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I don't believe the 10x claims, but since when has salary been any indication of productivity?

The problem is, who is moving “society on” and what is their agenda.

I don’t think it’s healthy to encourage an attitude to just accept all change without any sort of reflection or push back.

How do you do "due diligence" on an API that frequently makes undocumented changes and only publishes acknowledgement of change after users complain?

You're also talking about internal technical implementations of a chat bot. 99.99% of users won't even understand the words that are being used.

Surely you jest? The software industry is in its current sorry state because of multiple generations of human developers happily producing an endless stream of shady features.

There is no shortage of game dev talent or adjacent creatives. It’s doubtful they will go on to find roles in the industry given the current climate and they presumably don’t have the capital to gamble on multiple years of game dev for potentially no return.

Get where faster? Get what over with?

Aren’t you talking about destroying livelihoods? Pushing people into poverty and/or homelessness? What is the benefit exactly?

I think this is a relatively unique outlook and not one that is shared by most.

If you use a tool to automate sending emails, unrelated to LLMs, in most scenarios the behaviour on the receiver is different.

- If I get a mass email from a company and it's signed off from the CEO, I don't think the CEO personally emailed me. They may glanced over it and approved it, maybe not even that but they didn't "send an email". At best, one might think that "the company" sent an email.

- I randomly send my wife cute stickers on Telegram as a sort of show that I'm thinking of her. If I setup a script to do that at random intervals and she finds out, from her point of view I "didn't send them" and she would be justifiably upset.

I know this might be a difficult concept for many people that browse this forum, but the end product/result is not always the point. There are many parts of our lives and society in general that the act of personally doing something is the entire point.

What part of universal health care, higher minimum wage and lower housing costs sounds like "utopia" to you?

That's just the system we have, but slightly better and completely achievable.

As mentioned, my past experience with GUIs was with WinForms, and so I wanted to see what had changed or improved in the intervening years.

They didn’t need to because they already had WinForms as a baseline experience for Windows UIs.

A girls’ elementary school was hit in Iran. Here’s what we know

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US-Israeli strike on girls' school kills at least 85 students, Iran's judiciary says [1]

[1] https://www.france24.com/en/asia-pacific/20260228-us-israeli...

What is an example of a "high-end page-layout program" referenced in that document? I mean, of course I assume they exist for professional type setting, book publishing and such, but I have never seen or heard of the actual software.

I envy the type of career you’ve had if you find this sort of behaviour unbelievable.

Every entertainment market is saturated. Even if every creative endeavour stopped now, there would still be more freely available content to last more then any individual human life span.

Unless you’re the type of person that actively considers them a fan of something and goes out of their way to consume a specific niche, there isn’t much reason to pay much, or anything for entertainment.

Feels like the more important question is how are you going to do all these things when Slack cuts you off, or there is some new Slack policy that prevents it, or they increase their pricing by 1000%

Haven’t you basically built your entire business on this singular proprietary platform they you have almost no control over?

Obesity rates have never been higher and the top fast food franchises have double digit billions in revenue. I don’t think there is any redemption arc in there for public health since the 90s.

I personally don't think ultimatums are a tool that you should ever employ in an employment situation outside of collective action.

You can just leave off the ultimatum and attempt to improve your situation by communicating it in a way that is directly actionable (I'd like to work on X instead of Y, can you arrange that?). You'll have your own internal deadlines of course, but you shouldn't communicate them.

If you start saying no to tasks assigned by your manager, you are not going to get promoted. You’re going to end up on PIP track for insubordination.

I've had a lot of success in asking "are you asking me to do this or telling me", when I've been tasked with something I think is extremely dumb.

If the response is "I'm asking", then I will usually respond with some variation of "can you assign it to someone else, or better yet, throw the task in the garbage".

If the response is "I'm telling you", then I'll go on a spiel about how I think it's incredibly stupid and the people involved in this decision are bad at their jobs, then get on and do it.

