From experience, a lot of companies tend to be propped up by like 10% of their developers doing 90% of the work, maybe 50% of developers doing the last 10%, and then like 40% of developers either doing fuck all or actively harming the codebases and making more work for the other 60%.
Hello, how do I join the 40%?
I want to coast for a while
The Onion is slaying.
If they weren't using VCS, I bet they have creds embedded in the source.
If you want to power your house independently from the grid, your house has to be independent from the grid.
Anything where you sell your excess power back to the grid is in tight cooperation with the grid operators.
Standard house wiring is not set up to accommodate back feeding the grid nor independently powering.
So you will need a changeover switch professionally fitted if you want an independent power source, or your solar panel installers will fit the appropriate equipment to back-feed the grid.
Anything else will likely involve deaths, fires, broken equipment, criminal prosecution, insurance invalidation and all that nasty stuff.
I got a pixel 8.
I'm really enjoying it.
But the camera doubles the thickness of the phone where it is.
And the case I have for it just gave up, and made the whole phone+case that thickness.
I'd have liked the actual phone to be that big, have a bit more battery - maybe even replaceable battery, a 3.5mm jack at stuff like that.
At some point, things get too thin to hold and use comfortably. I think the Nintendo switch highlights this, whereas the steam deck is much more comfortable to hold.
This was a meme that made me start looking into having ADHD.
I always thought it was because I was an introvert.
I described it to a few folk, and they were like "I don't think that's being an introvert".
More Google led to "waiting mode" which describes it perfectly.
Everything from a weekend being "the only commitment is work on Monday, so I better do nothing to make sure I make the most of it". Through "dentist at 13.00, might as well have a lie in" and still being late.
I presume there is no path from law school to senior lawyer/partner/whatever without first going through being a junior lawyer.
So, replacing the hiring and training of junior lawyers to save some bucks by replacing them with AI will mean a lack of senior lawyers in a decade
I am going through this right now, but without the drugs.
Mid 30s, waking up to realise my life is a mess, working on getting a diagnosis for ADHD and possibly bipolar, and getting help with depression.
I am now fixing my life.
The biggest thing that is helping me is talking about it. Asking for help is important, but just sharing your experiences is also important.
It was a friend that shared his experiences with me that has put me on this journey of recovery.
Never any problem solving, or offering solutions or fixes. Just sharing and talking.
Anyway...
When I'm doing software dev stuff, I always feel out of my depth. I'm reading interesting articles from people way smarter than I am. I'm reading codebases that are a delight to read through and leave me in awe.
And I turn to my projects and work, and feel like a fraud. It's all "standing on the shoulders of giants", following tutorials just to get things to compile, locking myself out of VMs or network switches from dumb mistakes.
But I also work in live events, so still technical and a lot of smart people. But when there is a problem, or a unique problem to solve, I'm just like "yeh, the problem is here because..." or "why not just do this...".
And these moments make me realise that perhaps I am not a fraud or an idiot. I just have different experience than my peers both in software development and live events. And there is some overlap.
I think a huge part of it is: everyone is making everything up all the time.
Some people have made something up before, so they can draw on that experience.
It's always worth spending a little time introspecting some of your progress.
Spending less time googling issues, and realising you can figure stuff out (make stuff up) for yourself? Huge win.
Remembering correct syntax? Huge win.
Writing code that only has 1 or 2 bugs? Huge win.
Recognising that a problem is best solved using whatever pattern/library/etc? Huge win.
Imposter syndrome is real.
Dunning-kruger is also real.
And then the imposter syndrome makes you think you are in the dunning-kruger zone, and makes everything worse.
Recognizing the progress and successes helps
I feel like we all agree that "think of the children" is so commonly a plea for pitty or appeal to emotion that's it has become a fallacy.
It's often used for manipulation, to support censorship, stripping of rights, or reducing security.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Think_of_the_children
Doesn't matter about the actual plan.
Leaking this is like "play along at home".
"Oh, he said the thing".
As it is, any time one of these points come up - whether it's organically/naturally or not - people will go "well that's shoe-horned in".
If he actually makes a legitimate point, a good argument, whatever... And strays even close to one of these points, it will be disregarded as insincere.
Even if these were positive things - instead of "disparage opponent, defend criminal" - it wouldn't matter.
It's still gonna be "play along with...", And that's all that's gonna be talked about after the debate.
I'm pretty sure opponents are going to reference this during the debate, just to twist the knife.
What an excellent username for such a chain of comments
Well, non-flammable vents for one thing