I thought this was an interesting article. The only thing I would want to point out is that you could probably implement a barebones message queue system in a couple hundred lines of code, but Apache Kafka exists essentially covering way more edge cases and failover scenarios and scalability, and I wouldn’t say it has no clothes.

I’ve been writing code in a lot of domains for a lot of years and my observation is edge cases and error handling is the biggest difference between any professional package and amateur garbage.

But I suppose if the goal is clickbait rather than accurate summary, touché — you got me.

There’s a saying: you can’t reason someone out of a position they didn’t reason themselves into. Trump cultists are never, ever going to wake up one day like, “Okay, man, I get it now.”

But damn do they love a good conspiracy theory to explain stupidity as brilliance (QAnon) or influence (these chuckle-heads). All I’m saying is that Tucker Carlson might be a useful idiot.

It depends very much on how I got the contractor. For the most part, contractors I was sent to by other businesses have been good. Independent ones I’ve found through Angie’s list or whatever, generally not so much but not universally bad.

I’ve hired a couple of painters who clearly figured they could get high and hang out with a buddy in my house while slopping paint on walls and ogling daughters. One represented himself as bonded but when I did my research (after) I found he wasn’t even registered as a business. He did a shit job and I’d supplied the paint and all supplies.

I told him I wasn’t going to pay his asking price because the quality was so bad, but I’d pay half acknowledging that he had in fact spent a fair bit of time getting the job done. He could accept it or I would fight paying anything and report him. He accepted the half, which I think was fucking generous.

That aside, I’ve had good painters, a good experience installing an above ground pool (other than it was clearly just a side gig and I had to act as my own foreman to tell people what needed to be done), good deck builders, had granite installed by a Lowe’s contractor and that went just fine. None of it was show it off in a magazine quality, but all decent enough craftsmanship. But I’m also aware of how long it would take and how bad I’d fuck it up myself or how bad I’d hurt my back, so I’m not super demanding of perfection.

What if… we employed enough ATC and support personnel instead of treating it like a business where the goal is to run on minimum necessary headcount?

“Let he who has never raped a child cast the first stone.”

Deal.

Any peaceful transition of power seeks to maintain the status quo. Not sure if you meant to constrain this to Democracy or are just being specific to the case at hand.

Individual people do not get to withhold consent to be governed. Democracy just means that the collective consent of the people can be obtained through the vote rather than revolution.

Sounds like someone drew the line at another illegal order.

Some of them do take a moment of thought, but I would suggest they only read like good points if you accept the tone and wording instead of thinking about the implications. 30 seconds or less of thought about any one of those points reveals they are horrible. But how many people give those 30 seconds? Especially 22 times.

I’ve been around for the whole ride, and all I can say is anyone (other than alleged victims) who says they definitively know what happened is lying.

It’s a fact that MJ suffered abuse as a child and that turned him into a weird adult. It’s a fact that he had problematic behavior towards children.

I’ve always felt that his closeness to children was more about trying to be a child than fuck one, but my opinion is just that and carries no particular weight. I was never a super fan of his, and hated his ubiquity while I was growing up so I don’t think I’m biased towards being charitable with him.

A part of me laments the loss of childhood innocence that was present in the seventies. Sure, it was against a backdrop of unspoken abuse and exploitation, but there really was a time when children could be naked together or around certain adults and it wasn’t weird or gross or creepy. I grew up showering with other boys in gym and sports and swimming and bathing naked in lakes and rivers.

The world is different now with cameras everywhere. That time is lost to us. It would be creepy as fuck to try to recreate that. But it colors my perception of what was clear warning signs then vs now. There are people in this thread post arguing about whether a kid ever saw his penis, but I’m telling you there was a time that wouldn’t have been as weird as it is today. Because there was casual, innocent nudity, it wasn’t all sexualized the way it is today.

That all being said, there was a lot of really bad looking behavior and at some point where there’s smoke there’s fire. You’d have to think he would have the self-awareness of the perception that he was being creepy and inappropriate, and why wouldn’t a person change their behavior?

At the end of the day I treat him like a likely predator. I wouldn’t let my kids go near him if he were alive today. But he is someone I’m not comfortable saying was definitely as sick and twisted as some insist. He might have been. He probably was. But he might credibly also have been a really fucked up person who wanted the childhood that was stolen from him back and he couldn’t have it no matter now much money he spent.

Everyone knows truth social is going to be worthless by January.

Sounds like the PRs are too big or something. IDK. I’ve been doing a lot of code reviews the past 10 years. But those have all been within teams or with partners. Never someone random from the internet. The review sounds easier to me than communicating feedback and getting the submitter to fix their code and submit an acceptable version.

Since this is over a decade old, maybe it doesn’t work. Or maybe it does because no one would deliberately walk around looking this silly.

CV Dazzle

There was deliberately sort of two levels to that comment. But as I don’t really advocate murder except as hyperbole, let’s just assume I meant in the next cell. However if you wanted to put that in the ground next to Ted, that would be fine.

Mockery is our most powerful tool against him. He has an ego and rages against being called a fool.

Was watching Daredevil: Born Again last night. And to avoid spoilers to the degree possible: a dude in power sat and watched helplessly as crowds and allies turned and conspired against him. What I wouldn’t give to be a fly on the wall in that moment for Trump. Well, let’s say the ceiling to avoid hamburder projectiles.

I played and enjoyed a game based on this principle (Dreadnought). I ran out of bullshit I wanted to buy to keep the game going. Also the whole community was probably a few hundred people at the end. It eventually shut down. Not that there would be much to do solo but fan-run servers would’ve been cool.

It’s difficult to fully catalogue all the ways in which this manifesto is wrong. Needles to say, everyone in support of it belongs next to Ted Kaczynski.

“Complex but not arbitrarily complex”? I need more coffee this morning already because I’m burning through my patience for idiotic things at an accelerated rate.

This is an arbitrary sentence, not structured to communicate any information.

See how I had to have that final comma clause so you could understand what the fuck I was even saying?

Time to grow a beard and wear hats and sunglasses.

So we’re replacing open source collaborators with LLMs? And if someone wants to contribute you want the prompt, not the code?

For fucks sake, people. I’ve been slinging code for thirty years. I write much better code than a lot of folks (though some certainly write better). I also am capable of reviewing my own generated code and fixing it so you don’t have to.

I get corporations trying to replace expensive coders with LLMs, but when volunteer work is being replaced by LLMs, what in the actual fuck are we even doing?