Ahh yes the republican crafted Healthcare plan formerly known as Romneycare. So glad they fixed Healthcare in america! What a crowning achievement. /s

Because corporate policies mandate it?

This does help and has been around for awhile but I'm still slow af even after working as a dev for 3 years.

I really enjoying coding by hand and figuring out the challenges and architecture of each function. Not to mention the immense feeling of gratification when you spend six hours to find that missing semicolon, comma, or curly brace then it all works. Refactoring massive obscure code into something readable with immediately clear logic, or changing data structures and getting something insane like 100x performance on your biggest bottleneck; all of it feels so good.

However, it seems like this is going to relegated to a hobby in the near future. LLMs are largely better and faster than me plus most, if not all, of my colleagues. I dont like it, but spending the past year working primarily with agentic LLMs i can't really deny it. It wasn't this good until relatively recently.

Smoking is bad and kills you. But it was the last place we had to be social. Now people dont even go outside to smoke cause they just lowkey hit their vape indoors.

I used to think the old timers were lame for talking about "back in my day", but now i realize what decades of the enshitifcation of everything does to people.

RIP Edward Said. At least he didn't have to see the dismantling of his university, Columbia, and specifically his department by Trump.

Few people have had greater impact on me than him.

A lot of the boomers are irreparably broken. It took me far too long to realize this and I made excuses for my parents for far too long.

Ignorance is a choice and has been for most of their life.

If you have views that are in the minority and not directly related to your task at work it is smarter to keep those to yourself in my opinion. Lying is optional. Its just easier for them to perceive me as the quiet guy who keeps to himself.

I am not a capitalist. Telling my bosses that I view a large portion of our work as simply and needlessly extracting excess money and labor from individuals isnt going to advance my career and is unlikely to result in anyone changing their worldview. It is more likely to mean im passed over for a promotion.

Anarcho communists welcome you. We hate all nation states equally. Unfortunately there aren't enough of us to brigade anything.

Why are governments and their employees even allowed a vote.

New Jim Crow has prevented people from voting for a long time. Ask any of the people now barred from voting because they smoked a plant that's now legal and making the wealthy class a lot of money.

The American myth of democracy is a strong one, but it needs to die. Even aside from the new jim crow (which Michelle Alexander lays out much more coherently than I did above in her book), half the population doesn't vote and we are only given two choices which the half that do vote openly calls their own party evil, as in lessor of two evils, evil. Dont even get me started on our campaigns to "spread democracy" across the world.

We havent had democracy in a long time, if ever. Its always been the rich vs the rest of us. Its time to wake up.

They just realized they were training a model how to authenticate to their internal systems and selling that model would allow any user who bought it to do the same.

Don't worry the robo apocalypse will continue after a brief intermission.

While i question your kcal count, i agree that swimming is one of the few great exercises for weight loss.

Also what most people consider very long distance running (like at least 20 miles per week, realistically even more) is great. IIRC your body doesn't even start to primarily burn fat until like 30 or 40 minutes into an intense workout and it's slow to burn any.

Pay attention you are at the gym. 90% of the people on treadmills are walking with the vast majority getting off after 20 to 30 minutes. Dont get me wrong. Its better than doing nothing, but its like bare minimum maintenence and definitely not even close to fat loss.

People burn through a small amount of their glycogen stores at the gym. Maybe 100 to 200 calories. Go home and drink a 500 calorie smoothie as a reward and wonder why they aren't losing weight.