Kudos on you for acknowledging that your behavior changed! It is depressing how many people online are convinced that the emergency braking systems are too aggressive. The best is the cohort that insist these systems will be what causes accidents.

Ish. Polling is very YIMBY. So long as it is exactly what I want in my back yard. With a lot more leeway granted to what should be allowed in someone else's back yard.

You see this time and time again, what people say they want and how they act are often completely disjointed - and they see no problem with it.

Has been said many times, but Google+ was hoping to be as good as Google Reader and Google Buzz already were for people. Was a surprisingly good social layer on top of article aggregation that largely worked by leveraging GMail.

What they were not, of course, was a replacement for the "town hall" dream of social capture that places like Facebook are hoping for.

And, I'm a bit hazy, but didn't Youtube try and force comments to be tied to your google identity?

I'm assuming it was going to say lines of code. It is highlighting that more was deleted than added.

I agree. Though the line count is meaningless as the vibe coded diff has pointless formatting and whitespace changes.

I wrote that PR and can guarantee you that it was not vibe coded.

the reason why I thought this PR was interesting is that, it only needed ~ 4 lines of real change, everything else was cascades due to that change. and the performance did improve with that "pointless formatting and whitespace changes"

The general fault I see here, is that we don't typically make our work tracking tools so that they look at the code for us. Instead, our ticketing systems only have what we have put in them, directly.

This is obviously obnoxious when it comes to stuff like warnings and deprecations. But is also annoying when doing migrations of any kind. Or when working to raise test coverage. Anything that can be determined by checking the source code.

Feels like this should dive into accuracy and precision? And for the next fun number to look into, try declared calories on food packaging.

Just don't fall into the trap of thinking you can't use these values if they are not perfectly accurate.

This hints at a major misunderstanding that, frankly, drives me nuts. If people are getting paid in stock, they pay taxes on the value of the stock they are paid with.

Can they take a loan on existing stock? Yes. You can leverage assets and this, itself, leads to some pretty unfair things. No need to inflate it to the idea that "getting paid in stock means you don't pay taxes."

I confess "not invented here" is a problem I think too many people focus on. Lots of things are redone all of the time.

That said, feature creep is absolutely a killer. And it is easy to see how these will stack on each other where people will insist that for this project, they need to try and reinvent the state of the art in solvers to get a product out the door.

I think it is fair to assume they meant before symptoms? Which, yes, your heart rate is a symptom. No, it isn't one most people consider.

I would focus a little differently from the folks talking about the technological copies that are possible. Copying people and things is just somewhat natural for people to do. And yes, you can somewhat copy a performance that you see.

But that is far far harder to judge your progress and ability on compared to copying a text over and seeing if you can keep the same structure and rhythm. The proliferation of cameras have changed this some, of course. But it used to be a thing that you would try and rewrite from memory some poems that you were studying for school.

Oddly, what is really killing this, I think, is the new idea that so much in life should be permanent. Notebooks are where you think outloud and you should expect most of your thoughts to be transient and not worry about holding on to them. Computers completely break that with people wanting a permanent and indexed collection of all of their thoughts.