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  • From Microsoft to Microslop to Linux: "Why I Made the Switch"

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  • Cool. Been on Pop!_os for a year or so. Not memorable issues. Plays games fine.

    Microsoft should be broken up. Even if they walk back some of their AI slop, they're too big. They don't fail like they should for releasing a bad product.

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    Group Dynamics

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  • Reminds me of a long road trip I took in my youth. After a couple days we were basically speaking in in-jokes

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  • As others have said, working from home has many benefits

    • no commute
      • save time
      • save money
      • less risk of disease and accident
      • often easier child care options
    • greater control over environment
      • offices are often too hot or cold for some
      • stock own food, drinks, toilet paper, etc
    • better pet access. Cat on lap. Dog walk easier.
    • easier wardrobe
    • several distraction categories removed
      • people walking up to your desk
      • loud meetings

    The commute alone is pretty big. If your commute is like an hour, that's changing your salary from like $x / 10 hours to $x / 8 hours. That's a big bump. If your daily pay was $1000, that's like going from $100/hour to $125/hour.

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  • Conservatism is exclusively about in-group. Everything else is a post-hoc justification. They're just less, I don't know, morally developed. Like children.

  • We mourn our craft

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  • So as a senior, you could abstain. But then your junior colleagues will eventually code circles around you, because they’re wearing bazooka-powered jetpacks and you’re still riding around on a fixie bike

    Lol this works in a way the author probably didn't intend. They are wearing extremely dangerous tools that were never really a great idea. They'll code some circles, set their legs on fire, and crash into a wall.

  • Testing can be fun, actually

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  • Snapshot tests are an anti-pattern. Easy to use, lead to problems.

    They do not encode intent. Everything in the snapshot is equally weighted. Your test will fail the same way if your copy changes or your HTML structure, but one of those is probably way more important. Assert on what's important.

    They discourage thinking about what you're doing. Suppose you have an API that returns information about a user and their pets. Your first integration test adds a user to the database, makes a request, and looks at the response. You could just brainlessly snapshot the response, but the user PK in the response might not always be the same. People are going to try to snapshot the response anyway.

    Humans are lazy, and they won't read the diff carefully. This is especially true if the diff is large or complex. Doubly so if you have a great number of these. They'll go "oh yeah I changed this component so it should have changed. Accept changes" and move on. No one wants to look at 40 large dozen line diffs.

    If you have your code set up to arrange and then act, you're like 80% of the way there to writing a normal set of asserts.

    I would never recommend snapshot testing.

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    What are your thoughts on apolitical people?

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  • Not good.

    They could be ignorant and not understand how politics affects pretty much everything.

    They could be foolishly cynical and think that "none of it matters", so they just don't pay attention.

    They could be like pathologically avoidant and don't want to talk about a potentially disharmonious topic.

    They could have shitty views they don't want to talk about.

    Not good. Not good people.

  • You won: Microsoft is walking back Windows 11’s AI overload — scaling down Copilot and rethinking Recall in a major shift

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  • I don't understand how my coworkers are using windows. Like, they routinely have issues where it randomly reboots or gets sluggish. And it's just flat out unfit for software development, unless you're targeting windows specific stuff. They can't even run our code locally.

    Maybe some of the problems are janky security stuff to try to lock it down

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  • Many complaints against prostitution also apply to trading labor for money/shelter in general. People just have a stronger emotional response.

    Emotional responses are rarely a good foundation for policy.

    Prostitution should be legal with safety regulations. All labor should have protections, unions, and such, to protect them from being abused by the wealthy.

    Some specific things would probably remain illegal or disallowed, in the same sense that you're not allowed to work construction without safety gear. People can wear condoms as easily as hard hats and hi-viz vests.

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    A Life of Crime

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  • I don't think that's always true. Some people develop a drug addiction and then that leads to homelessness. Spend increasing amounts of time and money on drugs instead of life needs, and then they're broke jobless and out of options.

    Someone who's homeless may use drugs and develop an addiction, too. But the order of events isn't fixed. I don't know how common either order is.

  • How much do you pay for food each month?

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  • It helps that I'm not a picky or demanding eater. I make a cup of rice in my rice cooker, get some canned beans, and throw in a random assortment of spices and/or condiments. Not afraid to try some weird combinations.

  • How much do you pay for food each month?

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  • I've been feeling okay on the beans, peanut butter, and sometimes peas.

    If you have cheap vegetarian options I'm open to recommendations

  • How much do you pay for food each month?

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  • Left to my own devices it'd be about $100/month.

    Rice, beans, pasta, peanut butter, oatmeal, and then whatever fruit and vegetables are cheap.

    With the social life included, there's more expenses. Did dinner out last week for $60 (a nice local Thai place). Ordered a pizza with a friend who was feeling down and watched Star Trek together for like $30.

    Other non-rice meals with my partner can also be more expensive. We air-fried up some potatoes and vegan "meat" last night and it was good.

    There's an app called "too good to go" that lets you get cheap food near the end of day. It's stuff the restaurant or grocery was going to have to throw out. Sometimes you get like four slices of pizza for $4, or a platter of Korean food for $6. Seems good and not enshittified yet.

    I'm in NYC, for context.

  • Is there anything like church without the church?

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  • The young adult and youth experience in the UU church was pretty great. Less church-y, more interactive. I made a lot of good friends when I was younger there.

  • Mamdani to kill the NYC AI chatbot caught telling businesses to break the law— New York mayor says terminating the ‘unusable’ bot will help close a budget gap

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  • Conservatives don't care about truth or internal consistency. They just want to harm the out-group.

  • Senior devs...

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  • It's not really that different from like

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my_get_mock = Mock(side_effect=Some exception("oh no"))
result = some_func(http_getter=my_get_mock)

    There's many ways of writing bad code and tests, but mocks and patches aren't always a bad tool. But sure, you can definitely fuck things up with them.

  • Senior devs...

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  • Here is the User Guide for ELITE, the Tool Palantir Made for ICE

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  • If there's any justice, everyone who works for Palantir will be lined up next to everyone who worked for ICE.

  • Senior devs...

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  • I vaguely remember Java also has mocking libraries, as does JavaScript. (Though JavaScript isn't a language I'd hold up as the ideal.)