The Brooklyn public library has a form where you can write about whatever you want, and a real human librarian will recommend books for you based on it. It was pretty good when I used it.

I imagine other libraries have similar.

Everywhere I’ve worked that did micro services it was kind of a pain. One of the places I’ve worked had a simple monolith backend and it was great.

I’ve lived here for most of my adult life and never felt like I needed a car.

Having one is a huge pain. Parking. Insurance. Gas. Maintenance. Getting home when you’re drunk.

It’s easier to just get on the train.

I’d like if transit was cheaper and more reliable outside the city. Visiting family in the suburbs via transit is slower and more expensive.

The other day one of the other devs messaged me with “you wanna see a dead body?”

He’d found some code that had been running in production since 2003, with so many problems and smells. Wasn’t in source control, either. Many hard coded plain text passwords.

Sadly, he had to touch it enough to fix a production outage.

I thought it was going to be pro-ai from the title, but I didn’t vote based on that assumption

Evaluating the whole argument is expensive. “Is the author a known idiot?” is a cheap heuristic to save effort.

Though that does remind me I had a long argument with some bizarre poster on here who insisted that the source of information is not important, and the unwell guy screaming under the bridge is just as viable a source as someone with a PhD on the subject.

Teams is a huge piece of shit.

Why is every meeting its own chat? With no threads! Why are the team channels like fucking forums instead of chats? Why do I get notified between 0 and 4 times for the same message?

I hate teams. I have never had a memorable problem with slack. Maybe some things can be fixed with better use behavior, but good software guides users away from bad patterns.

As a tutorial grade react developer (please return me to the backend where I am mediocre instead of bad), having more senior developers take the time to explain why my code was bad was really helpful.

Also I think I just kind of hate JavaScript. It always feels like everything is more complicated and booby trapped than it should be.

I feel like vscode and pycharm both do that out of the box?

Before my big monitor broke I had pycharm split into four panes for the backend project and 3 for the frontend. It was nice.

I’d rather not. I liked the game. I don’t think it needs a whole movie about it.

Targeted advertising should be illegal. Solves a lot of problems. You can pick an ad based on its location (sports.example.com can have sports ads and astrology.example.com star ads), but not based on who’s viewing it. Now there’s less motivation to read all your personal information.

Require an audit trail and third party review.

I mean, we’d need oversight and there seems to be no political will to police the police, so maybe that’s moor

Statistically meaningless. Emotionally soothing.

That link got mangled for me for some reason. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_people_who_have_walked_across_the_United_States

Anyway. I knew a guy who did the walk. It was his fun fact at parties. He wasn’t white and said he learned to call ahead to let authorities know he was coming through on foot.

I use the walking and transit functionality of Google maps extensively. Being able to account for “the G is not running but there’s a free shuttle bus” is really nice.

I would be lost (pun intended) without the map on my phone, but maybe an alternative could have taken off.

Huh. I read that choice as meaning “I am excited about heading into the future with AI, but I’m concerned it might end badly”, but on rereading the actual question I see that’s a weird answer for it.

The point is that when they average person double clicks an MD file, it should probably open and display.

It does? I mean, I guess it depends on your OS and if there’s an handler for .md files. My machine opens them fine. I don’t know what the default is on windows. Handling a file extension with a smart default is really on the OS provider, though.

I mean, jail is one option, but the hungry wolves are right there.