Is the backpack better than a cart? I have a big old cart (it folds) I use for large laundry and grocery trips. There’s sidewalks here, though.

Javascript is a horrible language, but it is ubiquitous. You’ll want to spend a little time on html and css if you expect them to do more than print output.

You could focus on TypeScript, which will help them avoid some of the worst things, but then you spend more time on tooling and it won’t just run in the browser console.

Python is a reasonably popular language with a good standard library. It has fewer bizarre quirks like adding two lists of ints together to get a string.

I wouldn’t teach C to a general audience.

Is it? I think if you include opportunity cost and “well i switched to an electric car now i falsely believe the problem is solved”, not so much.

It’s just easier, in some ways, because it’s a smaller change.

Or just… Email.

My parents just email me pictures of stuff. It’s fine.

I would guess that many people have never lived in a good, dense, location. My parents would vote for farther apart, but when they think of the city they think of The Warriors

It’d be interesting to poll only people who have lived in a variety of places.

I grew up in a car-focused suburb and never want to go back.

I’ve been using Linux with Nvidia for a few years now without any problems. I don’t play the most cutting edge stuff at high resolution, but like path of exile 2, elden ring, expedition 33 all ran just fine.

It’s funny in a sad way that Google et al let search get really bad, and then try to suggest we use LLMs instead of search. I was happy being able to type in like “react usememo hook” and finding the official docs, stack overflow, and maybe a blog or two. Now it’s so much more slop, the temptation to ask the LLM “how do I use usememo” is higher.

As discussed at length in last week’s planning meeting, we agreed to continue using isort at this time. Here is the decision document to review: {confluence link}. If you would like to relitigate the issue, which I would not recommend, please add it to the tech planning meeting agenda.

(More seriously, I started using ruff and have no complaints about it.)

Ok clearly it’s not literally about making CDs and people saying “just make your own streaming service” are both missing the point and vastly over estimating the capacity of the average person.

The important part that’s largely missing from today’s music environment is the personal touch and investment. Many people, as the author says, just comfortably coast through an algorithmic smoothie of familiar music. That is inferior to a friend saying “I made you this mix” and then you actually listen to it, attentively, more than once.

It doesn’t have to be a CD. It can be a zip file. But the intention and focus was important.

I’m an outlier in that I never let “the algorithm” choose what plays. Sometimes I still make mixes for friends, though lately they’ve just been a collection of links. That process of choosing is meaningful. My friend still listens to the mix I made for them when their job laid them off, sometimes.

All code going to the main branch must have a corresponding pull request reviewed and approved by someone with knowledge of the codebase. You really shouldn’t have the front end guy approving backend code.

Ai doesn’t count as a code review.

At my previous job, the policy also said you were supposed to actually check out the code and run it locally. Found a lot of bugs and issues that way.

At my current job, it’s often a rubber stamp. I’ve seen things like “that’s too many parenthesis. This won’t run” sail through. This is bad.

There should also be automated tests and checks.

A long time ago a director told me “software engineers are the most sensitive people on the planet” and I think he was right. Some people just can’t take feedback. They take something like “please sort your imports. We agreed to use isort last week” as a personal attack.

I feel like a lot of companies don’t do things the good way not because the good way is hard, or the bad way is cheaper, but because management is stupid. Stupid or sometimes apathetic.

This follows from my assumptions.

• the American South is generally governed by conservatives
• conservatives have bad ideas on everything
• public transit is a good idea
• conservatives oppose public transit

I think it’s like that dunning-kruger idea. People who are bad at things don’t know they’re bad, and are poor judges of quality.

So someone who’s kind of bad at coding isn’t going to know or understand what the LLM puts out, so they won’t fix as many issues.

Also humans are lazy, and when presented with something that looks good at a glance, we don’t really want to dive deeper.

I saw a PR from someone today at work. Guy’s nice but I don’t think he’s much of a programmer. He asked copilot to fix a warning. It did, and generated a linter error. So he asked it to fix that. It did, but for whatever reason decided to delete an entire function call.

Unfortunately that part of the code has no unit tests, so he just pushed it up for review. I look at it and I’m like if that call is important, don’t delete it. If it can be deleted, remove the now-unused code around it. We’ll see what he says.

He probably spent more time fussing with copilot than it would have taken to do it right in the first place.

This is a horrible idea and everyone involved in its conception and implementation should be barred from working in technology ever again.

I’ve been saying that for years. Now I have about 250 albums drm-free on Bandcamp. A good chunk of that money went to the people making the music, too.

I know there are people out there paying a subscription to Spotify who listen to the same dozen albums over and over, too.

We know. The problem is a lot of idiots want trump as a dictator.

People assume it’s all terminal all the time. I haven’t needed to open the terminal for months. It starts up. With the GUI I open the browser. Maybe steam, too. Do stuff. Shut down.

How did this get normalized?

The average user doesn’t know or understand technical details, and don’t believe they have any power to change anything

Also capitalism means a small number of assholes make most of the decisions for reasons that benefit them

Well, when you put it like that then my hypothesis doesn’t sound very plausible. But maybe racism just Trump’s everything else.

My hypothesis is people are easily frightened idiots. They don’t like change of any sort. It frightens them and then they can’t reason about if the change is good or bad long term.

If a place had bike lanes for years the same people who bike-lash would probably oppose removing them.