odonnellryan

Inflation will kill Americans. It may kill more Americans than Ukrainians due to the war. That's hard to say but inflation has a strong correlation with increased mortality rates.

They are probably referring to core inflation... also fuel contributed massively to inflation in March, which was expected, but not expected to stay high forever.

No it isn't, because these are all anecdotes, and I never made a claim anyway, I asked you to name one.

"I am black?"

Because it would probably lead to the database doing stuff that you don't want it to do, with no way for you to tell it to do something else.

I don't think this happened to very many people.

Paul Graham, post on the front page.

Yes absolutely. My point is it doesn't matter if we create a system unless we really think society is going to use it.

He's insanely detached from reality. Dude should not be making social commentary lol

No. It isn't insane at all.

What topics are acceptable for teachers to hold views on?

You don't need to. Society will always define this for you.

Name one?

None of these would get you fired?

Yes great point. What we do is trade off "wrong-being" for "wrong-thought" or "wrong-talk."

I know this is going to sound insane, but what is the obsession with truth? Things can be true and harmful.

People should be judged for saying harmful things.

Sometimes nothing beats grep, but using a Windows environment I usually just go to Python to create a quick script to handle this stuff.

Lots of times it is really nice to have all your "debugging scripts" in a repo anyway. Once you have that it isn't hard to set up a basic Python environment and have your scripts there.

I love hearing about services like this that managed to scale with not-so-cool tech.

Where are the stories about services that have scaled with the latest fad? Maybe they will be posted in a few years - or maybe those teams are too busy to blog ;)

That is nice! What happened with remarkable is I never got it and they refunded me. Which was also nice. Good guys, just a weird policy!

Lots of sites do not have a good undo for orders. I ordered from remarkable and their solution was to deny the package...

I think the problem with cloud environments is you do not "need" sysadmins - it is not obvious you need them, so what you end up with is a bunch of systems glued together without much thought, and then crazy things like HTTP logs not being turned on for your various services, insane service costs b/c of not understanding pricing tiers, etc..

Gotta have some bad versions of windows so when we get an ok version we think it is good!

It isn't like you're going to use Linux ;)

How many developers even pair program regularly? 0.1%? Maybe?

I was searching about something to do with fiberglass today. Every article was garbage that seemed like bot spam. Was nuts. Direct quotes stolen from forums etc..

You probably don't really want that. But not in the way that people didn't want WoW classic.

It took me 1-2 years before WFH didn't make me depressed. I enjoy it now but I understand.

Yeah from someone who supports users sometimes they have no idea how to use their iPhones.

Are programmers makers?

Yeah. I have a diesel made in the 70s and it amazingly still runs, and starts in the winter without glowplugs. They are amazing things.