sarker
It isn't happening, and if it is, it's a bad thing
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sarker
It isn't happening, and if it is, it's a bad thing
1d ago
I'm unlikely to be fined, jailed, or fired even if I write some seriously fucked up code. The CEO may be fired, and the company may be sued, but neither of those entities knows what my day to day looks like.
sarker
It isn't happening, and if it is, it's a bad thing
1d ago
Even Peter Singer eats bivalves. They are incredibly simple "animals".
sarker
It isn't happening, and if it is, it's a bad thing
3d ago
Her dad died when she was 17 and I'm not aware of her mother having any ties to the MB. For that matter I'm not even sure what her dad's ties are supposed to have been, but I admit I haven't looked deeply into it.
sarker
It isn't happening, and if it is, it's a bad thing
4d ago
Not a hoomer, but some thoughts:
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Get Your House Right is a really good resource for basic design questions (proportions, moldings, layouts, etc). You might also see if Brent Hull has any videos on southern style houses.
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Lever handles are much better than doorknobs IMO. I fairly often need to open a door with stuff in my hands and it's way easier to do it if the door opens with a lever handle.
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Think seriously about room ventilation. The house should be set up so that you can get cross-breezes going.
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Make sure you put in a skookum kitchen hood that's sized appropriately for your cooktop. I've lived my life in places with underpowered or non-existent hoods and it sucks.
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Try to avoid making the garage a major part of your house's facade. May not be possible depending on your lot, unfortunately - but it looks much better if you can make it happen.
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Put some thought into sealing your garage to keep insects out.
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If you end up with a small bathroom, consider installing a pocket door. I have a bathroom right now where the room door and the shower door open into each others' space and it sucks.
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Two sinks in the master bath is a must.
sarker
It isn't happening, and if it is, it's a bad thing
5d ago
I... don't actually know what we can do about it, other than to let the blue tribe shrivel up and die from the low fertility this produces.
Considering this guy has three kids, this plan isn't panning out in this case.
sarker
It isn't happening, and if it is, it's a bad thing
10d ago
I see tons of pickups in my blue/Hispanic area in absolute mint condition and empty beds. Fairly often they drive around with tow mirrors extended despite not towing anything. Sometimes you even see "duallies" (trucks with four wheels on the rear axle) in similar pristine condition. Hispanic landscapers drive beat to shit Ford trucks.
Does anyone have a sense of why Americans choose pickups over other big-ass form factors?
I think in my area, suburban office workers are alienated from anything to do with manipulating the physical world rather than symbols and feel that a very large and expensive truck connects them in some way to rugged manual labor.
sarker
It isn't happening, and if it is, it's a bad thing
15d ago
Where do you live that programmers are earning $50k?
Start job searching for an actual industry job. Again, really unappealing to me. The thought of presenting such a false image of myself as someone competent is quite repulsive, and I don't know that I have enough actual accomplishments on my resume to get any chances. I almost feel worse off than when I graduated, but I actually can't say I regret my decisionmaking.
A good industry position is quite cushy, although obviously not without the usual downsides that come with working for a big company. Who knows what will happen in 10 years.
What do you mean by "presenting a false image" of competence? If you write stuff you did on your resume, why is that presenting a false image?
sarker
It isn't happening, and if it is, it's a bad thing
15d ago
Do you already have a bachelor's degree in CS?
I have not found that the CS bachelor's degree syllabus is particularly useful for becoming a good programmer, much less becoming a good software engineer.
I think the best way to become a better engineer is to find a good engineer and work with them and learn from them. At least, that is what I have always been able to do, and that is what I have found helped me the most. If you are the best engineer around, it's time to find a new role.
The job market right now is not good, and while I don't think it's a permanent downturn, it's not easy to move around. If you have connections, leverage them.
sarker
It isn't happening, and if it is, it's a bad thing
15d ago
sarker
It isn't happening, and if it is, it's a bad thing
15d ago
The period starting December 2024. The problem is, the clips on TV couldn't have started in December 2024, nor could they have had much of an effect even in January 2025 on account of Trump being sworn in on the 17th of that month.
Now, perhaps you will claim that it was in fact the threat of the Trump presidency that caused numbers to drop even faster than they were already dropping. Perhaps, but that's not the claim you made and the claim I'm arguing against.
sarker
It isn't happening, and if it is, it's a bad thing
15d ago
Border encounters have been plummeting since December 2023 (or, as they call it, dec fy2024): https://www.cbp.gov/newsroom/stats/southwest-land-border-encounters
sarker
It isn't happening, and if it is, it's a bad thing
15d ago
You're 57 and you've noticed zero deterioration in 37 years?
sarker
It isn't happening, and if it is, it's a bad thing
16d ago
I wonder if anyone has tried gpui?
