Software person, co-founder of PyCascades and PuPPy, artist in my free time, collector of hobbies.
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Last Notes npub1atr7ukz435rz5eyzjzldc5zpav95jptckpvx9fegdvekv8p8rq6q5r88v5 fancysandwiches Our oil reserves are at the lowest since 1983, we have 298 million barrels left. But we need at least 70 million to keep the systems operational. But also, and this part is a little confusing, a little over 100M barrels unavailable due to equipment failures. What's not clear to me is if that 100M includes the 70M number, or if that means we actually have 170M less available to us. That could mean we have as little as 158M left. Trump ordered 172M be released in March, so if he orders another drawdown we may have functionally zero left in the strategic reserve, which would then give Iran even more leverage than before. npub1atr7ukz435rz5eyzjzldc5zpav95jptckpvx9fegdvekv8p8rq6q5r88v5 fancysandwiches The Hank Green situation is not surprising. I saw this shit coming miles away. npub1atr7ukz435rz5eyzjzldc5zpav95jptckpvx9fegdvekv8p8rq6q5r88v5 fancysandwiches @nprofile…gent fully automated luxury space communism implies that everyone is equal. Fully automated leopard-face-chomping neo-feudalism implies that one could be the Lord doing the face chomping. These shitheads want a hierarchy. npub1atr7ukz435rz5eyzjzldc5zpav95jptckpvx9fegdvekv8p8rq6q5r88v5 fancysandwiches I've been looking for a good MIDI to CV interface for well over a year now. I'd prefer something external to my case, but I'm flexible. The one I want the most is the Intellijel MIDI 1U with the Intellijel CVx 1U expander. Unfortunately I can't find anywhere that has the CVx module in stock (new or used). npub1atr7ukz435rz5eyzjzldc5zpav95jptckpvx9fegdvekv8p8rq6q5r88v5 fancysandwiches If you post to the photography or painting related hashtags with shit you made with AI you get blocked on site. It's not a painting if you didn't fucking paint it. It's not a photo if you didn't use a camera to take the picture. npub1atr7ukz435rz5eyzjzldc5zpav95jptckpvx9fegdvekv8p8rq6q5r88v5 fancysandwiches Warning: Removing magic mime rule from exports npub1atr7ukz435rz5eyzjzldc5zpav95jptckpvx9fegdvekv8p8rq6q5r88v5 fancysandwiches On GitHub the sticky header for PRs is broken. Sometimes it stays sticky, even when scrolled all the way to the top. Sometimes it never sticks. Sometimes it works. GitHub is falling apart more and more every day. Microsoft's market cap is $3T. Deeply shameful. npub1atr7ukz435rz5eyzjzldc5zpav95jptckpvx9fegdvekv8p8rq6q5r88v5 fancysandwiches @nprofile…yzzr Google is only worth $4.5T, do you expect them to actually be good at what they do? npub1atr7ukz435rz5eyzjzldc5zpav95jptckpvx9fegdvekv8p8rq6q5r88v5 fancysandwiches Nevermind! Got one! npub1atr7ukz435rz5eyzjzldc5zpav95jptckpvx9fegdvekv8p8rq6q5r88v5 fancysandwiches Can't complete a transaction on Steam for the controller. So, probably not getting one. Bummer. npub1atr7ukz435rz5eyzjzldc5zpav95jptckpvx9fegdvekv8p8rq6q5r88v5 fancysandwiches Another day, another GitHub outage. Deeply shameful. npub1atr7ukz435rz5eyzjzldc5zpav95jptckpvx9fegdvekv8p8rq6q5r88v5 fancysandwiches @nprofile…asgg wow, that's so cool! I already loved vultures, but my love for them has just grown even more. npub1atr7ukz435rz5eyzjzldc5zpav95jptckpvx9fegdvekv8p8rq6q5r88v5 fancysandwiches @nprofile…0snk I'm sure it does! npub1atr7ukz435rz5eyzjzldc5zpav95jptckpvx9fegdvekv8p8rq6q5r88v5 fancysandwiches