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  • Thousands of H-1B workers would be sent back to India, and those submissive, loyal Indian workers would be replaced by locals – something venture capitalists don’t want. But guess what? AI will eventually replace these workers anyway.

    Most big tech companies are full of unnecessary employees. Elon Musk recognized this and fired many employees after buying Twitter. Everyone thought it was a crazy decision, but it worked perfectly.

    Unhinged rant, not news.




  • Rich guys make a Reddit mee-too, wearing the clothes of a long-dead website.

    It has no unique content, is not the center forum of any community, no untapped niche to fill.

    PROMISINGGGHHHH says the journalist

    Edit: I fucking hate mainstream tech journalism.

    When one person says it’s sunny and another says it is raining, the role of the journalist is not to report the claims. The journalist’s job is to look out the window and check.

    When one person says it is sunny, the tech journalist’s job is to sit in their windowless sweat cubicle and go “Wow! I am excited by how sunny it is!”



  • That is one of the points, yes.

    But, the reason for wanting the IDE to validate based on partially entered expressions is given as making it easier to follow the code for a person working left-to-right.

    And it’s not an invalid thing to want, but I expect the discussion to also include how it affects reading the code for a non-beginner.


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    Is string length len, length, size, count, num, or # ? Is there even a global function for length? You won’t know until you try all of them.

    This is Python basics, so the argument would be to optimize readability specifically for people who have zero familiarity with the language.

    (The other examples have the same general direction of readability tradeoff to the benefit of beginners, this one was just simplest to pick here)

    That’s a valid tradeoff to discuss, if discussed as a tradeoff. Here it is not. The cost to readability for anyone with language familiarity appear to be not even understood.



  • As a Norwegian of some age, this entire case was one of the most jarring news stories I’ve encountered.

    Imagine following the news in the early 2000s. Our crown prince found love among the (extremely) common people, and got married to a woman who had a small child. Royalist tightbutts are pissing themselves at the breach of tradition but the rest of the country is charmed by the heartwarming love affair.

    News plastered for months and months of of a couple in love, and Marius the cuutest tiny blonde litte boy barely out of diapers and being adorable everywhere. And it fades out.

    20-something years pass, and news are going on about something “Marius Høiby…”

    Omg! I remember him! He was the cutes- WHAT THE FUCK



  • Well, sure. scp -r source target works with git too. And pretty much everything if you have/want filesystem as your access point.

    Appreciate learning about fossil, but switching all my stuff to a different VCS entirely is overkill, and I can’t see it doing anything easier, simpler or better than git. Especially if I want to make it easy for others to depend on my stuff.