I appreciated this insightful essay for explaining where each side is coming from, why being different is okay, and how this ties in to a bigger picture, rather than being a standard opinionated rant.

Not minimalist enough: it actually runs NetBSD.

The votes needed for removal is actually 66%, which is even harder, but otherwise I concur.

But then again, what’s the purpose of being alive?

Apparently dragging people from peaceful nonexistence into existence without their consent so that during their lifetime they will endure a lot of suffering, admittedly experiencing some transient joys along the way but doomed to one day have to undergo the agony of getting sick and dying, after which everything that happened during their life will have been meaningless, given that one day (in the near or far future) there will be no humans left and so even how their life affected other people will have been for naught?

I mean, that does not seem like a great life purpose to me, but you do you I guess?

My interpretation of this comic was that it is making fun of the parts of having a kid that they don’t tell you about, not that it was being judgemental towards anyone.

Sure, it is being hyperbolic, but hyperbole is common feature of humor.

The companies that win won’t be those with the most or even the best features. AI will democratize those. The winners will be built on a data model that captures something true about their market, which in turn creates compounding advantages competitors can’t replicate.

If AI is really so good that it will democratize writing code to implement features, then why won’t it also democratize the ability to come up with the correct data model? What makes that one task so special?

Were I to conjecture as to the answer, I would say that business types seem to have a blind spot where they think that every role will be commodified except their own, which is somehow special.

No point in putting the lit torch away when you can use it to roast meanwhile!

I don’t actually care about functional programming, but someone told me that they were handing out burritos over here?

Oh, cool! I did not know that.

In civilized languages tail recursion takes care of this for you. 😁

By eating the brains of programmers who are better than you.

It would not be a bad number if you did not consider that Microsoft was pouring all of its formidable resources into pushing it.

Personally, I like the idea of being thought of as a computer, as it suits my personality.

They would have had a working compiler by now if only they had taken my advice and gotten an ALGOL 60 compiler to work first, rather than skipping a generation!

Oh, my… I had just skimmed so I had not noticed that until you pointed it out…

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Violence.

It’s what you get when one or more mommycules and one or more daddycules love each other very much…

Agreed, but I am a little annoyed that they held up all of Pop!_OS for COSMIC.

The question is whether they will release it before or after Ubuntu 26.04 LTS…