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All of this stuff was hacked into the executive branch to begin with. People have been pointing out that the CFR is way longer than US code for a long time and someone finally dealt with it.

If you truly believe that you should either emigrate or campaign for secession at least for your own sake.

Steam has always been a pig with data.

When I used to live with my parents I specifically bought the physical Orange box so I could play portal and half life without having to download anything over the horribly slow and metered satellite connection.

Steam immediately forced a multi-day process of downloading and updating steam, then downloading and updating portal, before I was able to launch the game and have it crash from broken GMA950 drivers.

I buy maybe one game a year these days but I always buy it from GOG pretty much because of that experience.

As someone who actually did date a Canadian for a while I really kind of hate this joke.

I meant immigration in general. Obviously people on H1B visas don't (or at least shouldn't) change voting patterns.

You can't not be nativist to some degree. Otherwise all you have is an economic zone, not a country.

That's a completely ridiculous definition of fascism and again, if you pick that most Americans would be fascist and consider it a good thing.

Asians are 7% of the US population and above 30% of the engineering workforce at most tech companies. So either Asians are just extremely genetically/culturally superior somehow (which seems unlikely given the state of the software industry in most of their countries) or something is going on.

It's fascist in the anti-communist sense sure, but most Americans would be fascist then.

I used to be but that's not how any of these immigration programs are used. Often they've been used to crush domestic workers and even change demographics and voting patterns.

At this point it doesn't look like allowing anything other than net emigration is practical. You just can't trust the people involved to do anything else.

Healthcare wouldn't be nearly as much of the issue it is if it weren't for healthcare administration and the cap on MDs. The private vs public debate becomes way less interesting when the cost drops 90%. Getting rid of that problem should really be everyone's focus.

Anything that locks you out of your own computer is at absolute best an availability failure but more often than not forces you to use compromised system software.

You do also need to assist the OS in doing hardware probing. Even older BIOS systems had ACPI and other standards.

Sure but it's the overly general hashmap based interfaces everywhere which includes these canned serialization formats that's the issue. Someone else in this thread posted noyaml.com which is a great summary of the issue there.

Trump won't even do H1B reform which is something plenty of non-nationalist moderates want.

This attitude is why there's very little useful software for the iPhone compared to something like Linux.

Instead all you have is spamy garbage full of ads and addictive social media cybernetics.

Do people have an issue with the smollm datasets? I guess it isn't really commercial.

It's crazy. Aider has been able to do this forever using free models but none of these companies will even let you pay for it in a phone/web app. I almost feel like I should start building my own service but I know any day now they'd offer it and I'd have wasted all that effort.

I've been writing some software that does this actually. I have like 3 serious parallel side projects going though plus my day job.

The first thing I bought at my last job was the Oreilly Ruby book. I can't remember what it's called.

LMAO that's exactly the kind of pattern I'm ranting about. I don't know if you're being sarcastic or not.

Hash maps. Everyone just turns their brains off and uses hash maps for everything. The code this creates is awful for users, awful for people consuming it, awful for people maintaining it.

Think for five minutes about your abstraction and create meaningful types and config languages, don't just hack it with a hashmap.

Python has amazing documentation. Between the built-in help() function and the official documentation (which is hosted on their site) it's hard to find anything better.

Ah ... something. Where would we be without something?

I haven't read the article (and would prefer not to experience both the site and the writing) but I would guess what the author means is that getting rid of loneliness will remove people's drive to avoid being alone.

Frankly I think it's fine. PR and marketing people have put a lot of effort into making people anxious about this when the reality is that socializing in a late stage imperial society tends to be a net loss for most people and they are actually better off alone.

The reality is that the technology is incidental. People are grabbing whatever they can to solve their problems and the technology just happens to be there. It's certainly better than the last solution (Instagram and friends.)

It's well known that in the US people are doing much more poorly than their parents on average.

Except having what are essentially televisions in their pocket. That's the one win they get.

Sure. I don't think the inequality was the primary complaint though.

The problem is (whether it's real or not) the majority of the US population feels the economic prosperity is being used against them.

You might say it's a PR problem, others might say it's an actual problem. Either way it's going away now.

Well yeah you've practically done the same thing that's been done with software where juniors need education plus three years of experience for their first job so you have no juniors.

I think it's useful but there's all this peripheral administrative/training stuff my current employer is forcing us through that's pretty annoying.

Huh. My last girlfriend told me I had "the gay walk" and never could figure out what she meant. I wonder if this is it.