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ekster··on To H-E-Double-Hockey-Sticks with Facebook
It would be better parenting if you didn’t smash the phone, tell them you’re the boss, and that they should fuck off. I am sorry but if it’s still confusing to you after repeating the same thing three times, along with everyone else saying similar things, then maybe you can start to understand why so many of your comments are flagged dead now. Nobody really wants to have a multi-day conversation with someone who isn’t listening, cross-posts their drama in multiple posts, puts words in others mouths, and generally behaves like an internet addicted teenager themselves.
ekster··on To H-E-Double-Hockey-Sticks with Facebook
No, I am saying that telling your kids to fuck off, you’re the boss, and smashing their phone is poor parenting. Same as everyone else with whom you are arguing here.
ekster··on Clubhouse is the big stinker that nobody wants to talk about
I signed in a few times and it was just full of get rich quick scheme scammers. It was disappointing as I was excited too, but never really had a reason to go back after that.
ekster··on To H-E-Double-Hockey-Sticks with Facebook
There are lots of good answers there to the same question that essentially say the same thing as you, but minus telling your kids to fuck off and that you are the boss and smashing the phone. I tend to agree with them, as well as the people who replied to you saying that that’s not a very good parenting style. You’ll likely alienate your children and not teach them anything, except perhaps that they need to respond unquestioningly to authority or they will be met with violence.

I suspect that is more why you were downvoted, but not really sure why you want to re-litigate it here in the first place.

ekster··on NSO Group CEO says law-abiding citizens have 'nothing to be afraid of'
A better example would be a specially designed knife for bringing undetected onto an airplane.
ekster··on Autonomy founder Mike Lynch can be extradited to US
Even if the paperwork is going to be double checked, it is still fraud to lie on it.
ekster··on Lost world revealed by human, Neanderthal relics washed up on North Sea beaches
Willy can be short for the older style name Willemijn, much like Freddy can be short for the older style name Winnefred in the US.
ekster··on Liverpool stripped of UNESCO World Heritage status
Well, it at least means not bulldozing the historical part and building a football stadium on the rubble.
ekster··on Tesla’s ‘Full Self-Driving’ Beta Software Used on Public Roads Lacks Safeguards
Presumably strollers and motorcycles have very different behaviors to predict.
ekster··on Tesla’s ‘Full Self-Driving’ Beta Software Used on Public Roads Lacks Safeguards
Large companies will have the ability to lobby for no liability
ekster··on Is GitHub Copilot a blessing, or a curse?
Does the license of the book say that if you copy that snippet you can, but should provide attribution, and you don’t?
ekster··on Math Problems for children from 5 to 15 (2004) [pdf]
A kopeck is like a cent (1/100th of a ruble).
ekster··on The History of the Dot Com Era
I moved to San Francisco in 2001 to go be part of the Dot Com boom as well, but arrived at the very end. I came out fine, but went through a period over a year or so where I'd join a company, a month or two later they would close, and the same thing repeated five or six times before I switched to the video game industry for a bit.
ekster··on GitHub Copilot: First Impressions
Totally agree. Something that could interrogate and answer arbitrary questions about complex or new codebases would be incredible.
ekster··on GitHub Copilot: First Impressions
It isn’t really being sold as “are you the kind of developer who copies and pastes code you don’t understand from StackOverflow? The have we got an efficiency improvement for you!”
ekster··on GitHub Copilot: First Impressions
For me the AI part of this is all the bad parts. What would really be cool is better search, templating, and best practices at your fingertips in the IDE.

Exact same problem to solve, because it is an important an interesting one, but a totally different approach. Maybe AI assisted somehow, but human curated.

Otherwise, imagine how bad legacy codebases of the future will be when they are full of autocomplete code that nobody understands or cared enough to think through even originally.

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