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"it’s reflecting on the good old days as though it happened thousands of years ago." Internet time is different than real time

It's crazy how slack big tech is. For companies who have such a grueling application process you'd think they'd have more to show for it. disappointing.

I think when companies become a 'necessity' like this, they have to be regulated or broken up. I'm not a big fan of Apple taking a commission if you port an app to their phone and …

I've been using Python since 2.x and I have to admit which each new release I toy with leaving this language behind. Type hints are the latest warts in what should have been a beau…

Wipe out America and another imperialists take it's place. That's not the answer. Hookey as it sounds living in harmony with nature, recycling, reusing and resource management are …

They're shrinking globally. https://www.sciencealert.com/birth-rates-are-plummeting-in-m... That said, the world will probably be black by 2200. Makes sense.

"Emancipation of women and free education for girls worldwide. Raising the standard of living in poor countries." Yup, let's push our ideology on other countries because the west i…

"By very far the threat to humanity is global warming, not resource depletion." One begets the other...from either direction.

What's interesting is this could make areas like AI - that are already dirty and environmentally harmful - even worse. If we don't have a clean source of energy to power the data c…

King.

The answers to my problems come when I'm sitting on the throne. The amount of solutions I've come up with....

Examples?

I think the "intent" to evolution is reproduction. Thus, it makes sense to look at these traits as chosen or adaptive to further this cause. Everything is based on reproducing a sp…

I think the government for the most part, needs to get out of social media and treat them like TV of old. The idea is that TV is just a medium. You can post any commercial or infor…

I'll allow it. Then we can rewrite it in C but better this time. I really don't see too much of the problem with Coding in C. You just have to be little more mindful. With great po…

God I love C. Thanks for reminding me.

When you save something for example to a folder. Is the save icon coloured or not? This is isn't rocket science. It should show it's current state.

" Engineers specializing in machine learning continue to command a salary premium in the job market over standard software engineers" I still haven't really seen this. Data Scienti…

I hear what you're saying, and actually agree that - unfortunately - is the current state of LLMs today. But I think OP still has a point, and I'd argue as well that that is the ai…

You should watch Office Space.

No these sets off layoffs are way different than before.

Python is amazing and shines for Web development. I'd recommend taking a look at https://www.tornadoweb.org/en/stable/index.html . I use this in production on my pet project at htt…

It's important to learn to pivot as well. I've had a website that only really started getting any traction once I built a facebook group around it. Being unable to monetize on face…

"It’s worth remembering that there is not one single shred of evidence that life has ever existed anywhere in the observable universe but Earth" Dude considering we're barely scrat…

hahhah I just tried this. I'm impressed!