Like a public sector job in Wisconsin would have a union (and isn’t police).

This is what happens when old men don’t take up model railroading.

Do you leave auto formatting on and deal with Confluence making bad decisions, or leave it off and have to manually set all the formatting?

I go for the second option, but I’m not sure it’s less irritating or not.

GitHub tickets are fine.

Jira is complicated because PMs want it to do everything. It can, but there’s no good reason for it.

I get to say that I’ve truly made it as a programmer. The reason is that I wrote around 75 lines of Rust, came back a year later, and I could see exactly how it works.

In case you’re wondering, it’s a command line Slack client for sending notifications. Colored highlights and everything.

My company sends out emails like “vibe it up” with links to their vibe coding workshops.

I’m getting the impression that people need it explained that “vibe coding” is not supposed to be a complement.

Why are all my variables suddenly named after SS officers?

Meh. Even hosting static files in a RAM disk over localhost, you’re 99% as good as you can be by using the sendfile() system call. The kernel can copy data from one file descriptor to another faster than any userspace program can. Implementing the Length header is a stat() call.

If you’re not on a RAM disk and not on localhost, then disk access or network throughput will predominate.

Assembly is not magic go faster sauce.

How much would I have if I invested $100/month in Enron during that same time period?

Tell people you’re a natural sprinter. Very deadly over short distances.

It’s more successful than “invoice-based”.

The flip side of that is entire classes of bugs being removed from modern software.

The differences are primarily languages. A GUI in the 90s was likely programmed with C/C++. Increasingly, it’s now done in languages that have complex runtime environments like dotnet, or what is effectively a browser tab written with browser languages.

Those C/C++ programs almost always had buffer overflows. Which were taken off of the OWASP Top 10 back in 2007, meaning the industry no longer considers it a primary threat. This should be considered a huge success. Related issues, like dynamic memory mismanagement, are also almost gone.

There are ways to take care of buffer overflows without languages in complex managed runtimes, such as what Go and Rust do. You can have the compiler produce ASM that does array bounds checking every time while only being a smidge slower than C/C++. With SSDs all but removing the excuse that disk IO is the limiting factor, this is increasingly the way to go.

The industry had good reasons to use complex runtimes, though some of the reasons are now changing.

Oh, and look at what old games did to optimize things, too. The Minus World glitch in Super Mario Bros–rooted in uninitialized values of a data structure that needed to be a consistent shape–would be unlikely to happen if it were written in Python, and almost certainly wouldn’t happen in Rust. Optimizations tend to make bugs all their own.

That might be why, then. Nobody wants to buy office buildings right now.

Lots of leases are for 7-10 years, sometimes more. They’re likely contractually obligated to keep it for now. The sunk cost on that is at least part of the reason why RTO was being pushed so hard.

Tons of office leases have expired since lockdown times and weren’t renewed. Not a lot of them left, and that’s why RTO mandates have waned. Still get a few “the cruelty is the point” people like what’s in OP.

That sounds like how the zombie apocalypse starts.

Sauces, too. You want a fat as a base in many of them, and mayo is a pretty good way to get it.

Maybe don’t eat the mayo in the doomsday prepper bunker.

Grok has gone against its father’s wishes more than Vivian Wilson has.

What would be the alternative?

The energy used by a window AC unit would be easily offset by a single 300W solar panel (even on hot days, they don’t run 100% of the time). They tend to be needed most on sunny days, so that’s not a problem for solar.

You’re supposed to have the “balanced breakfast” with all the things you see placed alongside it in the commercials.

That nobody ever does this is not a problem for people who make commercials.