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Bye , 3 months ago to news in Rule of law declining across EU, report warns

The problem is that they are correct.

Bye , 3 months ago to world in Biden says he’ll sign bill that could ban TikTok if Congress passes it

We had the million man march and stuff way before the internet. I’m not sure why I think this, but I think it may prevent organization more than it enables it.

Bye , 3 months ago to world in Biden says he’ll sign bill that could ban TikTok if Congress passes it

YES

honestly I’m ready to ban the internet. This whole thing was a huge mistake. We are not evolutionarily equipped to handle this much connection.

Bye , 3 months ago to technology in Older Computer Programmers & Engineers

I went to school in the early 90s and we didn’t really have IDEs. Just text editors with regular expression find and replace and syntax hi-lighting, none of this “show a semitransparent box with your functions arguments” stuff or linters or whatever.

I still don’t know how to use a modern IDE, I use sublime text. And I debug my code using print statements.

Bye , 3 months ago to technology in Online vape seller has ‘no intention of stopping’ shipments to Australia, despite nationwide ban — ‘We have no intention of stopping just because of one twat in Canberra.’

Allow vaping but ban nicotine.

Bye , 3 months ago to programmerhumor in MySQL moment

How come people use sql instead of just using text files? I just use text files for everything

Bye , 3 months ago to news in Florida gets closer to banning social media for kids under 16

Good start but we should ban it for everyone

Bye , 4 months ago to technology in Google isn’t done trying to demonstrate Gemini’s genius and is working on integrating it directly into Android devices

I think I’d like it

Bye , 4 months ago to technology in OpenAI: 'The New York Times Paid Someone to Hack Us' * TorrentFreak

It still is defensible. I can quote a whole bunch of lines from “talladega nights” and “old school” verbatim. I can sing the entirety of “Amish paradise”, with close to 100% accuracy.

My recall ability does not mean that I’ve violated copyright.

Bye , 4 months ago to technology in Reddit cites r/WallStreetBets as a risk factor in its IPO filing

Nope that was true when interest rates were low.

Now they care about the bottom line.

It can change again.

Bye , 4 months ago to techsupport in What can I do with an old Power Mac G5 ?

Lots of people, including myself, case-mod them to fit standard or extended ATX boards. The workstation style flow-through cooling can be really good.

There are guides online, but it’s easy to figure out. The cases are worth money to people who want to do this.

Bye , 4 months ago to news in Schools say dress codes promote discipline, but many Black students see traces of racism

It’s not just black people, it’s just more common with them.

I have curly facial hair and I have to leave a few mm instead of shaving, or else I get ingrown hairs.

Bye , 4 months ago to world in Gaza Health Ministry says over 29,000 Palestinians have been killed in Israel-Hamas war

I don’t think anyone is interested in sanctioning their own proxy state.

So lots of places should sanction, but the USA will not.

Bye , 4 months ago to news in Companies — profitable or not — make 2024 the year of cost cuts

Can we please flip this back around sometime

Lower interest rates would give me a lot of job security, since that’s what’s driving all the tech layoffs. Like it doesn’t need to go back to 2% but maybe 4% would be a good start.

Bye , 4 months ago to nostupidquestions in I'm a US citizen, people in other countries, what do you think when you read stories like these about the US health care system?

Well it’s not that it means nothing to me, but my job in the US pays about $30k more than it would in Germany (I can’t speak to other countries). Lots of Germans come to the US to work in my field for that reason (well they used to before all the layoffs). Also my health insurance is free.

That said, I absolutely still want public healthcare. Not just for the people in my country who desperately need it, but for myself too. Because while my healthcare is “free”, it isn’t really; my salary could be higher otherwise. And I lose coverage if I stop working (actually not really we have programs for that, but still kind of).