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  • When I was a kid, I’d usually get As or B’s. This other kid told me whenever he got an A, he’d get $20 each. I said to my mom, “why don’t I get anything for my As?”

    She said, “Because [other kid] is kind of stupid, so it’s a big deal when he gets one”

    This was not a satisfying answer.

    I also remember in late middle school, we were in the computer lab (I’m old) given a sort of free form assignment to do something for whatever book we’d read. I made a basic little game in BASIC (I’m still old). Some kid wrote the book title in WordArt. The teacher gushed over it, and I got a “that’s nice” for my fully operational game. Infuriating. Had a huge impact on my respect for authority and academic career, probably more than warranted.

    My therapist tried to make me see the teacher’s point of view. Kyle was always fucking up and off task, so rewarding him when he’s not a fuckup for once must have felt like a big payoff. But I was always good, and she didn’t really understand what I was going on about, so she didn’t engage with it.



  • A large part of code review has been preventing people from doing stupid shit. AI is making stupid shit worse. It’s not defects, it’s “adding a whole micro service to get the user name from the ID, when the name is already in the metadata” or whatever that recent meme was.

    Or that time a guy wrote a whole DSL instead of using the existing framework. Technically impressive, but adds a huge burden.










  • jtrek@startrek.websitetoscience@lemmy.worldLiterally
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    I despise interfaces that try to be “friendly” by showing relative times. It’s not helpful. It’s counter productive. If you tell me it was at 08:45 I can look at what time it is now and fucking figure it out. Not so if you say “20 minutes ago”

    And then some of them have fucking javascript to update the text. Fucking insanity.

    Sometimes I think we should get rid of 3/4ths of the “product people”, but then wi the just engineering websites would just be like plain text and the occasional still photo. Which, honestly, sounds okay.



  • Conservatives don’t care about facts or consistency. Their only value is “in-group good” and “out-group bad”. And, closely related, hierarchy is good and natural. That’s it.

    You tell them that they contradicted themselves and they’re confused, because in their world view they did not. They defended their team earlier, and they’re defending their team now. No contradiction.