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New comment by yoyohello13 in "Deno 2.8"

yoyohello13 — Fri, 22 May 2026 17:51:10 +0000

My gripe is why doesn't Webassembly fully support dom manipulation. If we got that working anyone could just bring any language to the browser and we would finally be free from the shackles of JS.

New comment by yoyohello13 in "Deno 2.8"

yoyohello13 — Fri, 22 May 2026 17:47:17 +0000

Same, I'm mostly a back end dev but when I dip my toes into frontend for personal projects Deno just seems like the most sane choice. It's really nice to work with. I'm kind of sad it doesn't seem to have taken off among the JS folks.

New comment by yoyohello13 in "Not alive, but not dead: disembodied human brains used for drug testing"

yoyohello13 — Wed, 20 May 2026 22:49:58 +0000

Purely anecdotal, but I had surgery a few years ago (relatively minor). But I could feel for months after a sort of 'unconscious PSTD' I don't know how else to describe it. Even after it was healed and the pain was gone, there was just a deep sense of 'something bad happened in there' feeling. I'd have dreams of someone digging around in my body. Anyway, it's all gone now, but a weird experience for sure.

New comment by yoyohello13 in "Graduates are booing pep talks on AI at college commencements"

yoyohello13 — Tue, 19 May 2026 19:35:57 +0000

Humans have been killing each other since before recorded history. There is no use pretending it's some exceptional 'sickness'. Rather than dismissing the sentiment as the product of a sick mind, it's more productive to accept it's part of us and try to understand the underlying causes.

New comment by yoyohello13 in "Graduates are booing pep talks on AI at college commencements"

yoyohello13 — Tue, 19 May 2026 19:26:59 +0000

I'm quite aware the elites will never be meaningfully impacted. That doesn't change the reality that it's going to happen. I personally am quite afraid of the future, I know deep down me and my family are in for a bad time in the years to come, and nowhere in the world will be safe, other than the bunkers in Greenland of course.

New comment by yoyohello13 in "Graduates are booing pep talks on AI at college commencements"

yoyohello13 — Tue, 19 May 2026 18:37:58 +0000

> political violence rarely achieves its aims and is much more likely to empower reactionaries.

Cursory knowledge of history also shows that, when it comes to violence, logic does not matter. People are scared for their livelihoods. If the rich and powerful keep shouting to the word that they are going to destroy your way of life, there will be violence. It doesn't matter how futile or counterproductive it is.

New comment by yoyohello13 in "Graduates are booing pep talks on AI at college commencements"

yoyohello13 — Tue, 19 May 2026 18:34:00 +0000

Downvoted... but not wrong. People who think we can automate 50% of jobs without subsequent violence are fooling themselves.

New comment by yoyohello13 in "Graduates are booing pep talks on AI at college commencements"

yoyohello13 — Tue, 19 May 2026 18:14:08 +0000

What’s really baffling is the people in charge seem to just expect the suffering people to sit down and take it. That’s probably why they are pushing so hard for the surveillance state.

New comment by yoyohello13 in "Don’t Outsource the Learning"

yoyohello13 — Mon, 18 May 2026 20:19:01 +0000

I guess my point is if our future really is just Wall-E, sitting in hover chairs waiting for the bots to feed us our food slop while we watch TV I'd rather just die and get it over with TBH.

New comment by yoyohello13 in "The quiet renovation at Bitwarden"

yoyohello13 — Mon, 18 May 2026 20:17:09 +0000

Better to look for exit strategies before the need arises.

New comment by yoyohello13 in "The quiet renovation at Bitwarden"

yoyohello13 — Mon, 18 May 2026 17:34:26 +0000

What a shame. I've been a paying Bitwarden customer since 2018. I really don't have time to move off yet, but I'll need to keep an eye out for where to jump. It sucks that this seems to just be the logical conclusion of all great projects.

New comment by yoyohello13 in "Don’t Outsource the Learning"

yoyohello13 — Sun, 17 May 2026 21:14:33 +0000

What are we without thinking? What’s the point of our existence in that case? Just being a biological bag of soup consuming resources?

In fact, thinking is what makes humans interesting. What separates us from random bacteria if we don’t think anymore?

New comment by yoyohello13 in "I don't think AI will make your processes go faster"

yoyohello13 — Sun, 17 May 2026 17:25:32 +0000

Even purely from an information theory perspective it was obvious “make me a Facebook clone” was not going to work. The more you compress the information prompt the more detail you lose.

New comment by yoyohello13 in "Leaving the Physical World"

yoyohello13 — Thu, 14 May 2026 19:06:41 +0000

Thanks for sharing your experience. I've been working toward transitioning from software to para-medicine. Spending my days working on random bullshit to 'increase shareholder value', which is at best neutral for society, is depressing. Actually doing something useful for real people in the real world seems like a way out.

But I feel very scared, and sort of stupid and ungrateful, to be considering taking a job with worse hours and benefits for a 1/4 of the pay.

New comment by yoyohello13 in "Rewrite Bun in Rust has been merged"

yoyohello13 — Thu, 14 May 2026 18:30:15 +0000

Bun is now the example. It's >1million lines of code, entirely vibe coded. All we do now is wait and see what happens.

New comment by yoyohello13 in "Rewrite Bun in Rust has been merged"

yoyohello13 — Thu, 14 May 2026 18:17:32 +0000

Bun has a lot of buzz as 'the next big thing' in the JS ecosystem, and was recently purchased by Anthropic. So it's kind of in the zeitgeist.

New comment by yoyohello13 in "Child marriages plunged when girls stayed in school in Nigeria"

yoyohello13 — Thu, 07 May 2026 17:33:21 +0000

Also true, and whatever genetic component contributes to 'fecundity' will proliferate as those people have more children. Yet another mechanism that will cause populations to rebound. Fertility rates falling really seems like a short term problem, and we have plenty of those to worry about so it seems like it should be pretty low on the list of concerns.

New comment by yoyohello13 in "Child marriages plunged when girls stayed in school in Nigeria"

yoyohello13 — Thu, 07 May 2026 16:10:42 +0000

You're assuming fertility rates wont rebound once there is less population pressure.

New comment by yoyohello13 in "Programming Still Sucks"

yoyohello13 — Thu, 07 May 2026 04:22:01 +0000

True, I should have said an industry that will trample on anything that stands in the way of its pursuit of money.

New comment by yoyohello13 in "Programming Still Sucks"

yoyohello13 — Thu, 07 May 2026 03:49:59 +0000

He really put in to words what I’ve been feeling lately. I love programming and I’m quite good at it, but this industry is a cesspit. I’ve already decided to go back to school to get one of those ‘real’ jobs. I’m tired of working in an industry hell bent on the destruction of society.