jtrek

This feels like theft. Maybe not technically legally but the people who did the chatting aren't getting the money. Capitalist hellscape

There’s also the class of comments that explain strange business decisions.

# Product guy said to return January 1st if the user doesn't have a birthday on record

Kind of arbitrary but someone with decision making power decreed it.

People who pollute the earth should have to fix the damage they do. Failing that, they should pay heavy fines.

Cars ruin everything. The primacy of cars is upstream from a surprising amount of problems with modern life.

If they won't use signal or similar then they're kind of shitty, but sometimes with friends and family that's how it is.

I've known several people who moved from QA and testing to developer roles, but usually as an internal transfer. Most recruiters and management don't know shit about fuck when it comes to technical details, so it's not surprising a lot of them think "Oh the guy who knows how software works and how to handle edge cases? No, we don't want him"

Fuck test automation, it’s a fucking trap get out of it as soon as you can

lol.

Meanwhile, the org I work at has no test automation, so things that should be trivial require hours of tedious, error-prone, manual testing. Also they break stuff and don’t find out until after it’s merged.

I have no regrets from setting my editor to save-on-blur

People should stop using Facebook products.

There is opportunity cost of Microsoft et al investing billions in AI instead of doing anything else. That money could have been spent on renewable energy research, improving efficiency of existing hardware, supporting work from home to reduce commuting, whatever. Those opportunities are lost because they went with AI instead. I didn't mean my opportunity cost from the toilet. AI is a poor use of limited resources and opportunity.

I really don't think the billions of dollars spent on AI is equivalent or at all analogous to the time I spend posting on the toilet or while waiting for things to happen at work.

The opportunity cost for AI is pretty high. That's a lot of resources spent on something that's bad for the world, even if it's not specifically the worst for climate change reasons in a first order sense.

They're already shooting people I support.

I just saw a play that has a plot point about how someone gets robbed by some racist, well connected shits, and the police won't do anything to help. The closest he gets to justice is vigilantism, where he hunts down and shoots 3 of his assailants dead. Only then does anyone start to listen to him, but when he agrees to talk peacefully they shoot him dead. I'm not sure "the only way you'll get justice is with your own bloody hands" was the author's intent, but that seems to be the message.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Do-gooder_derogation Some people are very fragile and have poor emotional regulation. When they see other people doing good, it makes them feel bad, so they lash out. Environmentalism, biking, veganism, all commonly evoke this behavior.

Skyrim. It was at best "fine" for me. I really dislike level scaling. The combat felt unsatisfying. I don't remember the story. It's not weird like Morrowind. The magic and enchanting was over-simplified. But for many people it's their grand joy. So I guess that's good for them.

Did not expect caves of qud to be on anyone's list, as I thought it was pretty niche. I also really wanted to like the game, but it felt oddly empty. I wanted less lost in the wilderness, less static quests, more dynamic stuff to do and explore.

I have much respect for "it's not fun for me" and less patience for "it's bad". Totally understand why you might not find the games fun.

I remember playing it at a friend's house and thinking "quake is better", but the four player local play on one game and TV was an overwhelming factor.

Obviously tastes differ. I thoroughly enjoyed it and felt it deserved the praise.

• The setting is original.
• Turn based with Parry/Dodge isn’t original (super Mario RPG) but it’s pretty satisfying here
• The stat/build system is fairly original and gives a lot of depth
• I thought the story was a solid examination of grief

If I woke up at 5am, I'd have to go to bed at like 8pm to get a full night's sleep. I went to a friend's party yesterday that didn't even start until 800pm. Getting up that early on the regular would mean a death blow to social life, or you'd be exhausted all the time from staying up into normal evening hours.

One of the other guys is on Windows and we had to change a config in git to handle it. Not sure what he did on his end. I have vscode on a Mac. Some people at this place have been working since like the 90s and probably are using notepad.

Windows isn’t fit for software development unless you’re doing Windows specific stuff. Maybe you can get by with WSL or cygwyn or similar, but that’s just a bandaid to make the machine less windows. You’ll probably still have problems with like case folding and line endings.

Bad idea. Fertile ground for abuse, intentional or otherwise. As others have said, it's hubris to think one or two untrained adults can do professional grade teaching.

I dislike postman. I see job postings that are like "MUST KNOW POSTMAN". Fuck, people should know how to make API requests but postman isn't the only tool for that. Furthermore, if I'm doing automated tests to run on PR I'm not going to use a GUI. Pytest or jest or whatever testing library your language has. I did use Bruno for a while for convenience during local development, though.

I thought it was pretty okay. I think I might be old and grumpy but I find myself saying "just talk about your feelings!" at the TV a lot in this show. But I guess they're all basically teenagers, so it would be unreasonable to ask a level of emotional maturity that many real life adults fail to meet.

I think a lot about how one time we spent s few hours estimating how long a project would take. Management came back and said no, that’s too long, we’d need to finish in a month. Well if that’s how long it has to take why not lead with that? Bunch of idiot empty husks doing cargo-cult “agile”