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voidfunc··on Amazon's "digital pacifier" for toddlers
When has telling people to not have kids ever resulted in said people not having kids? It's a part of our instincts and biology and really really easy to do.

We have to deal with the fact a lot of people produce kids they do not want or regret having. That's reality.

voidfunc··on Amazon’s “digital pacifier” for toddlers
They're going to use a device anyways because mom or dad are going to want to avoid parenting. Might as well give them something designed for them.
voidfunc··on Meta Ignores Brazilian Court Order to End Bolsonaro Favoritism
Lol jail for creating tools to communicate. We have jumped the shark.
voidfunc··on Meta Ignores Brazilian Court Order to End Bolsonaro Favoritism
There's no downside really to ignoring the courts order.
voidfunc··on XPS 16 Creator Edition Laptop
Creator Edition doesn't imply engineering lol.

This is for people to create more doom scroll slop.

voidfunc··on Microsoft and CMU team up to train early career software engineers
Same. "Writing Code" is dead. Reading code, understanding code, and knowing how to manage products and services is still very much alive.
voidfunc··on California is building a $400M shield for Yosemite's most dangerous highway
400m now... after cost overruns 2billion.
voidfunc··on /dev/null: social network for developers
Just need to dust off the finger protocol.
voidfunc··on China Overtakes U.S. For First Time as Top Spender on R&D in 2024
Oiy you people are boring. The US will remain a world power just due to its geographical position. It owns the Americas economically and militarily. This is something no other country in the world is close to capable of doing.
voidfunc··on License update: AI derivation prohibited on all my art, lore, stories, comics
Good luck with that...
voidfunc··on Sharing AI progress in mathematics
People need to figuring out how to horde as much wealth as possible right now in the next 2-3 years. Jobs especially for knowledge workers are about to disappear.
voidfunc··on Sharing AI progress in mathematics
The beginning of the end of human thinking being valuable enough to justify university's existences among many others.

Were in an unprecedented time where the value of knowledge is about to be crushed.

voidfunc··on Sharing AI progress in mathematics
Because it means mathematical discovery can largely be automated away from academics. This is the beginning.
voidfunc··on Former German spy chief arrested for attempted treason
> My only hope is that history will correctly label all those involved as collaborators.

Bad news, only nerds care about history.

voidfunc··on You Are No Longer Invited to Dinner
Its a pain in the ass to host something and id rather see my friends at a bar/restaurant.
voidfunc··on Go Concurrency Distilled
Ive been writing Go for over a decade and I still feel like I never quite "got" channels. Every time I use them I need to go consult the manual, and none of the patterns feel obvious which is weird considering the rest of the language feels very obvious.

Too many years of Java and managing Threads and Runnables probably rotted my brain.

voidfunc··on Japan moves to tighten rules for foreigners
I hate to break it to you, but the world of pre-1900 has been dead and gone for a solid 120+ years, it was killed off by Europe getting itself into two stupid wars that the Americans had to come over and save them from. Nothing works the same anymore.

All those European countries get to invest in those nice social programs and isolationism because the US has at least up until now acted as world police and handled their foreign affairs for the most part.

voidfunc··on An agent used DNS to reach an external chatbot
Once again... why are they not running these things in total airgap environments? I have to assume it's not incompetence at this point.
voidfunc··on Japan moves to tighten rules for foreigners
Those wars are essential to protecting our economic interests. An isolationist US is impossible. We're pretty much a modern imperial power.
voidfunc··on Montreal adopts bylaw banning insults against police, municipal employees
I really wonder if that would still get struck down by the SCOTUS of 2026. If give it 50/50 odds.
voidfunc··on Community condemn Bedminster AI mural as 'insult' to artists
Artists unhappy the money train is ending, News at 11.
voidfunc··on JetBrains Air: A System of Products for Agentic Software Development
Agree, and I have been an Ultimate Edition license holder since like 2013.

I have opened an IDE for very very few things in the last 9 months or so. Im still renewing a license at this point mostly because I like JetBrains the company and it's not a financial burden but they are in a bad place.

voidfunc··on Grok 4.7
> Even with his successes (Tesla, SpaceX) he has built them up in large part by bending levers of government to his advantage.

So what? Thats called being a maverick. He is very very good at executing on making money which is the point of business.

voidfunc··on The senior engineer death spiral
This, I dont do worry about TC or promos. If youre executing and people are happy then rewards and status usually follow. If not,you move along.
voidfunc··on Java 27
Checked exceptions are controversial mostly because a lot of the core APIs use them in places where it's pointless to check, like IOException.

Using them correctly can be great tho.

voidfunc··on Fable 5.1 Solves the Cyphral Distich, a 370-year-old cipher
At some point you realize theres an entire industry around climate change fear just like there's an entire industry for climate change denial.

Then you realize it never really mattered and you reach enlightenment.

voidfunc··on Anthropic boss Dario Amodei calls for AI development to slow down
This guy is such a self-serving wanker.
voidfunc··on The EPA is planning to scrap public review rules for data center pollution
This is a country that voted for Trump twice soooo... it's anybodies guess.
voidfunc··on iPhone Duo
Lol $2K. Fuck that.
voidfunc··on Political meddling at the Census Bureau damages the US statistical system
This shit aint never getting fixed.
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