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this is not engineering

It feels really shitty to me when companies that are profitable lay people off

So the equivalent of std::move will also make sure to "null" the original object at the same time?

Meritocracy is something which must be vehemently defended. We cannot give an inch to people who would destroy it. Without meritocracy, liberalism is dead

I generally opt for a lifetime license for software I use, but this site looks like the lifetime license is $300

I use it to talk with my wife and sister in law. It's pretty cool, and has a decent developer API for making chatbots, though I don't see the point of chatbots personally

I like writing C++ code, and I like using SAL annotations to try to improve safety. I try to remember to be const correct as best as I can. Is Rust something I would enjoy? It's hard to discern the signal from the noise on this lang

> But the government says only services posing the highest risk to children will need age verification.

They obviously have never seen the Wikipedia article for "mons pubis"

Why not

> 5 years

Because Apple will forcibly kill it after that with incompatible software updates. Windows machines keep going until they physically break.

But what everyone here is missing is that the consumer desktop/laptop market is dying itself. Soon it will only be for enterprise uses and gaming. Most people do all their computing through a phone or tablet. I know people who don't own a laptop.

> if any of the modern operating systems had halfway decent sandboxing

What qualifies as "halfway decent"? For servers, Linux seems to have a good set of utilities (taken advantage of by docker). Windows doesn't seem to have as good system calls (like chroot, for example), but UWP apps seem to be decent enough for a sandboxed app. What would be a good example of sandboxing for you?

Personally I think that websites are the most popular way to distribute applications because it only requires a single link or URL to download the software and have it run immediately as required. No other cross-platform computing VM (JVM, CLR) can boast about that kind of ease of distribution. Additionally, HTML + CSS + JS have proven to be the most popular UI platforms. XAML just doesn't come close to the flexibility provided by these tools, and non-declarative UI is just out of the question for the majority of people designing websites in HTML, who are not software engineers

Keeps you alive

Evil is a useless word for psychologists. People shoot up their schools because there's something wrong with their heads, not because of good vs evil.

But I will say that people who molest children ARE often mentally ill. Often, they themselves were abused and people who undergo traumatic experiences have a tendency to recreate those experiences. Seeing child molesters as purely evil and irredeemable does nothing to help us prevent child molestation.

> People would likely still farm and produce and maintain, even clean and repair, everything that is deemed meaningful and important, but few if anyone would voluntarily open an Excel spreadsheet ever again or schedule an entirely pointless meeting.

Somehow I doubt that most people working in agriculture would continue to do so in a post-money society. When they collectivized farms in communist russia and china, productivity plummeted and millions starved to death due to government incompetence.

I, personally, have a job because I have other people relying on me who don't

>The miners move to other blue collar jobs, they became truck drivers, plumbers, welders, factory workers, etc.

Actually a lot of them didn't transition to anything. They stopped working and went on welfare or disability.

> help people who have chosen to be evil (worst examples being child rapists, school shooters,etc... not sick, evil! But evil has no place in a freudian context).

Evil has no place in any psychological context. People who commit these crimes ARE sick. Whether or not they're evil is up to you, but its not a question for psychology

Yes, it's unfortunate that Programming Windows after 5ed became about XAML and C#. Those are good tools, but it's sad that they stopped updating the Win32/C++ resources as well.

I've found that suburbs are a lot more sociable and friendly than cities. Its impossible to make friends in a new city, and it seems like none of your neighbors are interested either. You have to be the one to go out of your way to meet new people

The real reason is the same in Japan as it is in Europe and America: even controlling for hours worked, low wages, high cost of living, and other economic costs associated with having a child, women are choosing not the have children because it would require them to end their careers in their prime. It is extremely difficult to have a child and a career at the same time as a woman, and many never return to the workforce. Even women who make good money and can afford to have children decide not to because it would require them to stop working

It seems vastly harder to make friends in a city, to me. When I lived in the suburbs, it was really simple to make friends. In the city, I dont know anyone. I agree that its nice to live so close to friends, but it seems impossible to MAKE any in the city.

I have found that the suburbs are far friendlier than cities. In the suburbs, I knew a lots of my neighbors, and making friends was very easy. In the city, nobody talks to anybody. City people are just unfriendly or theyre sick of other people or something

https://www.pewresearch.org/social-trends/2018/05/22/how-urb...

> Four-in-ten rural residents say they know all or most of their neighbors; the shares are smaller among those living in urban (24%) and suburban (28%) areas.

> I'm hoping that's normal

The vast majority of people on the planet do not know calculus and will never need to, so yes it is completely normal

he alienates people not because hes white or male but because he's an uncharismatic libertarian toad

It was enlightening to me when I started applying to jobs to find out that the companies which were renowned for their innovation and productivity had a several week, 5-stage+, committee-based hiring process that made you feel like a sow getting its haunches graded before slaughter

This is a racist statement

I would not take opinions on technology very seriously from people who use technology like it's 1985. RMS does not have a real job as a software engineer and never has, and also does not work in the private sector. He is out of touch with reality and stopped growing as a human being at MIT

The only thing an organization is obligated to do is:

1. Treat all candidates equally, regardless of race, sex, etc.

2. Hire the most qualified candidate for the job, regardless of race, sex, etc.

3. Not engage in conscious or unconscious selection bias when looking for new applicants. I consider it to be a valid hiring practice to make sure you show up to career fairs at HBCUs or women's universities

Doing anything beyond that is not only a bad solution, it is immoral to press your hand down on the weight of one candidate over another based on his or her identity categories. It is as wrong to prefer a white candidate as it is to prefer a black candidate.

Can you give an example?

The goal of FSF is not one which people inherently identify with. You can either die on that hill (and you surely will die), or you can go out of your way to try to be diplomatic and convince people of your mission.

If living the FSF moral means being like RMS, you'll never convince anyone. Here is how he browses the internet:

> I generally do not connect to web sites from my own machine, aside from a few sites I have some special relationship with. I usually fetch web pages from other sites by sending mail to a program (see https://git.savannah.gnu.org/git/womb/hacks.git) that fetches them, much like wget, and then mails them back to me. Then I look at them using a web browser, unless it is easy to see the text in the HTML page directly. I usually try lynx first, then a graphical browser if the page needs it.

https://stallman.org/stallman-computing.html

This is the behavior of a lunatic, and not someone who I consider tethered to modern society or the economy that relies on technology. He reminds of the guy in "better call saul" who has removed all forms of electromagnetism in his house. If I met this person IRL, and he tried to convince me of literally any opinion, I would assume outright that these are the ravings of a mentally ill person with paranoid delusions of grandeur

> I am not calling for non-proportional representation, or for forcing proportional representation either.

Then what, precisely, are you calling for when you call for more surface-level diversity in the leadership? How do you achieve proportional representation without manual manipulation?

And why do you think that DEI is the first problem worth listing? If we're criticizing Stallman as an unpopular and uncharismatic leader, it seems like his documented history of comments about child molestation should be #1, not vague hand waving over race and sex.