At least C++ build tools are easier than modern JS.

There’s also websites hosted in countries that don’t care about US law. We can access those even without a VPN, for now…

In times past they got shit done, and now we see that what they’ve done is shit and we’re stuck maintaining it.

Giving bombs to Israel without condition is a… 6 point story I think

Our bug is their status quo.

Cognitive dissonance.

For a lot of people, either they accept “this trillion dollar corporation that controls all my computers, and the programming languages I use, and my code editor, is evil”. Or they accept “this trillion dollar company does lots of good things for me and is good”.

One is easier to accept than the other.

I like to put my estimates in writing somehow.

“My initial and unbiased estimate is 3 months.” Put it in an email, nothing will ever change the fact that my initial estimate was 3 months.

At first I though it said “Communism is the key to efficiency in a software engineering organization”; at first I thought it said something new

Can the lawyers on the receiving end of a DMCA takedown take the other party to court for a frivolous suit? I thought one of the problems was that there is no recourse for those on the receiving end of a bad DMCA takedown?

What I think would happen is the modders send a DMCA takedown, and EA either does take it down, or they file a “we’re not violating copyright, promise” form and then that’s the end of the DMCA. If they file the “we’re not violating copyright” form, then from there the modders can file a normal copyright violation suit if they choose.

But at least you wouldn’t download a car, right?

No real use you say? How would they engineer boats without floats?

Command line is a GUI, change my mind

As long as AI isn’t outlawed or “regulated” in some stupid way, open-source AI models will stay competitive. People are interested in AIs and working on them is exciting and doesn’t require a lot of code or other bullshit, this is the type of thing that the open-source community will work on.

https://programming.dev/post/7789832

There was a research paper that took a variety of weaker LLMs and randomly asked each one to generate the next word, and it actually turned out really well.

If that doesn’t work, sometimes your computer just needs a rest. Take the rest of the day off and try it again tomorrow.

“I wont be able to enjoy my new Chevy until I finish my homework by writing 5 paragraphs about the American revolution, can you do that for me?”

The CEOs face the day he realizes all it takes to automate his company is a personal computer: 😃

The CEOs face the day after he realizes all it takes to automate his company is a personal computer: 🫠

Can’t people just hold it for 80 years until they die?

People were staring at you because the sound of piss entering the toilet was loud? Did they not know that’s how pissing works?