Conservatives are bad, stupid, people. That’s the through line. They only care about in-group solidarity and hurting the outgroups.

Hahaha! They don’t write tests. They are unfamiliar with the concept of unit testing.

I had to explain to them the concept of “you import your function and call it with different arguments to make sure it returns what you expect”. It took a couple tries.

Meanwhile, the head of the “quality” team keeps telling me that I should stay in my lane and not tell the developers how to do their work.

Every conservative accusation is a confession

I’ve known plenty of polyamorous people, many of which have otherwise unremarkable, happy, lives.

There’s always people ready to shit on it online.

“I could never do that”. Ok. So don’t.

“I’m too jealous”. That’s a character flaw. Maybe work on that.

“I knew a couple that tried it and broke up”. Many people break up for many reasons.

“It’s cheating”. Cheating is breaking agreed upon rules. If the people involved say it is not, then it is not.

“It’s confusing for kids”. No it’s not. Kids are very adaptable.

This doesn’t spend much time on the scenario where it’s not two peers in the review, but like a junior dev and senior dev.

I recently did a code review for someone who is very junior ¹ , and after spending like two hours fixing all the syntax errors and low level goblins, I realized I couldn’t see the forest at all. I’d been staring at the “this variable is undefined in this case” trees so much. And then they were getting antsy and management was getting antsy…

¹ They’re not actually junior. They’ve been in this role for years. Unfortunately, this org has like no mentorship and no standards, so they haven’t actually learned much in all that time. They’ve just been copy-pasting code until stuff works.

Because the current process means constant merge conflicts that I have to deal with, and constant bugs I have to deal with.

But, on the other hand, maybe you’re right and I should just check out and spend a day “fixing git problems” too

I use nano for quick edits. I don’t know more than the basics of vim, and don’t do a lot of editing on the terminal so I haven’t needed to.

Some distributions run fine with less than 1gb. I think xubuntu will happily play with 1.

Still on Linux. Updated to the new pop!_os LTS. It’s been pretty good. The new desktop environment has had a few quirks where I had to fuss with hitting alt+enter to get some games appropriately full screen, but generally it’s been good.

Worth it to be free of microslop

I’m working at a mega Corp now (not one you’ve probably heard of) and it’s a fucking farce.

We had a meeting last week about some problems with the current process. People kind of nodded along. Meeting was drawing to a close. No concrete tasks or assignments.

I say, “great. Who’s taking lead on this? Can we have a proposal by Monday and make a decision by Wednesday?”

Suddenly management people are like “whoa whoa whoa stay in your lane”

Okay then why don’t you fucking manage?

This happens all the time. We have long ass meetings with the whole team, talk about problems, but then no one is assigned to do anything and nothing changes.

There’s just so much incompetence and ineptitude. Some of it is probably coming from hidden, bad, incentives

I do a lot of rice and (canned) beans, which is pretty cheap and satisfying.

I don’t have any experience with lentils. My parents never had them because , the story goes, the last time they did my father farted himself out of the bed.

Stop making people commute when they could work from home. That’s hours wasted on top of climate crime.

It’s kind of funny that because most of us are nice, no one just beat the shit out of trump or worse. Assholes are kind of like parasites taking advantage of kindness.

It would take an incomprehensible set of changes for me to consider going back to Microsoft. They can fuck off.

I don’t have an emotional attachment to meat. I’d like non-meat stuff to be cheaper, and the real costs of meat to be accounted for.

Meh. Happy on linux. Microsoft can fuck off. They should be split up, along with the other megacorps.

Unfortunately, Microsoft is run by idiots. Business idiots. They live in a stupid bubble surrounded by other stupid people. The lower levels are filled with people gunning for their personal promotions and fiefdoms. It’s shit.

The company should be broken up so it has to compete, and with less headcount in one place there’s fewer absolute numbers of idiots gumming up the organization.

The parents sued, calling it a “secret gender transition plan” and arguing the school violated their constitutional rights by withholding information about their child’s gender identity.

These parents are bad. If they were reasonable people their child would feel comfortable talking to them.

Instead of a grid of apps on your home screen that you tap to open, and then tap and swipe and tap some more, you’d simply tell an AI agent to do something, and then it’d do it for you.

I don’t understand why you would want an “Agent” to do stuff for you. This whole thing is just built on the assumption that people are helpless idiots. Which, maybe has some truth to it, but I’d rather spend billions on education than this slop.

I use phrases like “sorry this was an express train” when I realize I didn’t fully vocalize every step and the person I’m talking to is lost.