Love it or hate it, furries make the internet go. A lot of them are very early adopters and developers themselves. Source: I've had more than a few friends in and around the community since I was a teen.
I do worry - in a sense. I have no doubt that a mugging gone wrong or a car crash because reasons could occur or is being considered actively.
Too often the enemies of the deep state wind up dead under suspicious circumstances. I see no reason why any of the new guard will be exempt from those methods.
Having worked with many of the latter and having had the displeasure of educating them on nix systems fundamentals: ugh, oof, I hate this timeline, yet I also feel a sense of job security.
We used to joke about this a lot when Java devs would have memory issues and not know how to adjust the heap size in init scripts. So many “CS majors” who are completely oblivious to anything happening outside of the JVM, and plenty happening within it.
At BigCos, software engineering is also spending 70% of your day in meetings or handling housekeeping chores in JIRA / Monday / Airtable / Notion / GDocs. I’d love to send an AI agent to meet with PMs to give status updates and take notes if any of their needs change if it could actually do those things efficiently and reliably. Right now, it’d be about the equivalent of having a PM call a phone tree system and leave a voicemail that might get transcribed 85% correctly.
Reminds of the Google Translate model that eventually invented its own internal intermediate language. Which would be a nice touch in this kind of applications.
I'm switching browsers, I hate ads more than I like Chrome.
Sounds like June 2025 is the real date when it'll no longer be possible to use manifest v2 extensions per https://blog.chromium.org/2024/05/manifest-v2-phase-out-begi...
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