Notices by deprecated (deprecated@poa.st)

I have a somewhat unusual perspective in that I learned to program ~20 years ago but stopped programming for about a decade, before getting back into it 7-8 years ago

almost all the new crap people are taught just gets in the way; it’s slow to develop with, often slow to run, and obfuscates what’s going on under the hood in ways that can make debugging very frustrating

the industry standard is to use heavy abstractions for no benefit to programmers who are actually competent, and since I started programming again the hot new frontend abstraction (for example) has changed like four times while the actual web has been getting dramatically worse by the year

it’s not progress, and I can’t even really call it regress because that doesn’t really cover it… it’s like we’ve fallen into a punji pit and aren’t even trying to get out because we’ve convinced ourselves it’s a good place to be

The government has no ability to go door to door confiscating firearms at scale. If you think it can, you’re a retard.

@TheQuQu Yeah I’m aware of this aspect but that’s more of a side effect than intentional and isn’t a good play if it IS intentional. If they want to take down someone in particular, they can do it already without making new laws. All they’re doing is making incidental interactions between upstanding whites and police enormously more dangerous.

@TheQuQu Upstanding whites are not like blacks, who will either go quietly or chimp incompetently and get put down by barely-trained cops. Some might fight it in court, but enough will decide to go out shooting.

There are huge numbers of white combat veterans and hardcore ideological types wandering around who make the typical cop look like a brain damaged 9 year old in fighting ability; you’ll have a Chris Dorner every week if cops start targeting them intentionally for searches.

@Bajax @TheQuQu They do not have the manpower, period.

@Moon @Bajax @TheQuQu They already don’t. Cops rarely live in the areas they patrol.