The best manual in the world doesn't help me if the things I need every two minutes in my workflow take three times as many steps as in the software that I'm used to. Sure I can learn how to do it but it's still annoying - knowing that there's a better way to do it - and over the course of a month of using the tool, my productivity loss is probably enough to just pay for a proprietary tool.
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OpenSCAD has pretty nice UX (though massively outdated UI look & feel) but of course describing your part in code is a very different use case from most other CAD tools.
Software for a medical device. Everything needs to be done exactly right and documented in three different places or else the regulatory agencies from at least three countries get really angry at you and worst case pull your device from circulation. Less cowardice and more cover your ass. Still annoying though.
Linke Variante für Sith, rechte Variante für Jedi.
You would think so, right? But that doesn't have a requirement ID so apparently it can't be referenced in the incident report.
I mean, technically, there are pretty good frontends for gdb, for example in VS Code and CLion but I guess if you use them, you're a corporate shill or something because they are backed by companies and contain code that isn't licensed under (A)GPLv3.
What's the most expensive thing (or service) that you've ever bought even though you technically didn't need it?
What a coincidence. I'm saving up for a house and would like to eventually take my freelance software business full time but right now, being able to support my partner who can't work a regular job because of severe social anxiety is more important to me. Also, I've never tried drugs or even smoked and don't own a car.
All jokes aside (even though everything in that paragraph is true), really solid answer. Says a lot about your personal values.
Hey, don't say the quiet part out loud!
If you were forced to give one million dollars to a stranger of your choice, what would be your criteria to pick that person?
On the other hand, we got an absolutely precious scene where the one party member who wasn’t magic-affine and didn’t want to be involved with any supernatural stuff had to ride an unnaturally fast six-legged half-demon horse in order to catch up with the bad guys.
Ardo still thinks that we should just leave this whole mess to the sun god's holy inquisition and get the fuck out of town, thank you very much.
And to clarify, I'm not talking about "Why is this function in a different menu than what I'm used to" but "Why does GPlates require me to export my continent coordinates into a text file, copy a line in that file by hand, give that copy a new ID, make sure I made no syntax errors, re-import the text file and then edit the shape of both copies just to split a continent in two halves?" I know how to do that, it's not too hard to learn. But if there was a knife tool or at least working copy and paste, I could reduce that task from minutes to seconds.