can go a long way.

Because Apple realises that across the board small price increases are easier for consumers to swallow then the just passing all costs onto a subset of consumers. We're already seeing that. Xbox prices went up 100EUR in Europe as Microsoft decided to just raise them globally partially to offset tariffs, partially because they are greedy fucks who want to make all the money.

The reality is the rest of the world already pays a price set arbitrarily by an American company. $999USD = 885EUR, but the iPhone 16 Pro 128GB sells for 1230EUR here. Yes tax is in there, but take out the sales tax and you're at 1016EUR. which is still over 100EUR more than the USA price.

Jesus Christ, are you bored or is you wife. Sex isn't just penetrate, cum and pass out man. You should make an entire evening of it.

A good part of love is respecting each other and sharing interests. And if you don't think BDSM involves this, then I can only conclude that everything you know about sex you got from nasty porn. You should fix that problem first.

That is the most rote and repetitive AI-drivel I've ever seen on Slashdot... the "+5" rating is icing on the cake.

All superhero movies are overrated on IMDB.

Ding Ding Ding!

The correct answer.

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To add to this, every time I see the work done by software mills (think Infosys, deloitte, pricewaterhouse coopers, etc) it has only ever been slightly better than utter dog shit. And I say slightly because it at least does the job, but barely. It's unmaintainable as hell, and rarely uses any concept beyond if/else and for loops.

Honestly, chatgpt does actually come up with better (at least, conceptually, because it doesn't always work) shit than what those companies and the kind of people they hire end up producing. Wouldn't surprise me if Amazon only hires those kind of coders.

Putting those guys out of a job could well do the rest of us a favor. Then again, the first time I cut my teeth on software development (long before I ever even considered myself to be a developer) was fixing somebody else's shitty java code. Shit, it was probably written by slashdot's own angle of sphere. Work like his comes at a steep discount, but you get what you pay for.

Nah we just aggressively tease and ostracize everyone wearing glasses. "Shut up four eyes", "Get lost poindexter", "love the glasses, anything covers some of face is win"... and so on.

It will be while before affordable AR contact lenses products exist. That should buy us a decade at least.

God-bothering won't save you.

He's upset because Trump raised the price of his meds, and he can't figure out how to blame that on the libs.