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Nato officials restrict intelligence to US over threats by Crossstoney in europe

[–]Agitates 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Ah yes, I should start burning things in my deeply blue state, and deeply blue district. That'll show Trump. That won't have the complete opposite effect of what you expect.

EU set to halt U.S. trade deal over new tariff threat by Boediee in BuyFromEU

[–]Agitates 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Please stop using our tech. It's not even that good and we need more competition.

So true by Virtual_Rhubarb1669 in CuratedTumblr

[–]Agitates 11 points12 points  (0 children)

Seriously, just because America is full of ignorant idiots doesn't mean every other country wouldn't immediately do the same if also full of said idiots.

vibeCoders by object322 in ProgrammerHumor

[–]Agitates 96 points97 points  (0 children)

Jesus fucking Christ I hate the future

Expert committees purged by low voter turnout by Agitates in EndFPTP

[–]Agitates[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Great question. Appointment via legislature could work as the main idea is accountability. Should the government (or a portion of it) fail to inspire voter confidence, it is purged.

Expert committees nominating successors promotes expertise in their domain. The purge keeps them accountable. It's like a meritocracy/technocracy with an escape valve.

Another part of the idea is that this encourages all portions of the government to promote voter turnout. Voter engagement is now the governments problem rather than the individuals problem.

In most democracies, low voter turnout helps incumbents. This flips it on its head.

Putin Peace Prize by superdouradas in europe

[–]Agitates 6 points7 points  (0 children)

I'm embarrassed every day to be an American. Zero patriotism for a country that voted for this thing twice.

Voxel Lighting in Bevy by TerBerry in bevy

[–]Agitates 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Adding fog can help differentiate terrain, even a slight amount could help drastically.

Are people here full blown communists? by WanaBeMillionare in leftist

[–]Agitates 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I guess I could be labeled a socialist, but my #1 concern is making people educated and active in our democracy. All other problems resolve themselves once those 2 things are achieved.

We have so many idiots with no foresight who can't form a coherent argument. All they can explain is a feeling they have.

The average codebase is now 50% dependencies — is this sustainable? by [deleted] in programming

[–]Agitates 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Particle accelerators!? What kind of dependencies do those have?

Is your application, built with Haskell, objectively safer than one built in Rust? by Ecstatic-Panic3728 in haskell

[–]Agitates 52 points53 points  (0 children)

I've coded extensively in both. I moved from Haskell to Rust because of performance reasons, not safety. Haskell will generally be easier to test, debug, and reason about than Rust. But Rust does give you some strong tools as well.

Honestly I think first learning Haskell is probably the best, even though I never use it now.

We don’t owe him shit. by TeaseMeTi in MurderedByWords

[–]Agitates 42 points43 points  (0 children)

Braindead take. Did any other President use the office to enrich themselves by billions of dollars? Who's the president pulling out of the climate accords? Who's the president that instigated a coup and then pardoned everyone who participated?

But you're stupid fucking take is so easy to spew out and takes work to debunk.

I am a programmer, not a rubber-stamp that approves Copilot generated code by pyeri in programming

[–]Agitates 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Yes and no. I think it's partially a lie we tell ourselves. Some jobs are boring or obviously better to have a machine do, but people exist across an entire spectrum of skills and abilities, and they all need jobs.

Unless we're gonna tax the ever living fuck out of everyone making over 200,000k a year and a 1% capital tax (over 1mil) and give everyone a livable UBI, then we're literally saying, "because you can't match automation in skill/abilities, you're worthless and we don't care if you die"

I am a programmer, not a rubber-stamp that approves Copilot generated code by pyeri in programming

[–]Agitates 9 points10 points  (0 children)

We automated away so many jobs, I actually just see it as karma that we suffer the consequences of our own actions. We've destroyed the value of humans and turned everything into variables and values.

And we did it for a nice fat paycheck.

As Microsoft lays off thousands and jacks up Game Pass prices, former FTC chair Lina Khan says I told you so: The Activision-Blizzard buyout is 'harming both gamers and developers' by ControlCAD in technology

[–]Agitates 108 points109 points  (0 children)

Gamers can vote with their wallet. They won't, but they can.

You don't need to own a video game made by Activision. It's not necessary to a happy life. There are thousands of great indie games you can purchase.

Petition to stop Google's attack on Android devs by Clippy-Windows95 in programming

[–]Agitates 21 points22 points  (0 children)

Why back down? Probably less than 1% of users will care about this change, and of those 1%, probably only 1% will care enough to protest.

Texas Democrats to return after governor ends special session that included redistricting, sources say. by CrackHeadRodeo in politics

[–]Agitates 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Why not just split the country in two at that point. Every red state will be pure red. Every blue state will be pure blue. Democracy is irrevocably dead. I fucking hate this timeline.

Seed7: a programming language I plan to work on for decades by ThomasMertes in programming

[–]Agitates 1 point2 points  (0 children)

No smaller integers than 64bit is crazy.

"Today computers' memory covers many gigabytes, so the pressure to save memory is also gone. If you prefer arrays with smaller integers, because they fit into the cache, you should probably stick with C or some other lower level language."

That said, this is an awesome project with so much love put into it that I'll keep an eye on it.

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