Most general purpose programming languages nowadays are designed to be easily human readable. But with this, I now have to understand the syntax of another “programming language” in addition to the programming language it outputs. How is this helpful in any way?

There are already plenty of template generators that can generate boiletplate code with parameters. This seems like a complete waste of time.

Film Studios:

“We’ll recycle the same theme’s and franchises over and over until they’re completely worn out AND we’ll paywall the shit out of our media so everyone has to have 27 subscriptions to watch anything remotely interesting. Oh, and you’re going to like it because we said so.”

Also Film Studios:

“Wait, where are you going!? Why aren’t you giving us money??? Come back! You can’t not subscribe!”

Forgiving my dad. He was a terrible father but he’s a good grandpa. We made amends and I’m glad to have him in my life.

Definitely more common in suburban areas with more single family homes or places with larger apartments.

That said, having to drag all your laundry down to the laundromat or building laundry is very inconvenient and sucks up a lot of time. I don’t miss that at all.

Mosquito genocide is the one kind of genocide that I am totally fine with. Hell, I’ll participate in it with glee.

Have you tried wrapping your knives in tin foil? Should help keep the 5G away from them.

Interesting article. The author cited a study by Stanford claiming that 100% remote work resulted in a small drop in productivity. I’m curious as to how they would determine that. My [annecdotal] experience has been that orgs that are fully in person are completely inept at measuring productivity. Remote work just shines a giant spotlight on existing broken processes.

I would say the same about “culture”. Good culture is highly intentional and dragging a bunch of people into the office for cheap pizza is not “good culture.” In my experience, whether everyone is remote or in person does impact the culture, but that impact is dramatically outweighed by the effort – or lack thereof – by leadership to foster good culture.

I saw this at my last job as well. My division was fully remote and had almost no turnover. We were also very productive, despite relatively poor leadership. Turns out when people like their jobs, they don’t leave.

Double edged sword. Jon would make a great President. But, I also bet he would be miserable doing the job and I would really hate to do that do him.

President Trump will never let anything stop America. Especially not something so unimportant as the truth.

“Prompt Engineering”: AKA explaining to Chat GPT why it’s wrong a dozen times before it spits out a useable (but still not completely correct) answer.

There are many, many, many specialized enterprise applications out there that are windows only.

“Ah Fuck. The kids ingested lead and now a bunch of them have cognitive imparements.” Facepalm – God [probably]

I’m still pissed about the fact that I can’t buy a reasonably priced TV that doesn’t have WiFi. I should never have left my old LG Plasma bolted to the wall of my previous house when I sold it. That thing had a fantastic picture and doubled as a space heater in the winter.

For me, it’s a closer shave and much, much cheaper than disposables or cartridges. Still on the same box of blades I bought probably 8 years ago.

Some water systems have an insane amount of leaks. One house I lived in, the water and sewer plants were owned by the HOA. They estimated that they lost 75% of the water to leaks.

Agreed. I don’t understand why internet access gets treated as some sort of luxury when it is impossible to function as part of society without it.

Trying to force ISP’s to police their user’s internet traffic, as a means to stop piracy, is phenomenally stupid. All they’ve managed to do is make the internet worse for the average user while forcing a dramatic increase in the sophistication of piracy technology.

Hell, I would argue that the state and quality of pirated media is in some ways the best it’s ever been and the recording and film industries have indirectly contributed to that. Talk about irony.

Governor Mike Parson, Is that you?

That means we’ll get back to being able to work on projects that aren’t a complete waste of everyone’s time, right? Right??