I found that the concepts he covers in that book can even be applied for good software API design.

Also, he did spoil doors for me. Pretty much every building I go into now annoys me because of the stupid door handles they pick.

Similar forms of entertainment cost the same.

You’re the one with the subjective opinion here because you personally don’t see value in it and make the assumption that is the absolute truth

They’ll make the argument that the customer has a reasonable choice: see targeted ads or pay for the service.

I’m betting They’ll follow up saying the business model in the EU will not be viable without personalised ads (which it really probably won’t) and that they’ll consider leaving the EU altogether. Then the EU can have fun figuring out what will be the economic impact for its economy after they get cut off the largest social network

Meta has ditched Canadian news already. If the finances don’t make sense in the EU, I won’t be surprised they just ditch it

It would be absurd to say they don’t add any value to people’s lives.

We’re not talking about heroin here. You can always just delete all your accounts and live an unplugged life.

And now you have an option to get all the upsides of social media minus the downsides of being tracked/advertised for less than the price of a pizza

Meta’s revenue per user is around 40 USD iirc.

Tbf, as much as people like whining they definitely get 12 bucks a month worth of entertainment off of Facebook and Instagram. People will easily spend 4-6h on social media daily.

The reality is that this move will just prove that people like to talk but they are not willing to pay for their “freedom”.

That last point read like BS to me. I’m willing to bet that number includes a good chunk of tech recruiters (which tend to be female). And yeah a lot of recruiters got laid off in the last year

I thought it was something that focused on women in tech but men were allowed to join.

If the organizers don’t want men attending it they should verify peoples sex before handing out tickets.

Personally I don’t see the point of segregation. It’s not like shunning men will make women’s lives any better. Your best bet to improve things is to make the one side understand the other. You do that by socializing them.

Another thing this event shows is that men tend to be more competitive and will be more aggressive towards their goals. Like it or not companies reward that behavior

With a pipe you can’t really avoid that. With a shared memory queue/ring buffer you can write to the memory without any syscalls.

But you need to build synchronisation yourself (e.g., using semaphores for example). You don’t necessarily need to poll.

I remember a while ago Lex Fridman had a girl on his podcast talking about the changes in academia and self-censorship.

You would prefer to have all your fellow humans die to save the planet.

I’m all for improving things and looking for solutions to the problems we created, but this dumb nihilism serves nothing.

If you think that humans are the problem and we should cease existing, why aren’t you in the ground already?

I just use my free time to code. I see it as a relaxing activity

AFAIU the good thing about regular aircrafts is that as it burns fuel, it becomes lighter. That doesn't happen with batteries, obviously.

There are plenty of natural things that are bad for you and plenty of synthetic things that are good for you.

And there absolutely are reasons to feed yourself artificial sweeteners.

Sugar-free soda is awesome for people trying to lose weight. The carbonated drink keeps you satiated and you don’t ingest any of the calories in regular soda.

Maybe for whatever work you do your IDE works better for you.

In my case, I mostly code in C++. I've tried JetBrains' IDEs and it drives me insane how slow they are to index and I often get freezes when working on really large codebases.

The same applies to Visual Studio (not vscode).

vscode drives me insane with the amount of dumb notifications it keeps popping up. But I can concede that for most people it works well enough. It also doesn't perform nearly as well as Sublime Text. Working on really large codebases is a PITA with vscode.

If I need autocomplete (which I actually don't like that much), LSP works well for my needs.

Even if you ignore the fact that the audit window is restricted and that the software is developed behind closed doors, just the first step in the process is absurd if you want this to be practical for anyone to audit:

> A Justiça Eleitoral prepara uma sala segura para deixar os sistemas a serem utilizados na eleição vindoura à disposição das entidades fiscalizadoras interessadas. As entidades podem utilizar ferramentas automatizadas e solicitar os esclarecimentos que julgarem necessários. Caso encontrem alguma inconformidade, deverão apresentá-la ao TSE, que deverá corrigi-la e apresentar o ajuste realizado. É importante destacar que todas as alterações realizadas nos sistemas são rastreáveis e ficam disponíveis para verificação das entidades fiscalizadoras.