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[–] expr 24 points 2 months ago (12 children)

Yeah, no, fuck off with that. The doctor is the care provider, not the insurance company, and an insurance company has no fucking business deciding what is or isn't medically necessary.

[–] expr 11 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Celebrities often pay for full time nannies and such. It's pretty unlikely that they are actually taking care of the kids themselves.

[–] expr 10 points 2 months ago (1 children)

That used to be true, but in recent years he has gotten a lot more conservative, so I personally take his predictions with a huge grain of salt.

[–] expr 3 points 2 months ago

Probably a good thing you got banned for advocating for child abuse.

[–] expr 2 points 2 months ago

Why are you such a piece of shit? Or is this just bait?

[–] expr 2 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Sure, perhaps it's possible that I saw an unusually high amount of apologists, but I'm saying that it happened enough times and consistently enough that it prompted me to block them before I even knew anything about them, which I think at least says something. I won't claim to know what the majority opinion there is, but I don't think it's a stretch to say that it's an abnormal amount.

[–] expr 3 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Answer me this: are they or are they not consistently in support of Russia/China? Because I've seen it a lot from them (and blocked the instance soon after joining Lemmy when I noticed the pattern).

Is it just some big joke that went over my head?

[–] expr 9 points 2 months ago (4 children)

I dunno, I ended up blocking the instance way before I knew about their reputation (like, when I first joined Lemmy) because all of the users their kept posting the most unhinged shit.

I have definitely seen blatant apologism for China/Russia from them.

FWIW, I'm much further left than your average Democrat (I consider myself a leftist/anarchist). I personally don't consider what I've seen from them to be very "left", just authoritarian.

[–] expr 5 points 2 months ago (1 children)

It's a toss up, for me. Both managed to capture all discussion on major open source projects.

[–] expr 1 points 2 months ago

! is supported

Vim's command line, i.e, commands starting with :. The vanishingly few it does support are, again, only the most basic, surface-level commands (and some commands aren't even related to their vim counterparts, like :cwindow, which doesn't open the quick fix list since the extension doesn't support that feature).

Your experience is out of date.

The last commit to the supported features doc was 5 years ago, so no, it isn't. Seriously, you can't possibly look at that doc and tell me that encompasses even 20% of vim's features. Where's the quick fix list? The location list? The args list? The change list? The jump list? Buffers? Vim-style window management (including vim's tabs)? Tags? Autocommands (no, what it has does not count)? Ftplugins? ins-completion? The undo tree? Where's :edit, :find, :read [!], and :write !? :cdo, :argdo, :bufdo, :windo?

Compared to what vim can do, it is absolutely a joke.

[–] expr 6 points 2 months ago

I'm a senior software engineer with a pretty uncommon skill set. Recruiters are the primary way that companies hire in my industry outside of networking contacts and I get contacted frequently. The job before my current one was through a recruiter.

I very much dislike Microsoft and LinkedIn in general, but not using it all is a huge handicap that isn't worth taking on.

[–] expr 6 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Nah, it's all hyped up bullshit that has to be babysat and manipulated to a degree that you may as well just write your damn code.

But beyond that, I'd argue that it's actually damaging for engineering organizations, because it means the org is incurring the maintenance cost of code not written by its engineers and that has no real thought put behind it. Maybe you can eventually coax it to produce code that's not completely broken shit, but it's code that your org doesn't actually "own" from a maintenance and knowledge-base perspective. The social aspect of code maintenance with this shit is always massively overlooked.

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