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Leaving the “g” of the f word at the end made me re-read this in Fat Tony’s voice. It was an awesome touch.

Matt Jardine sang his parts I believe when I saw his band play a few years back.

Good point. The amount of bad software I’m forced to interact with regularly has gone up, mostly because there’s so many systems cobbled together in workflows now.

Yeah vs code was one of the first examples I thought of as well. It has its own set of issues for sure, but even as a former vim fanatic it’s amazing from both a default experience perspective and that of a power user.

But perhaps most importantly, debuggers are an intricate piece of the puzzle of the design of a development platform—a future I become more interested in every day, given the undeniable decay infecting modern computing devices and their software ecosystems.

I agree with this sentiment, yet still I’m wondering if it’s fully justified. There has never been more bad software than right now, but there has never been more good software either, no?

It’s not super relevant to the main contents of the article. Just a bit that caught my attention with regards to how it made me think.

Regarding 3: Shouldn’t the medical system be optimizing for patient outcomes rather than the business their in?

Regarding the first two: I think the anecdote being from 1995 suggests there would have been time to put together said mountain of research.

I’m not agreeing that this is shameful for the original doctor, but I do think it’s shameful if avenues for potential research are not taken because it’s inconvenient for the hospitals.

How does it connect back to the Nietzschan philosophy you mentioned?

Is it even up for debate that that’s definitely not what their primary mission is? Their market cap sits at 3.5 trillion, ranking them third behind Microsoft and nvidia. Unlike those other two, Apple makes most of that on selling iPhones and the like to consumers.

Like of the Nietzschan philosophy? So in the case of trump the idea is that his voters like him because he’s different from the “evil” aristocratic class that trump claimed to oppose (eg “drain the swamp”)?

For others that hadn’t head of CADT either: https://www.jwz.org/doc/cadt.html

I confess to having been part of the cascade at various parts of my career.

They fill a need, but I wouldn’t say they e been “replace people’s jobs” successful, as this context hints at.

I think the more optimistic interpretation would be that companies eliminating bullshit jobs would provide signal on which jobs aren’t bullshit, and then individuals and the job prep/education systems could align to this.

That’s very optimistic! I don’t fully agree with it, but I certainly know some very intelligent people that I wish were contributing more to the world than they do as a pawn in a game of corporate chess.

Agreed. You could make the case that employment in general is playing with someone’s life.

They keep throwing the tea in the harbah

Money is absolutely the heart of the matter for employees and employers. I think it’s ridiculous to suggest otherwise.

You’re saying that the internet, web, and mobile haven’t improved productivity?

If your point is that AI/LLMs aren’t as transformative as broadband internet, I don’t think anyone here is seriously making that claim, right?

Isn’t a lot of stuff in the backlog because it’s not important enough to the bottom line to prioritize?

This is the humor I’m looking for in a men’s club!

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I think to some extent some of the pushback is the prompt folks not understanding that sometimes lateness isn’t something they can control (e.g., meeting with important set of stakeholders that you can’t duck out on early ran late)

Is there somewhere I can read about those regrets?

Thanks for the context. I’m new to the ecosystem, so it’s valuable to hear thoughts like these from people with more experience with it.

No. To be clear: I wasn’t trying to say it was bad. Just repeating what I had read in a (fairly old) .net book. Should have chosen my words more carefully.

Yeah makes sense. I should have used my language more carefully: I have very little hands-on experience with entity framework, and thus don’t have objective reasons to say it has a “huge” memory footprint.

Does the startup time/CPU usage cost vary depending on the size of the dataset you’re interacting with?

Part of this is the politicization of some of these issues. I previously lived on the outskirts of the suburbs and when I would bike out into the country I would receive a lot of hostility from dudes in big trucks that called me names as they drove by. Anecdotally, this seemed to happen way more frequently in the last two or three years.

Expanding the commute availability circle does not increase the supply of housing, because people build sparser neighborhoods with larger lawns.

This is not true. It is true in some circumstances, but definitely not in all. The fact that it’s presented as absolute fact hurts the point you’re trying to make imo.

Doesn’t entity framework have a huge memory footprint too?