I used some AI at work to do some stuff in polars, because I don’t really know that library very well.

As a result I have a function that does what I asked for (I wrote tests), but I don’t understand it and didn’t really learn anything. Not a great trade.

…what? Go do something else instead of watching YouTube-style content then. Read a book. Take up knitting. Do crosswords.

You can live a full life without Internet videos.

Oh man kids and making shit up.

There was a kid who told me he had all these new mortal Kombat games. Just complete fabrications.

I told another kid that if you got all the chaos emeralds in sonic 3 (I’m old) you could turn into super sonic. Imagine my shock when that turned out to be true.

A couple weeks ago I was working with another developer, and we realized we had to change a string’s format slightly. He was like “I’ll do it in chatgpt!”. I just did it in python. Mine worked. His, we would’ve had to check carefully.

Yet once the measures are implemented and people become accustomed to their new, more pleasant surroundings, the benefits become clear.

Conservative thought is inherently stupid. Thoughtless. It just wants what is, without considering if the change is good or bad.

Vivek Tiwari, an investment banker, loves the new road for taking 45 minutes off his travel time. His office is in Nariman Point, the southernmost tip of the city, and home is 12 miles north in Bandra.

“It’s an amazing piece of infrastructure and driving on it is glorious,” he says. “Not all infrastructure can be equally parcelled out among the rich and the poor. Yes, only a minority like me use the road but maybe it’s going to help us generate more economic growth ultimately, which will benefit everyone.”

Vivek can fuck off.

Yeah I thought “campus” said “compus”

I don’t have a car but someone close to me does. Mostly for visiting family outside the city. I’ve said this often enough when we’re stuck in traffic that now she just looks at me and preemptively says "don’t say it!’

Yeah, this is one of the reasons why I only want to live in the NYC area of the US. Just take the train or bus, don’t worry about it.

Lol, yeah. If I saw an account labeled “American Nazi Party” with a blue check mark, I wouldn’t think “wow, Bluesky endorses Nazis” - I’d think “wow, this isn’t a satire account, these are actual Nazis, imma block them.”

I’d think “wow they let Nazis on here. Like they know about them and are cool with that. This place is trash”

This also could belong in c/fuckcars

Eliminating speed cameras is tacit approval of speeding.

It’s a little insane to me how speeding is handled.

If it’s a serious law, it should be uniformly enforced. None of this “cops pull over some people” nonsense that opens the door to harassment and quotas.

Furthermore, fines need to scale with wealth.

The thing you need to weigh is the inconvenience of them putting in the effort to become tech savvy. That’s a big inconvenience. So, the inconvenience of dealing with ads and whatnot looks much smaller from their perspective.

Yeah, I can follow the train of thought. They don’t know that like an hour of reading now will save them decades of pain, I guess.

Like, there’s degrees. Learning how to compile Firefox from source with custom changes is way more work than “search: how do I get rid of ads? Search: best adblocker. Click install on ublock.”

Which brings me back to what I was trying to say earlier. People imagine dealing with these problems is way harder than it actually is, so they don’t even look.

Something like this is coming up at work. They’re like “oh it’s going to be like weeks of work to get a linter for our code” and I’m like “it’s fifteen minutes please just let me help you”.

I dunno, a lot of the people in my life that aren’t tech savvy are inconvenienced. The ads pop up and block stuff. But they don’t know how to do anything about it.

I guess it’s easier to just do nothing and suffer than learn what adblock is. It’s easier to use the shitty defaults.

Well that’s fascinating. I’m not sure what to do with this information. Maybe read the study more carefully when I have more time

Many people have a sort of learned helplessness. They don’t really know computer fundamentals, they get scared and stressed so they stop thinking, and then they don’t want to deal with it.

People aren’t rational. They’re emotional.

Cars should be expensive to capture more of their true costs.

But if you really wanted to bring the cost down, probably removing the profit motive would go farther. Nationalize it.

This is why leadership loves it. They don’t know shit about fuck.

One time I saw NK Jemisen , author of the broken earth trilogy give a talk. Someone asked about climate change and she said something like “there’s only a small number of people responsible for most of this problem, and we know where they live”

The audience cheered and clapped. The guy moderating the talk got real flustered.

Not the building super, nor my friend when she came by with a drain snake that one time.

Or, to use an example that’s not trying so hard to be a pun: you go down to the local rec center to find a pickup game of basketball or whatever. No one’s paying anyone. You go, find a game, have a good time, and leave. Maybe see each other again. Maybe not. Is that sociopathy?