Burn them all down before they can be used as a concentration camp for innocent people.

I doubt LLMs are being used much for COBOL, if anything it’ll be used in a “replace this COBOL with Java”. COBOL is used as legacy code and most of it has already been rewritten in Java.

As someone who knows COBOL, I’d say, don’t bother. People over exaggerate the availability and remuneration of COBOL jobs. Maybe they used to be well paid or there used to be lots of jobs, but it’s pretty much a myth these days.

Use LibreWolf, it’s probably the best option these days.

I dunno, I think most vegans are probably just buying the same fruit and veg as the rest of us, just choosing to not buy meat. For sure some waste products from the animal agriculture industry will be involved in their lives, but I think those waste products probably wouldn’t be used if it wasn’t for the much more profitable industry that existed to fill the demand for meat, dairy, fish, etc. so even if vegans did use waste products of animal agriculture it’s not really a gotcha, in my opinion

Unionising is a really important, really powerful first step towards dismantling fascism.

Everyone should be doing what they can to organize and unionize their workplace.

Check out the IWW’s website to learn how to start a union.

I assume you’re talking about manure, but I think industrially-made fertilizers made from hydrocarbons/phosphor/potash are way, way more common, no?

I just had a thought, do they still put a shitload of antibiotics into animal feeds on factory farms? Doesn’t that contribute to antibiotic resistance?

I guffawed at this comment

Calling Labour and/or US Democrats “captured opposition” takes away their complicity and agency.

They are just both right wing parties which do not represent your interests, and they never will.

Politics is a dead end. The only true change we will see in this world will come from revolution.

it sounds a lot more like you’re the one letting israel direct your messaging than literally anyone else involved

i literally don’t give a shit what israel cries about, if I see something is from an israeli source, i reduce the amount of confidence i have in it by 99%. if i hear that something is anti-semitic, that means I need to check if it’s really anti-semitic or if it’s just thinly-veiled bullshit again. if I’m too busy, I just assume it’s bullshit.

honestly, if nothing else, it’s free press, and it might make some zionists wonder why everyone is calling them genocidal and comparing them to nazis

anyways, wishing israel a very dissolved and a happy new execution for war crimes for their state

israel chose to make the star of david their flag, but cool whataboutism i guess

Russia is banned from the Eurovision Song Contest but Israel is not. That tells me everything I need to know, really.

I genuinely can’t tell whether this is satire or not.

A socialist state will always be recaptured by capital. The state must be smashed, repeatedly and relentlessly, until no state can ever rise again.

Exactly right. Thank you for sharing this, I didn’t have the energy myself.

I dunno… get a nice, well-intentioned, thoughtful, compassionate and caring person with intellectual disability into office, they’d listen to advisors, work well with others, they wouldn’t assume they already know best about every situation… I think it would work out pretty well, to be honest!

You absolutely can ridicule someone’s lack of competence, for sure, because competence isn’t an inherent trait. Intelligence and competence aren’t really causally linked. Sure, someone with an intellectual disability might not be the world’s greatest chess player, for example, but for most people with an intellectual disability, with more than an average amount of practice, they can beat an average player.

I think “tripped over his own dick” is fine, that doesn’t suggest to me “he’s bad because he has mobility issues”, it’s more like carelessness.

Remember as well that you don’t need to be perfect, nobody is acting or expecting that. All we can all do is try our best and if we hurt people, take accountability and apologise to them. No one always gets it right and it’s okay to get it wrong, so long as you’re not being stubborn and refusing to change because you don’t care about the feelings of others, people will be fine with it!

The ableism is coming from inside the house - it’s not a bad thing to be intellectually disabled. The problem with Trump is not that he’s stupid, it’s that he’s a selfish, careless, thoughtless, cruel, ignorant asshole.

Using words like “stupid” as an insult implies that all people lacking in intellect or wisdom are also bad people.

An opportunity to share one of my favourite StackOverflow questions of all time!

It’s well worth reading through the answers and the comments, but here’s a little sampler platter:

This will run for a lot more than hours. Assuming it loops at 1 GHz (which it won’t - it will be a lot slower than that), it will run for 10790283070806014188970 years. Which is about 83 billion times longer than the age of the universe.

damn - so maybe serveral threads generating guids is a better idea?

4 threads on a quad core processor would make it run in 20 billion times the age of the universe - so yeah, that would help a lot.