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811.
by tombert 7mo ago
Interesting. I gotta admit that my smell test tells me that this is a step backwards; at least naively (I haven't looked through the code thoroughly yet), this just kind of feels like we're going back to pre-protected-memory opera
812.
by tombert 7mo ago
A part of me was hoping that with LLMs getting better and better at mimicking corporate nothing-speak that we'd realize that we can automate away a lot of the executives, Vice Presidents, and CEOs. Of course that was a naive hope on my
813.
by tombert 7mo ago
That's an astute point, and you're right to point it out.
814.
by tombert 7mo ago
I mean I don't know that I agree with that completely. Languages can still be actively awful even if you do learn them. I have written a lot of PHP. In order to learn it I bought several books, I've done a dozen or so projects w
815.
by tombert 7mo ago
I guess? I mean I actively did not want this president. I actively voted for someone else. I tried to get people to not vote for him, though I doubt I was successful at that task. I suppose I do still pay my taxes and as such I'm s
816.
by tombert 7mo ago
I feel like if you want to learn Nix with some hand-holding, resist the urge to use Claude Code or Codex, but instead just use the chatbot in the browser or something. Ask it questions, explicitly copy and paste in errors as they come up,
817.
by tombert 7mo ago
I'm American, I didn't vote for Trump, so I don't feel like it's me dealing with adverse effects of my decisions. I did vote for Eric Adams in NYC, and while Eric Adams didn't advertise blatant corruption as part of
818.
by tombert 7mo ago
I've been doing this full time for about fifteen years, which is a fairly long time (though admittedly not nearly as much as some others here). I haven't really stopped loving writing and designing software. I still have fun writ
819.
by tombert 7mo ago
What the fuck was even the intended purpose of starting this war in Iran? Like in their mind, what was the best case scenario?
820.
by tombert 7mo ago
There's an argument for that, though I think replacing it with Trump's basically-unregulated private military is pretty concerning.
821.
by tombert 7mo ago
You know, I'm not going to say I'm enamored with the language, but I think the Stockholm Syndrome has kicked in because I really don't hate the language so much anymore. I mean, I'm only ever using it for configurations,
822.
by tombert 7mo ago
Yeah, I've been using Unixey stuff for almost twenty years now (most of it Linux, and fell for the siren song of macOS for about four of them). I liked Arch and Ubuntu and Mint and OpenSUSE well enough when I used them first, but once
823.
by tombert 7mo ago
We can acknowledge that weed might be bad for people while also acknowledging that it probably shouldn't be illegal. There's no contradiction. I think alcohol is bad for people but I don't think it should be illegal. I also
824.
by tombert 7mo ago
I am not sure I'd say I'm "against" it since broadly speaking I don't think it should be illegal, but I am against it in the sense that I really think that absolutely no one should be smoking weed. It's kind
825.
by tombert 7mo ago
> Plenty of people use cannabis to alleviate symptoms. I don't think they expect to be cured entirely. Obviously can't speak for everyone, but I know people who do think literally that. They think that weed will actually cure
826.
by tombert 7mo ago
I do live in NYC and I actually did see that practice when I was searching. I might check it out though apparently my insurance will not cover it. I'll dig a bit further.
827.
by tombert 7mo ago
I still think that's less actively inconsiderate than Cocomelon at full volume. At some level they can't control the kid crying but they can control the volume which their kid's media runs at.
828.
by tombert 7mo ago
I hadn't heard of this. I'll give it a look and see if I my insurance covers it...thanks!
829.
by tombert 7mo ago
He bragged about trying to stop the investigation! That's why Robert Mueller was appointed the first time. He went on TV and talked about how he fired Comey for even starting the investigation into Russia.
830.
by tombert 7mo ago
Oh, sorry. Kind of a contentious issue I suppose, probably a bit too quick to chew your head off here :) .
831.
by tombert 7mo ago
I'm not entirely sure what you're trying to convince me of. I did pay the $600, I even said that it's probably a cheap price to pay to treat the apnea. That doesn't really change the fact that it feels kind of viscera
832.
by tombert 7mo ago
The CPAP actually would have cost me less with insurance! At the time it would have cost me about $400.
833.
by tombert 7mo ago
I did qualify multiple times that there are costs associated with engineering, So I feel that it it's implied that the 4000x figure is a naive one. I'm sure labor is involved, and maybe it's a lot, but it still seems like an
834.
by tombert 7mo ago
Except the only "evil" thing that Mueller did was investigate Trump after he bragged about firing James Comey for investigating a potential Russian interference in the 2016 election. Moreover, I'm not sure it is right for the
835.
by tombert 7mo ago
It took me a couple weeks to get used to it, but get used to it I did. I would still prefer a universe where I didn't have to wear it, but at this point it doesn't bother me too much. I agree the plastics might be bad for me, but
836.
by tombert 7mo ago
Or the parent should just take the phone away! If the kid won't listen to it quietly then they should do that thing that I believe is called "parenting". Bring a picture book or something for them if they need to be entertai
837.
by tombert 7mo ago
I think that's kind of the joke? Yes, it is his private social media site, and he doesn't even follow his own TOS.
838.
by tombert 7mo ago
Classy. I'm so glad that half of America thought that this tactless felon who can't even speak a complete sentence would make a great president. If this is just ok now, can I say something like "I'm glad Donald Trump wa
839.
by tombert 7mo ago
On planes I've mostly seen it with people playing stuff for very young children. I've heard a lot of Cocomelon crap at full volume on planes because I guess parents don't want to have their kids use headphones. I sort of unde
840.
by tombert 7mo ago
I suspect the introduction of the infinite-money pits of insurance doesn't help either. Since I do have the 3D scan of my teeth, I've debated designing my own, but I'm not sure which resins to buy that I could safely put in

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