Visual Studio has these issues daily.

Ten years ago VS was awesome. In the last 2 years, all they added is AI crap and every other feature got more buggy.

Just switch to the F-Droid version.

Better: make sure all the apps you use come from F-Droid

“Starch based” plastic is just a way to greenwash PLA.

Just because the C, H, and O originally came from starch, does not automatically make the chemically synthesized product safe.

They do this to juice the gross margin number and make the auto business appear more profitable.

https://wccftech.com/tesla-plans-to-record-1-billion-in-fsd-related-deferred-revenue-over-the-next-12-months/

TSLQ

But, I don’t think it’s smart. Holding this for more than a day or two is irresponsible. You capture more risk on the up days then you will gain on the down days of the underlying ticker.

Instead, invest in a business you expect to grow. Just ignore the failing ones.

Everything’s computer

It’s weird to me that you would click a link and without your consent JS code can be downloaded from wherever and run on your computer.

NoScript is always on for me (on my personal PC). Sites that don’t load at all are probably not worth visiting.

Ph-trees can do range and closest queries across N dimensions very quickly. I have not used it for 1 dimension, but I’d imagine it would work fine.

https://github.com/tzaeschke/phtree

Hired!

I bet the people you work with are very happy to have you as a lead.

I’ve been in this scenario and I didn’t wait for layoffs. I left and applied my skills where shit code is not tolerated, and quality is rewarded.

But in this hypothetical, we got this shit code not by management encouraging the right behavior, and giving time to make it right. They’re going to keep the yes men and fire the “unproductive” ones (and I know fully, adding to the pile is not, in the long run, productive, but what does the management overseeing this mess think?)

They were just trying to make us smarter.

https://studyfinds.org/chewing-on-wood-brain-function-memory/

[kidding]

To be fair, if you give me a shit code base and expect me to add features with no time to fix the existing ones, I will also just add more shit on the pile. Because obviously that’s how you want your codebase to look.

I’m not sure why no one is direct linking it.

https://dogeque.st/

(the data looks incredibly incomplete)

There is value in just using something like this to break spending habits of the population.

A lot of people may find that a portion of their spending wasn’t that necessary after all, and will stop beyond the boycott. The businesses will need to improve services or lower prices to win customers back.

At least, that’s what I hope this achieves. The organizers might have varying goals.

In my current role, I mostly hire “senior” roles. So the applicants (which are pre screened before I see them) typically have 5+ years experience. I ask about the code they’ve written, and then I ask some questions about how they would extend the code (to meet some new requirements). What I’m looking for is not so much a specific answer, but more so “can we think through this problem together.”

That said, I’ve been the interviewer for “junior” roles…and there isn’t as much correlation between ability and experience as you might think. So no reason to feel imposter syndrome. I’ve worked with extremely smart/talented developers without any formal training.

I think all the stuff you’re doing sets a really good foundation for a career in software, if that’s where you want to go. One thing I might suggest is making a few contributions to open source or team projects. It can be useful to learn about how to read code, and present code to others (or to fit your idea into an existing code base).

They are terrible at it, compared to my mailman or UPS.

I have to do many interviews.

I don’t care if the applicant uses AI, or any other tool available to them. I just care about whether they can explain, debug, and modify/extend code (which they wrote, or at least composed somehow and are presenting as their work).

I’ve definitely been suspicious of AI use, and also had some applicants admit to it. And I don’t count that against them any more than using a web resource.

But, there is a very high correlation between using AI and failing at the explain/debug/modify part.

I feel like this could be a Columbo episode

Name and shame the brand!