There’s higher profit margins implying it’s not expensive because it has higher cost, they just see higher profits, so they’ll be sure as hell not want to decrease price later

Don’t worry, California just voted no to taxing above 1 billion. Even when most of the voters do not make it, or ever will in their lifetime, yet they voted against it

Lead has a very stable nucleolus. Forever chemicals (PFAS) were named that because they were stable. CFCs were pretty harmless too until we learned about ozone layer.

Anything that industry makes and distributes in large quantities throughout the world is pretty bad because by the time we learn about long term impacts, it’s everywhere

If it’s not we got something from virus that helped us, and chimps got something that limited them. Then it’s funnily possible for a global pandemic to make our whole population stupid. Normally evolution would work out and smarter population would do better, but for us it depends on which side has nukes. So …

True, but we have to know AI is making it wayy worse. The same people who were barely getting by, are now using AI to write softwares that’ll be used for years to come. And other people that don’t have developer experience and aren’t good themselves don’t have any idea and really trust those developers because “they make things happen” like “magic”. Previously they’d take a lot more time to make something work, it’d be shitty, but it’d be obvious for any developers that come after them. Now detection is hard, and the volume has increased.

If you’re sharing graphical elements then I prefer pdfs when you know it’s final, and you want to make sure people see it how you intended, and you want it to be vector format. Similar thing if the information is some complex format/layout. People can zoom in instead of having their device messing it up.

But I agree on simple contents like documents, tables, and such

Honestly if you’re starting from scratch, I’d say learn rust. It’s not that hard if it’s your first language because you don’t have to unlearn stuffs from other languages. Plus the compilation errors will really teach you what you did wrong how to fix things. And using clippy, it’ll tell you how to do things better and remove redundancies.

C is easy to learn in terms of syntax, but it’s hard to write correct code as the program gets more complex. Python is easy to write but doesn’t teach you much. I find rust as easy to write as python, but c like speed.

I think that’s one of the problem with people that are only of a “finish this task cheaply for now” mind.

Having something run in 0.1 second vs 1 second is fine when a user is running it for one thing. So they consider it good or instantaneous. And later they have to do it for 1000 other things, and they don’t think that saving time in that “instantaneous result” there would save so much more time. They just go “it’s 1000 of these so it takes time”. I’ve found functions that open a db file, read one entry and close it. Then that function is called for each entry they have to read later. In a preprocessing step where they know all the entries they need beforehand. And even the data tyoe to store it is nor preallocated, they just append it on every data read; again on a fixed number of entries they need.

I understand performance not being the most important thing, but I’d expect least a basic understanding of design that has unnecessary processing.

I think that’s true for many tools. Programming tools are the one thing that has most advancement because so many programmer are there to improve on them. And even if you don’t use it, not knowing about it completely makes it a bit odd. Although most tools I have used to make flamegraph were as easy as just running the program as a argument to another program that tracks the function calls.

I was in a meeting with a senior software engineer, who makes a shit ton more than me. While sharing my screen he saw flame graph I had for one program I was working on. They asked “what is that?”, I was taken back, and said it’s for looking at which functions are taking more time. Then I was asked “where did you find it?” I was shell shocked, didn’t know how to answer that. Similar things have happened before where I taught them certain things, and they go “great find”, like dude, I didn’t find it just now. That’s basic knowledge if you work with database.

I am not even a developer hire, I’m self learned, and because the company doesn’t have many developers they gave me some of the tasks and I’m doing it because it’s more fun than my job responsibilities, and when I don’t have enough tasks.

They’re the same family, if you let a potato plant flower and bear fruits it’ll have little cherry tomatoes looking fruits. Haven’t tried eating that though. And it’s harder to grow from seeds

You’re free to use a vibe coded linux kernel that you trust enough to run everything on your whole computer. I don’t

I think that’s honestly how it goes. If you’re efficient and just get more tasks, or get called off for not working (if you’re done with work and doing something else), then you have to pace yourself. Lot if work I get is copy paste this from here to here that takes hours, I could have written an script to do all that in the time I spent cooy pasting, but then I’d be the only one who could do it again. Even though the next time it’d take 5-10 minutes

Yeah. I think sometimes it comes from using a lot of shitty softwares that only work with “happy path” so they like to repeat what works and won’t experiment (because that means repeated work).

I have a lot of “we have to do it this way”, me: “this is better”, them: “we always do this way”.

As well as, me:“hey it’s easier this way, I think clients will like this way, even if we do the original they have to switch eventually”, them: “no, they asked for this, we NEED to do this”, me: “can we ask?”, them: “…”, i talked to the clients and they were already thinking about the new one and had no problem, saved us weeks of work trying to back port an already existing solution

Yup I had a HR personally message me saying the person I recommended doesn’t have a certification needed for the job. They have that in a different state, getting it in the state the job is in is as simple as saying “hey I passed the same exams you guys take (it’s national), I’m registered and practicing in that other state, can I get approved here?” And they say “sure”. It’s small documentation and a bit of waiting period, but that’s shorter than the training period of the job itself. I said a bit about that but they’re like they don’t have it in this state. Which I’d understand if it’s just a way to say no without saying that person is not qualified for other reasons. Because most other openings I see in our industry gives the candidates 6months to get the certificate because it’s easy

Most problems with straight dating apps is too many guys and too little girls. So if someone is dedicated enough to make something like, they don’t have the reach to get to girls to sign up. Unless they are marketing minded, then they just wanna make money with their “idea”

There’s a whole band of people who only listen to rich people. Because “they’re rich because they’re genius” mentality

I’ve seen similar talks about people doing it here as well, but not for hours. I think you have to manage it yourself for certain hours a week for it to qualify. I am not sure.

But the part I don’t understand is, the taxes they have to pay when they sell their house that they did not reside in, should have a lot more tax than the tax they have to pay on salaried income. Is that not the case? I’m not into business side so I’m not knowledgeable about these, but it makes sense to tax more on business profits compared to someone’s salary.

And if you have tax brackets, paying little taxes now might be better than paying no tax and later having to pay huge tax on the same amount because it’s not distributed across tax years when you sell

Wait 2 years ago? The mortgage being high should mean the houses bought recently are no longer profitable to rent otherwise you should be able to pay mortgage that is less than rent yourself.

I’m in USA and only Houses that are available for rent here are houses people bought pre-covid or earlier, when the mortgage was way less or it’s paid off, so it’s profitable for them to rent it out with current rent

That’d be same as we are losing potatoes species so we should plant more potatoes. The issue is the wild/native variety is lot more various and different than the industrial potatoes we plant.

Or a more extreme case: we’re losing wolves so let’s breed more dogs.

Bees used for honey making is just a small fragment of bee species humans use. While the native bees are various,and have different patterns of living and polination