@dgar It's okay, the lyrics are the worst part of most music. I often wish I hadn't heard them because they ruin an otherwise good melody.

Take the song "Sorry I'm here for someone else", interesting instrumental, the lyrics make the singer out to be a mature adult, and then at the very end of the song it's completely ruined by the singer abandoning their date to go bursting through the bar's kitchen doors, like some psycho, to plead with their ex to get back together. I can't listen to it now.

@wordshaper Absolutely; the main reason to focus on the code is as an introductory learning phase, like learning how to solder or the basics of a breadboard. Taking that step away makes the learning curve harder. Highlighting only that step shows a lack of understanding of what the point is (or avoiding/generating boilerplate because the system got mired down in old practices and stopped evolving).

The progression from Junior to Senior reflects that exact journey.

@linc The thought that I keep circling around is Empathy, or a lack thereof. I wonder if maybe people hear Empathy and think Sympathy or some other negative connotation. The ability to imagine how someone else feels, how they think, what they base decisions on, or what motivates them...

And then add in all that goes into getting a paycheck just to eat/sleep/provide for tomorrow; the incentive structure doesn't allow much room for broad introspection.

@linc ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

"It Is Difficult to Get a Man to Understand Something When His Salary Depends Upon His Not Understanding It"

@astraluma I intentionally avoided that panel, and several other tech ones or with certain presenters, because I knew they were going to talk about AI. They'll use a bunch of faulty analogies and I didn't want to spend hours in panels being That Guy pointing out the panelists are Wrong.

"It Is Difficult to Get a Man to Understand Something When His Salary Depends Upon His Not Understanding It"

The reality is a job that requires AI is a place you would have been miserable at prior anyway.

@OGJester @mason @Gustodon

Catch-22: Mastodon is largely an echo chamber of people who believe vaguely the same things. Few on Mastodon need convincing; at this point it's mostly virtue signaling and purity tests.

While some folks are just glomping onto trendy topics, fair weather allies, if you're trying to reach an audience of people who don't already believe they should eat the rich, where would they go instead?

¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Now, NPR reading ads for the Kennedy center using the new name: 🤮

@m1ke I've run into this numerous times working in existing codebases that extensively used shaped arrays and unfortunately there's no good out-of-the-box answer. PHPStan won't include helpers like `Partial` and doesn't support `TInput&array{b: int}` syntax. The next best solution is creating a custom phpdoc type parser. https://github.com/phpstan/phpstan/discussions/9102

I've had limited success creating multiple phpstan types that copy-pastes base definitions instead of using generics.

@syntaxseed Every state runs their own election process so any one answer is ~ 1/50 & why there is no federal mechanism for canceling elections.

Most likely what they're doing is playing with the statistics based on registered party. Some states make that public, some don't. We know % voted for [party] in [county] so if you're a registered voter for that party then they know there's a [voters/votes]% chance who you will vote for. They can then tailor ads or suppression tactics to you.

@linc via legal forgiveness (from the 'ask forgiveness instead of permission' saying). Either it gets factored into their bottom line as just another expense item, or via lobbying to make it legal. 😑

I long for the day fines are percentages of income/wealth (Better solutions are also welcome) and board members and executives are personally held responsible for the actions of corporations. 🧞‍♀️