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Counterpoint: some people eat food so covered in spices/herbs/etc. they lose the ability to taste more subtle flavours.

Fyi, it's "no holds barred" as in no type of hold is disallowed. "no holes barred" is a decidedly different sort of event

Now that's an explanation I can get behind. Also, I now want fajitas.

I've seen such things (though not Apple presentations) and don't recall ever hearing the term sizzle reel.

When and in which context would I have heard this?

I've been in IT for a couple decades at this point. I stopped doing almost any swlf-hosted stuff years ago as I just don't have the time or energy to deal with things. There's a lot to keep up on with technologies, security, etc. not to mention all the constants of keeping things up-to-date, back-ups, troubleshooting issues, and more

The fuck is a "sizzle reel". I mean, I get what it probably is from context, but who comes up with this shit

VB apps running on IIS is up there; I'm happy to never deal with either again. This was pre-dot-net.

Early 2000s doing tech support in a house-built ticketing+crm system that heavily abused things in JS.

Speaking of tech support, all manner of software mentioned here already.

I spent a ton of time working in healthcare IT and there's all kinds of janky mess there. One was a house-built Perl script to handle certain things. It was like 15k lines (and before you blame Perl, we had a Java class that was over 30k IIRC). Never allowed to rewrite it because of how mission-critical it was, yet there were still bugs with it. Healthcare IT in the US tends to have lots of jank, especially the small clinics that had to start by doing everything they could with what they had.

I don't want to leave my current job, but they make us all use Mac (Apple Silicon) for software engineering and I hate it. Nothing works the way I expect, it's not consistent between apps, certain ML tools we use won't work on it (mostly because not x86 arch), etc.

Lots of things are really bad with UTF-8. In Japan, lots of things still use SHIFT_JIS (or CP932 which expands on it), with some companies still using EUC_JP. I think MS application (Excel, etc.) all default to CP932 output instead of UTF-8.

I use an external mouse and keyboard and I still hate it. Went from Windows and Linux (I'm fine with either and mostly just use Windows for gaming these days), to Mac for the first time in 20 years. They refuse to give us linux machines for those that want them.

I have to use a mac for work and haaaaaaaaaaaaaate it. 20+ years of muscle memory just does all the wrong things (lookin' at you, home key). Stuff is so inconsistent between various applications (terminal, for instance), and esepecially our ML repos won't work on them. I have lost so many hours to just not being allowed to use linux, it's frightening. I used to have an iPhone and it was quite neat and easy-to-use when it came out, but I find the desktop experience nightmarish.

Also, it being ARM and not x86 has caused fun headaches with installing some things.

Well, now that software is back in my memory again. cries