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by CodeMage 6mo ago
The "not having children" part of the comment was clearly marked as a footnote attached to the quote about how children are "easily produced".
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by CodeMage 7mo ago
Thanks. I don't actually have an iPhone, so my freshly acquired "knowledge" of this was based on reading about it on the Internet and I misunderstood what I read.
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by CodeMage 7mo ago
I just learned about this, too. It turns out that in the US, being an iPhone user is cool and being an Android user is lame, and you can tell who's who in group chats, because the messages that go over iMessage are represented with blu
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by CodeMage 7mo ago
> If state-level spy agencies wanted to spy on someone's porn habits, they do not need to kindly ask Discord to collect that person's ID. The first time I ever had a conversation about privacy concerns with anyone was around 19
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by CodeMage 7mo ago
Every time I hear an argument like this one, it's always phrased in terms of "the government is greedy and/or incompetent, therefore taxes are bad" and never in terms of "the government is greedy and/or incom
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by CodeMage 7mo ago
Except that a company, no matter how heterogenous, has an overarching organization, whereas the open-source community doesn't. There is no CEO of open source, there are no open-source shareholders, there are no open-source quarterly ea
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by CodeMage 8mo ago
It does, but what does that say about the state of communication in our industry? I've seen a lot of writing that reads like an AI produced it in contexts where I could be pretty sure no AI was involved. We want to sound professional,
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by CodeMage 8mo ago
Yeah, people do seem to think that em dashes are an indicator of GenAI. I have been accused of using AI to write my posts on a forum, precisely because of em dashes. That's how I found out about that particular sniff test people use. H
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by CodeMage 8mo ago
Getting rid of malware is good. A private for-profit company exercising its power over the Internet, not so much. We should have appropriate organizations for this.
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by CodeMage 8mo ago
As GP pointed out, "hero" is a word with overloaded semantics. I think Adams was using different semantics for different occurrences of "hero" in that phrase. Arthur Dent has a "heroism", as in a kind of courag
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by CodeMage 8mo ago
> I've often dreamed of a system where normal users, give money as a promotion for a certain issue to be fixed or even created It might be good to have such a system as an option, but I wouldn't want it to become an expectation
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by CodeMage 8mo ago
> Every place where the marketing types are making us take on dev workloads has always deprioritized bugs. My point is that they will continue to do so no matter how easy it is to fix bugs. It's a people problem, not a tech problem.
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by CodeMage 8mo ago
One of my favorite details about Neal Stephenson's "Snow Crash" is the name he chose for his main character: Hiro Protagonist. It's not just a lovely bit of wordplay, it immediately makes you think about whether the prot
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by CodeMage 8mo ago
"We can fix it later" is not the staple of Marketing Driven Development. It's not why Windows has been getting more user-hostile and invasive, why its user experience has been getting worse and worse. Enshittification is not
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by CodeMage 8mo ago
I've lost count of people who have read Tolkien's work and never dug deeper than "cool fantasy story" level. I was no different when I read the Lord of the Rings as a teenager. Unlike C. S. Lewis, Tolkien does not shove
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by CodeMage 8mo ago
Quis custodiet ipsos custodes? If all ICE did was deport immigrants, following the established laws and procedures, I would agree with you. As it stands, ICE is more evil, because they are abusing power and breaking laws they are supposed t
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by CodeMage 8mo ago
> There's a lot of thinking that Congress won't allow Trump to withdraw from NATO I wonder how that is supposed to work when the Executive branch has proven they can do whatever they want regardless of the other two branches. T
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by CodeMage 9mo ago
> Then I thought "why not just remove the borrow checker?" without any real motivation. Reminds me of a chemistry kit I had as a kid. None of this tame, safe stuff you can buy these days. Mine was a gift from my dad and I never
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by CodeMage 9mo ago
Yes, and I agree with that. But my reply was to a comment that seemed to dispute that idea and imply that if you wanted to stop growing at some point, then you should shift to academia. That said, there is an expectation of unlimited growth
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by CodeMage 9mo ago
FWIW, I'm starting to seriously consider this as a strategy that will allow me to get to retirement without completely messing up my health due to stress and burnout. That said, there's something deeply wrong with our industry if
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by CodeMage 9mo ago
What makes this whole thing worse is the concept of "non-terminal" levels, i.e. levels that you're not allowed to stay at indefinitely, which means that you must either get promoted or fired. I can understand not wanting to l
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by CodeMage 10mo ago
First, let me make one thing clear: my comment was in no way meant to be a substitute for reading the post. I was not writing some kind of a review for people to decide whether they should read the post, or presenting a summary. I was comme
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by CodeMage 10mo ago
From the post: "The middle manager that doesn't perform any useful work is a fun stereotype, but I also think it's a good target to aim for." This is the kind of argument that makes people come up with middle manager ste
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by CodeMage 10mo ago
Do arguments even matter when the article is clearly clickbait? If the title is not enough to identify it as clickbait, the first 4 paragraphs make it clear, with the whole "imprinting" bit. My first programming language was BASIC
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by CodeMage 10mo ago
Now it does. It didn't when the original comment was made.
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by CodeMage 10mo ago
The vast majority of users want their apps to work. They don't care whether that happens through automatic updates or not. It's the developers who don't want the headache of not having automatic updates.
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by CodeMage 11mo ago
Would you say cocaine makes those people happy?
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by CodeMage 11mo ago
Yes. Most gas stations in the US are self-serve, with screens and buttons next to them. Some are even switching to touch screens. And now some of those screens display ads while you're fueling your car. Hell, some even have sound and i
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by CodeMage 1y ago
> You went to university [...] > by your decision you computed that this decision was worth it > The only thing that you need to complain about > you did a wrong calculation Is that a general "you" or are you replying
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by CodeMage 1y ago
> And don’t try to convince me that a Java developer from India possesses skills that our university graduates don’t. Skills? Not necessarily, but there's something a lot of immigrants possess that your university graduates don&#x27

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