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Idk who needs to hear this but "Lone Wolf" assassin's don't hide their intentions and delusions behind encrypted iCloud accounts and impenetrable firewalls on their lappy.

They write rambling manifestos. Make lengthy wild eyed vlogs staring directly in the camera. Create hundreds or thousands of posts and replies on the internet bemoaning the target of their obsession.

Crazed political extremists don't keep their persuasions clandestine. They tell the whole fuckin' world. Anybody who'll listen.

Do you post to a non-fediverse social network in addition to posting to the fediverse? Please boost for reach (or not, I can't tell you what to do)

everybody wants to be good at programming but nobody wants to suck at programming for 5 years so they can be good at programming

@pee_zombie @dagon Bluesky is supposed to be prepared to deal with exactly thus use case, but it's not clear how reliable non-bsky PDSs are.

It also has its own issues that aren't clear if they're solvable or not.

Exciting developments over there.

@rauschma I am super happy to see the return of the new feature posts.

"How does AI impact my job as a programmer?": chelseatroy.com/2024/05/26/how

This is a brilliant piece told from the perspective of a Computer Science teacher.

It really hits in all the right places and mirrors a lot of my issues.

I appreciate the pragmatic approach of not fighting but letting folks see how it fails on interesting problems.

The article does not hesitant to point the finger back at the programming culture itself.

@futurebird they have their whole own history with separate social and legislative successes and failures.

Environmentalism has a long history of globalism: everyone is at risk from a dying planet.

Woke additions to that, like <seas rise, minorities hardest hit> are a new thing, and certainly post-dated banning DDT and saving the bald eagle

infohazard heuristic: if it gets over 20 reblargs and updoots it's a psyop

If AI was really as good at satisfying literary whims as some claim, I would even now be holding in my hands a copy of Shakespeare's _þe Lamentable Tragedie of Saruman þe White_.

most guitarists only know three chords and the truth. guitars georg, who knows all the chords, is an outlier and should not be counted.

Q: Where can I find old API documentation on your website?
A: Those APIs are obsolete and should no longer be used. Use the latest documentation only.
Q: How can I migrate my code to the new APIs when I can't check the old documentation?
A: ...

@mia

Surely theft are some places that rely on the semantics of ==. I wonder if you'll fix more bugs than you create

The reason why catgirls dislike Java, is because they have vertical pupils, and thus need to rotate their head 90 degrees to take in the long class names.

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