To be fair, “one of the better ones” in Congress is… shall we say, rather faint praise, and not at all a high bar.

Aaaaaand pretty much any Linux distro looks and runs better than windows, full stop.

Woooooo Ebola pandemic lfg

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Wow, super stoked that my fucking taxpayer dollars are just getting handed to orangeboi regime cronies as a direct result of them vexatiously litigating their way out of a fucking crime

Wow so Florida getting drone-swarmed by shaheds from Cuba was absolutely not on my bingo card this year, but I can absolutely see how we got here.

‘secure’ state-developed

Press X to doubt

Thiel was also raised in South Africa, during apartheid, and was schoolmates with a lot of… shall we say… german speaking individuals

Thiel is an enemy of humanity.

It’s not - the original design intention was for it to be a reflecting pool. Orangeboi hears “pool” and automatically expects to see the sort of bright azure blue square that you see for swimming pools in warm states like Florida; thus, he got “his pool guy” to come and resurface the reflecting pool, though they were sane enough to talk him into a very dark blue (which will probably be less reflective than the surface that was there before, but orangeboi doesn’t care) (also, iirc it was recently resurfaced under the Obama administration, which I’m certain plays a role in his desire to resurface it, because orangeboi is racist as absolute fuck, on top of categorically hating Obama’s guts)

Just America things 🫠

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Well, it’s not just that the building is burning. It’s also that about a third of the building residents have joined an absolutely insane cult, and really enjoy the smell of gasoline, and so have left open containers of gasoline around their apartments.

Seriously: as the first guy said, what’s happening now is a symptom of a deeply embedded, long-running progression of societal metastacization that is impossible to ignore at this point.

I’m genuinely curious if these chucklefucks have any sense of self-consciousness about how consummately idiotic they sound, or if they’re so far gone that they’re high off their own product.

You can send it into deeper rabbitholes than that without even coming close to your prod stack

Oh my god shut up about the singularity. We’re not there. The only great filter we’re facing at the moment is our own fucking society.

Well, his skin isn’t the right color. So they’re not having any of what he’s selling.

Ohoho, I know exactly how to burn a silly amount of tokens if I want to, which is why that metric is absolutely garbage - arguably worse than ranking developer performance by SLOC committed.

There are a lot of those types here, frustratingly. It’s doubly amusing and wild when you come across the ones who are really down bad for North Korea.

It’s somewhat deeper than that: the ethos of “move fast/break things” came about during the explosion of tech startups in the last decade and a half or so, where being first to market was the pass/fail condition of getting any valuation whatsoever for your startup. It’s an approach that works for some domains (I would argue that those domains tend to be less technically interesting and rigorous, but I digress).

There were some organizations that pointedly too the opposite route, and operated much closer to “build it once and build it right” - to wit, the original iteration of WhatsApp (before it was subsumed and ruined by Meta) was built that way, and that’s specifically one of the reasons why it was so good for so long and gained such a massive userbase.

Anyways: applying “move fast/break things” and all of the idiotic, caustic “engineering leadership” koans that spring from that font of misprioritization and useless metrics is now and will continue to cause the art and serious practice of software engineering to get whittled away bit by bit. The only places where you CAN’T do that these days is in highly regulated contexts (aero/defense; biotech; medical; other similarly regulated fields), but even that is starting to crack.

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• Data show many urban areas have become significantly safer over the last two years, with drops beginning in the second half of the Biden presidency and continuing under Trump.

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