Yeah I’ve been trying to call this out at my company. Junior programmers, especially , do t seem to know how to turn ai responses into maintainable code
I find it ironic since ive mostly been on the QA side of dev. I’ve spent decades pointing out the stats that code is much more expensive to maintain than it is to write the first time, so now AI puts us in a position of writing something the first time a little faster, but that’s even more expensive to maintain. Does not compute
I still look for answers on stack overflow, instead of waiting for an AI summary of the same answer
if they could find you, they’d just come and get you
I’m skeptical. I always believed they just have no incentive to try when it’s something’s small. And their supervisor has no incentive to spend anyone’s time for something’s small So they just file it away and they’ll grab you the next time you’re pulled over.
Given laziness and capitalism, it’s plausible they don’t try
There’s also quantity. Eating an orange is healthy. Drinking a glass of orange juice is like eating six oranges after removing the fiber: not heslthy
Thanks for the map, I see the one in my immediate neighborhood is not listed but there are two others within an easy walk!
I’ll have to let them know
I did always wonder what the goals and protocols were. Can I donate to one or respect their choices of content? Am I acting suspicious if I stand there to “browse the stacks” and see if there is anything that interests me?
I’ve seen this once or twice but barring knowing the goal of the owner wasn’t sure if it’s appropriate to help restock.
As a big example I believe many of these are lgbtq or diversity friendly but that can be controversial. It’s not my business to make a statement in your library: should I donate an lgbtq book? a western? Romantic? Children’s? I have them all and support almost any goal encouraging reading or thinking, i just need to know what it is
Part of the problem is some debt is necessary for large or expensive projects. Think of it as similar to your home mortgage: most of us could not buy a home without it. Similarly governments have large or multi year projects that can be difficult to pay as you go and make sense to take out debt.
But everyone likes being Santa Clause , everyone likes bringing home the pork, and it’s a simple matter of writing a little more debt. No big deal.
A traditional Republican position is that thinking is insane, it’s not fiscally responsible. We can’t afford that. It makes a lot of sense until you see what republicans actually tend to do. In today’s world I imagine some republicans still have some twisted concept of fiscal responsibility for kicking millions off healthcare, but it boggles the mind to use that plus take on additional debt to give tax cuts to the wealthy. That is very much NOT fiscally responsible. If there is anyone out there who still believes in traditional Republican positions, they should be ashamed of what it’s become
A traditional Democrat position is we have human services and infrastructure that are important enough to write more debt. That sounds expensive, but again, think of it like that home mortgage: some things are important enough.
Realistically, the cost of debt rises and falls with a country’s economy, so you can have unexpected results where additional debt causes business to increase, making debt cheaper
Technically there’s no ceiling and as the reserve currency the us used to have special place, but there are consequences, there is “too high”, there can be a spectacular crash when other countries and currency traders get worried about whether you can pay it back. It’s just not clear where that will be.
US debt is now at proportions that has caused economic crashes in other countries. More importantly, payments toward that debt are now one of the biggest parts of the annual budget, making it tougher to afford other things.
Bringing the analogy back to personal finance, we are “house poor”. We haven’t always spent prudently, but now our house needs paint, the roof is leaking, and the furnace may not light this winter.
Edit: one party decided it was worth going into a little more debt to replace the furnace because winter will be cold and heat is necessary, while the other cancelled that, losing the deposit and took yet more debt to day trade and collect Labubu’s, cancelling “fraud, waste and abuse”, like having the internet
Back in my day, we created more complex html forms using bash on the server. None of this fancy pants modern stuff like Perl and fast-cgi. What’s js?
Now get off my lawn
Hosting email just saved the day! My ex got locked out of her email account and password resets were blocked. However she still had one “home” forwarding email configured as a recovery address, so we were able to redirect it somewhere accessible and unlock her email account!
Theirs a case for some form of malpractice on the part of that town
their liability insurance paid $1 million
wtf, for an entire town, including schools? This is no longer the nineteenth century. It’s not all that unusual for individuals to have that much liability insurance. It’s not even that expensive
Maybe you’re right. I assume whatever is online is generally what you’d see in the store if you went there.
However since pandemic I mostly stopped going to physical stores, except the grocery, so I guess I wouldn’t know. At the time it was the smart option but now it’s the convenient option…… while we all hate on Amazon, you can’t beat that same day delivery! Sometimes it can be faster to order online than to drive to a store
I’d like to know this too. We all know the issues with the current regime. It’s clearly the worst in our lifetime.
But some of these issues may not have been apparent before the internet, before constant news. There may be different corruption, different rubber stamps and hiding of corruption, crime, and incompetence. We like to think previous presidents had some shame some ethics some standards, but did they really or was it just easier to hide
As far as I can tell the current administration has cemented their place in history, with the sheer maliciousness and negative impact on the country and even the world. A Term which will live in infamy. Standing far below every other administration
…. But will history agree?
It is pathetic that you go to a place like target and there are 18 different keurigs, 1 Mr. Coffee, and that’s it. At least the Mr coffee isn’t wasteful. But I digress. It wouldn’t kill them to stock a French press or something though.
Wait, the Germans didn’t bomb Pearl Harbor. I know you’re on a roll here but searching target.com for French press returned 11 pages of results and at least the first page was like 18 different French presses
For example I’m all of the above
But also a grinder at the store may have unknown cleanliness as well as a mix of different styles and flavors and ages. If you care about good coffee, that’s not it.
But yeah, that means there is so much I’ll never try because trying doesn’t justify buying a full bag
deleted by creator
Hah, my lab is mostly a bunch of raspberry pi’s screwed to a wall
I always thought this was an argument for properly racking everything. If it takes more effort, more time to remove, maybe they won’t bother.
My understanding is that for most individuals, theft is mainly
I do have outside cameras but they’re not as useful as you’d think. Maybe they have some deterrent value but they’re not going to alert anyone fast enough unless they’re already in the house and you’re not going to identify anyone even if you catch a good shot of their face. If the do catch someone, perhaps the video is enough to say, yep
I have to say it’s been long enough for me that “a whole mile” seems unusual again. This summer was “let’s walk to the diner for breakfast. If we take the new bike trail it’s only a bit over a mile”.
I grew up in a rural area where we’d be out all day, and a mile wasn’t even worth measuring. Then is used to live in Boston, where walking and trains were more convenient than cars most of the time, so a mile wasn’t even just a short walk to whatever. But now in the suburbs I’ve fallen into the car trap, and it’s only since COVID that I started rediscovering how walkable my town is
Still rare, only trolls. If someone is judgy or confrontational I’ll move on. It’s only if they’re trying to start a fight, trying to create an ongoing argument that I’ll block them.