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windward··on Two Git ignore files nobody told me about
Do the reading b/c there's a machine that has done all the reading so it's hard to add value if you maintain the anti-intellectualism of 2010s software dev.
windward··on 9 Ads per Minute: FIFA Cup 26 – "the price of the beautiful game"
Football fans have shown they're quite eager to tell Infantino where to stick his revenue sharing.
windward··on The Beauty of Roundabouts
Yes, we're discussing how the users change the way traffic flows.
windward··on The Beauty of Roundabouts
>They work perfectly fine.

I don't want to celebrate UK roads too much. The majority of roundabout users in the UK are not indicating properly. Too many people are stopping at them when they have priority. Lanes are just a suggestion and using the correct lane is an invitation for someone to drive into the left of you.

In other areas: enough people don't know how to use a slip road that it becomes a problem to those who do. Likewise the flashing ambers of a pelican crossing. Lane discipline is much worse than on the continent, to the point you can see it creating traffic jams. Lots of people are driving big cars without the confidence needed to remain in their own lane.

There are millions of drivers who've never passed a theory test. We could do with more ruthlessness.

windward··on iPhone Duo
Smartphones are worse computing devices than laptops or desktops. Smartphones are also the most widely-used computing devices in the world, even by people sat at home with a better computing device on the other side of the room. History suggests worse just doesn't matter in the face of convenience.
windward··on iPhone Duo
Do you carry a laptop everywhere you go?
windward··on iPhone Duo
>in a tight pocket

Oh, well there's the problem. Apple isn't catering to millennial jeans fits any more. Only half-joking.

windward··on iPhone Duo
It's a notebook
windward··on Initial effects of AI technology on employment look positive
>just have Claude vomit a novel into it

True, that's the other side of it: my daily work has lost the fun reward loop and I'm being alienated from my colleagues. But I still have colleagues!

windward··on Initial effects of AI technology on employment look positive
While I'm still catastrophically worried about what AI means for my career, I've noticed that my current employer - very AI forward, and growing the team - is still facing an ever expanding backlog.

High productivity is generally good for the employee, unless you're productive enough you run out of work to do. So how much code is needed?

windward··on Proton Global Outage
It's not default, you have to enter a password to enable it.
windward··on Proton Global Outage
who knows? https://i.imgur.com/PwobLhW.png

(IDK if there's a more accessible alternative to imgur now)

windward··on Proton Global Outage
> Proton Pass

>> Browser Extensions: Major Outage

A nice reminder to keep passwords offline.

windward··on Remote workers report the highest well-being in study of 7,700 employees
I have a remote job. I get to have this one because I made contacts at a previous job. Good luck in the job market correction.
windward··on Remote workers report the highest well-being in study of 7,700 employees
I blame them because they're the ones taking advantage
windward··on Remote workers report the highest well-being in study of 7,700 employees
Maybe being freed from the slave mindset is the reason you haven't had the same. Maybe.
windward··on Remote workers report the highest well-being in study of 7,700 employees
>you have to cart your stuff to and from the locker every day

Yeah, you might. I assume you're a principled person.

In my experience, the less principled simply leave their shit all over the place for us to deal with.

windward··on Remote workers report the highest well-being in study of 7,700 employees
Pitching yourself as a machine that takes in requirements and spits out work is a daring proposition in today's technological environment.
windward··on A third world engineer responds to “RISC-V: They should have known better”
I don't agree with history telling us that at all. HDMI, MP3, MPEG, .docx, DirectX, CUDA, I'm sure there are more. History tells us that money wins.

But I also think this is an example of a slight disingenuity in RISC-V being referred to as open-source. It's borrowing the clout of open-source software projects where the end user has the freedom to compile them at home. I can't fabricate a CPU at home, I'm still beholden to whatever patents the manufacturer chooses to license. SiFive have a >billion dollar valuation, for a business based on selling licences.

windward··on England set to be one of the first countries to eliminate hepatitis C
>there is no passport control

There's no anything. Getting to Wales is easier than getting to Devon for most of England. You can do it accidentally.

windward··on That time when I failed the Microsoft interview
These are good questions to ask.

1) I rarely get any feedback, particularly not feedback as detailed as this, with a single reason for failure 2) Employers habitually bend the truth around interviews: interviewing for jobs that don't exist, that are already filled, reneging offers 3) Not being hired after an interview doesn't mean you failed it. They're more like dates than exams.

windward··on Kill The Cookie Banner
>breaks entire business models

So do car alarms.

I'm not convinced this is a business model I want to exist. We had an internet before it, and Google, and Facebook. I'm increasingly sad we can't return to it.

windward··on git's –end-of-options Flag
Well it's a problem that's existed since day one
windward··on So Reddit has decided that plain HTML is unsafe
This is similar to X's model, where every reply section is full of bluetick OF bots.

Cheap enough for humans and too expensive for bots have a big overlap.

windward··on So Reddit has decided that plain HTML is unsafe
As an opinionated 'power user' type, I've become used to experiencing friction on web 2.0. So for example I sometimes have to make accommodations because my adblocker or user scripts aren't working with a change on a site. I also find myself doing a lot of captchas, because I use a VPN. That's not unexpected: I'm treading an unhappy path, I shouldn't expect my usage to be considered when these changes are made.

But what I find increasingly common is that I run into these kinds of frictions even when I do behave as a normie. So even if I do install the official Reddit app, I'll end up going through the broken flow you've described. Or I'll make an account and be immediately given a shadowban for being a 'bot'. Or I'll see cookie prompts interfere with login prompts interfering with app prompts.

Devs aren't even making things work outside their own setup now.

windward··on So Reddit has decided that plain HTML is unsafe
Absurdly, it is much faster to browse between pages using old reddit.

Seriously, try it out. I wonder if the person who created a ticket for implementing the progress bar ever wondered if it was symptom of a greater problem?

windward··on git's –end-of-options Flag
It's from 2019, so it's hardly a recent development.

It's also very discoverable if you see it in the wild. You may be surprised that `--` doesn't work, but you won't be surprised `--end-of-options` represents the end of options.

What problem does this actually cause you? What additional complexity has adding this feature added to your development cycle?

windward··on Ghost Cut – Or why Cut and Paste is broken everywhere
Spending enough time drinking the kool aid means I know at least 3 ways to use registers to avoid that, and practically end up using none of them
windward··on Ghost Cut – or why Cut and Paste is broken everywhere
>paste multiple times

Because you're trying to 'copy' it?

This feels baby-duck-y. No given mental model is more right than another. There's already not even a consistent model, because:

>Cut is copy and delete

So copy and delete! Or, in Vim and Emacs, just delete!

windward··on Does creatine make you smarter?
Cycling is also a marketing ploy, since it makes it sound more like a PED and less like a compound found naturally in meat. It's the same reason people say they 'take' whey, when Miss Muffet simply ate it.
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