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New comment by jimbob45 in "Rhombus 1.1 is now available"

jimbob45 — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 02:09:14 +0000

.NET/.NET Core/.NET Framework migration is painful because of this. VS/VSCode is sometimes only possible with AI’s help.

New comment by jimbob45 in "Thanks to social media, canned sardines are a scarcity on the supermarket shelf"

jimbob45 — Thu, 13 Aug 2026 01:45:34 +0000

There’s really no cause to raise a panic with lab-grown meat right around the corner. AI, FSD, electric cars, nuclear energy, and drones are eating up most of the VC money right now but lab-grown meat is waiting in the wings to take over in the next few decades.

New comment by jimbob45 in "Flutter 3.47"

jimbob45 — Thu, 13 Aug 2026 00:33:45 +0000

Of all the myriad projects from Google, how is Flutter/Dart the one that survived the axe? I’m not saying I hate them - I think they’re both really neat - I just don’t understand why Google keeps these limping along with weak support and no clear vision within their broader web ecosystem.

New comment by jimbob45 in "Worms: The Future of Yesterday's Worms Today"

jimbob45 — Wed, 12 Aug 2026 09:05:23 +0000

I had a babysitter that worked through the WWP campaign with me and we enjoyed it. It really became more inventive than you’d expect a campaign like that to be. For example, you get the bow, infinite weapon firing per turn, and infinite ammo. You’re meant to shoot arrows until you create a bridge to the next platform.

New comment by jimbob45 in "Tail-call optimization in C is relatively recent (2025)"

jimbob45 — Tue, 11 Aug 2026 09:01:15 +0000

Someone on here had the neat idea of a “become” keyword replacing “return” when TCO is desired. I thought it was the obvious route forward and remain confused why I still haven’t seen it adopted.

New comment by jimbob45 in "Silicon Valley misreads science fiction and undermines democracy"

jimbob45 — Mon, 10 Aug 2026 06:49:58 +0000

How? Charge stadium ticket prices and jerseys at cost?

New comment by jimbob45 in "Silicon Valley misreads science fiction and undermines democracy"

jimbob45 — Sun, 09 Aug 2026 16:34:47 +0000

Same with D1 NCAAF athletes. They’re getting millions starting at age 18 from NIL. There’s just no way that’s healthy even if we all agree NIL was the morally correct path forward.

New comment by jimbob45 in "When Feature Flags Do and Don't Make Sense (2019)"

jimbob45 — Sun, 09 Aug 2026 07:29:01 +0000

If you’re using feature flags because you’re scared of rolling back, then your CI/CD pipeline is probably too brittle or complicated.

New comment by jimbob45 in "Improving GPT‑5.6 Sol in ChatGPT, expanding GPT‑5.6 Luna access for free users"

jimbob45 — Fri, 07 Aug 2026 04:48:12 +0000

+1 to this. Many of my engineer friends don’t use AI even in cases where it could clearly help them. Not out of any principles stance but because they just don’t understand that it could speed up their work. It doesn’t help that the advertising surrounding AI hasn’t communicated its benefits well - either you’ve tried it and you get it or you just don’t know. I would imagine some early horseback riders in the 20th century probably felt similarly about the automobile.

New comment by jimbob45 in "Read the novels and forget everything else"

jimbob45 — Mon, 03 Aug 2026 02:19:37 +0000

I had no idea floccinaucihipilification was a real word. I saw it in a fake spelling bee for a commercial decades ago and assumed it was just a comically long fake word.

New comment by jimbob45 in "The myth of Snow Leopard"

jimbob45 — Mon, 03 Aug 2026 00:52:28 +0000

Windows Vista came out and everyone hated it. Microsoft ignored everyone and said, “You fool users just don’t understand what makes a good operating system.” Snow Leopard was the next major OS release and it just worked the way people expected an OS to work. Paired with solid understated marketing, it felt like users were respected for their choices in an OS once again. MS was forced to follow suit with W7.

Now, MS is back to ignoring users by forcing telemetry and AI. Too bad we don’t still have Steve Jobs to show them how it’s done.

New comment by jimbob45 in "EU Age Verification Project Mandates Hardware-Bound Attestation"

jimbob45 — Sun, 02 Aug 2026 22:48:30 +0000

Fentanyl, no?

New comment by jimbob45 in "China begins producing advanced chipmaking deep-ultraviolet lithography machines"

jimbob45 — Sun, 02 Aug 2026 07:48:49 +0000

We support them but they don’t need us. Iran would crumble tomorrow without China. Also, Likud Israel might be gone after this year’s October election, whether we want it gone or not. Conversely, China acts as a virtual suzerain over Iran (and NK).

New comment by jimbob45 in "China begins producing advanced chipmaking deep-ultraviolet lithography machines"

jimbob45 — Sun, 02 Aug 2026 04:30:43 +0000

China is single-handedly propping up Iran, NK, and Russia financially. If you ahem removed the top 1000 leaders of the CCP tomorrow, those three countries wouldn’t be able to continue their population repression and the world would be an immeasurably better place. Iran killed, what, 20k of their own population earlier this year? Russia has lost 10x that this year alone. Blocking tech from China directly hampers their funding of these countries. Am I wrong?

New comment by jimbob45 in "The great wealth transfer reality check"

jimbob45 — Fri, 31 Jul 2026 21:01:43 +0000

Most of us are thankful our parents took care of us and do love them. I recognize that it’s not everyone but I think most kids don’t want to see their parents suffer.

New comment by jimbob45 in "The great wealth transfer reality check"

jimbob45 — Fri, 31 Jul 2026 18:25:29 +0000

It’s not. If you have older parents today, you can do the math on what activities they’re doing and quickly determine that you’re never going to see a cent from them. My friends all report the same.

I may sound salty but I’m not. I’ve spent enough time on Reddit to know that the real nightmare is when your parents didn’t save anything and can’t still work. Then, you’re obligated to take care of them and they actively take away from both you and their grandchildren (if they didn’t outright block you from being able to have kids in the first place).

New comment by jimbob45 in "The lost civic life of movie rental stores"

jimbob45 — Fri, 31 Jul 2026 06:40:25 +0000

Unpopular opinion: baseball is not fun at all to play in organized leagues for children. Baseball is, however, the best pick-up game to play with ten friends, house rules, and improvised equipment.

It's like how Twister is super fun to play with your friends casually but how you'd never want to play in an organized Twister league.

New comment by jimbob45 in "Gemini Robotics 2 brings whole body intelligence to robots"

jimbob45 — Fri, 31 Jul 2026 04:55:50 +0000

While I agree, it’s hard to trust Google not to kill this off in the future. They’re not winning and the prospect of dumping their own for a partnership with another AI company isn’t out of the picture.

New comment by jimbob45 in "UEFA and its national associations will not participate in FIFA competitions"

jimbob45 — Thu, 30 Jul 2026 19:45:19 +0000

This is a joke, right? I can’t think of any league as blatantly corrupt as FIFA on any level.

New comment by jimbob45 in "NSF pilots 4-year PhDs with industry research placements"

jimbob45 — Thu, 30 Jul 2026 04:00:05 +0000

How do you feel about internships?