If fines scaled with wealth that might create an incentive for the police to harass rich people instead of poor people. It won’t, because the police serve the wealthy, but it’s a nice day fantasy.

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.

Cool. Fuck cars and on street parking.

I hope I never become so befuddled that pushing one chat bubble icon instead of the other is confounding.

I don’t understand how some people who are ordinarily reasonably smart just turn into subhuman intelligence when faced with a new computer thing.

My dad is quite elderly and he manages to run ubuntu fine. My mother, on the other hand, gets confused and angry if anything changes at all on her phone or laptop.

There’s a manger who gets paid by copilot commits signed for sure.

That manager should be removed

I’m so tired of this shit. Break up Microsoft.

I’m so tired of every job posting frothing at the mouth over AI. “We’re ai native” , “we want employees who are excited about ai tools”, “agenic workflows”

Just fuck off.

Even if all of this stuff was a real productivity increase, who is keeping that extra production? Not the workers!

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 see a lot of ads for ai slop on the subway and I refuse to engage with them. I don’t look them up. Fuck 'em.

Sometimes people vandalize them and if I saw someone doing so, I don’t know what you’re talking about.

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

The original oblivion was bad.

Current Microsoft is bad.

This is not surprising.

There are better games to spend time with.

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

Another way I’m a little insufferable but like… yeah the pandemic and quarantine sucked, but I read a lot of books, played a lot of video games, had a great online DND game.

Some people just seem so helpless and inept. They’d be like “I just need to see other people” and I’m like please develop some discipline.

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.

Cars (well, the car-first infrastructure in most of the US) is already a pretty effective forment nexus.

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

Cool. Fuck cars. Take transit in NYC.

They could pay people to check, but it’s more important that they spend billions on slop and executive bonus.

Fuck Spotify. I’ll buy albums (drm free, mostly from Bandcamp), pirate, or go without.

Today is bandcamp Friday, too. Bandcamp passes their cut on to the band.