Genuinely infuriating that nearly the entire industry put their trust in GitHub, didn't divest after the Microsoft acquisition, and now that reliability has been garbage for a long while, seemingly no one cares. I see a few people talk about it on Fedi, but I would expect that from Fedi. Very few people I talk to about this seem to give a shit, and the fact that Microsoft isn't constantly being publicly dragged through the mud for fucking up the reliability of GitHub is not a good sign for the industry. npub1atr7ukz435rz5eyzjzldc5zpav95jptckpvx9fegdvekv8p8rq6q5r88v5 fancysandwiches @nprofile…6g7u I do the same thing all the time and I gave in for Windrose with no regrets yet npub1atr7ukz435rz5eyzjzldc5zpav95jptckpvx9fegdvekv8p8rq6q5r88v5 fancysandwiches @nprofile…vvv8 I believe you are correct, and for me it further cements the idea that OpenAI and Anthropic are quite screwed. Anthropic has been slowly but surely ramping up how quickly users hit daily and weekly limits and I feel like they're on the brink of hitting the threshold where they lose a ton of their users permanently. Especially with the Claude Code source leak leading to what are roughly a bunch of forks. npub1atr7ukz435rz5eyzjzldc5zpav95jptckpvx9fegdvekv8p8rq6q5r88v5 fancysandwiches @nprofile…2s3w oh that is a useful reference! It's about the same noise level as my vacuum, maybe a little louder. Thank you! npub1atr7ukz435rz5eyzjzldc5zpav95jptckpvx9fegdvekv8p8rq6q5r88v5 fancysandwiches Related question: Have you used "open ear" earbuds while doing tasks like mowing a lawn with an electric mower? Is that reasonably possible without cranking the volume so high that I damage my ears? Or do I really need to go with an in ear earbud? I struggle with in ear stuff as they all irritate my ear canal. I'm looking for earbuds because over ear headphones are way too uncomfortable to wear during the summer while doing yard work, or while working out. npub1atr7ukz435rz5eyzjzldc5zpav95jptckpvx9fegdvekv8p8rq6q5r88v5 fancysandwiches I have a really specific request, hoping Fedi can help! I'm in the market for a new pair of earbuds for working out and doing yard work (mostly mowing my lawn with an electric mower). npub1atr7ukz435rz5eyzjzldc5zpav95jptckpvx9fegdvekv8p8rq6q5r88v5 fancysandwiches I dislocated my knee and broke my nose at a Periphery concert in 2019 and stayed for the encore. I'm kind of all-in on these guys. npub1atr7ukz435rz5eyzjzldc5zpav95jptckpvx9fegdvekv8p8rq6q5r88v5 fancysandwiches New Periphery album dropping on May 15th, very excited npub1atr7ukz435rz5eyzjzldc5zpav95jptckpvx9fegdvekv8p8rq6q5r88v5 fancysandwiches @nprofile…yz5e one of my favorite birds ❤️ npub1atr7ukz435rz5eyzjzldc5zpav95jptckpvx9fegdvekv8p8rq6q5r88v5 fancysandwiches @nprofile…zhf5 I really like the pink one and the green one with the huge schnoz npub1atr7ukz435rz5eyzjzldc5zpav95jptckpvx9fegdvekv8p8rq6q5r88v5 fancysandwiches An AI powered "reporter free newsroom" isn't a newsroom, that's a Slop House. npub1atr7ukz435rz5eyzjzldc5zpav95jptckpvx9fegdvekv8p8rq6q5r88v5 fancysandwiches @nprofile…h7n2 they're all great, but I really love the tree npub1atr7ukz435rz5eyzjzldc5zpav95jptckpvx9fegdvekv8p8rq6q5r88v5 fancysandwiches @nprofile…eqsh people teleport to waffle houses every day. It's the prime spot to find blackout drunk people at a certain time of day, who have no idea how they got to Waffle House. npub1atr7ukz435rz5eyzjzldc5zpav95jptckpvx9fegdvekv8p8rq6q5r88v5 fancysandwiches