A company turning off its user base because it’s shoving unwanted AI into it’s product is a lot like a self dick hammering.

Not just the highest bidder. All bidders.

… Ew.

I hope they extra packed the snowballs so they hit like a block of ice. Ice on ICE violence. That’s what I’m here for.

As an outsider, you have a different perspective and your comment absolutely has a place regarding US politics. You don’t have to live here to hear the dumb shit that he says and to know how fucking absurd and stupid it is. I would argue that an outside perspective, if taken with and is accurate to current context, carries more weight than 35+% of US opinions. Especially being geographically near by, which seems less and less relevant as this dumb mother fucker keeps talking and bombing Venezuelans, I think the state of US politics is significant in the state of your country.

Best of luck Canada. Fight the fascism. Fuck this turd.

Almost 100% of the time actually. You gotta think, what are republican principles? The answer is hate and bigotry, and the vast majority have stuck to that in spades.

The only reason I stopped using Librewolf is because it has to install from binaries on update and that took a non-igsignificant amount of time on at least Arch.

I didn’t love the extra overhead from the security, but I would do it if it didn’t mean 15 min updates seemingly every couple of days. Maybe I’m an anomaly and was doing something wrong, and I’d love to hear if others have something better, but I just try to adjust my behaviour accordingly.

Boone? There are plenty of fan boys out there that are selling rust like AI, or in other words snake oil.

Rust obviously has built in securities that C doesn’t have, but a shitty coder is a shitty coder and bad QC is bad QC. Now we’re seeing the reality of the consequences.

Rust and/or other memory safe® languages are like the future, but hopefully more people are now seeing the cracks. Just look at cloudflare for a prime example.

…what’s the first tie breaker?

Obviously if there’s someone in the cross walk you wait for them, but the expectation is that nobody starts crossing in front of the procession.

I’ve written my fair share of emails to this ghoul. I’m definitely on the domestic terrorist list they are compiling.

I’m not convinced it happens. I sure as shit feel like an old man some days physically, but my mind ranges from juvenile 12 year old potty humour to 70 year old get off my lawn and everywhere in between. It’s less often as I get older, but some days I get humbled when presented with something that I was sure was true that turns out to not be. It’s best to take it in stride as a learning opportunity rather than mope about it. It’s the xkcd “lucky 10000” situation.

Without a doubt. Like I said, I remember having views as a teen that were bad due to lack of life experience. I can look back into my 20s and think of plenty times where I was notably better than my teenage years but now I can see I still didn’t have it. It’s just the nature of growing up and getting older. We all evolve and have new life experiences that highlight our previous gaps in knowledge. It was just really noticable when I was listening to the sound bites in those PBS interviews the other week and it hit me like a truck. A sad, sad truck.

I’m not saying today’s youth is dumber than past youth, I’m saying all youth are dumb due to ignorance, but especially when it comes to social media since that’s relatively recent in the grand scheme of the world.

I’m not saying they are dumber than we were, I’m saying all kids are dumb due to ignorance. I do think that a lot of the current generation coming out is better adjusted than my generation, but they are still ignorant to the real world. The more I experience the real world the more ignorant I see that they are.

I really enjoy the jetbrains IDEs. They offer a free license, so you can try it without penalty. I prefer them over vscode personally.

It’s opt out for the free license, but it is possible to block AI in JB IDEs.

Doctor Samuel Johnson is right about Orson Johnson being right.

I’m not so sure that’s true. There is a shit load of land used to grow corn to make ethanol that’s farmed by independent farmers. In the US most farmland is used for soy beans and corn for livestock feed or fuel. It wouldn’t be a simple or cheap undertaking, but that last could be utilized more efficiently to directly or indirectly fees people.

I would also bet there are enough people that would love to be farmers that can’t because land isn’t available or cheap that would step up if large farm operations were broken up. That’s pure speculation, but even if one mega farm were split 4 ways, that would still be an improvement to the current situation.

I was watching a piece on this the other day on PBS and they had some sound bites from youths they interviewed. It really hit me just how much dumber kids get as I get older. They aren’t actually dumber, but my understanding about how ignorant they are just keeps getting clearer. I remember think similarly in my youth, so it’s not unique to this generation, so no shade, but kids are dumb.