Anyone entering through web development. If you’re self taught or did a “coding boot camp”, it might be the only language you’ve used. A lot of places use it for backend stuff now, too

I think my cat chews on plastic because he knows I’ll come running out and interact with him. I’m like, you could just meow. If you meow I’ll come, too. He is old and set in his ways.

The right wing doesn’t care about hypocrisy. The only thing that matters is “is this good for me right now?”.

Pointing out hypocrisy to them is as effective as someone saying your geometric proof is invalid because you’re wearing a yellow shirt. It’s just not a part of their worldview or system of values.

. I’m sure there are efficiencies and they need to be enacted but we need to ask why we use the systems we use.

Yes. This is sometimes known as chesterton’s fence

https://theknowledge.io/chestertons-fence-explained/

G.K. Chesterton was an early 20th century English writer known for his clever paradoxes.

He once wrote: “There exists in such a case a certain institution or law; let us say, for the sake of simplicity, a fence or gate erected across a road. The more modern type of reformer goes gaily up to it and says, ‘I don’t see the use of this; let us clear it away.’ To which the more intelligent type of reformer will do well to answer: ‘If you don’t see the use of it, I certainly won’t let you clear it away. Go away and think. Then, when you can come back and tell me that you do see the use of it, I may allow you to destroy it.’”

In other words, don’t be so quick to tear down things you don’t understand. That fence may have been put up for a very good reason, even if that reason is not immediately obvious. To ignore that reality risks unintended and potentially negative consequences.

I saw that one too and thought similarly!

I don’t know about “fine”. It has a lot of weird stuff baked in. Hoisting. Unexpected type coercion. Too many ways to loop over something and I always forget which one is which. “There’s more than one way to do it” is kind of a recurring problem, come to think of it. Several function declaration syntaxes. Dot notation AND bracket notation for objects.

Also it will forever bother me that object keys aren’t quoted.

const foo = "hello"; const bar = { foo: "world" }

That should be, in my mind, { "hello": "world" } . It’s not. It’s { "foo": "world" }

But if you want to do that, you need to do const bar = { [foo]: world }. Which looks like your key is an array with one entry, a string with a value of “foo”

You also end up learning a whole framework, with its syntax and idioms, every couple years. Angular. React. Redux. Whatever.

There’s also a lot of people who have never used anything else, and want to use javascript for everything.

Javascript is basically D&D. Wildly popular. Full of legacy jank. People try to use it for anything even though there are better or more specialized tools.

If they had to pay people for interviews they’d probably be a lot snappier about the process.

Like, sure, I’ll do nine hours of interviews if you’re paying me $100/hr.

I mean, we live in a hellscape. Even if they had given him a start date, they can still fire him at any point for no reason. Labor has almost no protections (in the US, at least). It would be only slightly less bad to accept the new job, take it, quit the old job, and then get fired.

I’d rather we have like basic income, free health care, and public housing, so people don’t need to worry about dying because some capitalist is willing to hire them.

Seems like Starbucks is wasting time with this dress code. Good on the union for fighting back.

You can always count on republicans to have a bad idea

The stories about that dude are so good. The sheer pigheadedness of some players. Like the guy who spent like 8 hours fighting that boss instead of just walking around. he eventually won, to his credit.

I gave up after a couple tries on my first dude, but when Margit kept kicking my ass I restarted as a sorcerer. Killed both of them with the trusty pew-pew magic pebble.

Zuckerberg is garbage and shouldn’t be allowed to keep living with his tremendous, ill-gotten, wealth.

It can be accurate or biting satire, but I didn’t enjoy it. It’s a long game to spend so much time annoyed at a main character.

I didn’t finish gta5 because there’s a lot of just driving around doing nothing. And then the missions are very restrictive - you pretty much do exactly what it says or you go back to the checkpoint.

I’d rather they were more like Deus Ex or Dishonored (I think those are called immersive Sims now?).

Also Trevor is just unpleasant

It’s probably not cheaper if you consider the externalized costs. Sure, you don’t personally pay up front for all the pollution, traffic, and poor use of space, but everyone does.

I’m not sure!

I’d guess maybe the code would be open source, or at least freely shared among everyone who works on it. Then anyone can use their personal computer for the code, like anyone could use their personal guitar to play a song you wrote.

The computer can then remain personal, and the code itself is treated like the means of production that is collectively owned

Yeah, can’t disagree with that.

When I give people dating app advice, I tell them if they don’t have the emotional resources to full-ass it, delete the app. Half-assing it is likely going to make things worse.

But humans aren’t rational creatures.

You should realize that companies need to compete with each other, and because of that they cant visibly increase the price of a good too much or lower its quality because they will lose sales. Anywhere where this doesn’t happen laws can be written to force them

Meanwhile, we have “shrinkflation” and consolidation into fewer and fewer companies.

For vital services, what are you going to do? Not get health care? Not buy fruit anymore?

The natural end state of private ownership is monopoly/cartel. We’ve done all of this before and it sucked. Being “beholden to customers” doesn’t matter much if they’re a captive market, or there’s really only one seller with no vote

Maybe if we actually enforced laws about competition it would be better, but good luck getting people to learn from history.

after a few times putting in effort and getting ghosted, you start to be a bit more frugal.

I see why that would happen but it seems like a self destructive strategy. The other person wasn’t there for all your other attempts. This is your first interaction with them. If you half-ass it, all they see is you’re doing a bad job at conversation. You only get one first impression with someone.

I dont want to drink water from govt owned companies because at that point it truly is authoritarian simply because the govt has way too much power over your life

I’m pretty sure private for-profit water is absolutely worse than government run water. Everyone can at least nominally vote to change the government. A private org is beholden to no one except shareholders (if they have any), and maybe laws (if they exist, are relevant, and are enforced).

We already had a gilded age where we learned how low for-profit entities will go. We had saw dust in bread, chalk in milk, and worse.

For profit food production is giving us price gouging and a water crisis. Would government do better? Well, given the current administration maybe not.