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Also start a union at your company and sue them if they retaliate.

Depending on your workplace and professional circle, influencing political opinions may be easier than unionizing. But both can be done.

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.

I don't have the emotional energy to care, actually.

This is actually fascinating. How does my opinion matter? Should I join all the socials (this is my only form of social media) and stand on my soapbox and shout into the void? Do I need to express I care so others know I care and have picked a side and have opionions on evrything?

I do not care. My opinion does not matter. I can scream into all the voids. I can virtue signal until the heat death of the universe/until I die, it matters not. I don't have the desire to spend the limited emotional bandwidth on giving a flaming fuck about the world around me. I'm not that arrogant or self-centered to think anyone else cares.


> I do not care. My opinion does not matter. I can scream into all the voids. I can virtue signal until the heat death of the universe/until I die, it matters not. I don't have the desire to spend the limited emotional bandwidth on giving a flaming fuck about the world around me. I'm not that arrogant or self-centered to think anyone else cares.

“Learned helplessness” himself graced us with his presence.


What a useless response.

if you call picking your battles wisely “learned helplessness” then yea

Engineers not caring is what leads to people working for scumbags who build socially poisonous technology.

What if I told you I was a stay-at-home dad?

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.


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.


who do you think stands out?


Every company with Fedramp certification.


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.


> Python is a garbage language. Dynamic types are a disaster

Python has gradual type system.


We should all go back to writing assembly


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.


What about the projects that python handles better?


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.


> X is a terrible language because of the lack of static analysis available.

> (Mocking) Yes, that's why we should go back to Y with even worse static analysis.

Sure


Python is such a mess.


Any language of Python’s size and popularity will be a mess, the only difference is what parts of it.


No, python is specifically a mess.


Zig does in fact do some stuff to address memory management like making allocations more explicit using allocators and shipping with arenas.


C also has only explicit memory allocators...


Maybe they should put more consideration towards quality if they have a ton of memory issues.


That's what they're doing.


He started the war!


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