He streamed himself playing PoE2 on a plane, listening to his ex-wife’s music, as hundreds of people messaged him saying he’s going to die alone and he deserves it. He just sat there in silence

Oh, and he was repeatedly dying to the first boss and trying to block people one by one, but any actual gamer would know you can just hide the chat

I think this was after the Michigan supreme Court race failure. If he was anyone else that would have been the saddest shit, but I’d love to see if he can drill deeper than rock bottom

So I should suffer just to suffer? You listed a whole lot of things that they hire people to do just about as soon as they can so they can. And offloading that let’s them do their actual job better

I work with black boxes all the time. When I have a black box, I poke and prod it until I understand how to make it do what I want. And this particular black box was interesting, so I decided to open it up and learn how it works

That’s the essence of software development. My job is not typing or data entry, my job is to trick a rock into doing things humans don’t want to do

I’ve been doing it for more than a decade without help, I’m not any better at spelling or misclicks

And to be clear, I can do it - I just really, really don’t want to. I hate it so much, my eyes glaze over and I have to force myself every second of the way. It’s not interesting, there’s no puzzles involved… It’s basically data entry

No, it’s all different - like a normal use case is “write me a stored procedure to optionally update all fields on a row on this table” or “given the following json response, build a class to parse it into”

We have a ridiculous database and multiple new api’s to integrate with every year, so this comes up a lot

I use it so much. All my Google searches for syntax or snippets? Web searches are unuseable at this point, AI can spit it out faster. But the real savings? Repetitive code. I suck at it, I always make typos and it’s draining. I just toss in a table or an api response and tell it what I want and boom

It probably does write 75% of my code by lines, but maybe 5% of the business logic is AI (sometimes I just let it take a crack at a problem, but usually if I have to type it out I might as well code it)

What it’s good at drains my concentration, so doing the grunt work for me is a real force multiplier. I don’t even use it every day, but it might be a 3x multiplier for me and could improve

But here’s the thing - programmers are not replaceable. Not by other humans, not by AI - you learn hyper specific things about what you work on

It’ll be a bit late then.

I know how compliance works, and this is setting off all my alarm bells, and the EFF and privacy community agrees… This has truly horrifying implications

If you’re going to let human rights be further erroded because it came in a pretty explanation, not much I can do. But when the next patriot act comes back to bite us, remember one thing… When they say it’s about the children, it never is

That’s what they say it does. What it really does is make sites responsible for “harmful content” shown to minors

It’s all completely vague. You say it just affects the kids mode accounts… The bill doesn’t say anything about that. It doesn’t provide any guidance on how to properly comply, just like the porn id laws.

You can’t assume the government is going to use this for what they say they will. You have to look at what this would let them do as written

Ultimately, this gives the government censorship powers over what is allowed in the “open” Internet, and to IDs users in the “adult” Internet

Because that’s not what this is. It’s just like the porn site laws

How does a site comply? Maybe they use AI to look at your face, maybe they have you send in your license. The law isn’t clear what’s enough to prove it.

How long until third parties step up? Nice convenient orgs that can sell the collected data that can guarantee compliance, because they sell the data to the government directly. Or even first parties… Facebook and Google are happy to sell this kind of info on their users

This isn’t about protecting kids, it’s about identifying users. What they say this is for is good, what the laws actually do is far removed from that

Do not ask people how to do this. If you don’t know from a web search, you shouldn’t try this without backing up a full disk image and understanding how to roll it back. Or at least backing up everything you care about

It’s not a particularly hard thing, but it’s a very irreversible one

You cannot join hands with fascists. Ever. For any reason. It’s a completely braindead move, look at history

Joining hands with fascists is empowering them and volunteering yourself as the next enemy. They’ll turn on you long before they finish with their current enemy

What I mean to say is the recycling isn’t possible. It just never worked, from the beginning the best they could do is add a little old plastic to the new plastic… You never end up with the same amount of plastic though, you always end up with way more plastic

Limiting plastic on the other hand? That’s doable, we can’t start soon enough

It wouldn’t. It’s like banning decomposition… Good fucking luck, you can play with it a little, but ultimately it’s just not possible

Yes. Literally brain dead.

When you collaborate with fascists, it always goes one way. They use you, then they turn on you. Every single time.

They must always be the victims. There must always be new enemies. If you join hands with fascists, you’re just empowering them and volunteering yourself as the next enemy

What do you think this would even look like? They like the trappings of Christianity. They’re not going to give up religion. They’re just going to pick or create a more convenient hate-filled flavor and try to make it the national religion

There’s a word for that. It’s called collaboration.

I don’t care what you want to do, working with fascists is the stupidest way to do it.

I read it and I still have no idea what this is

No fucking duh. Recycling was always a lie. Especially single stream recycling

Plastics can be recycled… It’s just never viable to actually do it

You’re like… Half right.

History is packaged as a story about movements and ideals. The truth is it’s always people, and infinitely messy

My understanding is he told them to work through the local authorities

Which…I mean… Do you want the Catholic Church doing the investigation?

You’d join hands with fascists against a pope put in place to oppose it?

Well he’s already announced one with the easiest country, the UK. Well, more like concepts of a deal, but it’s basically a done thing