vonwoodson

You, sir, are an idiot. Keep playing victim, though; I'm sure that'll work out for you.

No. The Tiktok ban is because the PRC is using it to track US (and other country's') citizens. This is fundamentally no different than what Facebook has been doing for years, but China doesn't have a free market, so every piece of data is available to the PRC intelligence.

This should not be a surprise, but you folks are idiots who think only The Big Bad United States are (somehow) the only ones interested in spying.

They speak French in Louisiana, German in Amish Country, Gullah in North Carolina... Your ignorance doesn't make you correct.

YES! "just" means hours and hours and hours [...] and hours of work!

Aww! Cute picture! Look at those Cargo pants/shorts... wait...

Why does home-boy have a f-ing machete?!

The difference between California, Texas, South Dakota, Maine, Ohio are as different as Turkey, France, Australia, Ireland, Japan... It's a really foolish opinion or disregard the immense diversity of 350,000,000 people, and (unfortunately) it's made all over the internet.

"Why don't you just do X", totally papers over the extent of what just needs to happen.

"Everyone should just do Y" is always bad policy. Just look at what happened with something as simple as wearing masks.

Yeah, the TikTok ban isn't about restricting content for US users, it's about restricting the data vacuum that is the PRC. TikTok has already been banned for Govmnt employees for years. And, for good reason.

Sometimes, we have to remind ourselves that our government is not the bad guy. The bad guys are the bad guys; and those bad guys aren't often bad to their own kind.

You have to squint pretty hard to think that I'm "trash talking" anything in my post.

While The White House (and actual Rust and Go enjoyers) are advocating for these safe memory-safe languages; what is really going on is that the warts these languages have are just not as well known yet. In a few years time Go will be just as hated as C++, and there'll be some new darling programming language that'll "solve all out problems".

To be fair, I do look forward to when logic programming languages get their time in The Sun.

I'll go ahead and say that neovim is bad. Any reason to use neovim has long since past.

I didn't start the editor wars, but the neovim team jumped in with both feet. They deserve the ire of those of us who never wanted to see vim forked in the first place, let alone a half-assed broken "neo" version.

The scariest difference between OpenAI and Google right now is: Ask Gemini who owns the code it writes, and it'll confidently say that Google does. Ask OpenAI, and it'll say that you do. It's that easy to choose which one is the better decision.

This is exactly my problem. For some things it's great, but it quickly forgets things that are critical for extended work. When trying to put together and sort of complex work: it does not remember things until I remind it which can make prompts that must contain all of the conversation up to that point and create non-repeatable responses that also tend to bring in the options of it's own programming or rules that corrupt my messaging. It's very frustrating, to the point where anything beyond a simple outline is more work than it's worth.