I routinely say to people around me “don’t use the lie machine”.

I need to change one of their search engines to be noai on duck duck go

That’s like using a machine to lift weights at the gym for you.

or they think I’m challenging them in some way

Admittedly, there is a bit of

Them: “It works”

Me: “I don’t believe you. Prove it”

that people might not like. But usually the people who take the most offense are the worst coders.

I don’t understand why people dislike tests. They don’t take that long and you need to check things anyway.

Well, I say that, and then I think of my coworkers that don’t write tests and also push up code with syntax errors. Code that they clearly never even ran themselves.

I realized the other day that I don’t have a solid count. A friend of mine revealed they have a document with a line item for everyone they’ve slept with and a brief summary.

I’d guess it could reasonably round to 100, though.

I have wondered about that. What kind of range can you get DIY? I guess if you did fire something they could try to do physics to figure out where it came from, but you’d hopefully be long gone by then.

Ooh a Unitarian. Don’t even have to be Catholic. I used to hang with unitarians. Some good folks there.

If the “geniuses” who run these tech firms spent less money lobbying politicians and instead offered to pay for the college tuition of every student who successfully graduated from the local high school, they would probably get a very different reaction from the public.

Yeah , they could do a lot with their wealth. Unfortunately they are stupid and selfish. They’re playing a dangerous game and eventually they’ll roll for guillotines.

Momentum was not with project opponents, however, some of whom suggested no one would use the bike lane even as dozens of their neighbors spoke out in favor of its installation.

Self centered idiots

Bike lane opponents’ concerns always turn out to be “unfounded,” said longtime CB7 member and current CB7 transportation co-chair Ken Coughlin.

“I’ve been through all the bike lane battles, every single one, and it’s always been like this,” he said on Tuesday. “People said businesses will suffer, safety will be compromised, especially for pedestrians, and there will be more congestion — and in every case, it’s proven to be unfounded.”

And yet pro-car people never seem to learn. I guess for a lot of them it’s a “this is the first time I’ve ever thought about this problem”

It helps that I’m absolutely not a picky eater. Rice. Beans. Whatever random spices speak to me. Done. Content.

Not scared enough

I think the floor isn’t “intern”. I think the floor is “middle schooler”.

Meanwhile, every job I’m looking at is saying “must be enthusiastic about AI” 😭

This is a good point. He’s not a bad guy. He’s just not very technical, and sometimes that’s frustrating.

The biggest ones I’ve seen are 1.2GB.

Why this company uses gigabyte CSVs is a separate problem.

(Also sometimes they want to compare a CSV to what’s in a database, which the script can also do but I didn’t mention in the post)

One time at work I was tasked with writing a python script to compare two data sources. Like, you give it two CSVs and a primary key, and it tells you what data is in one but not the other, or mismatched, and so on. This worked fine and was in git, so anyone can use it.

My boss then asks if I can “put it on a website so anyone can use it”.

This team has never done web development. Nothing for that is set up. Like, I could spin up a quick Django app or similar, but there’s a lot of stuff to do and potentially fuck up.

I said “that sounds like a lot of research and ongoing maintenance costs. I think it’d be better to just check out and run the script”

Luckily for me he said “oh, okay”

We could definitely improve road safety by making less safe vehicles less easy. Without doing anything hard like changing infrastructure. Unfortunately, there are a lot of emotion driven large children who would get mad.

Exact same thought.

Though they’re probably mad they can’t use it for their particular brand of evil.

Velocity is not helpful if you’re not pointed in the right direction, and even if you are pointed in the right direction it’s not useful if you overshoot your destination.

I made this metaphor at work but management is not interested.

Giving an incompetent team AI is like giving a child a chainsaw. Maybe he’ll chop wood faster but that’s probably not all that’s going to happen.

He suggested at the time that the city […] station a police officer there to write tickets.

I mean … fuck the police but i would love to see asshole drivers getting fucked

While it’s not clear if any law enforcement has been dispatched to the area

But also the police are useless at best

I mostly buy music from bandcamp. Drm free, different format options, you can stream before you buy (if the band has it configured as such)