JackMorgan

I watched this is and it's such a great documentary. I really want to take a year now and try to get at least in the top 25% of birders for the year. I was into casual birding before (it's my favorite thing to do when traveling to a new place, just wander around the area and spot local birds). But now I'm loving the idea of these monthly or annual "competitions"

I never hear anyone address the addiction-forming variable reward from pulling the LLM handle and sometimes getting what you want, sometimes getting garbage, and sometimes being thrilled. It's like opening loot boxes for a living. Highly addictive.

Slowing down to review the code feels like drudgery in comparison.

I'm in the review every line camp. I don't trust things that are addictive without a virtuous loop (like exercise). I have to interact with addictive things like video games, loot boxes, gambling, and alcohol in moderation. LLM use fits that perfectly. I'd rather use it throughout the day but still pause and feel the discomfort of reviewing the code, often throwing it out and having it try again when it inevitably makes a hot mess.

I've been seeing this exact outcome this past year. PMs vibe code a hard-coded idea, then the SWE builds a real working one a week later. By the next meeting the SWE has more features than the PMs demo. A week later the PM is still struggling trying to add more ideas to the hard-coded mess while the SWE is cranking out new ideas.

After Covid I joined a volunteer fire and EMS company. They paid for my Fire 1&2, EMT, Instructor 1, and Officer 1. All nights and weekends only. EMT was like 4 months every other Saturday.

EMT was a challenging class because a few of us were competing for highest grade.

I don't do too many EMT calls these days, most of my volunteering is as a lieutenant on the fire side.

I'm very glad I did both, it's been fantastic for my chronic anxiety. I've seen some upsetting things but then I take a break for a bit to process it in therapy. There is a huge need for volunteer emergency response in the suburbs and farther out. If you are interested definitely check it out. If you find a station that's got too many assholes just find another one. Also the people I thought were the worst assholes turned out to just be a little prickly to newcomers and now we are always going out to dinner and renfaires and stuff. Heck my current year long TTRPG game is all folks from the station.

I am also a thru-hiker so I'm very interested in getting into wilderness search and rescue in the future.

I don't think I could ever do emergency response as a career, but I love volunteering. Nothing makes me more appreciative of getting to sign into work with a nice cup of tea and soothing music.

I think there's a lot more to be blamed on a planet that's getting hotter, pesticides in the food, lead in the soil, plastic in the food containers, hormones in the meat and cheese, and cost of living that goes up while salaries don't. Social trust is at an all time low. 99% of the population gets poorer everyday and can feel it. There's no hope of things getting better, so yeah plenty of people stop doing enriching activities.

Porn isn't the cause, it's a symptom of a population losing hope that things will be better for their kids. Or that can't afford kids at all.

Do you believe a 50 year old software engineer is mentally no longer able to work?

Should they be forced to sit back and tell stories of the good old days because their knees are blown out?

Do you believe that one of the greatest living programmers is so washed up at 50 that _even with the greatest LLM tools_ cannot ship something publicly in four years to back up his claims?

As firefighters we enter homes in our full turnout gear with fire boots, even for simple calls like automatic fire alarms. The reason being 1/100 automatic alarms are real fires, so we don't want to be caught with our pants down.

Throughout my fire and EMS training I was taught to anticipate possible violence from the residents. I personally know folks who have entered buildings and been shot at or found booby traps. One guy I know responded to an arson house fire where the resident had cut out holes in the floor under every window and door and covered the holes with rugs, Home Alone style.

The US has a serious drug and mental health crisis. First responders often have to deal with people who probably would be in state care if we didn't spend all our tax money on bombs and tax cuts for the wealthy. Or at least they would have caretakers who visit and help them take medications and escalate when they start setting up booby traps to defend against the voices.

I know folks who save and invest 20-80% of their income. They are not LARPing, and many of them have investments with growth exceeding their job income after 10 years of this kind of saving. It's hardly a LARP to save and invest. Maybe if you're investing in something actually worthless or a ponzi scheme, but last I checked land is still an investment vehicle and they aren't making more of it. One can put solar on it, or a business, or lease it out to someone else.

Could I see your sources for how Rust is slower for iterations?

I've been working in JS, Python, C#, TS, and F# for about ten years. I'd guess F# and TS are tied for me for prototyping speed. I have to wonder how much the "common knowledge" that strongly typed languages are slower for prototyping is driven by unfamiliarity with the tool.

I'm not very smart, but I've read so much history.

I've also got a pretty strong pattern matching engine.

Since the age of 8 my family traveled across the world interacting and working with thousands of folks of all walks of life. I still travel a lot and love to talk to people and ask them their stories. I've worked many different jobs, to this day some of my jobs are minimum wage, some are extremely high earning.

The pattern matching engine has a lot input to match on and it reminds me a few dozen times a day that today my current country is fractionally less safe than it was yesterday. There's nothing I can do to fight against a high tech propaganda media campaign that's morphed into a mass cult that craves genocide.

No amount of prepping or homesteading or storing away gold will help when the food riots come.

CBT and journaling and meditating have helped me come to the realization that while I'll almost certainly die from violence, I will be present and enjoy every second until that happens. I form deep connections with my neighbors and build a big community of people I love. I share joy with all I can, and I comfort those who are sad. The only thing in life that matters are people and how I treat them, so I try to embrace them all and meet them where they are with kindness and love.

A brilliant thru-hiking documentary says it best: "It's The People".

In the last two years Windows 11 has shipped with increasingly serious bugs. Many of my co-workers report needing to reboot a few times a day because issues just compound.

I regularly have major issues with Teams and Outlook. Crashes, not showing messages until hours later, calls dropping every few minutes, and the app just never opening. Just Friday afternoon I could not close Teams from the Task Manager

I'm not sure the cause and effect are accurate here. It's very likely more the other way: that folks curious about the world and how it works did that research in spite of religion which often attempted to suppress new findings that countered church doctrine or beliefs. Or even suppress findings that happened to be different from earlier mental models.

To be fair, other scientists sometimes do this to. However most begrudgingly accept new findings if they hold up to the scientific method.

I've wanted to build this myself for a long time but couldn't figure out how to overcome the spicy pillow problem.

Maybe I'm barking up the wrong tree, but I thought it was risky to leave a phone plugged in all the time. Does it need to be a modern version of Android OS that has the smart charging that stops at like 85%?