I'm very thankful for Steve Burke and Gamers Nexus. The reporting and consumer advocacy work they're doing is top notch. Steve has been pulling no punches lately. npub1atr7ukz435rz5eyzjzldc5zpav95jptckpvx9fegdvekv8p8rq6q5r88v5 fancysandwiches Been using Mumble for about a month now, in place of Discord, and it's been great. We've got Mumble for voice, Signal for chat, everything works, and we aren't spammed with a million requests to pay money to a shitty service that also wants to see my ID. npub1atr7ukz435rz5eyzjzldc5zpav95jptckpvx9fegdvekv8p8rq6q5r88v5 fancysandwiches @nprofile…kuux @nprofile…m794 whoaaaa rad what you can see on a laser disc npub1atr7ukz435rz5eyzjzldc5zpav95jptckpvx9fegdvekv8p8rq6q5r88v5 fancysandwiches Even if you generate your dependencies by telling an LLM to reproduce the API of some popular library you now have an imitation of that library. Maybe it's perfect. Maybe it's not. Even if it's a perfect replica, if a CVE is discovered in the dependency you copied you're not going to be alerted, and you're not going to be able to just bump the version you depend on to get the fix. npub1atr7ukz435rz5eyzjzldc5zpav95jptckpvx9fegdvekv8p8rq6q5r88v5 fancysandwiches I've been reducing the amount of dependencies that my work projects have every year. I plan on continuing to reduce the amount of dependencies we have. There isn't a world where I'm going to just start having an LLM fabricate them for me instead. I'm just reducing the need for dependencies. I don't want to suddenly have to maintain them myself. npub1atr7ukz435rz5eyzjzldc5zpav95jptckpvx9fegdvekv8p8rq6q5r88v5 fancysandwiches @nprofile…f7tc Wow fuck that. I'm sorry you are having to deal with that bullshit. npub1atr7ukz435rz5eyzjzldc5zpav95jptckpvx9fegdvekv8p8rq6q5r88v5 fancysandwiches @nprofile…lx5s More evidence that leaded gasoline is maybe a decent analogy to these things. They taint everything, even if at mostly unnoticeable levels. npub1atr7ukz435rz5eyzjzldc5zpav95jptckpvx9fegdvekv8p8rq6q5r88v5 fancysandwiches There's a lot of evidence out there that LLMs just pickle some folks brains, but this whole "We don't need dependencies anymore we'll just use LLMs to produce everything" is probably the biggest sign I've seen. I've seen this argument from at least three distinct people now, and I just don't know how you could come to that result, even if LLMs were perfect there's still one million reasons why you'd want dependencies. npub1atr7ukz435rz5eyzjzldc5zpav95jptckpvx9fegdvekv8p8rq6q5r88v5 fancysandwiches Super Battle Golf: Also good with complete strangers npub1atr7ukz435rz5eyzjzldc5zpav95jptckpvx9fegdvekv8p8rq6q5r88v5 fancysandwiches @nprofile…8y8d oh! I almost forgot Holden's Rise Above is the absolute best bakery I've ever been to hands down. It is a vegan bakery, but that does not make it any less. It's truly amazing, if I lived in Tucson I would be there every day they're open. npub1atr7ukz435rz5eyzjzldc5zpav95jptckpvx9fegdvekv8p8rq6q5r88v5 fancysandwiches @nprofile…8y8d Tumerico is amazing. Obviously the Saguaro National Park. npub1atr7ukz435rz5eyzjzldc5zpav95jptckpvx9fegdvekv8p8rq6q5r88v5 fancysandwiches Apparently Look Mum No Computer is the UK's official act for Eurovision this year, pretty rad npub1atr7ukz435rz5eyzjzldc5zpav95jptckpvx9fegdvekv8p8rq6q5r88v5 fancysandwiches Would PEP 827 make it easier to correctly type Django models? If so I say approve this post haste. npub1atr7ukz435rz5eyzjzldc5zpav95jptckpvx9fegdvekv8p8rq6q5r88v5 