mystified5016

The shitty salesman who won't leave your stoop is harassment. Religious evangalists who keep coming to your door after you tell them to stop is harassment.

When someone tells you to stop and go away and you refuse, that is harassment.

You are exactly the kind of annoyance I'm trying to avoid. I don't care at all what you have to say. I have my own problems and I'm trying to mind my own damn business.

You don't have some God-given right to demand the undivided attention of a stranger. That is literally the behavior of a 5-year old. Grow up.

I can count on one hand the number of times a stranger approached me and didn't either try to harrass me or ask me for money.

I don't think my headphones are depriving me of some grand experience of human life.

Morality and law are completely disjoint. On a Venn diagram, it's two circles separated by about a lightyear or so.

Buying a used car instead of new is essentially theft from the manufacturers. Won't someone think of these poor helpless mega-corporations?!

Police no longer feel the need to do their jobs, and Americans in general have just lost any sense of empathy or even awareness of other people.

But also we have a serious problem where taking away someone's license to drive is to sentence them to poverty if not homelessness and starvation. We don't have decent public transit and there are very few jobs within walking distance of most residential areas. Those jobs that do exist don't pay a living wage because pegging minimum wage to inflation or even the poverty line is "communism" and an "attack on businesses".

Our problems with car fatalities is really only one small symptom of the ongoing collapse of American society.

This was a huge trend on Tumblr like ten years ago. The millennials got bit bad by this and I guess genz inherited it.

Or maybe this is just how young people think when given access to this type of information.

The old fashioned way: elbow grease and lots of squinting and swearing at your computer

IME it's less of a "throw more resources" problem and more of a "stop using resources in literally the worst way possible"

CI caching is, apparently, extremely difficult. Why spend a couple of hours learning about your CI caches when you can just download and build the same pinned static library a billion times? The server you're downloading from is (of course) someone else's problem and you don't care about wasting their resources either. The power you're burning by running CI for there hours instead of one is also someone else's problem. Compute time? Someone else's problem. Cloud costs? You bet it's someone else's problem.

Sure, some things you don't want to cache. I always do a 100% clean build when cutting a release or merging to master. But for intermediate commits on a feature branch? Literally no reason not to cache builds the exact same way you do on your local machine.

No, it isn't.

That's an interesting point.

The absolute hardest part (for me) about learning a language is listening comprehension. I can read, write, and speak French at a reasonable level, but I've never been able to understand a native speaker. It would take a lot of work and exposure to bring my mastery up to the level of my second-year written French. A large part of that is because spoken French is a hot mess compared to the written form, but I digress.

A written language without a spoken form is a lot easier to grok. Especially programming languages and their limited grammar. But I think there's more to it than that. One of the reasons I find it trivial to learn programming languages is that code is code is code, no matter which flavor of sugar you shovel on top. The language is simply an abstraction for a logical construct. Skilled programmers work on that logical construct directly, and the language is nothing more than a means to an end.

Also there's the fact that the written word is intransient. You have time to pause and search your memory or dictionary for a word. A spoken language requires extensive training to literally rewire your brain. You can't stop to ponder a word because it's gone before you can reconstruct a word from sounds. There's a very good reason that our brains have hardware to turn sounds into linguistic tokens. It's just too much processing to do at a conscious level at any reasonable speed.

Maybe computers wouldn't have gotten slower as time goes on.

We definitely would not have Electron and that's a world I want to live in.

If that's the case, why not simply delete all controls and shove them into a smartphone app?

Right, because it's fucking ridiculous to expect a driver to fumble through menus while driving.

By and large these loopholes are only accessible to people with enough money to buy islands.

The ultra-rich get tax loopholes and the rest of us have to make up for it with increased taxes and decreased government services.

That's pretty much all the major governments these days. Globally we're sliding back to authoritarianism, likely as a prelude to WWIII