It didn’t just happen like the stars moving overhead. People with names and bones did it.

The us really struggles to do anything for the public. A big part of why is racism, but I think a lot of people are also a mix of vanilla stupid and indoctrinated.

I have to admit I was wrong - a shit-load of google docs are also visible on search. I wasn’t aware it works this way. That’s really bad. I found so many people’s resumes!

Does it say they posted it on the Internet?

Google Docs has a “anyone with a link” sharing option. I would not expect setting that and texting my friend the link to result in the document contents being indexed for searches.

I would not assume “anyone with a link” includes people who do not have the link.

I was just playing the old genesis Shadowrun (an old favorite of mine) and had a dark laugh at how the DocWagon you get, where they pull you out of wherever, treat you, and drop you off outside the hospital has a maximum fee of 5000. The default is just 10% of your money.

That’s better than the US for a lot of people.

No one needs that much money.

I will continue not playing playstation, as I have for years. Fuck 'em.

Organize. Find common bonds even with people who kind of suck.

If you’re on a jury and the law is bullshit, nullify. (You don’t have to show your work when you give your verdict and they can’t say you gave the wrong answer. You can just say not guilty, even if that plumber really did push that billionaire into a wood chipper feet first.)

Bandcamp was really good. It’s still going but it’s kind of a corpse animated by capitalism now. You get drm free music and sometimes musicians will like do listening parties or chat or other fun stuff.

If you buy one album a month for $10, after a few years you have a sizable library that’s yours to keep forever. Don’t rent music.

It was never going to work out in favor of consumers.

Also fuck Microsoft. At the very least they should be broken up.

I suppose. But I remember old games came on multiple disks.

I also think that chasing every higher graphics has reached diminishing returns. Style counts for more than fidelity, I think.

When I tried Percy it was really bad. I think it wasn’t even doing real screenshots, but some horrible serialization of the dom nonsense. Some of what came out of their tests just wasn’t accurate at all.

Every time I’ve tried to implement visual tests it’s a bad time.

A good unit test encodes intent. This kind of test, and snapshot tests, tends to be too broad. Something changed but was it on purpose? I dunno maybe just accept it. People don’t look at it closely. It’s numbing.

As others have said, you probably want to stop having shit randomly shared in multiple places. If you change something used in more than one place, probably manually check.

No.

• most people don’t know about it
• many actual children won’t care
• many “gamers” are little better than children

Interesting. I find that where I work, often the biggest problems are non-technical. It’s the upper manager that says “we don’t have time for automated testing” and then our releases take two days of manual testing and bug fixing.

Interesting. I dislike writing bash scripts so this might appeal to me, but probably not before a stable 1.x release.

I think it’s undeniable there are a lot of very stupid people, and many of them are loud gamers.

One of the problems is humans are social creatures. Facts don’t change minds. In-group pressure changes minds. (And sometimes horrific trauma, but only sometimes*). The typical person, confronted with an idea that contradicts a non-trivial belief, will evaluate primarily if the person presenting the belief is in-group. The same kind of message delivered by different people has very different outcomes.

With the Internet, idiots and assholes can find their own social groups to reinforce their shitty beliefs.

If we want to fix this, we’d have to do the long, expensive, and thankless work of getting them to see us as in-group, and getting them to then adopt better ideas. Incidentally, that’s how the right wing has been operating.

Laughing at them for being fucking morons is satisfying, but it’s like picking at a scab. It’s not going to heal.

Drivers are always anxious. It’s because driving sucks. Dangerous, aggravating, tedious, expensive. Unfortunately many of them don’t escape the sunk cost, and don’t want to do initially painful things to get to a better state.

In addition to all the other ways conservatives are assholes, many of them are also this kind: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petro-masculinity

I’m a professional software engineer. You seem to have drawn at least one nonsense conclusion