jtrek

If I woke up at 5am, I'd have to go to bed at like 8pm to get a full night's sleep. I went to a friend's party yesterday that didn't even start until 800pm. Getting up that early on the regular would mean a death blow to social life, or you'd be exhausted all the time from staying up into normal evening hours.

Well, yes. It has many deep and interlocking problems.

The Republican party and its enablers should be dismantled.

Yeah, dnd's "armor as avoidance" is really unsatisfying to me now. That and how you can beat their AC by 15 and then roll minimum damage. At least pf2e addresses that.

I want to be able to mechanically distinguish between "hard to hit" and "hard to damage", and DND generally doesn't deliver.

Ok clearly it's not literally about making CDs and people saying "just make your own streaming service" are both missing the point and vastly over estimating the capacity of the average person.

The important part that's largely missing from today's music environment is the personal touch and investment. Many people, as the author says, just comfortably coast through an algorithmic smoothie of familiar music. That is inferior to a friend saying "I made you this mix" and then you actually listen to it, attentively, more than once.

It doesn't have to be a CD. It can be a zip file. But the intention and focus was important.

I'm an outlier in that I never let "the algorithm" choose what plays. Sometimes I still make mixes for friends, though lately they've just been a collection of links. That process of choosing is meaningful. My friend still listens to the mix I made for them when their job laid them off, sometimes.

All code going to the main branch must have a corresponding pull request reviewed and approved by someone with knowledge of the codebase. You really shouldn't have the front end guy approving backend code.

Ai doesn't count as a code review.

At my previous job, the policy also said you were supposed to actually check out the code and run it locally. Found a lot of bugs and issues that way.

At my current job, it's often a rubber stamp. I've seen things like "that's too many parenthesis. This won't run" sail through. This is bad.

There should also be automated tests and checks.

A long time ago a director told me "software engineers are the most sensitive people on the planet" and I think he was right. Some people just can't take feedback. They take something like "please sort your imports. We agreed to use isort last week" as a personal attack.

Six weeks is unrealistic to the point of self sabotage.

I found the best sequence is like

• opener question
• they give a good response
• follow up
• they give a good response
• maybe repeat once more if there's an obvious follow up
• clear any deal breakers (eg: if you have a kid)
• ask them out

If they don't give good responses, bail.

You're going to get a lot more information meeting in person. Going for drinks or coffee or whatever is a couple hours and few bucks.

I never got any matches or messages on bumble. I got a lot of dates on hinge and tinder, where I like to think my quality messages made me stand out from the baseline of slop

I feel like anything other than more coming and dragons

Is this a typo or a play on how fantastically horny Baldur's Gate 3 was?

I feel like a lot of companies don't do things the good way not because the good way is hard, or the bad way is cheaper, but because management is stupid. Stupid or sometimes apathetic.

I will be shocked if it's good. It'll probably sell very well even if it's shit, because of the brand, but I have low expectations.

Some soulless husks with too much money read Snowcrash (or had their LLM summarize it) and didn't understand that it's a dystopia.