[-] Buttons@programming.dev 43 points 1 month ago

Senior developer here, it looks like they are helping to me.

[-] Buttons@programming.dev 44 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Programmer pay is so bizarre, it makes me cynical about our entire economy.

If I'm a blue-collar worker maintaining the wires between banks, I get paid little. If I'm a programmer maintaining the banking software that controls everyone's money and is essential to the entire nation, I'm paid a little more, but not as much as some programmers.

If I'm a young man who creates a webpage that barely works venture capitalists are tripping over themselves trying to shove millions of dollars into my hands.

(Although, creating a webpage was the hot thing last decade, now the hot thing is creating an AI.)

[-] Buttons@programming.dev 47 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Julian Assange is not a US citizen and the crimes he is accused of did not happen on US soil. The US should not be the world police. Why are we trying to prosecute him?

[-] Buttons@programming.dev 41 points 4 months ago

No real use you say? How would they engineer boats without floats?

[-] Buttons@programming.dev 53 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Neville Chamberlain met with Hitler and judged him based on their one-on-one conversation. Chamberlain trusted Hitler based on this personal meeting and infamously predicted "peace for our time".

Winston Churchill had to judge Hitler based only on his actions, because he never met Hitler personally. Churchill did not trust Hitler.

Less than a year after Chamberlain's one-on-one meeting with Hitler, Hitler invaded Poland and began WW2.

Sometimes it's better to judge people based only on their actions as seen from afar.

[-] Buttons@programming.dev 39 points 5 months ago

I get so aggravated by video games with weak flashlights. Like, we live in an age where my keychain flashlight can light up the nearest mountain.

[-] Buttons@programming.dev 39 points 7 months ago

To avoid running code that might steal your data for profit, only run official code that will still your data for profit.

[-] Buttons@programming.dev 55 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

I want to make a short film / animation where aliens are approaching earth, the only thing we know about the aliens is that they plan to destroy all life and replace it with their own twisted creation. A few minutes of typical story follows, heroes assemble, go to fight, etc. The heroes lose and the ending scene shows that the aliens have succeeded and replaced all the diverse life on Earth with a perfectly manicured lawn that covers the entire planet. A biological wasteland.

[-] Buttons@programming.dev 65 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

True democracy would be filling at least one branch of government with randomly selected citizens. Career politicians are psychopaths and don't represent us.

[-] Buttons@programming.dev 48 points 10 months ago

This reminds me of around 2000, when I had a Daewoo television, and then my mind was blown one day when I saw a Daewoo car. Who makes televisions and cars? Daewoo apparently.

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