People assume it’s all terminal all the time. I haven’t needed to open the terminal for months. It starts up. With the GUI I open the browser. Maybe steam, too. Do stuff. Shut down.

He left you unattended in his apartment? Bold.

Don’t just stay there all day. Go home. Make plans for a third date. That’s weird to just stay there.

I don’t disagree with your post but I’m pretty sure the joke in the meme is the one calling themselves a nice guy is actually an asshole. That’s revealed in the “stop ignoring my DMs” ending. So it’s not actually a pro “nice guy” meme. Which you probably got, but maybe missed it?

Technically correct , the best kind of correct.

foo.lower() would have been a better example.

The problem is capitalism. Specifically, the consolidation of power in a small number of decision makers.

Break up the big companies. Stop letting them do mergers and acquisitions. You don’t even have to do something radical like dismantling capitalism entirely.

Yeah, if you initialize them to None then for the entire rest of the class you’re going to have to account for the possibility that they’re None. If it’s unavoidable that they might be None, you should type it as such.

If you type them as like str | None then later when you do like return foo[0] it will warn you that you can’t do that with None.

That seems like that’s going to give you an error in most type checkers. You said it’s always an int and then immediate made that a lie and made it None instead.

Why are you trying to do this?

Maybe, if was cheap. Dislike Google and Apple.

Don’t care so much about games on the phone as like GPS, texting, ad blocking in the browser.

One of the other guys is on Windows and we had to change a config in git to handle it. Not sure what he did on his end. I have vscode on a Mac. Some people at this place have been working since like the 90s and probably are using notepad.

Hanna’s autobiography “Rebel Girl” was a good read, though parts of it are harrowing.

Windows isn’t fit for software development unless you’re doing Windows specific stuff. Maybe you can get by with WSL or cygwyn or similar, but that’s just a bandaid to make the machine less windows. You’ll probably still have problems with like case folding and line endings.

How did this get normalized?

The average user doesn’t know or understand technical details, and don’t believe they have any power to change anything

Also capitalism means a small number of assholes make most of the decisions for reasons that benefit them

Well, when you put it like that then my hypothesis doesn’t sound very plausible. But maybe racism just Trump’s everything else.

My hypothesis is people are easily frightened idiots. They don’t like change of any sort. It frightens them and then they can’t reason about if the change is good or bad long term.

If a place had bike lanes for years the same people who bike-lash would probably oppose removing them.

There should be consequences for trying to pass all these horrible and doomed bills. Unfortunately the people keep voting for the people writing them.

I feel like you could make an argument that “money” is ambiguous here. Bobby has more monetary value, but Amy has more items that are considered money. In a contrived example of like a DND puzzle where you need to put money on a floor tiles to disarm the traps, Amy can disable 30 and bobby only 4

I understood that reference

One of the things that makes open world games and especially Elder Scrolls so successful is the sense of exploration and place

Someone wrote that comment elsewhere and I needed to quote it in order to argue that Bethesda doesn’t even do a good job of that. Level scaling really kneecaps it

I have used copilot a couple times to be like “I have this scenario and want to do this. What are my options?”. I’d rather have a good Internet search and real people, but that’s all shitted up.

The answers from the LLM aren’t even consistently good. If I didn’t know programming I wouldn’t be able to use this information effectively. That’s probably why a lot of vibe coding is so bad.

Upvote things I felt like were worth reading. Down vote things I didn’t think were worth reading.