It's that time of the year again where I once again swear I need to rewrite this pile of production code into a new platform, open up a new project, start, get 10% in (I'm being generous here), then wander off again. This is not a productive approach. Thank you for coming to my Ted talk.
Lee Fent
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An old man yelling at the clouds. All of them. Also yelling at on-prem deployments. Computers were a surely a mistake, but they are profitable.
This weekend I had a discussion with several people involving the phrase “three areas of coding”. I wasn’t familiar with the terminology and was suspicious I explained that I’d never encountered the phrase but the purported author was a) younger and b) from a different culture so it could have been legit. Then someone pasted in a response from an LLM. It was bad. So very bad. Like a real world example of word salad. Turns out the phrase was a summary from a discussion not a phrase that was used.
@grmpyprogrammer my wife just became a Blue Jays fan. Just saying.
Audubon Ballroon (he/him)
@bitprophet Our leaf blower has an aftermarket kit that includes about 20 foot of rigid tubing allowing it to blow out second stories gutters. Just saying it might be worth a look.
Dare ObasanjoThe annoying thing about the tariffs is that they aren’t even well intentioned but misguided, it’s just stupidity.
A trade deficit means you buy more from a country than they buy from you which is normal. Buying more oil from Nigeria than they buy Teslas isn’t a “problem” requiring putting a high sales tax on imported Nigerian oil
Americans buy less Nigerian oil and the deficit reduces. Are you better off or worse off?
Zero sum thinking taken to a stupid extreme.
@grmpyprogrammer oddly enough, every year tool makers come up with a new/improved tool and then construction workers try them and then go back to using the tried and battle tested tools. Weird how that keeps happening.
@Crell @grmpyprogrammer I also find the British channels are pretty good (and gun free)
@saramg i was thinking about this the other day. I remember we always let the players make their own rolls for things like searches and translations etc. But older me kinda feels like the DM rolling preserves the mystery feeling. It also gives me the chance to preserve a challenge that the players should work through without some blind luck ruining it. The players knowing they rolled a critical robs them of the experience. Clearly subject to abuse and misuse, but still.
@bitprophet I know, they're like the hidden power up of, er, power tools. I had to assemble a wooden loft bed/deck combo and it paid for itself right then. Sooo many 4" screws.