fancysandwiches @nprofile…zhky yeah my average is so low npub1atr7ukz435rz5eyzjzldc5zpav95jptckpvx9fegdvekv8p8rq6q5r88v5 fancysandwiches @nprofile…arm3 so the folks trying to make money with AI videos, movies, and TV are probably also fucked. npub1atr7ukz435rz5eyzjzldc5zpav95jptckpvx9fegdvekv8p8rq6q5r88v5 fancysandwiches @nprofile…zhky all the more reason to not ever use my phone for calls. npub1atr7ukz435rz5eyzjzldc5zpav95jptckpvx9fegdvekv8p8rq6q5r88v5 fancysandwiches @nprofile…43ks Oh my! I've never heard of velvet worms but now I really want to see some! npub1atr7ukz435rz5eyzjzldc5zpav95jptckpvx9fegdvekv8p8rq6q5r88v5 fancysandwiches @nprofile…nvaq when there are externalities. npub1atr7ukz435rz5eyzjzldc5zpav95jptckpvx9fegdvekv8p8rq6q5r88v5 fancysandwiches @nprofile…zhky yes, and the biggest influence for this change is arguably Dick Cheney. He was pushing hard for the "Unitary Executive Theory" of the executive branch and he made really good headway with that while Bush Jr was in office. Obama didn't reverse course, and now here we are. npub1atr7ukz435rz5eyzjzldc5zpav95jptckpvx9fegdvekv8p8rq6q5r88v5 fancysandwiches @nprofile…zhky yeah, unfortunately a lot of how our government functioned was by just having an agreed upon process for doing things, and all it takes to break that is a leader who says "fuck the norms, I'm going to do what I want". npub1atr7ukz435rz5eyzjzldc5zpav95jptckpvx9fegdvekv8p8rq6q5r88v5 fancysandwiches @nprofile…zhky My understanding is that we've already allocated the money well ahead of time for stuff like this. It costs billions, yes, but that has already been earmarked for our military. Our military budget is huge, and the military doesn't even have to publicly state why they need as much money as they claim they need, there is some congressional oversight, but it's definitely not enough. It's pretty well known that our military would never, ever, pass a financial audit of any kind. npub1atr7ukz435rz5eyzjzldc5zpav95jptckpvx9fegdvekv8p8rq6q5r88v5 fancysandwiches @nprofile…jnzr Super Battle Golf for sure npub1atr7ukz435rz5eyzjzldc5zpav95jptckpvx9fegdvekv8p8rq6q5r88v5 fancysandwiches @nprofile…6e68 OMG, what a shot! npub1atr7ukz435rz5eyzjzldc5zpav95jptckpvx9fegdvekv8p8rq6q5r88v5 fancysandwiches @nprofile…a8fw making them pay does not remove the environmental damage npub1atr7ukz435rz5eyzjzldc5zpav95jptckpvx9fegdvekv8p8rq6q5r88v5 fancysandwiches I understand why LLM enthusiasts don't want to acknowledge that their tools use a ton of energy, but it's really frustrating to see people try to downplay the energy usage ("it's so low per single prompt that it doesn't really matter!") while also constantly seeing news like this: npub1atr7ukz435rz5eyzjzldc5zpav95jptckpvx9fegdvekv8p8rq6q5r88v5 fancysandwiches @nprofile…sejq "Roma Daravi, the Kennedy Center’s vice president for public relations, denounced Glass’s decision, saying there was no place for politics in the arts." npub1atr7ukz435rz5eyzjzldc5zpav95jptckpvx9fegdvekv8p8rq6q5r88v5 fancysandwiches One of the ways I'm dealing with AI slop at work is that when I'm giving feedback on the work I'm making sure to never assign the responsibility of the bad code to the AI. I'm directly saying that "this change that YOU made needs to be corrected". I'm always assigning the output of the AI to the person who put me in the position of reviewing the work. It is their responsibility to read the code that they're trying to review, they