Just gonna keep posting this since we shouldn’t be perpetuating lies: https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/jd-vance-couch-cushions/.

Heh, that’s software engineering in a nutshell. Everything’s important but you still have to pick the most important to know what to work on.

If you have a 401k, HSA, or other common financial accounts offered by employers, you most likely have money in the stock market. Usually it’s an indexed mutual fund of some kind.

I’m not saying we go high. By all means, rip into them. The Harris campaign is doing a great job of that, using the truth. There’s so much ammunition that the lies are just a drop in the bucket and serve no real purpose other than distortion. It’s just pretty pointless.

I mean, there’s so much bullshit to use against them we hardly need to stoop to lies. The truth is already incredibly damning and is tearing them apart right now.

It doesn’t destroy their brain (though screens for newborns can mess up eyesight development), but it also doesn’t provide any benefit at an extremely crucial time in their development. It definitely shouldn’t be something they’re doing frequently for long periods of time since that comes with a very real opportunity cost.

I’m confused… Are you saying we should encourage disinformation?

Just gonna share this here anyway since I fell for it originally:

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/jd-vance-couch-cushions/

I assume you’re just memeing siince he never actually wrote about that?

Yeah wtf, 100ms is great.

300ms is the average reaction time in humans. Less than 100ms reaction time would be insane and I’m pretty sure it’s something no one has actually achieved.

The negative impact a lot of screen time has on kids is very well documented. Basically, even educational shows do basically nothing for young kids. It’s passive and doesn’t help development in any way. Kids benefit a lot more from active exploration, play, and socialization.

“Moral panic” is a phrase reserved for complaints that have no basis in reality.

It’s still grossly negligent from a security perspective.

This is really terrible advice.

Wait so the couch fucking thing was bullshit? It’s just so… specific. Talk about an impressive shitpost.

That’s quite the claim. Do you have an example of NPR espousing the same points that Fox News is?

There once was a man named Vance,

who couldn’t keep it in his pants.

One day he was lookin’

at a pretty couch cushion,

and the poor thing never stood a chance.

Okay, but it is false to claim that she is a enthusiastic supporter without any evidence of said support.

How is Harris an enthusiastic supporter? https://www.aljazeera.com/program/newsfeed/2024/7/26/harris-says-she-wont-be-silent-on-gaza-after-netanyahu-meeting

I definitely write pseudocode like this, albeit perhaps with some more shorthand. It’s commonly taught this way too.

No, the legacy of HJKL in modern tools comes from vi, which itself uses them because the original ADM-3A terminal that Bill Joy used when developing it used HJKL in lieu of arrow keys.

vi was hugely influential and its legacy can be found in many tools beloved by software engineers and other tech-minded folks (and vi’s successor, vim, is still widely used to this day).