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New comment by halfmatthalfcat in "Starship V3"

halfmatthalfcat — Wed, 13 May 2026 17:50:51 +0000

Heat, maintenance...it's obvious if you think about it for 2 seconds.

New comment by halfmatthalfcat in "A new spam policy for “back button hijacking”"

halfmatthalfcat — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 13:55:59 +0000

I remember when I worked at HuffPo and they started doing this. I called out the org and they all just shrugged.

New comment by halfmatthalfcat in "Elon Musk pushes out more xAI founders as AI coding effort falters"

halfmatthalfcat — Fri, 13 Mar 2026 20:57:40 +0000

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New comment by halfmatthalfcat in "Tech employment now significantly worse than the 2008 or 2020 recessions"

halfmatthalfcat — Sat, 07 Mar 2026 01:36:17 +0000

As someone who has been hiring the past six months, the candidate pool has been absolutely abysmal. Slop resumes, misrepresentations, bad interviewing skills, etc. I'm baffled at the other end at how much inbound crap there is.

New comment by halfmatthalfcat in "A better streams API is possible for JavaScript"

halfmatthalfcat — Fri, 27 Feb 2026 16:27:11 +0000

The Observables spec should just get merged and implemented.

https://github.com/tc39/proposal-observable

New comment by halfmatthalfcat in "Flock cameras gifted by Horowitz Foundation, avoiding public oversight"

halfmatthalfcat — Tue, 24 Feb 2026 01:43:34 +0000

Hi, Evanstonian here, we got rid of them.

New comment by halfmatthalfcat in "GitHub Actions is broken again"

halfmatthalfcat — Tue, 03 Feb 2026 15:24:20 +0000

Can confirm - fucked.

New comment by halfmatthalfcat in "The Sovereign Tech Fund invests in Scala"

halfmatthalfcat — Thu, 29 Jan 2026 20:38:32 +0000

You're being downvoted but you aren't necessarily wrong. Javascript is probably one of the most approachable functional-like languages without being dogmatically functional.

New comment by halfmatthalfcat in "The Sovereign Tech Fund invests in Scala"

halfmatthalfcat — Thu, 29 Jan 2026 18:29:14 +0000

As a longtime Scala lover, I’m so happy to see this. Everyone in here hemming and hawing about version incompatibilities, build tooling and such conveniently forget the warts of other languages and their ecosystems. Scala is an incredible language, especially for the language being so flexible, which is a strength, not a weakness.

New comment by halfmatthalfcat in "Project Genie: Experimenting with infinite, interactive worlds"

halfmatthalfcat — Thu, 29 Jan 2026 18:23:34 +0000

Were you there or just an attentive outsider?

New comment by halfmatthalfcat in "DHS keeps trying and failing to unmask anonymous ICE critics online"

halfmatthalfcat — Mon, 26 Jan 2026 20:17:10 +0000

They voted R, there's no way to make the distinction on why they voted.

New comment by halfmatthalfcat in "DHS keeps trying and failing to unmask anonymous ICE critics online"

halfmatthalfcat — Mon, 26 Jan 2026 19:18:56 +0000

I would not be making generalizations on any group based on what spews out of Reddit.

New comment by halfmatthalfcat in "After two years of vibecoding, I'm back to writing by hand"

halfmatthalfcat — Mon, 26 Jan 2026 15:38:43 +0000

A proctor?

New comment by halfmatthalfcat in "After two years of vibecoding, I'm back to writing by hand"

halfmatthalfcat — Mon, 26 Jan 2026 14:27:39 +0000

Let them use AI and then fall on their faces during exam time - simple as that. If you can't recall the theory, paradigm, methodology, whatever by memory then you have not "mastered" the content and thus, should fail the class.

New comment by halfmatthalfcat in "ICE using Palantir tool that feeds on Medicaid data"

halfmatthalfcat — Sun, 25 Jan 2026 22:07:14 +0000

Makes no sense at all imo, especially when you consider the origin story and melting pot ethos that made the US what it was in the first place.

New comment by halfmatthalfcat in "FAA institutes nationwide drone no-fly zones around ICE operations"

halfmatthalfcat — Sun, 25 Jan 2026 21:06:22 +0000

That’s not what they ruled.

New comment by halfmatthalfcat in "ICE using Palantir tool that feeds on Medicaid data"

halfmatthalfcat — Sun, 25 Jan 2026 20:58:28 +0000

Can, if we had a functioning Congress that actually passed material laws. We’ve been trying to pass immigration reform for the last couple of decades.

New comment by halfmatthalfcat in "ICE using Palantir tool that feeds on Medicaid data"

halfmatthalfcat — Sun, 25 Jan 2026 19:54:27 +0000

The line is always going to be going up somewhere. I’d rather it be where I live than not.

New comment by halfmatthalfcat in "ICE using Palantir tool that feeds on Medicaid data"

halfmatthalfcat — Sun, 25 Jan 2026 18:36:46 +0000

The US cannot afford, demographically, to curtail immigration, illegal or otherwise. Simple fact is the US needs more people because we’re under the replacement rate.

New comment by halfmatthalfcat in "[dead]"

halfmatthalfcat — Sat, 24 Jan 2026 03:35:04 +0000

Everybody puts their pants on one leg at a time homie, Americans are no different.