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If donating money is free speech why don’t you try giving some to a group categorized as a terrorist organization

Even as an American reading some diaries of English colonists provided a lot of insight into the culture to this day.

I remember one where a man decided to move to America to escape religious persecution. Of course said religious persecution was his neighbors laughing and dancing and enjoying themselves.

> having kids and raising them unlocks completely new human skill trees that were previously hidden from you

Holy mother of autism. “my life is like a video game”. Please tell me you don’t have kids. They’re doomed if so.

Trump is a puppet. At least since his second term.

Isn’t it funny in this country, how people will shoot at some figurehead of a subsidiary company or a fat geezer with narcissistic tendencies, or a political pundit.

But a whole global elite pedophile cabal was exposed and no one involved in that is getting shot in the streets.

> And aside from algorithms, it usually comes down to avoiding memory allocations.

I’ve heard about HFT people using Java for workloads where micro optimization is needed.

To be frank, I just never understood it. From what I’ve seen heard/you have to write the code in such a way that makes it look clumsy and incompatible with pretty much any third party dependencies out there.

And at that point, why are you even using Java? Surely you could use C, C++, or any variety of popular or unpopular languages that would be more fitting and ergonomic (sorry but as a language Java just feels inferior to C# even). The biggest swelling point of Java is the ecosystem, and you can’t even really use that.

Very cool thread. Middle school jokes and culture wars. I’m so glad we don’t allow political threads on here and can instead bask in the intellectual might of people talking about TV man the did/didn’t like.

> We're about to pull the rug underneath all knowledge workers. This will disrupt wage earners lives. This will disrupt the economy.

It will put and end to the middle class entirely, but that’s the intent.

The reality is a lot of people who were formerly middle or upper middle class, and even some lower class populations will face steep, irreversible “status adjustment”.

I’m not talking about “we used to be able to take vacations and now we can’t”. I’m talking about “we used to be highly paid professionals now we’re viciously competing for low paid day labor (gig work) to hopefully be able to afford the cheap cuts this week”.

> The behaviors of NFT advocates and AI advocates are shockingly similar.

It’s the same people every time. Stupid, gullible idiots.

Remember when HN was obsessed with the room temp superconductivity fraud a few years back? Remember the zealous indignation at anyone suggest skepticism? The empty attempts to downplay their rabid stupidity afterwards?

Sadly indie developers are only just starting get into my preferred genre. I am excited to see how a number of upcoming titles turn out, but for the time I’m stuck waiting for $AAA_DEVELOPER to change.

I’ve had half the mind to just try my own hand at game dev again.

> Then cut to 2026 and suddenly its like we just collectively decided software quality doesn't matter

Is this new to people? I figured this out when I first entered the industry. The messages have never been particularly subtle.

Nowadays you need ID to buy dextromethorphan cough syrups even. Being sick got a lot more miserable when I learned Id have to interact with the doordasher to get my remedies delivered.

It happened in the Simpsons.

You say that, but I’ve been watching a lot of those body cam channels over the past few years.

I remember one quite well, in which the police were raiding some suburban Texas home and decided to steal the guns and cocaine they found in it.

The kicker: They forgot to turn off their body cams while doing and discussing it.