Telling people “use more ai” was always a profoundly stupid direction. “Ship more stuff faster, use AI if it helps, get paid the same” would be anti-labor but at least sensible.
If selling widgets the customer probably doesn’t care if you used a screwdriver or a drill. They just want their widget. Mandating drill usage is stupid.
Literally everyone saw it coming.
Many people aren’t paying attention. Many people are like pathologically gullible.
The average person just… if you’re smart and capable, imagine being drunk. Being drunk all the time. That’s the baseline. Myopic, impatient, emotional.
Maybe if we had better education and less capitalist hellscape people could be a little better.
I’m not here to watch a movie. I’m here to take this axe and hit monsters with it.
I’m sure bloodborne has a very deep story. I had a great time just hitting stuff with that axe and occasionally shooting things. That’s the bulk of the content.
Just off the top of my head. If you swapped all the gas cars for electric cars, you still have all those problems.
EVs mitigate one tiny slice of the problems caused by car culture.
Bus lanes and trams are a symbol of “communism” and car is a sign of “freedom”
This is basically it.
I saw a post the other day that argued to the conservative mind there must be an underclass. There must be poor people whose lives suck. If you try to make things good for everyone, you’re going against nature and will just make things bad for everyone.
Thus good public transit is bad. If different classes of people all mingle then it’s like mixing your food up on the plate and that’s just wrong!
They really are like children
I tried so hard to get things done at work at first. Everything just grinds along through meetings and “research spikes”. Things that should take 30 minutes take months.
So, I guess that’s what they want.
Except they also want us to use AI to go faster. The problem isn’t generating code too slowly. It’s the numbing void of meetings and “process”.
why don’t they look into ways that cars might cause fewer injuries instead of abandoning the injured?
I’m pissed they’re repaving the streets near me but they’re not taking the time to make them any safer. No curb extensions or daylighting. Certainly nothing so extreme as a separate bike lane.
Americanism? Force them to say they’re anti-american? On the other hand, they say they’re anti-anti-fascism, so maybe that won’t work.
But I think there is something to the idea of taking progressive ideas and wrapping them in a thin layer of american exceptionalism to get certain kinds of people on board. Don’t say “recycle to save the earth”. Say “only in AMERICA can we turn trash into COOL SHIT. FUCK YEAH! AMERI-CYCLE YOUR SHIT”
Imagine if wage theft was treated the same as petty theft. Some sweaty fuck looking shifty at an excel document, and then three cops kick open the door. “ON THE GROUND STOP RESISTING HE’S GOT A GUN”
BANG BANG BANG. BANG.
Newspapers all like “The manager was no angel…”
I’m optimistic that they’re more likely to learn something during that process, but that might not be a well founded belief.
They’re just so… unimaginative. There are so many things other than coal and mining people could invest in.
I think a lot about the time a junior developer on the team was like “I’ll use chat GPT to reverse this list” and I was just like my guy we’re working in Python that’s a one line expression.
Easier to link directly to the different sizes, probably, done like this, too
I use keyword arguments in Python to minimize this pain. Instead of
create_user("Bob", True, False)
it’s
create_user(name="Bob", admin=True, send_email=False)
JavaScript makes that more cumbersome with the object thing , but it’s better than nothing.
He’s a broken person on the inside. He’s like homelander in the boys. All this power, but he’s still a sad little boy no one likes.
Unlike Homelander, Musk is not impervious to conventional hazards.
I read that’s why they did this: to force people to use it wirelessly. Not sure that’s really a big win. Wired mice are just fine with me.
They don’t care. They don’t care about making sense or being internally consistent.
They care about their in-group being on top, and everyone else subjugated or dead. That’s it. Conservatives are bad people.
Well, yes, “why don’t you care about things?” is a timeless problem. People don’t like to see beyond the immediate. Probably because in pre-history, the creatures that focused on right now did better than the ones who went “but if we keep cutting down the trees, eventually it’s going to cause problems.”
Well, now we have many problems, and our brains have not advanced.
I think there’s something analogous to parasites or cancer in large organizations. People who are bad for the health of the organization, through things like creating too many inefficient meetings or stifling useful behavior, accumulate in time. They’re not so egregious that the immune response kicks them out, but they adapt to the system and fatten themselves up at the expense of the host.
You know the archetype. The “product guy” who’s always looking busy with a spreadsheet, but mostly just slows down meetings.