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New comment by garbagecoder in "Over 36,500 killed in Iran's deadliest massacre, documents reveal"

garbagecoder — Thu, 29 Jan 2026 17:21:00 +0000

Your government does fund Sudan and did fund Iran to the tune of billions of dollars in relief under Obama and Biden. Why didn't you care then?

You know why. So does everyone that uses this copypasta argument.

New comment by garbagecoder in "Debian gnome team plans to kill GTK2"

garbagecoder — Fri, 16 Jan 2026 23:27:29 +0000

Bicha's still there I see.

New comment by garbagecoder in "[dead]"

garbagecoder — Wed, 31 Dec 2025 03:37:17 +0000

Does anyone else remember when they were mad about student loan forgiveness people said yeah but what about these covid loans and it was like pffff that was to keep business in business dumb child!

New comment by garbagecoder in "GPT-5.2-Codex"

garbagecoder — Thu, 18 Dec 2025 23:08:31 +0000

Agree. Codex just read my source code for a toy lisp I wrote in ARM64 assembly and learned how to code in that lisp and wrote a few demo programs for me. The was impressive enough. Then it spent some time and effort to really hunt down some problems--there was a single bit mask error in my garbage collector that wasn't showing up until then. I was blown away. It's the kind of thing I would have spent forever trying to figure out before.

New comment by garbagecoder in "MIT professor shot at his Massachusetts home dies"

garbagecoder — Tue, 16 Dec 2025 23:00:04 +0000

You're right, it's only fair that we let Iranian assassins kill people in the US.

New comment by garbagecoder in "Bitchat for Gaza – messaging without internet"

garbagecoder — Fri, 14 Nov 2025 22:24:55 +0000

>I imagine Gaza may currently be one of the most difficult environments to write software code in.

That you think this says a lot about our news environment. I can think of a dozen places in Africa.

New comment by garbagecoder in "What happened to Apple's legendary attention to detail?"

garbagecoder — Thu, 23 Oct 2025 20:33:37 +0000

Lazy baby duck take for one. Apple's "legendary attention to detail" was never about reminders working the way you want.

And to be honest, it never really existed. It was more that everything else was cheaply manufactured garbage.

New comment by garbagecoder in "White House slams Trump's perceived Nobel peace prize snub"

garbagecoder — Fri, 10 Oct 2025 19:35:19 +0000

Technology?

New comment by garbagecoder in "'It's just better ' Trump says Coca-Cola to change key US ingredient"

garbagecoder — Thu, 17 Jul 2025 01:34:50 +0000

Or even just get the passover ones in plastic bottles here in the US when they're in season. It tastes different. Whether you care or like it better or worse, it tastes different.

According to the WSJ this is because "Food scientists have noted subtle differences between the sweeteners: High-fructose corn syrup’s sweetness intensity tends to peak earlier, enhancing fruit and spice flavors, while sugar’s profile is broader and lingers."

New comment by garbagecoder in "How to Get a Job at Canonical"

garbagecoder — Sun, 13 Jul 2025 03:55:44 +0000

>> We don’t hire skills. We hire people, with personal qualities. They are a whole package. We ask about academic attainment on the basis that it – all the way back to school days, even for a candidate later in life – is a strong indicator of many personal qualities and abilities, including performance at work.

Huh, interesting, considering that they knowingly hired a convicted child rapist.

New comment by garbagecoder in "Echoes from the Big Bang suggest Earth is trapped inside a giant cosmic void"

garbagecoder — Fri, 11 Jul 2025 16:06:55 +0000

Frustrating times for cosmologists mean exciting times for astronomy geeks because someone will eventually put all of this together and we’ll have an interesting new synthesis.

New comment by garbagecoder in "If macOS is so easy to use, why do I hate using it so much?"

garbagecoder — Tue, 01 Jul 2025 15:57:54 +0000

If you can't move one key over, you're a baby duck.

Also, fwiw, Mac had those keyboard shortcuts first and it was Windows who changed them.

New comment by garbagecoder in "Mamdani says he doesn't believe 'that we should have billionaires'"

garbagecoder — Mon, 30 Jun 2025 01:09:21 +0000

If you think no one in NYC cares about Israel… and I mean clearly you do, just in the opposite way.

Cuomo was a terrible candidate.

New comment by garbagecoder in "[dead]"

garbagecoder — Tue, 17 Jun 2025 19:03:38 +0000

Israel didn't invade Syria, aside from a few km of neutral zone, yet the Syrian regime fell and this was literally months ago but the author (and you) just ignores that. Yes, there were people on the ground, but they were Syrians. No one is suggesting the IDF will invade Iran, in fact that's his point.

The author isn't making a prediction so much as saying what he wishes will happen.

New comment by garbagecoder in "Penn State boffins create silicon-free two-dimensional computer"

garbagecoder — Mon, 16 Jun 2025 21:22:03 +0000

How many boffins died to bring us this information?

New comment by garbagecoder in "The East Asian high-rise development model is catastrophic for birth rates"

garbagecoder — Mon, 16 Jun 2025 16:05:26 +0000

This comment section is going to fill up with urbanist walls of texts in 5... 4...

New comment by garbagecoder in "The Posse Comitatus Act Explained"

garbagecoder — Wed, 11 Jun 2025 05:31:33 +0000

Wrong. The article is older than the latest law.

New comment by garbagecoder in "The Posse Comitatus Act Explained"

garbagecoder — Wed, 11 Jun 2025 05:31:17 +0000

And includes the space force and uses different language.

New comment by garbagecoder in "The Posse Comitatus Act Explained"

garbagecoder — Wed, 11 Jun 2025 05:30:30 +0000

These differences seem irrelevant to you but they aren’t.

New comment by garbagecoder in "The Posse Comitatus Act Explained"

garbagecoder — Wed, 11 Jun 2025 05:30:12 +0000

I did above in response to the passive aggressive Dunning Kruger reply to my simple comment suggesting an advocacy piece from 4 years ago might not be 100% useful for today’s news.