@falktx I dunno it feels like there's going to be some very big potential type casting problems lurking in there. Lovely as long as you're only working with ints, but I'd be cautious to stray beyond that.
LB Vad som saknas tycker jag är det strukturella perspektivet. Jag har ingen diagnos, och jag har 'klarat mig' fram till en någorlunda fungerande position än så länge, men jag ser hur samhället utvecklas och vilka hopdraganden och minskade möjligheter för Konstiga och Annorlunda människor som ligger i framtiden och jag måste erkänna att jag blir orolig för hur jag kommer klara mig framgent.
@fj I like Signal, but I'm not going to pretend like it isn't a US company which is almost certainly compromised by US intelligence, whether that's known to them or not.
Eg, the authors had the audacity to say that after Rodney King, Black folk and white folk believed 2 very different "conspiracies": * Black folk believed a racist gang called the Vikings was working with the cops to torture Black folk. * White folk believed all the gangs were organizing to come murder the white people.
Only in the footnotes do they show that Vikings turned out to be real🤡
The conclusion is correct (graduate degree holding white men believe the most 'taboo' conspiracy theories), but the reasons it suggests why, are sociology-babble garbage. The real reason is: * Racism is a lie. To believe in racism, you must believe a set of easily debunkable lies. * Richer, whiter, maler, more educated populations are not less racist, despite attempts to twist stats to say this. They're more racist.
@anthrocypher I've got this in an upcoming publication:
"Every line of code written today represents a testing, complexity, maintenance and refactoring burden your team will bear tomorrow, and the reality is that none of our customers want code. Our customers want _utility and functionality;_ code is a liability we accept so we can deliver that functionality. GenAI or not, nobody wants or needs an arbitrary quantity of code for its own sake."
So, why are so many executives and investors overlooking this very basic reality that code produced is code which must be maintained, and that an acceleration of code produced thanks to gen AI means ~more risk~, not just more $$$?
I have friends who are Principal Engineers asking themselves this very question right now.
And in response, I point us to the classic Upton Sinclair quote: “It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it.”
@renegadejade 'God made me trans for the same reason that They made grain but not bread, and grapes but not wine - to let people partake in the joy of creation' (I'm paraphrasing someone, possibly Sophie from Mars or Abi Thorn, but I can't find the exact quote)