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Like, enums. I get a lot out of the box when I use an enum in Java or Kotlin. Converting to/from a String is trivial. Type safety ... exists.

I can do that in Go, but I have to hack it in, for every single enum type I want to represent. Enums are not a thing in the language, which means its easier to keep the language in your brain all at once, but at the expense of making it harder to keep the software I'm writing in my head. Is this "enum" the same as that "enum"? I have to go read the code to figure it out.

But Go is excellent at a lot of things. Compile times, static binaries, resources compiled right into that binary, execution speed ... there is a lot to love.

A smartphone is not an optional component of modern life. You need a smartphone to apply for many minimum wage jobs now

There are also peptides that seem to have similar effects as regular exercise; a weekly injection might give you the same benefits as a daily mile run. These haven't been well studied, however, and we don't understand their safety profiles.

But the influencer set has taken these possibilities and run with them, because they're more interested in clicks and views that science and facts.

Oracle has dumped billions of dollars into AI, and planned to be the source of choice to build out AI data centers. They've taken on more debt in the past two years than many nation states.

These layoffs are entirely about cutting costs in order to manage this debt. It has nothing to do with human developers being made obsolete, or even increased developer productivity due to AI.

This is actually about investments in AI not paying dividends, and drastic cuts in personnel to keep the company solvent.

I also wonder how much of the jump in early 2025 comes from cultural acceptance by devs, rather than an improvement in the tools themselves.

The right wing in America isn't trying to improve the population, they're grifting and hoping that 1. they won't face the same consequences as their supporters, because they're rich enough to be shielded, and 2. that they're going to die before society collapses from the havoc they unleash.

This is also true of, say climate change.

1. People who are ignorant 2. People who are using anti-vax propaganda for some kind of gain

In the US, category two have gone all-in on using category one to gain political power. The "health official" in this post is clearly in category two, and might be in category one as well, but he is absolutely deserving of invectives.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_Wakefield

Last week, they pushed an update that broke all of the features on the watch unless I agreed to allow Google to train their AI on my content.

I think we can be reasonably sure that search, Gmail, and some flavor of AI will live on, but other than that, Google apps are basically end-of-life at launch.

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