haskellshill

> my side is good and your side is evil, just because it is, okay?

> no one but the people who know you care in the slightest

> someone puts up a service that let people upload a picture of your face and have it return a dossier with every bit of video you've ever appeared in

Okay and why exactly would anybody be interested in that? Sounds like a pointless hypothetical

I think you imagine governments as being a lot more capable and interested in you than they really are. You haven't even told me what you think they'll actually do with that dreaded database, except keep it.

> used for things I can't even imagine today

So why worry about it? It's like worrying a camera will "capture your soul" or whatever the story about those tribesmen is.

> a local environment a specific behavior might be normal or accepted while in some other cultures it is not

Do you actually have an example of this or is this yet another hypothetical?

So your specific real world example is that nothing happened, but IF somebody had filmed them then you IMAGINE they would have "gotten a visit". Very specific and real world.

You're afraid of threats and violence because they judge you for poor grammar? Okay...

Cooking your own food is great if you value your time at $0. I just eat fast food every day to maximize my free time (spent on doomscrolling).

And that's bad because?

Questions such as?

Okay, and? There's a difference between one person seeing me in public and two, but no meaningful difference

Funny that you imagine AI-coders doing any sort of thinking

But what practical difference does it have that it's "available via digital media to the world."? Are you just opposed to people not in your physical location seeing you? Why?

Sorry, but why even care about this? Is it an invasion of your privacy if strangers see you walking down the street? If no, how is strangers seeing you walking down the street in the background of some youtube video a privacy violation??

Great idea, and soon there will be a "I accept to be recorded in public" button you need to press before you're let out of your house.

> It has a wide base, so the laptop just swings back and forth while carrying.

> Can slide out easily and fall when toppled.

What..? Do you live in some ideal zero-friction world or what?

No, sorry, poking fun at the uselessness of JS frameworks still does not make JS a good language

Pfft, look up my gym routine, bet I bench more than you

Hah, sitting in a car is still not impressive

That's a very stupid gotcha because the newly released code is just as insecure, only it's been audited for shorter

Is it really that confusing though? He's just using a python script that runs the program instead of linking it. Sure the details may be interesting but the high-level concept is obvious

As well as "don't use anything JS related"

I mean he's been running version 20 for years already, what's changed to make it now suddenly insecure?

I will never understand F1 fans. So many engineering hours and so much gas wasted just to drive in a circle a bit faster than the other guy. It's not even remotely applicable to any real task due to the myriad of arbitrary rules. At least football players are physically fit.

That's three sentences, none of which are particularly difficult to parse

That's silly. If they show their work I won't have to trust them. Compare answering "The answer is 5, just compute it yourself." on a math test, vs. actually showing the calculation. The former clearly implies the person doesn't know what they're talking about.

> If LibreOffice started from scratch

What do you mean though? Libreoffice wrote their application from scratch, did they not? And they managed to implement a superior serialization format, did they not? And they managed to get that format standardized without bribing and cheating, did they not?

What you're saying is akin to "those residents of banana republics are just frustrated capitalism (and a little help from the CIA) is beating democracy"

> We do need for-profit alternatives to Word

Why does it have to be for profit?

> who is ever going to sign up for another contract with [VMware]?

Oh geez I dunno, surely now it's over for them

> Remember how people writing assembly thought compiled languages would rot your brain!

Well, how'd you describe web apps of today if not precisely brainrot?

> They don't care about actual productivity, they care about feeling productive

Funny you'd say that, because that describes a large portion of "AI coders". Sure they pump out a lot of lines of code, and it might even work initially, but in the long run it's hardly more productive.

> It's a hard sell when an application moves a button!

Because usually that is just change for the sake of change. How many updates are there every day that add nothing at all? More than updates that actually add something useful, at least.

Wasn't BitchAt launched like a couple of weeks ago? Did it die already?

Uh okay? A drink company thinks their customers look like normal people? So what?