Every old person was terrified of the government determining who would live or die. So instead they decided to keep paying for the privilege of letting a for-profit insurance company to do the same thing instead

my stars, I may faint

I think they forget that people below them value their own lives. I don’t know any security guards who are willing to lay down their own lives for some CEO for moderate pay. If it’s that or continuing to live? Idk, it’s a feel good measure in my book.

So many CEOs on LinkedIn calling for more security for executives. None of them have the self awareness to think “is my company doing anything that would warrant such a response?”. Maybe stop being evil fucks?

Doesn’t matter, there’s more than likely a callback in the url that says who it was, and now the sender knows the number is active and the user clicks on links

Holding up a giant sign that says “I CLICK ON WHATEVER BULLSHIT LINK YOU SEND ME”

Turns out most people would actually, there have been multiple surveys done now and that’s always the winner, but then how would businesses cope?

Or you could do all of that instead of asking your friend. It’s easy, you just say “would you like to go out on a date?”. Done.

Given all of this that I’ve read, I’d be confused as hell too if I were him. You’re only planning group things which tells me you’re more interested in being friends at that point, anymore you’ve never come outright and said anything. You said he’s the shy one, so what’s holding you back?

No friends, no groups, just go over to his house already and ask him. Love does not have to be this complicated, people.

COVID I think it was about a year and a few months, we live in a far away city and no one felt safe flying to see each other

Ha.

As long as it works for you, it’s your decision. I would caution you if you take that thinking into serious illness though. Our ancestors weren’t able to fight back cancers or serious infections, we have some serious survival bias there. When it comes to serious illness the only way we’ve been able to extend our lifespan and fight back serious illness is because of modern medicine.

Go too far down that path and you end up like Steve jobs who was convinced juice would cure his cancer

If there is anything I’ve learned in my 10+ years as an engineer, it’s that there are no good or bad languages, just pros and cons of each in different applications.

Except NodeJS. Never use JavaScript on the backend.

That’s the biggest thing. More than anything they want us to keep buying, and they want to maximize profit. The guaranteed thing that will happen is they won’t do anything that will jeopardize profits. So I’m really curious how much was just politicking, because more than anything they want the public to be dumb with their pocketbooks open.

In my experience the best way to remember passwords is to… Get a password manager

Yeah the point of the prequels was that they weren’t innocent. They had grown complacent, and solely focused on tradition instead of thinking about the actual Jedi values. Anakin was right, but didn’t know the way to fix it and instead followed the sith.

I love that the gpl license is taking over more and more. I have a couple projects and I proudly use the gpl license. You want to use it? As long as you’re at least as open as I am go for it! You want to close source your code? You’re going to talk to me about licensing my code then.

14 year old me would be all over this advice. In fact, it was all over him, like a thick layer of woman repellant

What prompted your decision to leave?

The API thing last year was my last straw. Finally killing off the last of the “we totally love our users” bit and changing it to a very profit-focused platform was the indication it was time. It wasn’t until after I left did I realize what a toll it was taking on my mental health.

were you able to get others to join you on Lemmy?

Tried, but it didn’t stick. Learned that people will move over naturally. I talk about it if people ask me why I’m not on Reddit, but I never push or actively encourage. I learned that only makes people less likely to try it. Don’t know why, probably some psychological reasoning, but if I show I’m too excited about something they’ll actively avoid it.

I’ll give you that one. LLMs in their current state help me write code that otherwise I would be putting off or asking someone else to do. Not because it’s hard but because I’ve done it 1000 times and I find it tedious, and I’d expect an entrylevel/jr to take it with stride. Even right now I’m using it to write some python code that otherwise I just don’t want to write. So, I guess it’s time to uplevel engineers. The bar has been raised, and not for the first time in our careers.

I was super nervous AI would replace me, a programmer. So i spent a long time learning, hosting, running, and coding with models, and man did I learn a lot, and you’re spot on. They’re really cool, but practical applications vs standard ML models are fairly limited. Even the investors are learning that right now, that everything was pure hype and now we’re finding out what companies are actually using AI well.