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cumo

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All these moments fade like BBS echoes, CompuServe packets, Netscape dreams. Keep it simple.
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cumo··on The Wayland–X11 feud nobody needs
Since 2003
cumo··on The Wayland–X11 feud nobody needs
I'm still on X11 and happy with it ...
cumo··on Artificial intelligence blame for video-game industry layoffs may be misguided
Me too, I was very loyal and then got laid off.
cumo··on The $200K Developer Dream Is Over – Here's the Reality in 2026
I lost my job due to AI.
cumo··on We're all going to die, thanks to AI
Reality strikes back ...
cumo··on China reports largest gold discovery in more than seven decades (2025)
2025
cumo··on European Commission issues call for evidence on open source
This shows that the people in charge have no idea. If they understood the topic, there would be no need for evidence.
cumo··on European Commission issues call for evidence on open source
Fully agree!
cumo··on European Commission issues call for evidence on open source
Politics should never drive technical decisions unless the people involved actually understand the technology. When policy is made without that expertise, open source becomes a political slogan instead of a sustainable ecosystem.
cumo··on Rey: Life doesn't reward good people (it rewards this) [video]
No, I’m not paying for his course, I just appreciate someone actually putting "fresh" (reworked) ideas into the world. And sure, everyone has a life; that’s not exactly a philosophical revelation. If “Hegelian enlightenment” is your punchline, you might want to remember that Hegel, like Heraclitus, Plotinus, Spinoza, and Kant, built entire systems by reworking older metaphysics. That’s how philosophy grows.

Dismissing someone else’s work as “illegitimate” when you haven’t reworked a single idea yourself isn’t critique: it’s just opting out of the conversation while pretending you’re above it.P.S.: for you; the brain’s prefrontal cortex literally relies on pattern‑integration, not invention from scratch.

cumo··on Rey: Life doesn't reward good people (it rewards this) [video]
If you already know all this, what stopped you from making an eye‑opening video and actually illustrating those Zoroastrian principles yourself? Calling someone derivative is easy; producing something better is not.

And if you’d really absorbed thinkers like Spinoza, Kant, Hume, or Leibniz, you’d know that reworking older metaphysical frameworks is literally how intellectual progress happens. Every major philosopher in that era built on ancient ideas — they didn’t sneer at people for revisiting them.

cumo··on Rey: Life doesn't reward good people (it rewards this) [video]
He's a genius. I mean it seriously. We brought this up in the context of AI sweeping away entire domains — IT jobs, text‑based decision‑making roles, lawyers, developers, project managers, customer support, accounting, translation, data entry, marketing content creation, and even parts of medicine and finance. What is your energy?
cumo··on Stack Overflow forum is dead thanks to AI
The entire industry is dead, let's face it.
cumo··on The illusion of speed: why vibe coding is a dead end for enterprises
Vibe coding… homeopathy for wannabe developers. How long until CTOs start adopting the same strategy for highly critical applications? Will they trust developers, or will they trust the speed of AI? Time is money, it’s only a matter of time before every human application is evaluated, its performance measured, and its correctness weighed against speed.
cumo··on Zombie closures will fuel 2026 rise in unemployment
In 2025, the number of jobs cut by companies through closure increased to the highest level since 2011, while the share of employment moving between sectors also rose.

In addition, levels of inactivity related to ill health hit a high, with over 9 million people of working age out of work or not looking for work, many of them due to long-term sickness or early retirement.

cumo··on [dead]
Ultimately, very few people will be needed for projects in software engineering, Hinton predicted.
cumo··on Andrew Ng says vibe coding is a bad name for a real and exhausting job
What if someone still doesn’t understand the code from the prompt— does it still make sense to call them a 'pro'?
cumo··on The case against vibe coding
Vibe coding? Is it like homeopathy for full grown and experienced devs?
cumo··on Andrew Ng says vibe coding is a bad name for a real and exhausting job
I agree ...
cumo··on AI is Eating these jobs and the Data is Concerning
BTW the data is impressive ...
cumo··on Vibe Coding Is Overrated
I've had a similar experience. It requires strong nerves and a lot of patience.
cumo··on The Automation Takeover: Are Software Engineers Becoming Obsolete?
Yes
cumo··on The End of Programming
At the end, AI can replace coders ...
cumo··on You are paid what you are worth
Right :D

I was thinking the same thing ...