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Do you restrict your hiring to candidates with fluent Swedish?

That's my memory as well. Early '00s, I was also in college and seemingly one year campus went from a broadly friendly, social place to one with a lot of people, headphones in, focused on their own little world.

There were Walkmans and disc Walkmans before that, of course, but MP3 players were a step change in social isolation, from my perspective. Bluetooth earbuds + a wave of streaming audio content have been another.

Is waterboarding in Guantanamo Bay somehow less severe than elsewhere?

Not just due to code generation, but to AI code scraping and inspection.

A pidgin is just a simplified form of language that hasn't evolved into its own new language yet. There are many English pidgins.

I bought the official ear pad replacements for my PXC450 back when those were available, for 1/4 of what the headset cost. They are so terrible that I stopped using the headphones entirely. I lost faith in Sennheiser after that, now I just use cheaper ear buds.

I talk politely to LLMs because I don't want any impoliteness to leak out to my interactions with humans.

My romantic views of wood smoke hit reality when I first camped in Canada's Banff-Jasper national parks, where you could buy unlimited firewood for the night for $5. Everyone bought it, it seemed. Trying to breathe downwind of a campground was a rude wakeup call. It should definitely be restricted in denser residential areas. I can't imagine some of the towns in Germany or Poland where residents depend on wood fires for heat.

It looks great, but it's missing the one thing I want most in the site - the ability to select the version of the language documentation in some way other than editing the URL directly. I use ruby-lang almost exclusively for the documentation.

I also wish the documentation search parameter were saved in the URL. This would allow people to create a custom Chrome search engine like @ruby and dramatically speed up doc searching.

"Many forms of Government have been tried, and will be tried in this world of sin and woe. No one pretends that democracy is perfect or all-wise. Indeed, it has been said that democracy is the worst form of Government except for all those other forms that have been tried from time to time...."

- Winston S. Churchill, 11 November 1947

I only realized last week that Tres Comas tequila is just a bottle of 1800 Reposado with a different label

In less poetic terms, the progression I talk about is "copy, choose, create". First, we learn to copy a solution. Later, we know enough solutions that we can choose the best for the situation and copy that one. Finally, we know enough to create our own solutions that are well adapted to the problem.

I love your optimism about steps 4 and 5.

Privatizing is a key step on the path to full oligarchy. So I would guess that yes.

Rails is set up for that, but it doesn't force you to build like that. You're free to build in other patterns that you design yourself. It's nice to have simple defaults with the freedom to opt into more complexity only if and when you need it.