At work I use Macs because they run all the MS Office stuff, I don't have to buy them, they make the IT people happy, and I have a nice zsh prompt and can get stuff done using sudo if I need.

At home I have a Windows computer, mainly to play games and for reverse engineering work.

The main computers I use personally at home are a pair of Linux laptops, so my answer is Linux.

User: Hey, AI! How can I tell git to ignore a file?

AI: A special file will allow you to do that. But first, this answer was made possible by Squarespace. Squarespace is the absolute easiest way to make your website. My users have used them for a few sites and found that it takes about 15 minutes to throw together a landing page. It was incredibly easy with the Squarespace template and it looks great. You can really create a landing page like this, a blog, a store, really anything with Sqaurespace and what's best is that you can get 10% off your first order by using the code "ai" over at squarespace.com. Create a file called gitignore in the directory and add the file you want to ignore.

User: Just gitignore? That's not working.

AI: The file has a special name. Just like Raid Shadow Legends, one of the biggest mobile role-playing games that's also totally free! ...

You will live on St. Mary's Street and you will be happy.

I think we are always glad to save developers from doing actual work. Oh, I have to enter my phone number without any dashes because that breaks your web form? I am soooooo sorry! I eagerly await the day all the signs just have QR codes on them that are subsequently hijacked to point to malware downloads. Good times just around the bend.

That's very helpful. As opposed to "Switzerland" I might mention for my US peeps that the total power production for TVA, the largest power producer in the United States, is 34 GW, so this is about the same. Source: https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.eia.gov%2Ftodayinene...

I am a worrier. I worry about being hit with IP violations. I worry about correctness in context, which isn't something that is easy to convey to an AI (context, that is). Since I'm responsible for the code I write and any harm it may cause, I worry. Requirements are never complete or even consistent, so the act of developing code is itself a form of requirements analysis that an AI doesn't understand (yet).

On the other hand, writing code with an AI is probably easier, so I'm in.

Pff. I live in the United States of America! Our Congress can certainly do better than that. I bet we can get that number down to 8 years old. It's like golf, right?
  Lower is better? USA! USA!!!

I hope there is a sudden break in the middle of the movie when Strong Bad reads and reacts to his email.

How angry are you about the lack of Cowboy Neal options on recent polls? Options: Furious, Blindingly Furious, I am Cowboy Neal.

So... are you telling me to go outside and touch some grass?

You don't need to worry. There is no way Facebook would sell data to, say, Oklahoma or Texas about your appointment in another state with an abortion provider. Just to give one very specific example of what would never, ever happen. Never.

The same thing is true for your kids' data. No way they would store that information, blaming it on a system that was “not yet operating with complete accuracy,” and then sell that data. Accidentally. Everybody makes mistakes, but not Facebook!

Also inadvertently leaking appointment data that might be used by abusers to find their victims? Simply impossible. Computers are super-duper secure, dummy.

Googled⦠and this was apparently posted last night and is soooo on point it is almost physically painful. https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fyoutu.be%2Fxqf-vKXPLN4

You know what makes it hard to land people on the Moon and then return them safely to Earth? Not having money or a high-tech industry, and being in the middle of a massive technology "brain drain."

The problem with this (eventually taking Ukraine) is that Russia then has the much, much, *much* harder problem of *holding* the country. It takes many times more troops and material and *money* to hold the country than it does to seize it... and they haven't shown that they can seize it. And ethnic Russians in Ukraine seem to be turning against them, so there may be no friendly population center to help.

An issue for selling more Russian oil and gas to China and the east is that, as I understand it, there are no pipelines or other means to carry oil and gas from the fields in the west that supply Europe across the country to the east so they can sell it to China, and building a pipeline would take a decade and cost money Russia isn't going to have. Shipping the oil is also complicated by the sanctions regime.