Setting up vim is programming, and when I'm programming I want tests that double as documentation. So how do you write specs that particular key sequences should have particular results in your vim setup?

I guess I don't understand what people are saying sometimes when the say "hiring manager," to me that just means the engineer on the team who got put in charge of a particular hiring effort

In the past month I think UPS has fucked up more deliveries than it has completed

difficult to know where to hide money now that literally every adult has lost their entire goddamn minds

Alright well we have done our diligence, dug through prospectuses, and transferred all investments out of funds that are going to buy into SpaceX - including some Fidelity funds that I did not know were *already* substantially exposed to SpaceX pre-IPO

yeah I think maybe I am headed into my neovim era

We have such faith in numbers. Read more stuff about hiring that always goes back to studies correlating with later job performance. And what makes you think you have meaning numbers on individual performance?

why does vim use hjkl and not jkl; keeping your hand one key over from standard typing position is some psychopath shit also it makes me accidentally touch the touchpad on my laptop

I thought knew how to quit vim but as soon as I advanced to multiple panes I find apparently :q only closes one pane

I'm experimentally switching a thing from Cypress to Playwright and my first impression is oh my god fuck Cypress

This phrasing is a perfect illustration of willful refusal to acknowledge that the interacting participants in a computer network operate the system together with competing intents.

I think we've basically just added one more thing to the list - prayer - rubber duck - claude of excuses to force yourself to put your problem into words for your own cognitive benefit

if you've never had a cat that begs for table food... well I don't recommend it

conspiracy theory: ThinkPad put a printscreen button between the alt and control keys specifically to disincentivize employees from working from home

if you throw userError (a <> " " <> b <> " " <> c) instead of E{a,b,c} where data E = E{a::_, b::_, c::_} you're doing more programming work to emit worse errors

you should have to show this list on the page where you enter your credit card number lol https://community.spotify.com/t5/Ongoing-Issues/idb-p/ongoing_issues?utm_source=support-site&utm_medium=article-link&utm_campaign=community&utm_content=ongoing-issues

If it were possible to completely and reliably disable popups in vscode, I wouldn't be looking again into switching to vim

wish I could see general metrics over time for how often I click on a button on a screen and nothing happens, I really feel like it's creeping up

my web browser just shut down for an update *while I was typing into it* and I am about to blow my stack

They say that ai agents never get bored or refuse to work, but today claude keeps saying "this is getting tedious" and switching itself from a process that was working to a "faster" procedure that doesn't, and I gave up and took over manually. So,

fucking touchpad doesn't work when a cat's leaning on part of it, do people not test this shit in real conditions before they sell it

not a lot of followers for our kook group that advocates that moon landings *should* be faked in a movie studio instead of performed for real

It's really a lot of psychic pain for me when I find I've spent more time in reviews saying over and over not to keep following the bad legacy pattern than the time it would have taken to just convert everything so there would only be good examples to follow if we consciously dedicated more time […]

They don't even give arrival estimates anymore, huh.

RE: https://neuromatch.social/@jonny/116726664404085827 I actually can imagine it, because most of us work with a general responsibility to keep things reasonably safe most of the time. The stupid example I always go back to is, should you set up a bear trap behind a locked door to catch and […]

"anonymous source says ipo is oversubscribed" feels like at best an irresponsible story to run and at worst part of the hype scam

There's a school of thought that says young people are carefree and old people turn to grave things like religion after they've seen horrors and begin to fear death. But I think it's the opposite, kids are full of anxiety and they don't like serious stuff because it's lame and they don't like […]

I find it hard to be entirely unsympathetic with the notion that a software-based business which was difficult to build at some point in the past but consists of operations that are nowadays rote and ordinary, if it's not still innovating, should probably downstaff

Thick JS frontends were also based on what sort of sounded abstractly like they would make software development easier rather than what actually does, so I wouldn't hold out too much hope for reality crashing down on AI any time soon

if you are a software that "thinks" you are being run for the first time, 99% you are being run in an isolated container and your author should rethink their life

Cypress has this new feature now, of course, where you can give a command like cy.prompt(['Do some thing']) and it puts it into some AI shit. I actually thought this might be a good idea, since one is always wanting ways to express higher-level underspecified browser tests. The first prompt I […]

I'm not entirely sure that "humans are uniquely destructive animals" is such a simple story. It's amazing how hard animals are on productive land, with a complete lack of foresight pertaining even to things that would be directly relevant to themselves. Birds allow plants to grow? Nope, eat […]

Virtuosity in music sucks because you end up with songs you can't even sing along with. I realized I think part of the reason I like john denver is just that he didn't use a tremendous vocal range, so imitating is more pleasant than difficult

the piddling nature of a fifty cent copay at the pharmacy is just confusing

The perfect illustration of the disconnectedness of k-12 math topics is that "circumference is 2 pi r" is a fourth grade fact and "complete turn is 2 pi radians" is an eleventh grade fact, even though they are the same fact

The wide haskell code style is, pragmatically speaking, insane to use when you try to work with it. But for "finished" work it is really pretty nice IMO

This evening we went to talk to the house that has been receiving our misdelivered packages. Spoke with someone for several minutes, about what happened and how bad shipping is. They gave no indication whatsoever that they were currently holding onto something of ours. When I casually dropped […]

if technology weren't all downstream of adtech and/or the dialup era, I think when you read somebody's blog the way it'd work is probably behind the scenes something just downloads the entire compressed corpus rather than the server feeding you only one page at a time

you think that combining two things into a single PR will halve the total amount of time to get it all through review, but it actually squares it

I've started fermenting the chicken feed, so I guess the birds are "constantly drunk" according to how people on the internet describe past societies

Ripped out a ton of bindweed roots, buried three surplus chickens, planted two small cherry trees. Feels like good use of a day.

I think Electron got an unfair rap. Yes, nobody wanted to incur the cost of each application carrying its own electron bundle. But the solution was it should have been part of the desktop platform. It makes no sense that if you're a web application you build on top of this fantastic standard […]

This isn't helpful but I did feel compelled to point out in a meeting yesterday that thirty years ago Netscape Navigator could safely do some iframe interaction we're now struggling to do, and technology is sliding backwards

What are the language tags on here for if there's no way in the ui to filter my feed to only languages I can read

The impossibility of exactly once message delivery does hold; a thing like kafka just avoids making itself an *additional* source of problems. It's basically a sleight of hand that shifts the blame for drops or replays away from itself onto another piece of architecture

When I compare views on state representatives in the national republic versus districts within states, I can't figure out whether anybody generally believes that *places* should have representation in government or shouldn't they

What's happening with LLMs is less akin to automatic looms and more like, say, if somebody first discovered penicillin and insisted it be used for weaving fabric

saw jerry seinfeld say on something that he doesn't watch tv, because, I can't remember how he said it exactly, "everybody wants you to see their show, and I just don't care," and I think of it basically every time I see a website. I don't want to see your website

TV spent decades working out what kind of video content people would consume. Since weird nerds made the websites, they assumed they knew better. It took another couple decades for companies to rediscover that what people would consume would be the exact same bullshit that was on TV