So much comes down to “is trump malicious or just an idiot?” His last term was largely idiocy, and if that repeats itself then I think things will be ok. My concern is that his rhetoric has turned more toxic, so I think he may have done so as well.

I really wish running your own mastodon was as accepted as running your own email server. There’ll be no “blue check mark” problem if your company runs the server and only provides accounts to employees.

No. The have nag screens for donations, but they don’t block on principle.

Children are future workers, soldiers and parents.

These countries see that birth rates are dropping in the west and are looking to become dominant in numbers.

Not so much that period, but the late 30s - early 40s.

Biggest button needs to be “Disable lane keeping assist” and that should sort most of the stress he refers to.

…and then incinerate them at the other end of life.

…and they’ll tell us how green they are as they do it.

…may your conflicts be short, swift and decisive.

I couldn’t remember the exact offense, but yes… That’s what I meant.

By proxy. Iran is in bed with Russia.

No, because they are using them as a shield to commit atrocities.

How is Ukraine “their own soil”?

Isn’t discussing national issues with a foreign leader, when you’re not the serving president and not in any other diplomatic role, frowned upon? Especially a foreign leader engaged with hostilities against an ally.

…and shooting the other half in the back as they can’t communicate.

I think you’re underestimating how badly it taught them. I see a lot of developers (when interviewing) that are unable to reason about code.

Lot’s of people learn how to cook by following recipes, but they don’t try to get work in catering or running restaurants. That requires a different level of understanding.

SO was the coding recipe book. It was fine for hobbyists. Not professionals.

As a senior developer I have no idea how I’d get an AI to autonomously keep a small subsystem maintained. If I was replacing junior developers, that’s what it has to do.

Everybody in my team gets to own something. What you own depends on your capability. You learn by doing. No dogsbodies doing busy work.

1. If they were, do you think they’d say so? " Whoopsie! You got us."
2. Why would they kill their own guy?

Honestly SO fuelled the rise of the cut and paste developer. I won’t be that sad to see the end of it, and the LLMs that scraped it soon after.

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