When I was kid, the bus stopped at every house because the road was absolutely unsafe for children to walk down. It would have been better if they could have consolidated a little, but it would have been unsafe because of the cars.

Fuck cars.

Fuck the car infrastructure.

We really should stop letting companies buy each other. In fact we should split the big ones up.

We should stop Musk.

He’s lying. Or bullshitting. Whatever you call it when people say shit without any regard for the truth. Typical conservative slop.

I don’t understand how so many people played final fantasy 7 and the only lesson they seemed to take from the story is “tifa got big titties”

Make Elon drink the water

Don’t blame the tool, blame the user 😁

I compare it to snapshot tests a lot. They’re similarly constrained by “good if used wisely” but most people don’t do that. It’s easier to use them extensively. That’s just how people are. They do the easy thing

Paying more money for better results doesn’t fit into the world view of many business decision makers.

How do you feel about people who refuse to use ride-share like Uber because it’s exploiting labor? I don’t want to give them any money because fuck them, but some of my friends say the drivers need money so refusing to use it is only hurting them.

Yes.

I’m reminded of a similar problem at work. It’s software stuff. I was trying to get people to adopt some easy standards so we’d stop having so many preventable problems. Just a basic linter and formatter. Takes like 30 minutes to set up.

Naturally some people opposed it. It’s change, they don’t understand it, they don’t mind the occasional bug, blah blah.

Someone said to me that achieving consensus is folly. There’s always going to be idiots and unqualified people who want to have their way. But they don’t know what they’re talking about, so if listen to them it’s going to be a bad time. He said to me just thank them for their input so they feel heard, and do the right thing anyway.

I don’t know how to square this with the ideals of democracy. But I’m really tired of the stupidest people on earth thinking their input is worthwhile. Unfortunately, I’m sure sometimes I’m the idiot.

Well, yeah, AI is mostly garbage. Fuck it. Fuck the people pushing it.

This is part of my I’m an insufferable snob about living in NYC. I just walk places. Sometimes take a bus or subway. Never think about it very hard. Never worry about traffic, parking, gas, insurance. Don’t feel guilty about casually polluting (in this specific way). It’s nice.

Most of the people I know who live here don’t have rich parents. But I’ve definitely known people from money who move here, and go directly to an expensive apartment.

I’m really not sure why they don’t just hire the contractors full time, since they’re keeping them for years anyway. The staffing company is taking a cut, and that can’t be that much cheaper than just giving regular benefits.

It probably works out via cruel economics to do it this way, somehow.

There was a meme like 15 years ago that was like “I don’t know how to explain to you that you should care about other people”

Some people just … don’t. If I had a magic wand I’d just send them off to their own private pocket planes, but alas.

The place I work (a multinational company but not one you’ve probably heard of) has been hiring almost exclusively “contractors” for a while.

They hire someone to be a software developer or qualify assurance engineer or whatever, but via a third party staffing company. Then that person acts exactly like a full time employee - goes to meetings, does work, reports to a boss - except they don’t get the same benefits as full timers.

This seems like it shouldn’t be legal, but most people are too worried about losing their job to push much about it.

This is an important point. There’s a big difference between guys with guns telling you what you can say, and a local get-together. Sometimes people act like they should be able to say whatever they want wherever they want, even if they’re like standing in someone else’s house

We don’t need this at my job. Management specifically forbid us from writing integration tests at all. And they don’t even know what unit tests are (not a joke) so that’s not a problem.

I use keepassxc. It does the job.

I vote in every election. New York has ranked choice for some things now, which is nice. The way judges are picked is pretty bad, though.