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Shorter code is almost always better.

Should you use a class? Should you use a Factory pattern or some other pattern? Should you reorganize your code? Whichever results in the least code is probably best.

A nice thing about code length is it's objective. We can argue all day about which design pattern makes more sense, but we can agree on which of two implementations is shorter.

It takes a damn good abstraction to beat having shorter code.

You'd kill for it, yes, but would you update your resume for it? When was the last time you sent out your resume?

Schedule meetings with them and then don't show.

I've come up with the following rules for my own relationship with Reddit.

1. I will avoid posting on Reddit.
2. If I do post on Reddit, I must make a similar post on another forum, maybe Lemmy, maybe somewhere else.

Number 2 is important because it helps other small communities grow.

It's not a problem if a lot of people post on one forum, but it is a problem if a lot of people post only on one forum. I wont allow myself to post only on Reddit.

That said, I haven't posted on Reddit since June.

The turned the lights on so bright that one guy had to squint, makes him look like he's smiling.

"We have ways of making you smile..." -- The police mugshot guy probably

This reminds me of around 2000, when I had a Daewoo television, and then my mind was blown one day when I saw a Daewoo car. Who makes televisions and cars? Daewoo apparently.

LIke 15% of the nation is working in healthcare if you include insurance and all the supporting industries. No wonder our health care costs are high. My medical bill has to keep 15% of the nation afloat and most of it ain't going to the doctors and nurses.

Simplify the system, more doctors and nurses, fewer insurance executives. Single payer would do this.

This reminds me of the reports I've heard about numerous tesla owners being trapped inside their EVs after they lost power.

I'm going to express the logic in plain English: "If message is from somebody on this short list, do not show it."

Let everyone judge for themselves the competence of engineers who created a system where such logic is computationally expensive.

They can still ask me to join their Patreon using PeerTube.

Are your hands small enough to reach the bottom?

Does it matter how high a bill that wont be paid is?

At this rate Skynet will be like "I'm going to nuke the world on X data, I've already taken over all the launch computers, but I'm not going to tell you or it would ruin my plans."

These LLMs "think" by generating text, and we can see what that text is. It reminds me of this scene from Westworld (NSFW, nudity): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZnxJRYit44k

I work in tech and have enjoyed good salaries, I wish everyone was so fortunate.

As for myself, it would actually be a huge relief to know that there are many career options for me that paid just as well, because sometimes I really want to do something else. If wages had grown fairly, then a lot more people would be making 100,000+.

Yeah, the brightest minds of recent generations are figuring out how to get people to watch ads. We probably could have had fusion energy by now, but instead have ads.

Hope my bank likes paying people to answer my calls, because that's how I'll be interacting with them if I can't use a web page.

Some people have bad eyesight. Some people have been deeply trained by the modern web to ignore most of what's on the page (most of it being ads or other bullshit). Some people make mistakes.

Have some patience and kindness.

And to those who wont be patient or kind, just know that the next time the self-checkout machine yells at you and the cashier has to come scan their badge and gives you grief, you deserve it. Can't you just use the machine correctly!?!

They may be right, but surely an admitted "technical violation of the Constitution" warrants a trial. The jury will decide if it's a crime.

Entire industries are bound by the terms of a single company. Time for some anti-trust enforcement.

Some privacy protection laws would also be good.

Some politicians who are capable of understanding any of this would also be good. (What a mess we're in.)

That depends on whether or not people are Pokemon?