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I'm 99.9% sure that everyone is AI in that thread.

I mean, I've done that for a couple of things, but probably 90+ percent was vendored libraries and javascript which could be ignored. Sadly, this is not one of those cases, and Im …

I've found that engineers on a large team do read every line, mainly due to the fact that the skill levels run the gamut from intern to lead, and only 1 or 2 people out of 12 might…

There’s communism the theoretical idea and “communism” the application. The twentieth century was neither, but just authoritarianism wearing a trench-coat.

That will entail an immense amount of violence to be undertaken by the working class against those in power, unless you think they'll gladly give up all of their ill gotten gains o…

But who benefits from that economic growth? If it's only the capital owning class, and the rest of us are left in the dust, then the growth is irrelevant. I ,for one, have read eno…

Tell me you’ve never experienced the joy of solving a math problem without telling me you’ve never experienced the joy of solving a math problem. Also, in your scenario, the genie …

As a society we already know how to make the lives of everyone better: 1. Stable housing 2. Access to safe drinking water 3. Access to food 4. Access to healthcare 5. Access to edu…

Im unsure as to how "it's clear that AI is going to make that possible". Things that help kids learn - parents who love and care for them - stable housing - stable access to food -…

Years ago i slid down a bannister at a dance club, caught my foot, flipped over backwards, and landed on a barstool. Having grown up poor as dirt, i knew that calling an ambulance …

At the end of the day doesnt that just end up being universal healthcare but with more steps?

Which one?

As an aside, i read this, gave you an upvote and then went to check your submission history and saw that I’d kick your rep over to 2222. Congrats!

Ive mainly been outputting them to high fidelity jpegs and then stuffing them into a cbz for portability. Works well went im reading on my ipad. As for the others i had them sorted…

Interestingly enough, i’ve been sitting on a project for the last 12ish years where i just took the FMloader lib and used that from C# to turn the djvu files into pdfs. All that wa…

Neat fact, those kind of conversations are already happening at ${DAY_JOB}.

Depending on the size of the market in your area, or the market in general, not giving two weeks is effectively blackballing yourself. The city I work in is small enough I might ha…

Ummm. Plenty of people starved to death as a result of the industrial revolution.

Ive paraphrased it before and i’ll paraphrase it again “If you’re looking for the villain, it’s capitalism. It’s always capitalism” - Brennan Lee Mulligan (and everyone else who’s …

There are several quite decent open source CRM’s they could have deployed just as rapidly and easily. For example, years ago I lead a team who stood up SuiteCRM in six weeks where …

You have no idea how many times I’ve asked “why are we not using the project generator” or “why did you write 200 lines to parse a csv? Here’s a library and five lines to get it do…

I’ve worked for companies with less than that in total personnel expenditures (100ish people) and they were actually economically productive / provided a tangible service. With 15 …

What are you working on?

We can take the LEO's that would have patrolled highways/city streets and have them patrol on public transport, same job just slightly different environment. Can I ask why you feel…

Societies can already reduce road deaths to nearly zero, it's cheap, it's easy, and it's fun. It's just redirecting all of the cash we spend on vehicles/cars/highways/roadways/sign…