One of the other guys is on Windows and we had to change a config in git to handle it. Not sure what he did on his end. I have vscode on a Mac. Some people at this place have been working since like the 90s and probably are using notepad.

Windows isn’t fit for software development unless you’re doing Windows specific stuff. Maybe you can get by with WSL or cygwyn or similar, but that’s just a bandaid to make the machine less windows. You’ll probably still have problems with like case folding and line endings.

I feel like you could make an argument that “money” is ambiguous here. Bobby has more monetary value, but Amy has more items that are considered money. In a contrived example of like a DND puzzle where you need to put money on a floor tiles to disarm the traps, Amy can disable 30 and bobby only 4

I understood that reference

One of the things that makes open world games and especially Elder Scrolls so successful is the sense of exploration and place

Someone wrote that comment elsewhere and I needed to quote it in order to argue that Bethesda doesn’t even do a good job of that. Level scaling really kneecaps it

I hate the AI thing in confluence. Stop asking me to improve writing or summarize. I know how to read and write.

You and someone else got hung up on the specific example. I’m sure I could have come up with a better example where the raw and nice version conveyed the same amount of information.

There are many ways to express any given truth, or facets of the truth.

“That dress makes you look fat”

“That dress doesn’t flatter you”

GitHub and similar tools show PR diffs in the browser.

I think sometimes when someone does something a little shitty for only a small payoff, it feels worse than a big shitty for a big payoff. And if it feels like they could’ve just not done the shitty thing, that’s even worse.

EA’s annoyances just feel petty and unnecessary, and aren’t even worth it. At least the horrible bank and oil company are making shit loads of money, and people kind of assume banks and oil companies are scum. But a video game? They could’ve spent just as much effort not being horrible.

Fare changes usually are slower to change than gas prices for customers at the gas station. Bus fare in NYC is $3, and they can’t just change that day by day. (Unless our new mayor makes the buses free to ride!)

It might be more expensive as energy costs go up, but services aren’t supposed to be run at a profit. The value in a mass transit system is very high.

But there is probably an impact. Now I’m curious about how they decide the fares

NYC. $0. Walk and take transit. Sorry, I’m insufferable about this but it’s really nice.

Bad idea. Fertile ground for abuse, intentional or otherwise. As others have said, it’s hubris to think one or two untrained adults can do professional grade teaching.

I dislike postman. I see job postings that are like “MUST KNOW POSTMAN”. Fuck, people should know how to make API requests but postman isn’t the only tool for that.

Furthermore, if I’m doing automated tests to run on PR I’m not going to use a GUI. Pytest or jest or whatever testing library your language has.

I did use Bruno for a while for convenience during local development, though.

I think a lot about how one time we spent s few hours estimating how long a project would take. Management came back and said no, that’s too long, we’d need to finish in a month.

Well if that’s how long it has to take why not lead with that?

Bunch of idiot empty husks doing cargo-cult “agile”

I would be more than willing to carry around my own spoon, fork, and more, if it meant less plastic crap everywhere

I like the idea. I don’t want to use facebook or similar, but that’s where stuff like “BuyNothing” is most active.

Unfortunately, I don’t know much about self hosting (beyond what I’ve picked up working in software development) so I don’t see myself running one of these myself. I’d probably use it if it came to my neck of the woods (NYC)

You can also buy drm free music from sites like Bandcamp. I don’t feel bad buying from smaller groups. Joyride! might actually notice the $10 from me buying their new album.

I mean it’s horrible but the only way people change their mind is from social pressure.

I had a coworker that was very right wing and months of talking I got him to accept queer people can be filed under “live and let live”. That was a big improvement from where he started.

Most developers I’ve looked at would happily just paste the curl|bash thing into the terminal.

I often would skim the script in the browser, but a. This post shows that’s not fool proof and b. a sufficiently sophisticated malicious script would fool a casual read