jtrek

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[–] jtrek@startrek.website 3 points 1 month ago

Cool. Safe bike lanes are a higher priority for me but I'm not mad about this.

[–] jtrek@startrek.website 13 points 1 month ago (1 children)

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.

[–] jtrek@startrek.website 5 points 1 month ago

The trouble with statements predicated with “always and under all circumstances” is that they are intended to include all circumstances.

Yeah that's a really broad statement. You just need one case where democracy is not preferred, and the whole statement is false. Democracy is not preferred when the majority wants to do evils.

[–] jtrek@startrek.website 61 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I don’t think the conservatives really understand the meanings of words

Many of them know they are using words dishonestly. They don't care. They will say whatever in the pursuit of power.

Some are just legitimately stupid and have no internal consistency beyond emotions.

[–] jtrek@startrek.website 43 points 1 month ago

The insurance companies want to make money.

There are no (enforced) laws prohibiting this behavior.

Very few insurance company decision makers are murdered in the street.

Change one or more of these, and you'll get better results.

[–] jtrek@startrek.website 2 points 1 month ago

I thought it was pretty okay.

I think I might be old and grumpy but I find myself saying "just talk about your feelings!" at the TV a lot in this show. But I guess they're all basically teenagers, so it would be unreasonable to ask a level of emotional maturity that many real life adults fail to meet.

[–] jtrek@startrek.website 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Surely we've all seen the relevant XKCD https://xkcd.com/1217/

[–] jtrek@startrek.website 9 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I don't know why someone down voted this.

I've had several friends block off time on their calendar for i-dont-know-what. It was marked as busy and it could've been anything from napping to elden ring. It's their time.

Though I think a lot of people don't use a calendar for their personal life and I can't relate to that level of chaos. I can't remember my plans and everyone's birthdays in my head.

[–] jtrek@startrek.website 1 points 1 month ago

Sure, being too picky can lead to loneliness. But that's kind of off topic from "you'll have more rolls of the dice in a place with more people", which was my earlier argument.

I wouldn't want to settle for someone with no shared interests and a not-my-type body just because they're here. Everyone involved deserves better.

[–] jtrek@startrek.website 1 points 1 month ago (2 children)

“you’ll settle for whoever’s around” is a compelling argument - if whoever is around happens to be good enough

Bit of a tautology there. My point is if there's only 1 person of your age/gender(s) then it's longer odds they're going to be a good match. Sure, they might be "good enough" but wouldn't you rather have "great"?

[–] jtrek@startrek.website 1 points 1 month ago

Hm maybe I'll try that. Looks like there's an android version

[–] jtrek@startrek.website 15 points 1 month ago (1 children)

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"

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