so many conversation about discord/slack/$currentThing vs IRC end up repeating the "why Dropbox when you can rsync" meme

There are countries outside of the united states, and checks are pretty much extinct in many countries

it's smaller than most other websites and for me on a 1080p display top level comments don't wrap until ~200 characters at the default zoom level which makes it even worse

edit: also for me the font size is set to 12, not 14

the "natural scroll direction" is shared for mice and the trackpad, so you can't have mice and the trackpad scroll different without third party software

for some reason apple think that the backslash and backtick keys are the opposite of what they actually are on british pc keyboards

Interestingly I've had the same experience with firefox, I keep it installed as a fallback if something isn't working in chrome but every time I (infrequently) use it I have to dismiss several popups about new features and how to switch to it as my primary browser/import history etc.

I think I saw this too with firefox. My memory is a little hazy on this detail, but the _critical_ difference with firefox is that ctrl+t let me open a new tab and leave the sync-a-nag alone. Edge did not allow that, and I actually hat to wait while it was "Working on it".

This resonates so hard. I really wish that SW stop assuming that if they are just installed, then the user is a complete ignoramus who needs to be educated and onboarded. I (for reasons) frequently install OSes from scratch and all the boilerplate is so tedious.

even worse, Mozilla has begun using startup as an opportunity to deliver VPN advertisements.

Which is exactly the point, it's a leetcode question that tests whether you've memorised a bunch of leetcode interview questions

> classic backtracking problem

Literally in the parent post.

> Backtracking is extremely important in today’s software interviews and almost always comes up in some form.

From TFA. Even the article struggles to explain how this is useful outside similar leetcode questions. Yes, backtracking is sometimes a useful approach for some real-life programming problems but leetcode questions neither test for the ability to recognize backtracking problems nor the general ability to solve them.

you're supposed to be able to come up with the solution by yourself