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rufius
·8 дней назад·discuss
Android Auto is in the vast majority of cars that also have CarPlay.

What’s your point?
rufius
·8 дней назад·discuss
(without sarcasm) Is this a serious question?

If so - maintainability, testability. This is old software engineering best practice at this point.

You shouldn’t hyper optimize for deduplication, but it’s usually worth considering. Fewer places to fix issues or improve as well.
rufius
·6 месяцев назад·discuss
While this is true, it is often stunning to me how long it took to get to `uv run`.

I have worked with Python on and off for 20+ years and I _always_ dreaded working with any code base that had external packages or a virtual environment.

`uv run` changed that and I migrated every code base at my last job to it. But it was too late for my personal stuff - I already converted or wrote net new code in Go.

I am on the fence about Python long term. I’ve always preferred typed languages and with the advent of LLM-assisted coding, that’s even more important for consistency.
rufius
·7 месяцев назад·discuss
As a Texan, I can assure you that ERCOT will find a way to add 6 layers of middlemen, over extend capacity, and generally screw it up.

I watched it progressively get worse growing up. I don’t live in TX anymore, but I’ve still got family there and it’s more of the same.
rufius
·9 месяцев назад·discuss
Wouldn’t matter if they did. There’s no penalty for getting it wrong so the human is always incentivized to say yes and then say oops if it was wrong.

If there’s no feedback mechanism, verification doesn’t matter.
rufius
·9 месяцев назад·discuss
I think it does for a substantial portion, especially those with more traditionally aligned values. We know families, through our extended social groups, that would cringe at the Skibidi Toilet stuff.

I'm not sure why? At least some part of it, I suspect, is related to the "outrage economy". That is, outrage that can drive social media engagement. You don't do it because you're, in good faith, bothered by it. You do it because you can raise a stink and rally others to engage and make yourself popular.

That last bit is just a theory of mine. It seems anecdotally supported though from my own observation, but I am not a sociologist so I'm not going to claim any expertise here.
rufius
·9 месяцев назад·discuss
For sure. Im the parent of a couple Gen Alpha kids on the younger side. I showed the skibidi toilet videos to my wife and her response was a shrug and “looks like dumb videos we watched in college”.

But as other posters say, not everyone was into that corner of internet culture as millennials. Especially the weirder offshoots.
rufius
·9 месяцев назад·discuss
Well my trip to Costco make infinitely more sense. I saw these 3 foot tall dolls for sale of the camera head characters. They were titled “skibidi toilet titans” but I was only familiar with the song mashups, not the web series.

Kids are always gonna love stuff that pisses off their parents. It’s just part of parenting and being a kid. My parents hated my love for the weird shows on Adult Swim like metalocalypse and squidbillies.

Big shrug - no one should be surprised this portrays a non-narrative future. The future feels pretty chaotic and undirected to me as an adult. I can’t imagine how it feels to a 12 year old.
rufius
·9 месяцев назад·discuss
It’s more of the same. At least in my experience, much of work amounts to “yes sir. Will that be all sir?”

You take the input, mostly ignore it, and move on. YMMV on that strategy, but if you are deft with it then you can dodge a lot of bullshit.

It does require that the things you do decide to do pan out though. You’ll need results to back it up.
rufius
·9 лет назад·discuss
To give you a little idea of scale - they've been at this for at least 4 years. It started while I still worked in Windows.
rufius
·9 лет назад·discuss
Technically - Source Depot is a fork of Perforce. Not entirely invented at MSFT :).