BillyClark

Oh my, I hope he didn’t get rid of my private collection.

You can tell from the background that this isn’t my attic.

The admins vary by server.

It’s not particularly funny in the first place.

If a sidewalk is overgrown by grass and then people walk on the grass to make a desire path, that would be more obvious, I think.

I’m just saying this would be like that. There’s a place where people would want to walk if only there was a path there, but there is a path. It’s obstructed by snow.

とくにもくてきはないひと

means “Write out what you have to say, and then delete the last sentence”?

Sorry my phone is not letting me write properly in Japanese for some reason…

This is a desire path on top of a normal path.

I do not hate everyone. I am disappointed in everyone and save my hate for a select few.

This does happen a lot, but have you ever had the opposite happen? Where you go into some of your older code, and not only is it nice to read, but you had anticipated that you’d have to make this change later, and so the design makes the change easy?

That’s happened to me a few times and all I can say is that it takes days for my self-satisfaction to wane.

ALE? NA

That’s TeX, not LaTeX.

Don Knuth (who originally wrote TeX) had a real obsession with perfection. He even thought he could pay exponentially increasing awards to people who found errors in his books.

He eventually stopped doing that because he wasn’t as perfect as he thought he was. Still way off the charts compared to the average person, though.

For some reason, I am starting to feel closer to the methods of Diogenes as I get older. If you’re not familiar with him, I suggest you read at least the intro on his Wikipedia page… actually, I’ll just copy it here:

Diogenes the Cynic (/daɪˈɒdʒɪniːz/, dy-OJ-in-eez; c. 413/403 – c. 324/321 BC), also known as Diogenes of Sinope, was an ancient Greek philosopher during the period of Classical Greece, and one of the founders of Cynicism.

Renowned for his ascetic lifestyle and radical critiques of social conventions, he became a legendary figure whose life and teachings have been recounted, often through anecdote, in both antiquity and modernity. Diogenes advocated for a return to nature, the renunciation of wealth, and introduced early ideas of cosmopolitanism by proclaiming himself a “citizen of the world”.

Diogenes was born to a prosperous family in Sinope. His life took a dramatic turn following a scandal involving the debasement of coinage, an event that led to his exile and ultimately his radical rejection of conventional values. Embracing a life of poverty and self-sufficiency, he became famous for his unconventional, shameless behaviors that openly challenged societal norms, such as living in a jar or wandering public spaces with a lit lantern in daylight, claiming to be “looking for a man”, that is to say “for a wise man” (sophos).

It’s a bit of a change of mindset to begin thinking that you can’t trust a PR even a little.

It has never occurred to me that other people trust PRs, even a little. I mean, that they might think about it in those terms.

This explains a lot to me.

Why does it take me longer to review code than other people? They trust the person who wrote it, but I don’t.

Why is it that when my coworkers think a person is untrustworthy, that they always end up begging me to do all of that person’s reviews. It’s because I’m not bothered by that. I already treat everybody as untrustworthy.

I’ve never understood how other people think when they do reviews, I guess.

Forgetting AI for a moment, I am always shocked when I am reviewing a coworker’s code and it’s obvious that they themselves didn’t review it.

Like, they sent me a PR that has a whole shitload of other crap in it. Why should I look at it when you haven’t looked at it? If you don’t review your own review requests, you’re a failure of a programmer human.

And I would be a failure if I approved such a request.

Getting back to the post, where is all of the review? The coworker should have reviewed the AI shit, whether it was code or documentation. The person who approved the PR should have reviewed it, as well.

Every business with more than one programmer should have at least two levels of safeguards against this exact thing happening. More if you include different types of test suites.

This post describes a fundamentally broken business, regardless of the AI angle, and so it’s good if everything is broken. With such a lack of discipline and principles, I say let the business fail.

It’s just a regional dialect thing. Where I grew up, we called it “coke,” even if it was a Dr. Pepper. That’s the only one that is truly irredeemably wrong.

I had to train myself to call them something else. (I chose “sodas” because that was the only alternative I knew.)

I don’t know what monster first thought it was a good idea to mix pickle relish into tuna salad.

I think that would have the opposite effect on me. I’d be sealed shut for good.

I’m not sure what “left wing architecture” means. Because, to me, this looks like the sort of thing you have to do when the population grows like crazy. Those tend to be areas where women have little education and little power.

One of the things I’m really enjoying about this series is how, even though you’re constantly aware of her blindness and his being invisible, most of the actual plot points have little to do with that. They basically have the same things to overcome as anybody else.

I don’t have such an accurate memory that I remember what happened in Ep 1 vs. Ep 2, but it feels like there’s been character development and necessary exposition. And while the main plot hasn’t moved far forward, there’s certainly some plot development, like that girl’s dad getting back for her birthday.

As for character development, I was surprised Xylo agreed to Teoritta’s demand to let her fight and to simply protect her like that, even though I suspect he was just going along with her mid-fight. And obviously, there’s been some advancement in other characters, like Norgalle, Tatsuya, and I would argue even the general character of the Demon Lords will likely be important information going forward.

Counterpoint: Fuck cars.