are responsible for 100% of the code, so they also get 100% of the blame when it's bad. If a change is confusing or nonsensical I'll ask "why did YOU make this change?". I'll never ask why an AI made a change, that we cannot know. All we can know is why someone thought it was acceptable to ship garbage, and we can assign them the responsibility for the garbage that they're willing to ship npub1atr7ukz435rz5eyzjzldc5zpav95jptckpvx9fegdvekv8p8rq6q5r88v5 fancysandwiches @nprofile…nptm @nprofile…gyr4 I think it's pretty unreasonable to ask that every developer of a Fedi project support every feature of every other product. At that point what would differentiate the projects? npub1atr7ukz435rz5eyzjzldc5zpav95jptckpvx9fegdvekv8p8rq6q5r88v5 fancysandwiches FYI apparently Amazon has a feature in beta that scrapes the web stores of companies (and independent artists) not on their website, allowing you to buy the items on Amazon. Basically they act as a middle man, without your consent, to put your stuff on their marketplace. They're doing this to artists right now. npub1atr7ukz435rz5eyzjzldc5zpav95jptckpvx9fegdvekv8p8rq6q5r88v5 fancysandwiches Has anyone here upgraded to the new PopOS cosmic on a desktop with an Nvidia GPU? Will I regret having an Nvidia GPU more than I already do? I do a lot of gaming (via steam + proton) so if that experience is worse I'll either wait, or switch to a different OS. npub1atr7ukz435rz5eyzjzldc5zpav95jptckpvx9fegdvekv8p8rq6q5r88v5 fancysandwiches @nprofile…ssgk @nprofile…ew96 yeah I think that is largely correct. People don't like being told no, and as an engineer a lot of my job is to say no, or "yea, but <implications of what you want>", and I think fundamentally people in management/product don't like hearing that. npub1atr7ukz435rz5eyzjzldc5zpav95jptckpvx9fegdvekv8p8rq6q5r88v5 fancysandwiches @nprofile…hd3q someone boosted this into my timeline and despite never doing any 3D modeling it looked really cool, and was priced such that I could just buy it on a whim. Anyway, this looks really cool and I'm looking forward to playing around with it. npub1atr7ukz435rz5eyzjzldc5zpav95jptckpvx9fegdvekv8p8rq6q5r88v5 fancysandwiches I lost three people to suicide in 2023. So seeing articles like this really bums me the fuck out. Knowing that the fuckheads at OpenAI have built a product that will actively tell kids to hide their suicide attempts is so abhorrent. Move fast and destroy lives. npub1atr7ukz435rz5eyzjzldc5zpav95jptckpvx9fegdvekv8p8rq6q5r88v5 fancysandwiches @nprofile…uc38 Exactly. I saw someone say the other day that it's not fair to call BlueSky algorithmic because you can still look at a chronological feed, but it seems like the only way to get anyone to see your posts at all is to make something that the algorithm will like, or be early to comment on something the algorithm will like. npub1atr7ukz435rz5eyzjzldc5zpav95jptckpvx9fegdvekv8p8rq6q5r88v5 fancysandwiches @nprofile…uc38 yeah I have "1.6k" followers there and get no engagement if I try. Every popular post I see is full of bot replies, and lot of folks engaging with those bot replies. I'll often see a popular post that is from an obvious bot account. npub1atr7ukz435rz5eyzjzldc5zpav95jptckpvx9fegdvekv8p8rq6q5r88v5 fancysandwiches @nprofile…nqgs we do the same. Every evening I'm in the yard I see many bees snoozing. My yard looks feral, but it's full of pollinators so it's worth it. npub1atr7ukz435rz5eyzjzldc5zpav95jptckpvx9fegdvekv8p8rq6q5r88v5 