Clbull

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[–] Clbull@lemmy.world 19 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

I'm more surprised at how heavily everyone in Boise and Dallas showed up.

[–] Clbull@lemmy.world 1 points 3 weeks ago

India are also still doing business with Russia.

[–] Clbull@lemmy.world 24 points 3 weeks ago (8 children)

If Operation Spiders' Web is more than just an isolated attack on Russia's air bases and is continuing to strike deep into Russian soil, then this has serious potential to finally bring Putin to the negotiating table.

Other than that, I think this will be a bloody war of attrition that Zelenskyy has no chance of winning.

[–] Clbull@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I thought the royals in mainland Europe were generally well-liked? I'm only basing this on the lack of negative attention they get compared to the British royal family.

[–] Clbull@lemmy.world 19 points 1 month ago

When I first saw that Luigi Mangione photograph, I thought "damn, that guy's about to drop the hottest rap album of 2025."

[–] Clbull@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

Bernie is a whole lot more compos mentis than Biden ever was.

The right time to elect him would've been 2016...

[–] Clbull@lemmy.world 43 points 1 month ago (12 children)

He isn't wrong. If they hadn't pushed a senile 81 year old incumbent leader upon us as their candidate, in a blatant attempt to parachute an unpopular vice president into power once the 25th Amendment had to inevitably be invoked, then we would never have had a second Trump term.

Biden should never have ran for a second term, and allowed time for the Democrats to field a decent candidate for the White House. The fact that Harris literally lost to somebody who tried to stir up an insurrection against Congress four years ago says it all.

[–] Clbull@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Another big problem is that we've been collectively trying to shoehorn everybody into programming careers for the better part of two decades. In fact, "just learn to code" is often thrown around by people in response to the prospect of AI automating and taking over everybody's jobs.

What they don't understand is that coding is actually very difficult, especially for people who are bad at math, which is a significant portion of the population if you look at statistics, grades, test scores, etc. Expecting a lowly paid call center worker who lost their job to AI to suddenly open up Visual Studio and write any code is a fools errand.

I bring this up because I think there's a correllation between people asking low-quality questions and people being pushed into making a career move into tech.

[–] Clbull@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

I'm not a programmer (last time I seriously dabbled into coding was building a website for an A Level Computing project and I had to teach myself HTML, CSS, PHP and MySQL because my sixth form was shit and was only teaching us Visual Basic 6 when the IDE/language had been obsolete for nearly a decade) and I have never personally posted on StackOverflow. In fact, the only StackExchange site I've ever been part of was EpicAdvice, a short-lived offshoot that was for World of Warcraft specific questions. But I do have a sibling with a computer science and software engineering background which is how I became aware of the site in the first place.

This isn't my personal criticism of the site, it's me echoing the sentiment of the many who have complained about the community across the web.

[–] Clbull@lemmy.world 26 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (21 children)

Maybe StackOverflow is dying because its community is full of incredibly toxic, passive-aggressive and hostile basement dwellers who will berate, downvote and lock the threads of anybody who dares ask a programming question. Genuinely the kind of people you often see moderating subreddits or Discord servers who have never been punched in the face.

ChatGPT hammered the final nail in the site's coffin because it's now become a tool where you can ask specific programming questions and likely get an answer that isn't "use the search bar you fucking dipshit. Question closed as off-topic."

[–] Clbull@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Echo toxic sentiments for long enough and people are going to start believing it.

I'm about 95% sure that communities like 4chan, Reddit, Poal, 8Kun, etc are the reason why the American & European political climates are now so fucked.

 
 
 
 
 
 
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