This is photoshopped, right?

Sorry. I didn’t mean to shock you. I’ll be more up front about my OF, in the future.

Year of the Linux desktop.

Agreed. But it’s particularly bad this year, because

Intellectually, I know this is about more than my ability to play Gauntlet:Dark Legacy, again on new hardware.

But in my heart, I suspect the developers are working under a poster of Valkyrie with the words “Do it for her” written across the top.

If you don’t have the nerve to hold a stock for 30 years through ups, downs, crashes and rebuilds, there’s a thing called a high yield savings account that may better fit your current stage of life better and risk tolerance.

And let’s all point to the sign:

“Only invest money that you don’t need right now, and could afford to lose.”

If Trump’s antics can make you sell, you should sell right now and not buy back in, because that’s money you should not have invested in the first place - by your own standards for peace of mind.

President Trump is far from the first or the last powerful person to wield massive global power that negatively affects the markets. Markets perform with strong returnsin spite of bullshit from world leaders, not because any world leaders are particularly competent (with some very rare exceptions).

It is scary right now. It really is. But that’s what investing is about. We risk some money we don’t need right now, in hope of some growth later. Pulling out when things are going down is statistically a guarantee to lock in losses. But peaceful sleep at night beats 2%-20% growth.

To answer your question: absolutely. Stocks are going to spend four or more years underperforming where they could have under better leadership. As they have done before, and as they will do again. That’s pretty much been true with every president during my lifetime, though, and through most of recorded history. Hindsight is 20/20, and all that. And anyway, democracies don’t, so far, tend to elect economists.

There’s been talk of linking Luanti servers with Stargates. I’m not aware of anyone having a working mod for it but it should be doable.

I try to throw Nebula a month of subscription every so often, since they do feel like a step in the right direction.

But the one that really replaced YouTube, for me, was DropOut.Tv.

And yeah, I guess that means silliness is more impottant than science videos, for me.

I’m still looking for a non-monopoly service for handyman stuff, if anyone has suggestions.

If I have to become a good enough coder to edit code, it sort of defeats the purpose of AI doing the code for me.

Yes. Yes it does.

And that’s the part they AI salesman are lying to you about.

The AI that can be created with current science make great copilots, and can never be trusted to pilot anything.

Classic write-up!

Although, now that I’m an interviewer, I kind of despise FizzBuzz, because nobody thinks clearly during a high pressure interview.

Whenever possible, I love to talk with a candidate about some concrete past source code they claim to have written. I’ve better luck putting the candidate at ease and then talking through their contributions to the code.

Of course, when I get enough candidates who shared source code, I don’t even invite the ones who didn’t share source code for an interview.

Exactly.

If the tests pass, then everything is fine… Unless we expected the tests not to pass…then it’s time to burn the codebase down and try again after a long vacation to clear our heads.

Of course, I’ll usually settle for fixing the test suite after a long weekend. But in my heart, I’ll know what I should have done…

There’s no reason beyond maybe time crunch why you shouldn’t be able to dissect exactly what it does.

Usually it’s mysterious business logic from before the dawn fo time.

But, losing a little credibility now buys everyone time for their job search!

The Pirate’s Code Style and Documentation Standard…be more like guidelines.

Great question. Even in recent classic eras of science fiction, it wouldn’t have been safe for authors (who need publisher trust to buy food) to get diagnosed as neurodivergent, so I feel like we’re left with wether neurodivergent individuals embrace their work.

Disclaimer: I’m not neurodivergent. I don’t feel safe seeking a diagnosis. And things aren’t binary, so what the hell. I do acknowledge it’s interesting that I relate strongly with a bunch of these characters, and can bring them to memory quickly as some of my favorites…

With that disclaimed:

• “The November People” by Ray Bradbury comes to mind. It explores how classic Hollywood monsters would handle themselves as roommates, mostly through exploring their mental diversity rooted in their physical/cultural differences.
• Asimov’s robot detective stories (start with The Caves of Steel) have protagonists whose planets effectively make them neordivergent anytime they visit another planet than their birth world.
• “Stranger in a Strange Land”, by Heinlein, is about a neurodivergent (for Earth) young man who grew up as the sole human citizen of Mars.
• Philip K Dick’s detective protagonist from “Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep” (aka Blade Runner) is clearly neurodivergent, as is his wife.

If you’re looking for website content to not run without permission, running with JavaScript disabled generally gets the job done. Each site I enable JavaScript for is effectively “white listed” to serve me app like features, beyond static content.

there are now quite a few developers actively working with Rust full-time and paid.

Yeah. I didn’t mean to imply otherwise. But quite a few doesn’t always cut it to break into the field.

But my concern was entirely misplaced as they’re picking for a hobby project anyway.

Thanks for the counterpoint.

I always worry about the kids breaking in running after the next hot thing, and then not landing a job, because I’ve talked to folks who did so.

I was needlessly worried, as they’re picking for a hobby project, anyway.

And as someone else pointed out, Rust is on its way up. I just wouldn’t recommend Rust to a newbie as their first language to land their first job, today.

It’s better than writing C, Java or Cyton.

I believe you!

Edit: But you all can probably still pry C from my cold dead hands someday, lol. C is a perfectly cromulent language, for my purposes.

It’s certainly growing fast. And yeah, tops the desired charts.

Python did that for years, and is now at number 4 (after the big three JavaScript, SQL and HTML).

I, too, see great things in the future for Rust.

I also agree, Rust is likely top 20, but it feels (from hjobs search anecdotes from peers) like there’s a massive drop off in real world use after the top 8 or 10.

But again, my concern was entirely misplaced, as they’re not picking their first break-into-coding language, anyway.