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Re:Can we have the day off? on Wednesday May 27, 2026 @10:56PM (#48303865)
Also start a union at your company and sue them if they retaliate.
Re:Can we have the day off? on Wednesday May 27, 2026 @10:55PM (#48303852)
How's that boot taste?
Re:Bun support is now limited and deprecated on Friday May 22, 2026 @09:37PM (#48243673)
Engineers not caring is what leads to people working for scumbags who build socially poisonous technology.
Re:Bun support is now limited and deprecated on Friday May 22, 2026 @08:33PM (#48243282)
You might not like it but you actually live in a world with other people and building technology often affects their lives and they have opinions on it. For AI a lot of that impact has been negative.
It has absolutely been a thing in Europe and there have been numerous accidents involving Russian and European aircraft at events like the Paris Airshow.
US military airshows make a point to use combat ready aircraft. F-22s flew over SF during fleet week.
Re:Claude for Legal on Friday May 15, 2026 @12:22PM (#48150523)
Every company with Fedramp certification.
Re:Reverting the incremental GC in Python 3.14 and 3.15 on Thursday May 14, 2026 @06:17PM (#48142001)
No, python is specifically a mess.
Re:Claude for Legal on Thursday May 14, 2026 @06:12PM (#48141956)
Harvey was always an upstart in the legal tech industry. There's other companies that have a much better understanding of the market and compliance issues but you don't hear about them because nobody wants to talk about legal tech.
Re:Reverting the incremental GC in Python 3.14 and 3.15 on Thursday May 14, 2026 @04:07PM (#48140542)
I mentioned those explicitly. People are still using it as a backend language for projects like huge SaaS deployments though, with the hypothesis being that dev time is expensive. With modern languages like kotlin and go, I think that gap is much too narrow to justify using a slow and badly designed language with good syntax.
Re:Reverting the incremental GC in Python 3.14 and 3.15 on Wednesday May 13, 2026 @03:04PM (#48126028)
No we should write one of the many modern programming languages that handle certain projects way better, including kotlin, go, or Java. The only things python is best in class at are scripting and as a harness for high performance c++ or fortran.
Re:Reverting the incremental GC in Python 3.14 and 3.15 on Wednesday May 13, 2026 @01:17PM (#48124743)
Python is a garbage language. Dynamic types are a disaster for maintaining large codebases and we waste enormous amounts of compute running large systems with it.
Re:Reverting the incremental GC in Python 3.14 and 3.15 on Wednesday May 13, 2026 @01:11PM (#48124654)
Python is such a mess.
Skill issue.
Zig does in fact do some stuff to address memory management like making allocations more explicit using allocators and shipping with arenas.
Maybe they should put more consideration towards quality if they have a ton of memory issues.
It's very possible to write dogshit rust code.
He started the war!
People will blame climate policy on this but this is evidence that we've failed to move off our fossil fuel dependency.
This is a good reason to move our infrastructure further off of being dependent on a highly volatile region actually.
It's not settled law so I'm not sure how that's clear to you.
Every line of code is a liability
Re:I built a Game Boy emulator in F# on Thursday April 30, 2026 @07:19PM (#47969568)
Got it
Re:I built a Game Boy emulator in F# on Thursday April 30, 2026 @02:01PM (#47966086)
I'm actually starting a new project to create a gba emulator in zig, and also starting with chip8. I'm going to skip nand to tetris because I played Turing complete. Cool to see I'm on the right track!
Re:Craig Venter has died on Thursday April 30, 2026 @02:36AM (#47958984)
A giant in biology. This is a real loss.
I'm not defending it I'm just explaining how badly they mismanaged it lol
Musk saddled that company with an additional billion in debt interest payments every year so they were in a cash crunch.
Meta forces employees to use personal Facebook accounts at work.
Re:EFF is leaving X on Thursday April 09, 2026 @03:13PM (#47708336)
Have there been any so brazen as Musk, who used his influence to infiltrate our government and usurp the congressional power of the purse directly and illegally?
Or we'll have ecological collapse.

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