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How does all this look adjusted for inflation?

When inflation is high, numbers go up more than usual. Indeed, that is the thing being inflated.

But seriously I’m curious, are these outpacing inflation? Probably, I guess?

Gone With The Wind is never going to be matched in the box office but the numbers are bigger now.

Privatize profits, socialize losses. Late-stage capitalism.

As someone who pair programmed 8 hours a day for 10+ years, it’s important to note that there is an ebb and flow. Sometimes we were collaborating fully. Sometimes one of us got up to make coffee and looked at Instagram on their phone for 20 minutes while the other tried to get tests to pass. Then we reunited and caught each other up. It’s easy to dwell on the intense part of pairing, but it’s just as important to purposefully acknowledge your humanity and expect to take real actual breaks and go sit in a comfy chair and zone out for a short while or go to a doctor appointment or chat up another person at the water cooler for a bit.

8 hours a day pairing means that pairing is the default, but it’s not the only thing that ever happens.

also: 8 hours/day pairing meant 16 hours/day not working at all in my case. Really really really not working. Not checking Slack. Not trying out some crazy idea. Not working at all.

I just directed my cats to make a cryptocurrency.

TLDR implies you didn’t read - therefore you don’t know if it’s slop.

But seriously it does read well like normal thoughtful human writing, so I am on the side of it not being “AI slop” while also noting that you didn’t claim it was.

I am still a Yahoo! pinger as well.

  ~  ping yahoo.com
  PING yahoo.com (74.6.231.20): 56 data bytes
  64 bytes from 74.6.231.20: icmp_seq=0 ttl=50 time=42.366 ms
  ^C
  --- yahoo.com ping statistics ---
  1 packets transmitted, 1 packets received, 0.0% packet loss
  round-trip min/avg/max/stddev = 42.366/42.366/42.366/0.000 ms

Isn’t it because you can generate the same content two different times and hash it and come to the same ETag value?

Using UUID here wouldn’t help here because you don’t want different identifiers for the same content. Time-based UUID versions would negate the point of ETag, and otherwise if you use UUIDv8 and simply put a hash value in there, all you’re doing is reducing the bit depth of the hash and changing its formatting, for limited benefit.

This is the only correct answer. I interviewed dozens of people this way over more than a decade. Hiring was never difficult to get right.

Bonus: we self-selected for people who don’t like to pair. We paired 100% of the time.

And another to experts-exchange.com of course.

My favorite was when I was in college. I spent a long time trying to figure out how to get my WiFi card for my school-issued laptop working in Linux. Someone else posted a fix (with a full explanation of what to do!) and I followed it and it worked!

Then I look at the username and it’s my classmate from down the hall in the same dorm.

And I’m pretty sure I actually did end up in a beach house with them at some point.

It’s pretty funny that anyone would complain about a Linux distribution being named after a developer’s given name.

I mean, it’s Linux.