Rush. Love the 70s and 80s eras especially, but it’s like having several favorite bands to choose from! If I’m in the mood for synths I’ll put on Signals, or if I want something heavier I’ll play the self-titled album. I literally never get sick of their songs though.

I wasn’t too much of a fan till I saw them live (twice!) and they actually slay. Great band!

I think we’re coming to the end of a 50 year cycle of rapid technological improvement that’s been a parasitic host for capitalistic predilections. Shareholders ride tech companies hard and put them away wet, fucking over workers and squeezing consumers in the process. Innovative and awesome companies end up getting subsumed into a shit whirlpool where the product gets worse, more expensive, and steals your data. So I guess the people in my example are the tech investors and MBAs feeding them, and their abuse of tech is what needs to die.

A proper type system should be like the bumpers in a bowling alley, where you know the ball will at least stay on the track. Typescript is more like the ball launching ramp, where you probably won’t yeet the ball straight into the gutter but it can still certainly end up there.

I agree TS is just not a good idea to start with, but it might at least be respectable if it actually had runtime enforcement. Maybe then node wouldn’t be as horrible, though you’re always better off with a real backend language anyhow.

https://youtu.be/FuwIM2m-4yY

I’m also a software engineer who doesn’t care about most new tech. I strongly believe that human made objects and software can both reach a state of doneness. For example, books are a technology that’s “done”. Both physical and digital books do a great job at delivering written content, so there’s no need to keep buying the same damn thing every couple years. Phones are similar, yet the new ones just get shittier (no removable battery, no headphone jack). Kind of reminds me of how Microsoft keeps trying to solve the “problem” of programmers being needed to create programs. Powerapps being one of the latest examples.

Based on things I’ve seen I can actually believe this is real. Just goes to show that you can’t trust everyone to have a functional intuition for separating horrible ideas from good ones.

Hmm this seems like a solution to an extremely specific problem that may have been created by using docker for things outside its wheelhouse. Why would I have docker automation that I only trust to do specific things?

What do you mean about the metal content in the microwave? Does the larger chamber make it somehow immune to arcing?

One thing I’ve found interesting with AI art is that it’s changed how I look at handmade art. It is similar in a way to appreciating a handmade piece of furniture or a machine compared to a mass produced commodity item. Art that I previously would have dismissed instantly sometimes makes me think for a second about the artist and how it was made, even when it lacks a professional level of quality. That said, I’ve also seen enough AI art that I can distinguish between garbage slop and something (at least a little) interesting made in Comfy UI. There’s always been a lot of low quality art out there, but I think the real issue is with people trying to pass off low effort generated slop as real art, rather than the gen-AI tech itself (environmental impact notwithstanding).

But it’s better when it’s deep cold. People just need to get sturdier utensils.

You better be ready to pick up some drum sticks while I hop on the bass guitar, otherwise we can watch music videos on yt.

Just out of curiosity, did the take-home assignment direct candidates to include tests, or was there an implicit expectation of them using TDD? I’d probably be one of those to sound a little dismissive of TDD, though I do support testing for nontrivial functionality. I always wondered if anyone really used that workflow or if it was too idealistic for the real world.

Yeah! I’m not really a fan of C&C either but they were pretty good. Yeah Guerilla Toss is hella catchy for sure.

Saw them with Primus last year, great show.

If you’re using vscode you might be able to look through the individual file histories to recover some work.

I never really see people doing this, but I’ve had a great time pitching my tent in the back of my pickup instead of on the ground. You get a perfectly flat surface and some foam or an air mattress make it pretty comfy.

I have a bike I put together with this mindset and it’s pretty awesome. If any component dies I can replace it individually, even if it’s not made by the same company. No reason an electric car couldn’t have the same benefits except that the average consumer doesn’t care about planning ahead

I rented Superman 64 as a kid, never knowing it was a universally hated game. We had fun with the weird multiplayer mode where you fly around in weird pod things. I remember flying through the rings too. The whole game makes zero sense in hindsight.

When I’m doing that I use a program called Transcribe! It has every feature you could want for this purpose, really. You can mark off the individual sections, measures (and beats if you want) and take notes, looping them at any speed you want (with pitch correction), and it even has a tone generator you can use to check your transcription. It’s $39 dollars and well worth it. One time I sent the author an email and they promptly responded with great answers to all my questions.

https://www.seventhstring.com/xscribe/screenshots.html

I do try to do it the old fashioned way first, though. I’ll pull the song into Reaper or something and just play along.