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"voluntary" can also be pretty meaningless depending on the context. In the UK, if the police suspects you of shenanigans, they'll politely invite you for an "voluntary interview".

Of course you can decide to not go, it's voluntary, right? Yes, you can. Your choice. And when you reject their kind offer they'll come and arrest you so you can attend the interview.

> Some animals are ready to go as soon as they are born

That trade has an extreme genetic advantage when other animals see you as their succulent mains on the a la carte exotic wildlife menu.

I can see from voting that this comment is highly controversial. It's actively being downvoted. Make of that what you like.

Yep, let alone life critical systems. You don't fuck with them just because.

> 17x strike policy for accounts that reportedly engaged in the “trafficking of humans for sex.”

Yep. You can engage in sexually trafficking people 16 times with a warning. 17th is just too much dude.

What sort of a deranged psychopath comes up with these rules?

Brings back memories but I can't say they are good. It was so limited that it was mostly frustration.

It's the reverse of the Cloaca Maxima, the Roman empire sewage system. Facebook is where unprocessed sewage is fed back to the people, straight into their hands.

Before JS had promises, JS code was plagued with the callback pyramid of doom. You needed an advanced masters degree in masochism to endure that. I don't think Python devs would have liked that.

Yep. It's ironic that reddit itself cured my reddit addiction.

Totally my feeling too.

The formula seems to be: dopamine, dopamine, dopamine, infuriating country dividing content, dopamine, dopamine, dopamine, infuriating country dividing content, dopamine, dopamine, dopamine ...

> I really don't think Python was close to dying

It absolutely was. What saved it was:

1. The data science / AI crowd that was gathering momentum any many only used Python 3.

2. No popular alternative. Perl got python as an alternative.

Python was also a good, simple language and had a good healthy culture. But it's nothing sort of a miracle that it survived that biblical software calamity.

I learned Perl back in the day. It was fun and powerful.

But I think the package management and culture killed it for me. People took pride is writing obnoxiously messy code. Package dependency hell. Gung ho borderline toxic RTFM culture.

I worked in a factory one summer when I was a teenager. It was a totally brain dead work, but the morale was good. The workers weren't unhappy.

I'm concerned that the new role of "manager of agents" (as google puts it) will be a soul destroying brain dead work and the morale won't be good.