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Same except insert some insomnia forks/clones. Silver lining: if/when Bruno goes, I’ll finally be annoyed enough write my own.

Waymo: *locks doors, chorus to Floods by Pantera starts playing, guns it into the water*

“Wash away maaaaan, take him with the floooood”

I was in the Boy Scouts and a lot of it was appealing at first, but it eventually became ugly to me. I loved the aspects that focused on nature, exploration, self-reliance, and to a degree the quasi-military sense of duty, brotherhood, structure, and (at least the illusion) of support which I craved. As I got older though, I became impatient if not infuriated with the organization’s preoccupation with dogma, ideological loyalty, and increasing focus on establishing in and out groups. The leaders and scouts that flourished where rigid top down authoritarian types that epitomized what I grew to strongly dislike about the rest of American patriarchal society that I was increasingly struggling with in day to day life: bullying, hypocrisy, cruelty, and fearful of anything that doesn’t conform to an embarrassingly narrow and ignorant standard. Of course, I understood that it perhaps said more about the fact a lot of dads in my community were assholes, but organizationally it seemed to reward those sorts of people and shit all over everyone else. I just wanted to camp and respect nature, not join the Hitler Youth and get bullied more. I was/am annoyed by people being surprised by the BSA’s problems with abuse, as logically and historically these sorts of institutions are fertile ground for abuse.

While we’re adding antiquated and shitty ways to interface with your agent, can we add fax support? Maybe direct-to-mail service for postcards and flyers?

Has this changed recently? I started playing at launch, and while initially it was a lot of fun and I had predominantly positive experiences, after a couple of weeks I quit because it devolved into little more than griefing. I don’t mind it getting a little sweaty here and there but I don’t have time for nonstop edgelords going lord of the flies in front of their 3 twitch viewers.

You’d have to run a lot of Electron-based apps to go from tepid to hot water.

So you’re saying I can go with a melee/stamina build and just whirlwind smash my boss in the face?

To me, it feels more like buying gems in a freemium mobile game :(

Even before AI, writing software isn’t even the “hardest” part. This is new enough that I wouldn’t be waving Mission Accomplished flags just because someone was able to dump out a react front end, wire up some managed services, and get paying users. Let’s see how this pans out long term when someone grapples with cost, reliability, security, growth, competition, and all the other actually hard parts. Also, using “I’ve heard this all before” and pointing to cloud, mobile, whatever as the basis of your argument is a bit awkward… yeah a lot of folks made a shit ton of money but the current tech landscape is increasingly a wasteland of broken and harmful things. I’m not sure I’m thrilled that we invented a machine to accelerate decline.

But the underlying point, I think, is that the right tool in the right hands is an extraordinary thing, especially when you bring execution closer to smart visionaries who aren’t otherwise technical. I can’t sit here in denial that LLMs have drastically changed things to that effect, whether I like it or not.

I’m learning Japanese, which is overall a difficult language for a native English speaker to learn. However, the rules for pronunciation are comparatively a big relief, as is hiragana/katakana

We lived in caves with no society before ICE?

This writing style where every section has multiple paragraphs of preamble, prolepsis, cold openers for cold openers, and tangents is infuriating. Get on to the point already.

Suggesting that the wholesale suffering wrought by humanity unto itself and all other life on this planet throughout its entire history is merely in my mind or a problem with my personal life is actually incredibly insulting on top of being willfully ignorant.

My first serious programming job was at a start up and the owner asked me this question. I was caught off guard, of course I wouldn’t! I couldn’t really explain why at the time, but it essentially revolved around the fact that I was young and optimistic. 25 years later, I’m not so sure. Now, said optimism has almost vanished and there are days pushing seems like the path to least suffering, but I also feel it’s unethical for one person to decide for everyone else.

> Elon Musk has recently stated that SpaceX will, at least right now, no longer be focusing on traveling to Mars

Wait you mean Elon has been full of shit all this time???

Leftism and OSS share a similar problem, being that good ideas, intentions, and works are squandered by petty drama and insecure egos.

Requires nextjs, :(

My dependabot queue is going to explode the next few days.

I’m relieved my electricity bill went up 50% so Brandon here can get a Slack message of what’s in his freezer rather than looking.

A whole bunch of this stuff that people are fawning over as life changing and it leaves me honestly wondering: how have some of you survived this long at all?

