This is the point that I keep coming back to; imagine if the anorexia craze back in the 80s and 90s had been treated with 'affirmative care.'

"Oh, sweetie, yes you ARE fat! HUGE! Lets get you some ozempic right away, and schedule your middle surgery. No, we don't have to tell your parents, sweetie, but if they find out and object, we'll just tell them that you'll kill yourself without this treatment to affirm your belief that you're disgustingly fat."

What an odd take to say that the first Matrix movie wasn't 'woke' when it was clearly and explicitly a metaphor for gender transition.

There's a reason that both Neo and Trinity are androgynous. There's a reason they're being chased down by literal personifications of conformity.

The only way they could have made it more explicit was the original plan to have Switch be one gender in the real world, and a different gender in the Matrix, instead of just also androgynous.

My dude, you have violated Wheaton's Law.

Don't be a dick.

I have fond memories of Activision being weirdly proud of builiding memory management into the game engine for Heavy Gear 2 instead of just crashing to desktop, and it being somehow revelatory and revolutionary.

At the heart of this engine was a rock-solid memory management and leak-tracking class. Yes, that's right. Before anyone ever dreamed of fancy graphics or stunning game play, we had to deal with this mundane task. Every C++ class and structure used by the Darkside engine had roots within this base class. This architecture allowed to us to detect memory leaks and overwrites as soon as they appeared in a given day's build, which allowed us to address problems immediately rather than during a grueling cycle at the end of the project. I cannot stress the importance of this type of planning and execution enough for teams who want to craft a state-of-the-art game engine. Focusing on the reliability of the application will also greatly increase the immersion factor of any game that's created with it. After all, what destroys immersion more than a hard system crash? Hats off to our lead who took us down this path.

Also, I miss the days of this kind of open-the-robe post mortem.

And here I was thinking it was the practical application of a rather new technology, Radar, that warned the RAF fighters suddenly long before the German planes crossed the channel to do their attacking. Instead of reacting close-by or over Britain, now a lot of battles could already play out over the Channel. And it is also a lot easier to planes around when and where they are actually needed. That increases the success rate of defending airspace tremendously.

What's all this then? Radar? No such thing, chap, we just give our costal watchmen more carrots, turns out vitamin A does wonders for eyesight, what? Anyway, why don't you come with these friendly military police and we'll get this all straightened out, there's a good lad.

That's why it's called an extradition request, not an extradition order.

Extradition orders have historically been delivered by the US military; just ask Manuel Noriega and Saddam Hussein.

various Microsoft tools - such as the setup programs for SQL Server Management Studio - like to lock out the Explorer window

I've not observed that behavior in a long time...and as it happens, Winget is upgrading SSMS as I type this. Everything else continues to work as normal while it does its thing.