I work outside all spring, cool summer days, and a lot during the fall. 8 hours or more out there, hacking away, taking Zoom calls. I have a decent time with sunglasses and my MacBook Pro.

Okay- I’ve installed KDE a few days ago and instantly fell in love with it. I have been missing out, big time!

A few years ago, there was potential for dirty looks coming your way if you suggested that you may be using AI for generating code. Soon, it’s going to be frowned upon to boast that you don’t use AI tools (because you’re probably wasting time).

Okay, so I’m not using an extension in Zed* (but am using vim mode btw)

https://zed.dev/docs/vim

Ha, it really was satisfying!

This site is great for learning the foot notes to programming languages, including stuff like json, yaml, and hcl.

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I don’t think it’s actually realistic that this would ever change at this point in the game. I do think we could have adapted to all using UTC if we never started with time zones in the first place.

Who gets to have the time-zone that’s noon at noon

I am asserting that we abandon this concept of “noon” having to be precisely when the pixels on the my clock take the form of “12:00”.

Who cares? Just let “noon” be whatever mid-day is where you live.

0 isn’t my midnight

Same thing, why does it matter? Why do people cling to this? Midnight should be when you are mid-way through the night, regardless of what time a clock shows.

It also doesn’t fix the “what time of day is it elsewhere in the world” problem, which still requires knowledge of time differences. You know. Time zones.

I don’t have time zones memorized, so I have to look up this information when I need to know it anyway. I did say in my post that the [time] “zones” would still exist if I had my way with UTC. I do still think it’s valuable to know the operating hours for different parts of the earth- I just think we can track this without having to have the madness that is time zones. However, while answering this, I do feel what you’re saying. Perhaps we do keep time zones, but only as a way to tell time that is secondary to UTC? (As compared to today, where UTC is often an afterthought, if people even think about it at all.)

Degrees are meaningless

my own CS degree taught me almost nothing

I think you meant that your degree was meaningless?

And it’s trustworthy with my username and password?? 🤔

I posted yesterday describing my masters degree (in software engineering) experience as a "10/10," "would do again 👍," "totally worth it!" After sleeping on that thought, I have to say that it really depends.

It was a ton of time and work. You will be trading out time for hobbies/family for 2 years. A lot of time. It will be expensive if you're paying out of pocket. Also, it doesn't guarantee anything about your success. As you can see in other comments, some hiring managers have "never looked at education level when hiring." (...Why would you not even consider someone's education when deciding who you'd advance out of a pile of strangers asking for an interview?)

However, I did enjoy the experience. I had actual "fun" with my classmates throughout the program. Just a few months before graduation, I got two job offers from the only two companies that I applied to. My masters degree came up in every 👏 single👏 interview 👏.

It's not something you must have to be successful, but if you have the time and money, and you want to do it, you should absolutely do it. It does make your resume stand out at the end of the day which can help get you an interview.