Used to be Dallas was pretty famous- Kennedy shooting, cheerleaders, and a titular TV show.

I’d say Salem, Massachusetts (pop just under 45k) is pretty famous thanks to the witch trials.

That’s not Jenna. That’s a snuff film.

Negative 20 is in fact less than five and twenty, so I think you are both technically correct.

I was trying to say that tools were better about letting us know that another developer was modifying the same file as us, so we would collaborate in advance of creating the conflict.

I use git daily and still wonder why I had fewer merge issues on a larger team in the 1990s with command line rcs on Solaris. Maybe we were just more disciplined then. I know we were less likely to work on the same file concurrently. I feel like I spend more time fighting the tools than I ever used to. Some of that is because of the dumb decisions that were made on our project a decade or more ago.

I made Jello late last year to eat while fasting for my colonoscopy. I’m 50. Sometimes I make it when someone in the house is sick.

We add the current year to the copyright dates, the current updates are protected from the time of authorship. So if the copyright says, 2012, 2014, 2022; I would add a 2024. The commit records can be used to determine what was changed each instance, but the update provides notice of when changes were made.

Discerning what is protectable creative expression versus functional and therfore unprotected is an issue for the courts.

The one thing that consistently gets caught in code reviews in my shop is a failure to update a copyright date. I have been tempted to submit clearly crap code just to see if anyone actually is paying attention.

If The Great Gatsby is a difficult book, what is something like Finnegan’s Wake or Ulysses? Actually, I am kind of interested in how AI would destroy those works.

And yet 2023 was the new all time high for carbon emissions, at least until 2024 is in the book. We will not cut emissions until we run out of easily extractable carbon to emit. We’ll be building solar powered pumps for oil wells at some point for the otherwise negative EROI. As a species, we deserve the consequences of our behavior. Too bad they will be most severe for some of the least responsible first.

Saving them for my retirement. (I will probably only retire when my health is so poor that it is clear that I won’t outlive my retirement resources.)

Separate apps for various retail stores. I don’t want a home depot app. I don’t want a kroger app. We have a generic app for this category called a web browser. If you want me to download a specialized app for your store, I assume that means that my browser does not sufficiently breach my privacy for your “business purposes.”

Big Bosses later ask middle managers: “Why is turnover so high? Are you not fostering a fun environment?” The 40 % raise for job hopping is a real mystery.

I am using CentOS 9 in WSL. I don’t particularly care what distribution I use because I mostly using a bash shell as a software development environment. I prefer apt to flat packs and use ubuntu 20 on an embedded system that I write code for at work. I keep wanting to get more experience with KDE and gnome, but I haven’t been good about using my free time to mess with OS. As long as I have vim and a prompt that uses vi input, I am pretty content. (Does this make me sound old? The kids at work have trouble following what I am doing when we pair program.)

All AI’s motto: trained by trolls.

Fundamental issue: cannot distinguish an “upvote because funny” from an “upvote because accurate”

I have some expertise in some subjects, but even those in those subjects I sometimes say wrong things for various reasons including, but not limited to: 1. I am dumb. 2. I misspoke. 3. I was trolling. 4. I misunderstood the question. 5. I half-assed it. 6. I’m dumb.

Humans struggle with nuance and sarcasm (some people genuinely think Colbert is a conservative, Poe’s Law, Andy Kaufman, Borat, etc.). It is no surprise that AI would be bad at it too.

Don’t forget Bigfoot, the rake, and skin walkers.

Soon it will be a honeypot to filter AI generated applications. I can exclude the resumes of applicants who claim to meet my bogus desired qualification.

I am reminded of Dan Quayle’s “I took Latin in high school.” Offered as proof that he could relate to the Latino community.

Doom scrolling on my phone.

Vscode is my favorite. Now there is a sentence I never expected to type.