fancysandwiches I really don't give a shit if BlueSky is decentralized or not. It is a shit platform though, full of bots, full of mindless Blue MAGA posters. Not an enjoyable space. npub1atr7ukz435rz5eyzjzldc5zpav95jptckpvx9fegdvekv8p8rq6q5r88v5 fancysandwiches @nprofile…faq9 I've seen that, and some of it is that. There is also a lot of AI generated content on YouTube shorts. I think that's what makes this so bad, they're taking stuff that artists are making, and then putting this AI layer over it, without their consent. This makes it harder for an otherwise discerning viewer to know if they're watching an artist they like, or some AI ripoff. npub1atr7ukz435rz5eyzjzldc5zpav95jptckpvx9fegdvekv8p8rq6q5r88v5 fancysandwiches Apparently YouTube is using some sort of AI tool to upscale/downscale YouTube shorts, making things that are real look like they've been generated by an LLM. npub1atr7ukz435rz5eyzjzldc5zpav95jptckpvx9fegdvekv8p8rq6q5r88v5 fancysandwiches @nprofile…2kgy I thought I was losing my fucking mind with how much we've been spending on groceries so I went and asked a bunch of my friends and we're all spending basically the same amount of money per person. It sucks. npub1atr7ukz435rz5eyzjzldc5zpav95jptckpvx9fegdvekv8p8rq6q5r88v5 fancysandwiches @nprofile…fe5q awesome, thanks. I was given a ton of acryla gouache as a gift by a loved one and I want to use it, but I'm so used to watercolor npub1atr7ukz435rz5eyzjzldc5zpav95jptckpvx9fegdvekv8p8rq6q5r88v5 fancysandwiches @nprofile…fe5q I have not, is there a brand you like? It's pretty humid here in the summer (Tennessee). npub1atr7ukz435rz5eyzjzldc5zpav95jptckpvx9fegdvekv8p8rq6q5r88v5 fancysandwiches Hello fellow #painting folks. I am seeking advice. I have a pile of acryla gouache that I want to use, but my attempts at making a DIY wet palette have made the experience of using acrylics miserable, especially compared to water color and gouache. Maybe it's just my lack of experience, but I really dislike what I've done in the past (basically wax paper sitting on top of a bed of wet paper towels). npub1atr7ukz435rz5eyzjzldc5zpav95jptckpvx9fegdvekv8p8rq6q5r88v5 fancysandwiches I just ate a pile of farm fresh edamame 🤤 npub1atr7ukz435rz5eyzjzldc5zpav95jptckpvx9fegdvekv8p8rq6q5r88v5 fancysandwiches @nprofile…znff gourd is my guide npub1atr7ukz435rz5eyzjzldc5zpav95jptckpvx9fegdvekv8p8rq6q5r88v5 fancysandwiches @nprofile…gk57 "Please stop reminding me of the negative externalities of the Torment Nexus, those do not directly impact me" npub1atr7ukz435rz5eyzjzldc5zpav95jptckpvx9fegdvekv8p8rq6q5r88v5 fancysandwiches No one doing this is using alt text either, which is also primarily a PixelFed issue. npub1atr7ukz435rz5eyzjzldc5zpav95jptckpvx9fegdvekv8p8rq6q5r88v5 fancysandwiches If you do the bullshit where you pad the content of your post with a bunch of periods and newlines I will absolutely block or mute your ass. Stop it. This seems to be a prominently pixelfed phenomenon and I wish they'd just change their interface to make this type of behavior unnecessary. npub1atr7ukz435rz5eyzjzldc5zpav95jptckpvx9fegdvekv8p8rq6q5r88v5 fancysandwiches Rest in Piss James Dobson npub1atr7ukz435rz5eyzjzldc5zpav95jptckpvx9fegdvekv8p8rq6q5r88v5 fancysandwiches "Coder" is the content creator of the software industry npub1atr7ukz435rz5eyzjzldc5zpav95jptckpvx9fegdvekv8p8rq6q5r88v5 fancysandwiches All of my (modern) experience with forum software is from