It powers https://zed.dev/ which I likewise have never used, but seems interesting and more performant than electronslop.
sarker
It isn't happening, and if it is, it's a bad thing
16d ago
the very day I become conscious of physical or mental deterioration, I'm checking into a hotel and euthanizing myself with the strongest poison I can get my hands on.
So you're going to kill yourself by 40? Certainly just about everyone is in worse physical shape at 40 than at 20.
This isn't a gotcha, the point is that very slow decay is, uh, very slow.
sarker
It isn't happening, and if it is, it's a bad thing
18d ago
Are you under the impression that FC is a Democrat supporter?
sarker
It isn't happening, and if it is, it's a bad thing
20d ago
Then there was the child tax credits, the stimulus checks, etc. Money went to everyone across the class spectrum.
Of course, but we all know that poor people have more kids and that poor people are more likely to spend the marginal dollar rather than save it.
Reading your article, it looks like the increase in wages was caused primarily by Minimum Wage laws increasing wages by fiat.
I didn't read the article's causal analysis and don't stand by it. I knew from prior reading that wages increased most for those at the bottom of the distribution and grabbed the first article that Google found.
I am skeptical that minimum wage laws make a big difference here given that few positions pay near minimum wage, but I admit I haven't looked closely into this.
If you are correct, then should not it be obvious to an economically savvy publication to be terrified of the resulting inflation?
Or is inflation a little more complicated than that?
People don't like to think about demand-pull inflation or the wage-price spiral for these very reasons, but unfortunately facts apparently don't care about my feelings.
Inflation occurs when aggregate demand outstrips aggregate supply. Covid torpedoed a bunch of supply chains, reducing supply and everyone got helicopter money (and don't forget eviction moratoria and a million other things) that juiced demand. The result is as you see it.
Changes in average real wages masks the explosion in bottom decile wages during the pandemic. That's a 12% gain in real terms for the bottom decile, 2019-2023.
I don't know why you are linking an average wage analysis from a single month as evidence of anything.
Are you saying inflation was caused by wages increasing instead of the government printing money?
Where did all the money the government printed go?
sarker
It isn't happening, and if it is, it's a bad thing
20d ago
Aren't you the guy who drives at 130mph on the freeway?
Traffic doesn't need to be going at the same speed so long as it isn't in the same place. Not everyone on the Autobahn is going at the same speed, but slow traffic keeps right and everyone goes home at the end of the day.
And you can pack a lot more eggbikes into a lane than cybertrucks, and with a shorter follow distance too.
sarker
It isn't happening, and if it is, it's a bad thing
20d ago
sarker
It isn't happening, and if it is, it's a bad thing
20d ago
It's coupled with increased wages for the <1% of people who work on farms. The other 99% just pay higher prices.
Walk? How much time do you think people have to dedicate to commuting every day?
It would take twice as long for me to walk to my local train station as it does for me to drive to work. Then, it would take me as long again to walk to work from the destination train station.
Taking a bus to the train station takes longer than just biking there.
sarker
It isn't happening, and if it is, it's a bad thing
23d ago
That stop is what I would call "out in the sticks" rather than merely "suburban". The caltrain corridor in the SF bay area is primarily suburban and the lack of grade separation is a nightmare.
In any case, the major cost is not plopping down a station by the side of the road, it's laying the track and running the trains on spur lines that by their nature are going to be highly underutilized (due to the lack of density).
I don't even see this as a counterexample because (if Google maps is to be believed) there's no transit for miles around these lines.
sarker
It isn't happening, and if it is, it's a bad thing
23d ago
Weaving at 130MPH on the interstate when there's cars on the road is antisocial behavior and I sincerely hope you age out of this before you kill someone.
sarker
It isn't happening, and if it is, it's a bad thing
23d ago
Rich countries should have well-functioning public transport in urban centres which is apparently missing in America.
I don't think I've been to a city where public transit didn't have a last mile problem except the very densest parts of tier 1 cities like London, Paris, etc. Busses are almost always slower than cycling on the periphery, and it's cost-prohibitive to have metro stops every mile once you're out of the very center of town. And most people don't live in the very center of town.
AI coding is neither necessary nor sufficient for engineers to dismiss end user concerns. I've seen this sort of thing going on for years in big companies, though fortunately not for anything life critical.
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