People think “violence is never the answer” even when violence is being done to them. People are stupid.

I like to think in the future maga-hats will be fodder enemies in video games like Nazis. You can just kill them without remorse because they are scum.

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.

They’re doing this instead of just making regular search decent.

I just want to see jobs that use python. Stop showing me C#.

Microsoft should be split up

Yep. Place I’m at is in some sort of “hiring freeze”. They’re not replacing people who left. They also told the many (probably not strictly legal) contractors that they won’t be renewing them. It’s absurd.

How is this guy still just walking around enjoying life?

What I was trying to get at is something can be worthwhile even if you don’t personally enjoy it.

Conservatism, probably. The whole in-group supremacy thing is pretty bad.

I think a lot about how “good” and “fun” are two different things.

You can have a game that’s a fascinating exploration of a theme that really unifies mechanics and story, but is an absolute downer of misery to play.

You can also have a game that’s a glorified slot machine with bugs, no real player input, and abusive monetization, but people’s brains light up playing it.

There’s some subjectivity of course, but sometimes I see games that are good at what they’re trying to be, but I don’t have any fun with them. Some people seem to demand those overlap all the time.

This doesn’t spend much time on the scenario where it’s not two peers in the review, but like a junior dev and senior dev.

I recently did a code review for someone who is very junior ¹ , and after spending like two hours fixing all the syntax errors and low level goblins, I realized I couldn’t see the forest at all. I’d been staring at the “this variable is undefined in this case” trees so much. And then they were getting antsy and management was getting antsy…

¹ They’re not actually junior. They’ve been in this role for years. Unfortunately, this org has like no mentorship and no standards, so they haven’t actually learned much in all that time. They’ve just been copy-pasting code until stuff works.

Because the current process means constant merge conflicts that I have to deal with, and constant bugs I have to deal with.

But, on the other hand, maybe you’re right and I should just check out and spend a day “fixing git problems” too

I use nano for quick edits. I don’t know more than the basics of vim, and don’t do a lot of editing on the terminal so I haven’t needed to.

Still on Linux. Updated to the new pop!_os LTS. It’s been pretty good. The new desktop environment has had a few quirks where I had to fuss with hitting alt+enter to get some games appropriately full screen, but generally it’s been good.

Worth it to be free of microslop

I’m working at a mega Corp now (not one you’ve probably heard of) and it’s a fucking farce.

We had a meeting last week about some problems with the current process. People kind of nodded along. Meeting was drawing to a close. No concrete tasks or assignments.

I say, “great. Who’s taking lead on this? Can we have a proposal by Monday and make a decision by Wednesday?”

Suddenly management people are like “whoa whoa whoa stay in your lane”

Okay then why don’t you fucking manage?

This happens all the time. We have long ass meetings with the whole team, talk about problems, but then no one is assigned to do anything and nothing changes.

There’s just so much incompetence and ineptitude. Some of it is probably coming from hidden, bad, incentives

Reminded of that quote

Anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that ‘my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.’

People need to admit they don’t know shit and stop believing crap from YouTube.

Ars is weirdly pro-windows sometimes , in the comments. I don’t read them as much as I used to.

I did some webdriver stuff for reasons I don’t remember anymore.

I also made a simple Django app to track job applications.

Unsolicited advice:

• use type annotations. You’ll thank yourself later when your IDE tells you “hey this can be None are you sure you want to call .some_func() on it?”
• use an ide. Don’t just raw dog it in notepad. You should have syntax highlighting, red squiggles for errors, the ability to go to definition.
• learn to use a debugger. Pdb is built in and fine.
• don’t write mega functions that do a thousand things. Split things up into smaller steps.
• avoid side effects. You don’t want your “say_hello” function to also turn on the lights

There’s also the class of comments that explain strange business decisions.

# Product guy said to return January 1st if the user doesn't have a birthday on record

Kind of arbitrary but someone with decision making power decreed it.

I wonder what the “I’ll never vote for a socialist!!” types are doing now to resolve their cognitive dissonance.

Furthermore, if you are being paid the same but your productivity goes up, and the owner keeps all the new profits, you’re being robbed.