This is generally true, volume and low cost situations exacerbate it, but it’s not limited to Chinese manufacturing. You see it everywhere. As a completely unrelated example: home remodeling. The guy I contracted did wonderful work and charged a completely fair price, but there were many parts that I hand waved at “he knows best” “he’ll pick the most sensible approach that matches the quality of the rest of project”. Wrong. Cheapest, fastest thing, using materials on hand if possible every time. The economics are obvious and it doesn’t matter to him insofar as I acquiesce or don’t notice. Why should it be any different for low cost mass manufacturing?

Thanks for the response. So Stelvo’s sell is through its opinionated approach regarding architecture and defaults. I realize elevator pitches are tough especially when there are lots of competing solutions, but maybe some sort of short and sweet “us vs them” comparison on the home page would make that sell easier. Like many of my peers I’m sure, I’ll admit I have little time and patience to click through to get to the obligatory question of “why us”.

Anyways, not sure who went on the downvote spree or why (it wasn’t one account), and I admit it didn’t seem likely your team would be doing it since you folks were actively discussing, but I couldn’t think of why someone else would do it either. Anyways, sorry and thanks for your time.

Also where is this idea that it takes days to ship Python in CDK coming from?

Edit: great, getting downvoted for daring to ask the author to explain a claim. I’m noticing other people asking questions getting downvoted, too. Brigading isn’t a good look.

I still use my dad’s old HP 15C. Form factor is good, aesthetically it’s very appealing, it feels efficient to use, I like the tactile feel of the buttons, and I like thinking of my dad when I use it.

> Is this a flaw in the cryptography itself? No. The underlying cryptographic algorithms (3DES and AES-128) remain secure. The vulnerabilities arise from:

Protocol design choices that allow unauthenticated memory writes after initial authentication Lack of atomicity when writing cryptographic keys across multiple memory pages Widespread misconfiguration in real-world deployments (unlocked memory, static keys) Non-NXP compatible chips with severely flawed random number generators

I’d always hated running. I’ve done C25K a few times with no problem, but once I reached that goal I felt I couldn’t make much additional progress. But the need to move and running’s simplicity and minimal requirements meant I kept trying every couple of years. I read/watched a little and got some tips from ultra runners and actually started to make progress. I was actually enjoying it and looking forward to running. Then I got the worst fucking shin splints imaginable where I had to nearly crawl halfway back home. Stopped running to heal, which took a very long time. I’ve tested a few runs but there’s still pain and I just don’t want to go through that again.

So now I row every day. I get a much better exercise high from rowing, progress is much more noticeable, it’s improved vitals more than running has, there’s no pain, and I don’t have to worry about weather. I occasionally miss the change of scenery or things like running on a cold snowy day but I can just go rent some cross country skis when I get that itch.

I’ve long felt estimations are a negotiation. It’s not as much about how long it will take or how much it will cost, but what do you really need and what can you afford. Kinda like I’m helping someone buy a car based on their needs and budget, I’ll put together 3 “trim line” options:

1. Economy (bare functionality, prefer low cost and fast delivery over reliability and longevity)

2. Mid tier (good enough quality and reliable but no frills)

3. Luxury (all the bells and whistles)

The business will want all the bells and whistles of 3 but also the pragmatism of 2 but the budget and timeline of 1. So, they don’t actually pick themselves, I choose for them based on the circumstances and we negotiate the finer points.

Devs can gold plate the shit out of any project, but having a plan for #1 is helpful when shit hits the fan and the business needs you to pivot. More than that, it’s useful during the negotiation to illustrate the ramifications of shortcuts. It’s helped me more than a few times to avoid some really stupid decisions from panicking PMs and execs.

> a church service in Minnesota last Sunday, where a US Immigration and Customs Enforcement official is a pastor.

Wait, what?

In another setting, it looks like ass, but lo-fi, glitchy shit is perfectly compatible with hip-hop aesthetic. Good track though.

> Another interpretation would be to conclude cynically that it’s time humans get either enhanced or replaced by a more powerful form of intelligence.

Perhaps the author is just gaming out a thought experiment, but I’ll just take it at face value. I am genuinely baffled by the obsequiousness some people display regarding LLMs. Let’s assume it really is a more powerful form of intelligence (ugh) and it “replaces” people, how do you think that ends for you?

You are trying to convince yourself that you’ve happened upon a benevolent god that truly, deeply understands you while staring into a reflection pool.

Mockito was indeed a poor fit for Kotlin. MockK is the one. Except I suppose for shops that have projects that mix Java and Kotlin and already have a Mockito tests.