I used to try to explain to management that some debt is high interest.

People are emotionally invested in meat and that often shuts down any conversation

Do you actually do work or are you one of those middle-men that add dubious value?

And, like, do you think I can read my coworker’s screen from across the room and be like “Ah yes, that is TransferProjectView.py. I should tell him that I am also planning on touching that file”?

And adults can learn to explicitly communicate. It’s not impossible. You just type into the box.

I don’t think microsoft understands shit. I think their leaders are out of touch, lying, idiots. They continue to exist based on inertia and past success.

It’s frustrating because management are so colossally, transparently, stupid but they get the big paychecks and the workers get fucked. And then like half the workers sit there going “Well this is just and fair. this is a good world. If the people actually doing the work had more of a say, that’s communism and thus axiomatically bad”

Is this retroactive or do I remember how it used to be?

If it was retroactive I don’t know. That’s a lot of different life experiences and socialization.

If I remember how it used to be, I probably wouldn’t care that much about my own body changing, but would have to grapple with not being attracted to most new-women-bodies.

It kind of makes sense if you consider right wing beliefs to be driven by fear. The world is scary, so drive a big “safe” car. Other people riding bikes challenges this world view, because if they’re brave enough to ride a bike and I’m not then I’m not the best, and that’s just not true. So bikes and bikers are bad. They’re bad because they make me feel bad.

Good version control hygiene is important. My most recent job we were pretty good about commit messages for the PR, and then squashing that into a single commit when putting it on main. As you say, avoid unrelated things going together. You don’t want to have to revert a whole major feature because your “I’ll just fix it here” broke something.

There’s a guy one of my old coworkers has been complaining about who never writes anything useful in his commit messages. It makes the git log useless and the code reviews harder.

As for abstraction and such, sometimes it feels like it’s just coupling unrelated things together. It can be annoying when it’s like “I want to change this…and it’s used in 17 places for some reason. Guess I’ll check if all of those can handle this change, or this will be the one weird place that’s different…”

I also worked with a guy that was a big fan of having two dozen one line functions. Monster functions are often bad, but a whole separate function like get_last_item(stuff): return stuff[-1] can be excessive.

My elderly father had this idea that “workers don’t know how to run the business”. I told him about all the idiotic things the management at my old job did over the advice of the people actually doing the work, and I think it made him think about it.

Oh that’s a neat library. Type annotations in python are really nice, and you don’t have to add tooling like when you switch from JS to TS.

You are breaking the internet with this non sense.

I think that’s their goal. Conservative types benefit when people have limited access to information

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stardate

This was to “avoid continually mentioning Star Trek’s century” and avoid “arguments about whether this or that would have developed by then”

I’m pretty sure recording every conversation around you is illegal in several states.

Also who controls what information it shows? Someone says Trump and does it show a flattering or true summary?

This is a terrible idea

Yeah, that would help. There’s also the smaller risk of “I was going to click on something else, and this new window popped in under the mouse”

I think some applications also don’t accept input for the first couple seconds to prevent this. I vaguely remember something that had the dialogue boxes count down from 5 before you could click or keyboard-interact them.

Feels like the kind of problem with a lot of edge cases, but even catching 70% of the problems would be a big improvement

I hate focus stealing so I might set mine to strict, now that I know that’s an option.

It’s an absolute nightmare to be typing, some dialogue box pops up, and I accidentally accept it by hitting spacebar without even seeing what it was.

I think most computer users now don’t know that file systems exist

I also never want to spend X minutes listening when I could instead spend X/3 minutes reading, plus retain info better, and be better able to look up stuff from it

Whatever’s built into pycharm or vscode for looking at diffs. Command line for push pull squash etc

I had a bad time with mint on my desktop. HDMI, wifi, Ethernet, none of that worked.

I’m currently on pop_os and it’s been fine so far.

This is cruel and even if gender affirming care for minors was a problem (it is not), there are so many other more pressing issues at hand.