The worst is when people don’t know how the system works, and then won’t listen to answers

Like I was at a job and product was going on about “our system has no concept of project owner. We have all these projects but there’s nothing unifying them under a single owner. We need to build this!”

I was like “… what? That’s just not true. There’s a “company” object that does that. It’s got a foreign key with project in the database. I guess it’s a weird name but it’s there”

It took several back and forths over multiple meetings. They eventually got on the same page and I saved us doing a whole useless project, but they did insist I rename it to “account” in the database and code. I would’ve rather left it because that could’ve been dicey, but alas. (The rename did go out fine, but I had to go looking for every reference.)

I’m pretty sure most or all studies have shown a four day work week schedule is an improvement on like every metric, except maybe the “this feels right” emotional metric some people prioritize.

For the code, open source is probably the way to go. People should be able to build from source. Otherwise, how do they know you’re not doing something shady. Open source is generally a net improvement on security, assuming people actually look at it.

For screenshots, first fix it so the screenshots render nicely on narrow displays.

Would probably need to be open source to be trustworthy. Running a random executable from the Internet seems dicey.

Needs more screenshots. The two that are on the site don’t render great on mobile. Can only see a small portion.

I’m unclear how you find another user and verify who they are.

Website should have a clearer feature list. The user manual wants to download a text file instead of showing it in the browser.

I don’t think installing Linux on Apple’s m-whatever hardware is trivial or fully supported

I’ve seen at a very large company a workflow that involved manually updating an excel workbook and (I think) saving it on confluence, so a python script could download it and parse it later. It wasn’t even doing formulas. It was just like less than a hundred lines of text in a half dozen sheets.

Different beers have different tastes. Sour beer tastes like vomit to me. Dark beer tastes much nicer.

For work, a Mac and vscode. I don’t love vscode but it’s what everyone uses.

Well, some of them develop on windows with like notepad++ and it’s kind of a nightmare. There’s no ci/cd, linting, or testing, so whenever I check out someone else’s branch it’s full of red squiggles.

My personal is pop!_os Linux where I’m also using vscode because I’m too cheap to pay for pycharm.

The current system is nonsense, and allows the rich to control too much media (and thus culture). There are some movies or books that are hard to find “legitimate” copies of, because the “rights holders” don’t want them out there, or a complicated confluence of “well the movie has music in it” or whatever.

The main thing I would like to see protected is for some nobody who makes a cool creative work to get credit. I don’t want someone to make a cool cartoon, and then Disney just swoops in and makes their own movies and tv shows based on it while the creator is left in the dust. But I also don’t want people to be able to hold onto an idea for decades, either.

I feel like anyone should be allowed to go make a Lord of the rings movie without needing permission. That shit is old now. It’s just part of our culture.

Some sort of “you have exclusive rights for 3 years” plus “you must attribute previous works to their creators” might work for me.

I’m not a scholar I’m just shooting from the hip, but it was really annoying not being able to find a"legitimate" copy of spinal tap to stream recently.

Did a one shot in high school where to cast any spell you had to sing a relevant line from an extant song.

I don’t remember everyone’s picks, but one player pulled out a pretty enthusiastic Beatles’ “got to admit it’s getting better, getting better all the time” for a heal.

I assume it’s because a lot of people are only semi literate.

Python.

• It’s pretty easy to get going.
• the debugger is very good. Being able to put a breakpoint and interactively fuss with it is so much better than print statements and crying
• you can (and should) use type annotations, but they are optional
• it’s on most machines already, but you don’t want to fuck with the system install of it. On Linux and Mac you can use pyenv or similar if the system came with a version you can’t use. (Don’t teach anyone python 2.)
• the standard library is very good.

You could also do JavaScript, as that’ll work on any modern browser. However, JavaScript is a deeply cursed language. It’s really bad at like every level.

I don’t recommend it unless your top priority is “it is definitely available everywhere” and “these are future web developers”.

This almost makes me appreciate my current job, where most stuff has been in place for years and any changes take forever.

It’s kind of a bummer that it’s going to take like six months to add a linter, and they only started using git like last year.

I’m not going to watch this show and I think it’s stupid that, out of the entire world and timeline, they picked something that clashes with a game.

It’s rich kids getting extra time on tests.” Even as poor students with disabilities still struggle to get necessary provisions,

Sounds like an a problem of wealth inequality which should be addressed

And I don’t know, unless the test is time sensitive somehow I don’t think it matters much to give people more time if they want it. I don’t think most kids are taking bomb defusing classes.

I think making accommodations universal would avoid the income inequality problem, too.

Sorry, I meant, what is the article the student read and responded to. The one the student said is thought provoking in their 650 word response.

What was the essay the student was supposed to be responding to?

Mint is fine. I went with pop!_os because at the time mint didn’t play well with my hardware.

Make sure you test things from the install live disk before you commit. Internet access, displays, audio should all work.

My plan for if a job forced “return to office” on me was to start drinking a lot of milk, and turn it into a “I’m not trapped in here with you, you’re trapped in here with me.”. My friends said this is a terrible idea. I concede the coworkers mostly don’t deserve to suffer the catastrophic ass gas, but management and the bootlickers I say can suffer it.

There was a website where users could request something or other, like a PDF report. Users had a limited number of tokens per month.

The client would make a call to the backend and say how many tokens it was spending. The backend would then update their total, make the PDF, and send it.

Except this is stupid. First of all, if you told it you were spending -1 tokens, it would happily accept this and give you a free token along with your report.

Second of all, why is the client sending that at all? The client should just ask and the backend should figure out if they have enough credit or not.