But if you're reading this, there is a good chance you are American, so take this advice with a massive grain of salt as I'm not. The culture here in NZ sounds extremely different to almost everything I've read on this forum.

Given the security and privacy history of smart devices, you’d have to be a complete moron to let a human sized robot into your home.

Going to preface this post by saying I use and love Obsidian, my entire life is effectively in an Obsidian vault, I pay for sync and as a user I'm extremely happy with it.

But as a developer this post is nonsense and extremely predictable [1]. We can expect countless others like it that explains how their use of these broken tools is different and just don't worry about it!

By their own linked Credits page there are 20 dependencies. Let's take one of those, electron, which itself has 3 dependencies according to npm. Picking one of those electron/get has 7 dependencies. One of those dependencies got, has 11 dependencies, one of those cacheable-request has 7 dependencies etc etc.

Now go back and pick another direct dependency of Obsidian and work your way down the dependency tree again. Does the Obsidian team review all these and who owns them? Do they trust each layer of the chain to pick up issues before it gets to them? Any one of these dependencies can be compromised. This is what it means to be. supply chain attack, you only have to quietly slip something into any one of these dependencies to have access to countless critical user data.

[1] https://drewdevault.com/2025/09/17/2025-09-17-An-impossible-...

I feel like when I'm presented with most modern criticism of Apple devices/software I tend to agree, but despite all the mostly valid criticisms I see batted about, who is doing consumer tech better?

I've recently (finally) managed to purge the last instance of Windows from my life when I replaced Windows on my gaming desktop with Linux. So I've got Linux on the (gaming) desktop, a Steam Deck and Debian stable on a server, which is great.

But I mean, that covers my home office? I still need a phone (iPhone), a smart watch (Apple Watch) and while not critical, certainly adds a lot of value for me. The things that connects to the TV (AppleTV) is the best of all I've tried when compared to any other type of solution (Firestick, Chrome Cast, Home Media Server, Built-in TV Smarts). I've also got an M4 MacBook for dev, which is frankly fantastic when compared to whatever other hardware I could get here in NZ and would involve going back to Windows anyway?

So I mean, what are the actual valid options really? Apple still offer great devices and the integrations between them are the best on the market imo.

Perhaps in a perfect world Pine64 devices would be rock solid and I could run Linux everywhere, but failing that, what else ya gunna do?

If it’s not a secret that is used to sign something, then the secret has to get from the vault to the application at some point.

What mechanism are you suggesting where access to the production system doesn’t let you also access that secret?

Like I get in this specific case where you are running some untrusted code, that environment should have been isolated and these keys not passed in, but running untrusted code isn’t usually a common feature of most applications.

It's simple! For $50 a month we give you a thousand smeckles which you can use to crank the floba. A very good deal.

There are countless dead programming languages without communities you can pick then.

The fact your friend is suffering no consequences and is able to just carry on is exactly what is wrong with this industry.

In a perfect world the creation of software would have been locked down like other engineering fields, with developers and companies suffering legal consequences for exposing customer information.

Interesting that you could have posted about any of the points being made in the link but you choose this one.

Personally I think the term is well deserved and am glad it continues to be popularised.

But what got me sober, what got me through the first one, two, three hard years - none of it was in those notes.

It hit me: what got me here won’t get me where I need to be next.

Where was it, or, what was it that did?

I believe the author when they went through their system of notes and effectively found nothing that contributed to the most important parts of themselves, but I was also sort of waiting for the alternative answer that I thought was supposed to be coming...

This was said about large frameworks like electron on the desktop, but outside of some specific technical niches it literally doesn’t matter to end users.

Going down that line of thought... Cocunuts naturally selected for harder shells because those killed, creating more fertilizer ...

I get that it's potentially lower priority since a user needs to actively install a malicious app, but that timeline doesn't exactly feel me with confidence...

There won’t be any except whatever is output from some llm and it will be unverifiable.

The specific context of video game history comes up now and then in “indie game journalist” scenes like aftermath. Games journalism in particular has gone through a consolidation and with it comes the destruction of archives both physical and digital.