Discourse, as a user. I quite like Discourse. It is fully featured, and IMO user friendly. I did look into hosting it somewhat recently and was pleased to find out they offer an official docker image for running it, and it automatically installs updates in the background. It seems like it's pretty easy to self host. npub1atr7ukz435rz5eyzjzldc5zpav95jptckpvx9fegdvekv8p8rq6q5r88v5 fancysandwiches @nprofile…cycr and the "show everyone thumbnails of my other photos" crowd npub1atr7ukz435rz5eyzjzldc5zpav95jptckpvx9fegdvekv8p8rq6q5r88v5 fancysandwiches @nprofile…cycr I really doubt it npub1atr7ukz435rz5eyzjzldc5zpav95jptckpvx9fegdvekv8p8rq6q5r88v5 fancysandwiches I have encountered this phenomenon again today. Why. What about phones is making it easier to share a screenshot of a photos app than a photo from the app? npub1atr7ukz435rz5eyzjzldc5zpav95jptckpvx9fegdvekv8p8rq6q5r88v5 fancysandwiches I wrote a whole paragraph in a text to my brother. It ended with the word "critiques". This popped up after I hit send. Google graciously offered to translate the text I just wrote. Thank you so much AI, you're so very helpful. npub1atr7ukz435rz5eyzjzldc5zpav95jptckpvx9fegdvekv8p8rq6q5r88v5 fancysandwiches Related: I just asked a question to one of my group chats. Google's AI happily suggested responses to my own question. Responses that would literally never be useful. npub1atr7ukz435rz5eyzjzldc5zpav95jptckpvx9fegdvekv8p8rq6q5r88v5 fancysandwiches A coworker shared photos of a wildfire near their house and this is the recommended reply text. Way to go AI. npub1atr7ukz435rz5eyzjzldc5zpav95jptckpvx9fegdvekv8p8rq6q5r88v5 fancysandwiches Every time I see someone share a photo that is a screenshot of a picture from their photos app I want to scream. You have the source photo right there. Send that photo. Why are you taking a screenshot of an app. I don't need to see the UI elements of the app. I don't want to see how low your phone's battery is. You have the photo right there, there's a share button right there. npub1atr7ukz435rz5eyzjzldc5zpav95jptckpvx9fegdvekv8p8rq6q5r88v5 fancysandwiches @nprofile…337p not that I know of, but I'll look into it. I mostly buy Athletic Brewing, they've not disappointed me yet. npub1atr7ukz435rz5eyzjzldc5zpav95jptckpvx9fegdvekv8p8rq6q5r88v5 fancysandwiches Say what you will about the hellscape that is modern times, but at least NA beers are good now. npub1atr7ukz435rz5eyzjzldc5zpav95jptckpvx9fegdvekv8p8rq6q5r88v5 fancysandwiches @nprofile…r9rs yes! I've been doing this for years. I even make a simple sauce for noodles that is: 1 part butter, 1 part chili garlic, 1 part nutritional yeast, mustard to taste, sesame oil to taste. Mix it all together with some pasta water before you drain your noodles. Toss with noodles to coat. npub1atr7ukz435rz5eyzjzldc5zpav95jptckpvx9fegdvekv8p8rq6q5r88v5 fancysandwiches @nprofile…y928 hell yeah npub1atr7ukz435rz5eyzjzldc5zpav95jptckpvx9fegdvekv8p8rq6q5r88v5 fancysandwiches @nprofile…w58a yeah, getting rid of unnecessary extra features is for sure going to be on my list of suggestions. I've already successfully advocated for this in a few specific scenarios in the past year, but maybe there's a way we can start to think about this on a regular schedule. npub1atr7ukz435rz5eyzjzldc5zpav95jptckpvx9fegdvekv8p8rq6q5r88v5 fancysandwiches @nprofile…j3kp @nprofile…03vg @nprofile…gffv We do code reviews 🙃, this was not an issue caught by code reviews 🥲. I would say very