Which one of them is the one that referred to workers as niggers in their codebase?

It’s Japan. If anything is promoting drug abuse, it’s the work culture.

What’s trump got to do with toilet paper? I don’t like the fucker, but I live halfway across the world and we had the exact same issue here, people bought up all the toilet paper readily available in stores.

Google is allowing the app developers to choose (for now?). With Apple, developers never had the option to allow other stores or sideloading.

I’m lucky enough that both of the shareholders of my company are software engineers; one has transitioned to sales and project management, the other is still an engineer, he’s also the CTO.

Was discussing office chairs with our team lead/office supplies person (it’s a really small company, some people have multiple roles) and when I mentioned that my chair gets really creaky when leaning back but otherwise it works so it really just needs some lubrication, she asked why I would even lean so far back in my chair and the CTO told her “There’s two sitting positions for programming. The writing position and the thinking position”

TL;DR: Takes an engineer to know how engineering works. Turns out that you have to spend a lot of time just thinking

Did he just age a year in 2 minutes?

Interestingly enough, I had fallacies as part of my base native language class. Can’t remember if it was middle school or high school, but we definitely learned about the most common ones like ad hominem, false dilemma, slippery slope, etc.

Kinda imagined it would be similar elsewhere, but unfortunately not I guess

There’s always a question of where do we draw the line?

The justice system is a form of government overreach. To be truly free, everyone should be allowed to do absolutely anything, including murder and theft.

Hmm, doesn’t seem like a good idea. People might infringe on other people’s right to live, or more importantly, their private property. Maybe we should do something about it… Idk, adopt some laws, have police that can arrest you for committing a crime?

Okay, now we already have a government, but they don’t do a whole lot. Yet to some, this would still be called overreach.

Ding ding ding, it’s a fire! In your neighborhood! Who’s going to put it out? Well the private firefighters are - IF the owner first sells the house to them for cheap. Otherwise, what’s the point even?

Wait, shit… Maybe firefighters shouldn’t be private either?

Anyway, this is all too much for my tiny mind right now. You see, I grew up somewhat poor so I should’ve gone and worked the farms at the age of 7 instead of going to school, which my family shouldn’t have been able to afford under a completely fair, anarcho-capitalist system. Unfortunately, it was free for me - other people suffered and paid taxes so that I could receive free education I didn’t deserve, and the social mobility that comes with it. I now have those peoples’ blood on my hands, for they paid a little bit of income and social taxes.

I diagram everything out in my brain and it evolves continuously while I’m writing code

Sometimes I feel it’s a miracle I get anything done at all but then usually the end result is better than what I’d originally envisioned so it kinda balances out.

But think about arguing online! It’s apparently a hobby and to be competitive, you need to be able to spew bullshit at amazing rates. Personally I’ve maxed out at 140 wpm, but usually stay in the 100 wpm range.

Programming? Idk, I spend more time thinking than typing personally. Good code requires you to consider all the corner cases and such.

In my country, if you can’t do the mandatory military service (and yes, being a pacifist is a valid reason I believe), you can do the same amount of time working for a charity and get paid minimum wage. I know a guy who worked for the food bank, but there are other options obviously.

It’s not the perfect program - I’d prefer if you could just immediately choose to do the humanitarian service instead of the military one, rather than having to go through the medical check for the military one first. And I think minimum wage is pretty horrible if you don’t also get provided housing… But overall, I like the idea.

“Manufacturers and tech companies have a bigger role to play”

Yeah Apple is already making the parts junk with the locking but it doesn’t seem to help.

Facebook 15 years ago wasn’t all that bad tbh. It was nice being able to write to just about anyone you met in real life.

It’d already been getting worse for a while, but to me, the 2016 US election was when things got super obvious. Same with reddit. Can’t believe it’s been 8 years already.

This shit right here is why people buy Apple. You sell your soul to the devil and get convenience in return.

Don’t get me wrong - both my work laptop and my gaming PC run Linux. But my phone is still an iPhone and if I ever have need for a personal laptop again, it’s gonna be a Macbook Air again.

Having not seen either…

What is this and why?

Gender neutral pronouns might be pretty huge too, but nobody’s private data is getting hacked because of gendered pronoun use.

I’m no conspiracy theorist, but if I needed to discuss anything legal, I wouldn’t want to do it near a phone. Or a newish car. Or a smart TV…

The list of things that could be listening to us if there’s a vulnerability for the 3 letter agencies to exploit, is ridiculous. And outside of phone and desktop operating systems, few things get regular secrity updates.

I hope it succeeds just enough to take the right wing nutters off YouTube and give YouTube an incentive to improve its service. But that it stays unsuccessful enough that it keeps burning a hole in Elon’s pocket

Oh much of my playtime was in Azeroth during TBC, I didn’t really have flying mounts lol

I might just be too casual, but I remember that half the fun of WoW was traveling. Of course, I never got into raids or pvp anyway, I leveled up and did dungeons lol