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This is a good point. He's not a bad guy. He's just not very technical, and sometimes that's frustrating.

The biggest ones I've seen are 1.2GB.

Why this company uses gigabyte CSVs is a separate problem.

(Also sometimes they want to compare a CSV to what's in a database, which the script can also do but I didn't mention in the post)

One time at work I was tasked with writing a python script to compare two data sources. Like, you give it two CSVs and a primary key, and it tells you what data is in one but not the other, or mismatched, and so on. This worked fine and was in git, so anyone can use it.

My boss then asks if I can "put it on a website so anyone can use it".

This team has never done web development. Nothing for that is set up. Like, I could spin up a quick Django app or similar, but there's a lot of stuff to do and potentially fuck up.

I said "that sounds like a lot of research and ongoing maintenance costs. I think it'd be better to just check out and run the script"

Luckily for me he said "oh, okay"

There's really no way I'm buying a PlayStation exclusive. Even if someone gave me a PlayStation for free, I'd hesitate.

Meh. Is it still going to have "you're not high enough level to wear these pants" nonsense? Care more about that than cinematics.

Some are DRM free and can be backed up at your leisure. I'm pretty sure that's up to the developer to implement or not.

It would be neat if steam let you sell a game back, but I'm not sure how to square that with "you have a drm free copy that's trivial to copy"

Probably. They could have used their wealth for anything but they're like dragons. Do you mourn for dragons in stories of knights slaying them?

I don't believe you. As they say, no one on the Internet knows you're a dog.

Well, at the top of the hierarchy is probably capitalism. That's largely why the climate is changing, why I don't have a good job, why I need a good job to live a decent life, and so on.

More immediately, my water glass is empty but my cat is sleeping on my chest. I'm thirsty but Mr Meows is so content.

It's just emotional chum for the right wing to stay frothy at the out-group. Even though many of them would benefit from DSA or further left policies, they're drunk on group identity. (See also: every right wing accusation is a confession, "identity politics")

More of an inference that an assumption, really. But go on. Did you read the article? Do you have any expertise on the subject?

Because it doesn't seem like you've read the article nor have any real expertise in education, but you're making grand pronouncements anyway.

"People learn in different ways" may be true, but is irrelevant to the point that some ways of teaching reading are ineffective or even counter-productive