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I oppose nuclear for a very simple reason: there is no way to deal with the long term waste. Not just the small amount of waste from the fuel, but the reactor components.

The waste will burden hundreds of generations for millenia and the reason? Our current consumption

Such greed and disregard for following generations

Climate change is a minor problem in comparison

Good job! I despise advertising billboards.

Yes

> no way I am going to ship the code as written without actually reading through it

Interestingly agents can help, not replace, this process

These tools will make us more productive, they will disrupt (have disrupted) our industry, but they will not replace us because they cannot

Here we are again, thirty years after I was taught the "waterfall" paradigm at business school.

When asked about "customer satisfaction" we were told, awkwardly, that became "political"

The paradigm did not survive its encounter with reality, and I do not think this one will either

The "only" 175% increase in productivity is very impressive, and seems realistic to me, when you remove the chores of writing code (thank you to coding agents)

What you build is still very dependant on what you need, and you do not know that until you build it

It is a paradox only for the "waterfall" paradigm. We rejected it, in the 1990s for a reason

It did not work

Would it be terrible thing if the answers to all of your rhetorical questions was "yes"?

As we become more democratic we can control these greedy, careless and horrid people.

Ignoring negative externalities is such a twentieth century way to get rich.

For me one of the main attractions of Emacs is I can use it in a terminal over a shitty wire, or on the desktop with all Gui bells and whistles.

Same in both places. Bliss

I ran Emacs for ~25 years with almost no custom configuration. I could not be bothered, and the defaults were great

In the last decade I have started to add configuration. When GPT-3 became available, and I did not have to learn Elisp (another f%^&*n computer language - with no other use) I have extensively configured my Emacs

My point is it is very usable with no config

This will damage Meta's business. As the meme that they cannot be trusted spreads alternative methods of communication will revive, and start to flourish

Trust does matter. Hard to win, easier to loose, and no matter how big you are, how mean you seem, you can still sicken and die

> A lot of people are implying that people that object should leave the company

Another obvious point is: those computer programmers, and related professions, are now precarious employees.

Times have changed, there are redundant computists all over the place. Telling people they should leave the job that feeds their family because of short sighted management is cruel

apart from criminals for crime, politicians for corruption and grandma sending her savings to a scammer, who is using crypto?

Yes. There should be a law against it....

I think the USA has laws against private citizens involving themselves in foreign policy

Edit: The Logan Act

Ironically the "Oxford comma" is American.

The Guardian is English, I am surprised they tolerate it

> obviously crows don’t understand us at all.

What is not obvious. Not at all.