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I think the average person just can't keep up with it.

If you're technically inclined it's pretty easy and cheaper than ever to have your own durable local backups. But even so it's work.

Full title is "Redfin’s Glenn Kelman predicts a mass tech exodus from coastal cities"

By "ported Windows 7" do they mean "installed it as a VM in UTM running on an AVP"?

I think it was the murder of children that sparked it moreso than the disinfo surrounding it.

Hasn't there been a fear of recession for something like 3 years now?

Astronauts are exceptional people

Don't see how that's relevant. Other laws were racist, therefore a law removing Jus Soli would be racist?

Yeah, I'm not really convinced.

Just sounds like you feel very strongly about this and want to say "everyone who disagrees with me is racist".

The majority of the world's population lives in countries that don't do birthright citizenship.

Jus Soli definitely gets abused. Cheap international flights didn't exist in 1866 when birthright citizenship became part of US law.

I could see merit in amending those laws, perhaps not abolishing it but maybe tightening it to only apply to children of legal residents or something like that. That's a system that many countries use, including progressive European states.

> repealing jus soli and all the other racist dogwhistles

What exactly is racist about being against jus soli?

Personally, I think birthright citizenship solves more problems than it causes but I also see the arguments against it.

Most countries in Africa, Europe, and Asia don't have it.

None of the Nordic countries have it - are they racist? I thought those were the countries everyone says we should try and be more like?

Ads are just the beginning. Paywall kvetching, loud Autoplay videos, cookie banners, mailing list pop-ups and all manner of dark patterns and anti features that hijack a simple reading experience are enough to just keep me off of those sites unless I can help it.

Yes, ublock origin can probably be configured to take care of a lot of this, but it's a manual process and a moving target.

Easier just not to engage.

This site hijacks the back button and I really hate that.

Shouldn't there be some way for the browser to prevent that?

Yes, Java is a fine language and the JVM is a fantastic runtime.

Is there any point in learning emacs in 2024?

I know vi/vim pretty well, but I've never bothered with emacs much since the multi key stroke navigation just seems so unergonomic to me.

I would add PHP to the list as well

Seems unlikely. VPNs have far too many legitimate uses. How many people are on VPNs for work alone?

I also don't think the law in Texas is written against the consumer, e.g. it doesn't say it's illegal to view porn if you haven't shown an ID. Rather, it's levied against the distributor to say it's illegal to show porn to someone you haven't age verified.

So it's not like the act of using the VPN to circumvent this would be criminal.

VPNs make short work of these blocks in Texas just as they do in large parts of the Middle East and Eastern Asia where porn is illegal. Assuming you're an adult and are able to pay for and set up a VPN.

That aside, I'm not convinced unfettered access to all varieties of hardcore pornography is a good thing for society, especially kids.

> AI or not, has there ever been a 50 year span in human history where the majority of jobs didn't get redundant?

Yeah, many. For tens of thousands of years you were either a hunter or a gatherer. Even after agriculture shows up something like 12000 years ago, the job of farmer, craftsman, soldier, etc. were pretty stable.

Job churn really only begins to happen with industrialization, and that process is only something like 200-400 years old depending on where in the world you are.

It's really good to have a level of indirection between your purchases and the account where your hard-earned money sits.

If you have to dispute a charge it's much nicer to dispute it when it's on a credit card bill than when the money is already out of your bank account.

Think of it like a bastion host for your money.

You see mass murderers and serial rapists whose mothers still love them.

$99 a month for a 30 day "prescription" of a game.

Really obscene. The healthcare industry is such a sickness in this country, I hope we get a populist one day who completely guts it.

Secular individualistic society simply isn't conducive to reproduction.

AT&T wasn't publicly traded until 1984, so there's a clue for you right there

Consider taking a look at chibicc and simply working forward through the commits:

https://github.com/rui314/chibicc

> Each commit of this project corresponds to a section of the book. For this purpose, not only the final state of the project but each commit was carefully written with readability in mind. Readers should be able to learn how a C language feature can be implemented just by reading one or a few commits of this project.

Most of Mac's Unix utils come straight from FreeBSD without any special sauce from Apple.

Apply to any SWE/DevOps/SysAdmin/IT role at a Fortune 500 company that isn't a tech company.

It's not the GUI per se that people want, but it's the useful default configuration.

If I'm working on a project I want to see the file tree, I want multiple editor tabs for different files, I want to be able to full text search the project I have open, I want a terminal window to execute commands on, and most importantly I want to be able to switch between these elements without needing to learn a new set of opaque keyboard commands.

VSCode/Codium gives you this out of the box with zero friction so it's no wonder that it's consuming market share like nobody's business.

I wish it wasn't electron and I wish it wasn't Microsoft, but until there's a better alternative that's what I'm using most of the time.

Have you ever tried to daily drive them? They're simply not polished enough for serious work.

Text editors seem to fall into this open source software trap where everyone has to have a pet project so you end up with 700 different text editors that are all like 70-80% done in terms of features.

Sorry, but neovim or doom Emacs or any other nerd editor configuration that doesn't have table stakes features out of the box is a complete non starter.

As far as I'm concerned, running 100,000 lines of Lua or elisp written by literallywho is no better than downloading random vscode extensions.

Integration of LLMs with existing compute and data systems will have an excellent return on investment if done correctly.

The current brain dead spitball method of shoehorning a chatbot interface on top of every single existing GUI application is not that.

Yiddish is pretty much a high German dialect.