David Hansson is absolutely a racist xenophobic piece of shit.

Yeah, that’s what a Nazi is. Acting like it’s not akin to Nazism is what’s actually pissing on the graves of people who died in the war. “Erm, actually someone is only a Nazi if they were a member of the National Socialist Party in Germany during WWII” is doing them a favor. Don’t let them hide.

Coming from someone who was raised in the southeast US, a huge part of the Lost Cause of the South movement wasn’t to erase what the Confederacy did, but to just paint them in a slightly more positive light. Rebranding, so to speak. Acting like some specific breed of ultranationalism isn’t technically “a Nazi” is just the same shit. In the minds of many people that live near me, there is absolutely nothing odd about celebrating under the world’s largest Confederate monument with fireworks. Despite the fact that it was finished in response to Brown v. Board of Education. Despite the fact that Stone Mountain has historically been and still is associated with the literal KKK. It’s the same shit.

Being pedantic about the terms helps them.

let’s stick with the original premise

Buddy, the original premise of the article WAS donating to Nazis.

The problem of enums in other languages is that they do not make for a distinct type. They are just integers in a name. Or at least that is the case for C and Java enums.

This is not the case for Java enums.

Yeah, those lawyers should be doing QA.

Arch and derivatives expect you to check the news file before upgrading, but do not integrate this into the upgrade tool. I have not personally ran into a problem this way, but it’s frustrating that pacman doesn’t have any capability to do this if you’re expected to.

Firefox with uBlock Origin on mobile does that too. That said, I do use Brave on mobile when I need a Chromium browser and the Chrome Mask extension doesn’t cut it.

How about the opposite form of nostalgia?

Okay, I see you, I think I may have misunderstood how you were phrasing it. Thinking you were saying they were scanning all of GitHub because it’s all permissive.

You can host copyleft as well as all rights reserved code on GitHub. It’s not like Codeberg.

Huh?

Doofus.

Oh damn, all those math credits I needed to graduate were for nothing?

Oh shit, today I learned that software can’t be a complex system. That makes our jobs easier. I’ll be sure to tell IEEE.

gradeschool algebra

We don’t get computer science degrees from gradeschool, goober.

So engineering is not what you said you believe it is, you actually believe it’s what you said it is except software engineers because you’re a condescending gatekeeper. Software engineering is different from programming.

Yes. But software engineers are engineers. Not all programmers are software engineers.

So you believe that

1. Engineering is the application of math and science to plan complex systems and structures
2. Computer science teaches math and science to plan complex systems and structures

But you believe that computer science prepares students for “programming”, not engineering, so they aren’t engineers. Despite it being about the application of math and science to design complex systems and structures (engineering) and despite the fact that everyone else calls this profession software engineering and you call it programming. And you don’t think you have a bias?

Programmers and Software Engineers are different things, tho

Assuming this is a real post and not satire, my best guess is that they don’t think it’s a bottleneck, but still believe a way to talk to the computer without disturbing others in the office is useful. Like if Tide detergent said it would save your marriage – they don’t think it really will, but the ad is humourous and likely to gain attention because of it.

If you’re still in college, try to get an internship. Once you have something on your resume, it’s a lot easier to get into places. Plus try to network and stuff. Getting recommended by someone is much more likely to result in an interview.

The AI shit is really rocking the boat right now, but ultimately I don’t think it’s sustainable. I don’t know what the future of dev work will look like or when it’ll balance out, but right now, these AI agents are effectively heavily subsidized by investors. At some point, they’ll need to either turn to the public (IPO) as a last resort, or actually begin to turn a profit. I think this happened with Microsoft’s Copilot. “Tokenpocalypse” was the term that got thrown around. They can’t undercharge for this stuff forever.

Even if AI does end up being a significant part of work, actually knowing how to code will make you better at using it. Your skills aren’t useless. You’ll be better at noticing when the agents make shitty code or shitty decisions. If agentic development ends up being too costly for everyday use, you’ll still be able to assist with “manual” code writing.

AI companies over hype their products and say they’re world shattering as a way of marketing. They say the idea of developers are over because they want people to invest and buy their product. Agentic coding has gotten pretty fucking impressive in the past few months, but something’s gonna break at some point. The bill always comes due.

But yeah. Internship and networking. Learn AI, but don’t eschew traditional development practices entirely.