As a software engineer I have trouble explaining to people who insist that AI is going to take our jobs how INFURIATINGLY USELESS it is.

I have hopes that Microsoft office copilot is gonna help the normies understand

Was listening to Radiolab and the advertisements were for a Wes Anderson movie, cat food, and BetterHelp therapy and I think they nailed your typical NPR listener

I suppose I have a kind of perverse respect for Donald Trump. He campaigned on the most mind-numbingly stupid platform that nobody (even his supporters) thought he would actually do the things he said.

Yet here we are.

It drives me crazy to see Democrats call out Republicans for calling out Democrats for ruling by executive order. It's bad when everyone does it, not just when the other "team" is in power.

I saw a question recently that asked if candidates should be able to use LLMs when solving coding interview questions. For me it's a hard no, because that's one of the few things AI can do well. I need to see your ability to solve novel problems

I would love if AI could do some of the stuff I hate doing, like test setup, or watching for side effects on components with global state. But it is useless. It can infer test setup once I've already written a test, but I can cmd+c cmd+v just as easily

My mom recently told me that software engineers will be automated away soon, and suggested a few careers I could pivot to. I was unable to convey in words how infuriatingly pathetic every AI tool is at coding.

NGL the cranberries really knocked it out of the park with "Dreams" and made it their own. You can hardly tell it's a Fleetwood Mac cover

I think one of the keys to getting good at things is learning to effectively self-critique. It's easy to overlook or minimize your mistakes, and it's also easy to be overly hard on yourself.

Good on Jeff Bezos for having a $600 million wedding. That's at least spreading wealth around. Much better than hoarding it.

EIA.gov is a great place to start the day with hope.

For the record, and with all the obvious caveats, if we do 30% growth per year, wind and solar eat the grid in about 6 years. At 20%, which I think is plausible, it's more like 10 years. At 10%, it's more like 20.

Idk why skiers flex about high DIN settings. I want the minimum possible DIN to keep me from pre-ejecting, which is usually surprisingly low

as a fun moral question can anyone explain to me an ethical difference between being an insurance company CEO and firing a gun blindly into a crowd

CMV: Any no-code solution is a form of enshittification. Any company that pushes their users to switch from declarative, code-based, version-controllable solutions is to something with a GUI doing so for nefarious reasons.

One of the things I love about backcountry skiing is that if you are fit enough, you can go deeper in the backcountry and get away from the crowds. Not the case with mountain biking anymore because of e-mtbs.

I went mountain biking (near Seattle) yesterday and more than half the bikes were E-mtbs. Part of me thinks anything that gets people outside is good, but I also never thought healthy, able people would be using ebikes on this scale

This was gonna be a medium article but now it's a thread: Any API should expose the minimum possible data.

The main reason is backward compatibility -- any data you expose now, you will have to expose in a given interface forever.