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  • Thousands of H-1B workers would be sent back to India, and those submissive, loyal Indian workers would be replaced by locals – something venture capitalists don’t want. But guess what? AI will eventually replace these workers anyway.

    Most big tech companies are full of unnecessary employees. Elon Musk recognized this and fired many employees after buying Twitter. Everyone thought it was a crazy decision, but it worked perfectly.

    Unhinged rant, not news.





  • Rich guys make a Reddit mee-too, wearing the clothes of a long-dead website.

    It has no unique content, is not the center forum of any community, no untapped niche to fill.

    PROMISINGGGHHHH says the journalist

    Edit: I fucking hate mainstream tech journalism.

    When one person says it’s sunny and another says it is raining, the role of the journalist is not to report the claims. The journalist’s job is to look out the window and check.

    When one person says it is sunny, the tech journalist’s job is to sit in their windowless sweat cubicle and go “Wow! I am excited by how sunny it is!”


  • I grew up with analog clocks and can read them at a glance.

    For the most part, I don’t really care precisely about minute. E.g. the analog clock in my kitchen is only used to tell me that it’s “roughly 2 minutes past 5 soon” and it’s enough for me to put the potatoes on.

    If I need to know precisely whether it’s 16:03 vs 16:04, I use a digital clock. Though mostly because my analog clocks are not precisely synced at all times.

    Back when analog was the norm, nobody cared about a minute here or there unless they had some specific profession. Like, the bus came “15:15 ish maybe 5 minutes early maybe 10 minutes late”. Everyone’s clock were off by at least 2 minutes anyway.

    Today in the digital age, the bus schedule says “15:17”


  • That is one of the points, yes.

    But, the reason for wanting the IDE to validate based on partially entered expressions is given as making it easier to follow the code for a person working left-to-right.

    And it’s not an invalid thing to want, but I expect the discussion to also include how it affects reading the code for a non-beginner.


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    Is string length len, length, size, count, num, or # ? Is there even a global function for length? You won’t know until you try all of them.

    This is Python basics, so the argument would be to optimize readability specifically for people who have zero familiarity with the language.

    (The other examples have the same general direction of readability tradeoff to the benefit of beginners, this one was just simplest to pick here)

    That’s a valid tradeoff to discuss, if discussed as a tradeoff. Here it is not. The cost to readability for anyone with language familiarity appear to be not even understood.




  • Well, sure. scp -r source target works with git too. And pretty much everything if you have/want filesystem as your access point.

    Appreciate learning about fossil, but switching all my stuff to a different VCS entirely is overkill, and I can’t see it doing anything easier, simpler or better than git. Especially if I want to make it easy for others to depend on my stuff.