guitheengineer

vor 4 Monatendiscuss

that is considering if there will be elections, which many people don't believe it's the case.

reminder that trump has been flirting with just continuing in power (2028 hats and talks about a third term) and is responsible for trying a coup last time he lost.

personally I think there's a possibility where he'll just declare martial law and stay in power at the end of his term.

guitheengineer

letztes Jahrdiscuss

Cursor has this conveniently built in. I find it pretty handy, specially for wip commits

It doesn’t know the intent of the commit though, so if you change X because of Y, it will just tell that X changed, without explaining why.

Adding more context about what the ticket is about can probably solve that

guitheengineer

letztes Jahrdiscuss

True, but you can infer the why from what changed for a lot of cases

e.g. - Add types for X, Y Z

if the PR goal is to make types more strict, that message is clear.

I feel like the quality will be worse than if the engineer really put some thought into it, but the problem is, commits are annoying to write.

A lot of people do “wip” or do a worse than average job.

Having a summary of what changed is still better than that.

Edit: if you feed more context about what you’re trying to develop it will probably be able to infer.

guitheengineer

vor 2 Jahrendiscuss

Imagine if the magic trick was:

1. They pour a large bowl of rice onto a table

2. They reveal the exact number of grains

Would this feel exciting as a card buried under the ground? No

Does this still require a lot of effort to count every grain? Yes

Applying a huge amount of effort doesn’t equal achieving the desired result (in this case the suspense, surprise and magical element)

The direction one is going is often even more important than the effort applied

guitheengineer

vor 2 Jahrendiscuss

I’ve seen this pattern repeated so many times that I feel like it can be generalized:

when your mental health collapses nothing else holds value, it really doesn’t matter if you achieved your dream job, got all the prestige and income you initially desired, being mentally healthy is the basis of the pyramid.

Something I learned based on that is to really prioritize it!

Even if someone considers their career to be everything, realize that spending some of your earnings seeking professional help (therapy) is even a cheap investment considering that if you break and have to quit, you’re going to lose hundreds of thousands, and to recover it will suck (I’ve heard of people trying to quit tech altogether after burning out)

Sneaking something else related to mental health: sleep should be #1 health wise, when you’re consistently not getting quality sleep for months, there’s nothing you can really do to get around that, it will eventually just break you (your body won’t care if you’re coping with coffe or exercising!)

Btw that’s great writing and I really appreciate your courage in sharing this! I hope you’ll find your joy again.

guitheengineer

vor 2 Jahrendiscuss

> I would like to see the original quote from the judge here. I doubt the original talked about 'Black people' the same way that (translated) phrase would be understood by an American audience.

I watched the judge’s talk here in Portuguese https://youtu.be/qQYoE0xBkCo?si=wWfJf7Wjs4NKpO_5

Alexandre de Moraes referred to data that he had which showed that a young illiterate black guy will be considered a dealer with 20g of cannabis, while a middle aged graduated white man will need 60g for the same to happen. He also talks about what happens after someone gets caught with cannabis, they have to go watch a lecture, but since there’s no punishment for not attending it, nobody shows up.

His intention is to remind everyone that the current state of the law is ineffective and ends up affecting only the underprivileged (while not discounting punishment for those who really are trying to sell drugs and benefit from it, mentioning that a person getting caught in the act of selling should be really punished).

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