CAPITALISM: Competition ensures that companies are constantly striving to offer superior products at lower prices.
ACTUAL CAPITALISM:
CAPITALISM: Competition ensures that companies are constantly striving to offer superior products at lower prices.
ACTUAL CAPITALISM:
Whenever someone asks a "So are you saying...?" kind of rhetorical question, the answer is always, always, "No, and nobody was saying that."
Suffragetto was a board game published around 1908 where two teams, "women" and "police", vie to move past each others blockades.
Just in case if you were wondering if riots for social justice was anything new.
"And this language is called JavaScript."
Because it's like Java?
"No. It's completely unlike Java. And this language is called C#."
Because it's like C++?
"No, it's more like Java."
Being born in the 80s, I'm of the "Oregon Trail" generation of computing.
Kids born in the 00s are of the "ChatGPT" generation of computing.
So where do you see yourself five years from now?
Heh.
Heheheh.
Ha ha ha. Five... five years... ha ha ha
HA HA HAAA HA HA HA HAAA HOO BOY
@april "If you don't pay for the product, you are the product" is such a quaint thought in 2023; they're going to make you product even if you pay. Capitalism doesn't leave money on the table.
@thomasfuchs Uhg. I saw the photo before I read the description and I immediately thought it was AI-generated art.
My brain has been permanently damaged beyond repair.
If buying isn't owning, then piracy isn't stealing.
I really have to insist that now is the time to switch to Firefox.
I'M SORRY EVERYONE. I SHOULD HAVE GIVEN UP DRINKING A LONG TIME AGO.
Remember when computers would do what you told them, instead of trying to constantly shove suggestions/reminders/ads that you don't care about and specifically uninstall or get blockers for?
"I want to go camping this weekend. I was thinking of somewhere on the side of the highway or a sidewalk in front of a warehouse."
No camper thinks this.
"Anti-camping law" is just a way to hide how cruel "anti-homeless law" sounds.
I am this close to quitting being a tech book author and creating a startup whose search engine ranks websites by how little enshittification they have.
It'll basically be Wikipedia and Stack Overflow and people's old Geocities websites.
Photo taken October 2020
@pluralistic @defcon @eff I like how "my boyfriend and i even had an argument during your talk and now we are not speaking" is also somehow your fault.
@textfiles If you pitched the idea for Wikipedia today, they'd accuse you of being a communist.
Quick question about regex: Do these constant names make sense for these patterns?
ANYTHING is the lazy .*? pattern.
EVERYTHING is the greedy .* pattern.
SOMETHING is the lazy .+? pattern.
(I don't have a name for the greedy .+ pattern. Maybe ALL_OF_IT?)
And the . is ANYCHAR, while the escaped \. is PERIOD.
Are these names intuitive?
Uhg. AI-suggested code is fractally wrong. The function calls it gives me have the wrong arguments (like, it just uses the integer "128" instead of a memory buffer), and after I fix all that, I find that it's calling the wrong function in the first place. It's just making shit up.
AI gives plausible-looking answers, not correct answers.
"Anyone who wasn't liberal when they were young has no heart, anyone who isn't conservative when they're old has no brain."
Nah, you don't get more conservative as you get older, you get more selfish as you get richer. And my generation isn't getting richer as they get older.
Author of "Automate the Boring Stuff with Python" and other programming books. Mostly harmless. he/him
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