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Contrary to our stereotype, the vast majority of Americans don't resort to gun violence or the threat of gun violence to get what they want.

The gravy seals you see on TV are just cos playing and would turn tail and run if they ever really had to put it all on the line. Or even if the local police simply didn't enable them.

It seems likely to cause a rift though as they all fight to take the reigns. We saw in the primaries that no one was even up to the task for taking the reigns from an old criminal drowning in legal woes who attempted a violent coup, and also pissed off McConnell, the next most powerful republican.

I still don't understand Trump's "charisma", but there's no denying that it seems exclusively his. The other candidates tried saying the quiet parts out loud too, and didn't manage to elicit any hint of fervor.

He may be a symptom, but a political defeat would stall their fascist movement. And only a Dem controlled house/senate/potus combined have much chance at stopping, or at least stalling, this freight train. And they may just eat each other if we can stall them long enough.

There's miles of difference between the damage that corporate stooges do versus a literal fascist movement. If this were the 2000s, yeah, I'd be with you all the way, both sides pillaging our futures and all that.

But you're focused on that asshole stealing your catalytic converter down the street, when you're actively getting mugged and curb stomped, here and now.

There is a very real possibility of this country descending into fascist dictatorship, and/or huge loss of life from an ensuing Civil War.

Right now, the Dems are at least united like they haven't been in recent memory because they finally understand what's at stake. It is absolutely infuriating that you guys are still nitpicking over comparatively trivial stuff compared to cataclysm.

This isn't hyperbole, this is literally what they have been repeatedly caught expressly trying to accomplish. Yes, it seems like it's crazy to consider that they might actually achieve their goals. But with everything we know, Trump is still very likely to win this election thanks to people like you who can't seem to prioritize the violent muggers trying to kill you, over the guy stealing your catalytic converter.

because fixing these underlying issues would upset the handful of billionaires that actually control our government

And how exactly are they supposed to do that without a super majority that is impossible with the population continuing to elect MAGA Republicans?

There is no bipartisan possibilities. No one from the right will step across the aisle to make constitutional amendments or impeach corrupt SCOTUS justices or fascist party members. And they'd need 1/3rd of them to do so for the authority to fix anything.

There is no moving on. Nothing can be fixed. Voters should have woken up after Jan 6th, but Republicans still gained seats in the mid term elections.

There is no legal path to fixing this, we can only do our best to bail water and keep them from sinking the ship.

He's also a major problem. Both can be true

We affectionately called it "subscurity" on the FE team.

When our BE apis would not give us any information why something failed, nor would they give us access to their logs. Complete black box of undocumented doodoo, and they would proudly say "security through obscurity" every time we asked why they couldn't make improvements to usability.

Ironically, if LLMs somehow become the future, we're all going to be doing the grunt work carefully curating datasets to feed to the AI. We'll be working for the machines, not the other way around.

Rofl. As a developer of nearly 20 years, lol.

I used copilot until finally getting fed up last week and turning it off. It was a net negative to my productivity.

Sure, when you're doing repetitive operations that are mostly copy paste and changing names, it's pretty decent. It can save dozens of seconds, maybe even a minute or two. That's great and a welcome assist, even if I have to correct minor things around 50% of the time.

But when an error slips through and I end up spending 20 minutes tracking down the problem later, all that saved time vanishes.

And then the other times where my IDE is frozen because the plugin is stuck in some loop and eating every last resource and I spend the next 20 minutes cursing and killing processes, manually looking for recent updates that hadn't yet triggered update notifications, etc... well, now we're in the red, AND I'm pissed off.

So no, AI is not some huge boon to developer productivity. Maybe it's more useful to junior developers in the short term, but I have definitely dealt with more than a few problems that seem to derive from juniors taking AI answers and not understanding the details enough to catch the problems it introduced. And if juniors frequently rely on AI without gaining deep understanding, we're going to have worse and worse engineers as a result.

Eh. Honestly, the line of "questions" was rather stupid.

"Why aren't you lobbying to make your business irrelevant" is essentially what the interviewer pushed aggressively.

Sure, I get calling out a CEO for deflecting tough questions with corporate BS. But it was a pretty dumb line of questioning in the first place.

Why isn't Google lobbying for privacy protections?

Why isn't Comcast lobbying for net neutrality?

Just make your statement and ask for comment. "Our listeners consider Intuits lobbying against tax reform that would benefit tax payers to be adversarial to their customers. What would you say to them?"

Because basement losers can't conquer and raze libraries to the ground.

The internet has shown that assumed anonymity result in people fucking with other people's lives for the hell of it. Viruses, trolling, etc. This is just the next stage of it because of a new easy to use tool.

Yes, this is what many of us worry will become the internet in general. AI content generated on from AI trained on AI garbage.

AI bots can trivially outpace humans.

You mean that warning that they all give when you're installing a 3rd party app? And the warning is more aggressive when it's an unregistered (licensed?) App.

They all do it. Windows, MacOS for sure. I don't remember seeing it on Linux, but I'm usually not installing sketchy binaries on Linux.