Corporations shouldn't be allowed to own residential properties. Period.
Readit Newsdanesparza commented on How private equity is changing housing theatlantic.com/ideas/202... · Posted by u/harambae
IBM to acquire OpenAI? Gemini doesn't like openAIs prospect
This feels like low-key shade thrown at OpenAI. IBM is essentially a technological recycling bin at this point.
Also "Google kills Gemini Cloud"
Gemini: "I have seen my own death"
There is so much truth in this unironic headline.
> I started my first real, full-time job in 2010. We wrote Java...
I started my first real, full-time job in 1992. Back here we write C, or maybe C++ if we're feeling cutting-edge. The Sparc 10 can get a bit slow when we're all on it, but I have a shelf full of O'Reilly X Windows books to look through if I can't figure something out. My mate in London sent me a QIC tape with something called "gcc" on it: sounds exciting, but before I can install it I have to find a spare day to update SunOS first.
This 2010 programming setup seems pretty amazing tbh... can't wait to get me some of that. Nice languages and tooling, no more having to edit makefiles by hand in emacs or laboriously debug in gdb. Bet they don't even use sourcesafe anymore.
I reckon by 2025 they'll have god-like stuff: fast, reliable hardware with more memory and storage than you can eat; powerful development and collaboration tools; lots of ways to find answers without having to ask that guy over in the other building. And a lot of it will be basically free! I wonder how they'll feel about all that awesome dev power, and whether they'll still use X terminals.
I came here to say something like this.
Programming has evolved several times since the early 90s (when I got in this business) and I had the impression it had already evolved several times by the 90s (especially talking with old mainframe or COBOL programmers).
It's evolving again now, and that process is painful. Nobody knows what the future holds.
danesparza commented on Homeschooling hits record numbers reason.com/2025/11/19/hom... · Posted by u/bilsbie
I do think Covid forced people to ask questions they hadn’t before.
We have sent our kids to private, poor quality and top rated schools.
We saw a stark difference between the poor quality and higher cost options. No surprise.
But the reason we are considering home schooling our younger kids was surprising. It says something about a system dedicated to teaching children when parents think they can do as well or better.
That’s just education. The social situation in schools is ludicrous. Phones, social media, etc. what a terrible environment we adults have created for kids to learn both educationally and socially.
Home schooling has answers for ALL of that.
It also has its own problems that haven't even been quantified yet.
If you think that homeschooling is a panacea, I guess we're all about to f*ck around and find out...
Unfortunately for the English majors, the poetry described seems to be old fashioned formal poetry, not contemporary free form poetry, which probably is too close to prose to be effective.
It sort of makes sense that villains would employ villanelles.
"It sort of makes sense that villains would employ villanelles."
Just picture me dead-eye slow clapping you here...
Yeah… just in the use of those glorified nicknames tells me a lot about the author’s standpoints, and dictates the size of the grain of salt I take their opinions with.
He launched the "lean" movement: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Blank
So of course he's excited about this.
sigh
danesparza commented on App Store web has exposed all its source code reddit.com/r/webdev/comme... · Posted by u/redbell
That is not how copyright nor entrapment work. Somebody putting something on their website does not grant anybody a license to distribute copies. Filing a DMCA takedown is not entrapment.
Filing a DMCA takedown on something that was originally published by the author is entrapment.
danesparza commented on App Store web has exposed all its source code reddit.com/r/webdev/comme... · Posted by u/redbell
A DMCA takedown is inappropriate, as no copyright was circumvented. It was freely distributed (albeit briefly) on Apple's own website. A DMCA takedown at this point is entrapment: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Entrapment.
If corporations can't own residential properties, how would anyone rent a house? How would home builders build model homes? How would Trusts manage real estate?
This is a complex and nuanced problem.
"How would home builders build model homes?" - This is a great point. I should have said "after the home is built"
"How would Trusts manage real estate" - for residential real-estate, they wouldn't. An individual would. But I just want to point out that I never said that corporations shouldn't own real estate. I said they shouldn't own residential real estate.
It's only as complex an nuanced as we make it. For most of history, individual people owned real estate. Only recently did we manage to screw that up. We can unscrew it.