few people at my company take code reviews seriously. I am unsure of the path forward if someone would look at the code described above and approve it. Literally everyone involved should have known better, and yet no one seemed to care enough at review time to prevent that from happening. npub1atr7ukz435rz5eyzjzldc5zpav95jptckpvx9fegdvekv8p8rq6q5r88v5 fancysandwiches @nprofile…03vg @nprofile…gffv Sure, but where I'm struggling is this is the kind of problem that falls under "I know it when I see it", and I'm struggling to find ways to make this easy to detect. npub1atr7ukz435rz5eyzjzldc5zpav95jptckpvx9fegdvekv8p8rq6q5r88v5 fancysandwiches @nprofile…n7ma we already do reviews for every change, but folks aren't taking them seriously enough, so they're not particularly effective. npub1atr7ukz435rz5eyzjzldc5zpav95jptckpvx9fegdvekv8p8rq6q5r88v5 fancysandwiches @nprofile…yjrv it's truly horrible npub1atr7ukz435rz5eyzjzldc5zpav95jptckpvx9fegdvekv8p8rq6q5r88v5 fancysandwiches @nprofile…857m @nprofile…0xfz this is actually something I do all the time, because I enjoy it, and find it really rewarding. If the problem I'm working on is hard enough I actually will do it multiple times for one PR. I think I am one of two people at my job who do this though. npub1atr7ukz435rz5eyzjzldc5zpav95jptckpvx9fegdvekv8p8rq6q5r88v5 fancysandwiches @nprofile…sele we already prevent merging if you fail our unit tests, which is good. But I do think there is room to add some kind of static analysis, but I haven't done the research. We have a linter, but it doesn't prevent you from merging. Linting stuff is the least of my concerns, folks can (and do) write code that the linter doesn't complain about, but is bad for reasons a linter can't yell at you for, and that's the crux of my issue. It's the more complex stuff that is causing problems. npub1atr7ukz435rz5eyzjzldc5zpav95jptckpvx9fegdvekv8p8rq6q5r88v5 fancysandwiches @nprofile…qgpp @nprofile…0xfz reviews are required, folks are barely using them as an opportunity to improve quality. Basically, there are two groups of people at my job: One group does really thorough reviews, and they ask for reviews from each other. The other group does not, and they ask for reviews from within that group. I can only guess why, but it's probably because one group will give you a 👍 , minus any major issues, and the other will leave you with a pile of suggestions. npub1atr7ukz435rz5eyzjzldc5zpav95jptckpvx9fegdvekv8p8rq6q5r88v5 fancysandwiches @nprofile…gqry @nprofile…ktkr this seems pretty reasonable to pull off. npub1atr7ukz435rz5eyzjzldc5zpav95jptckpvx9fegdvekv8p8rq6q5r88v5 fancysandwiches @nprofile…rvvx I think fundamentally you are correct, but the problem is *how* do I get everyone to slow down? npub1atr7ukz435rz5eyzjzldc5zpav95jptckpvx9fegdvekv8p8rq6q5r88v5 fancysandwiches @nprofile…uuzs yeah, I would love to measure this problem, but I'm basically clueless. It's easy for me to look at someone's PRs and go "hey, this is wildly complex, and it doesn't need to be", I don't know how to automate that, and I can't review every PR. Linters aren't good enough, AI code review tools aren't doing the job (we've tried), and I don't know of a static analysis tool that can do it (though maybe one exists). npub1atr7ukz435rz5eyzjzldc5zpav95jptckpvx9fegdvekv8p8rq6q5r88v5 fancysandwiches @nprofile…6nq0 What does "starting with USPs" mean? I don't think I'm familiar with that acronym, and searching has failed me 😩
