• and moka pot at home, which is not espresso, but makes a reasonable approximation for the fraction of the price of a real espresso machine

Thank you

What’s going on in the top picture? Prisoners being entertained with a shadow play?

That’s the feeling it evoked in me: a childlike sense of wonder and discovery.

If you’re on the side of torture, you’re one of the bad guys

Will this be enough to get the public to turn? I hope so, but somehow I don’t think so.

So, 4chan. You want Twitter to be 4chan.

Yeah, they can be useful, but not in the way that the snake oil salesmen would like you to believe. Code completion suggestions are kind of a wash: often close but needing corrections, to the point where it’s easier to just write it myself. Vibe coding really only works for basic, already-solved problems. Many kinds of code changes take such a level of precision or so many back-and-fourths with the AI that it’s more efficient to describe the logic in a programming language than in English. But AI can help with large repetitive tasks, though. Use it like a refactoring tool, but for refactorings not offered by your normal tooling. It’ll get you close, then you put the final touches on yourself.

The man-hour myth will never die in the management class

There are definitely parts of programming that are boring and repetitive. I’ve been using AI to speed that up. I still do the creative parts 100% myself.

PRs still need to be reasonable size for human review, regardless of how they were authored. IMO

Perfection

Linda Hamilton circa Beauty and the Beast

Michelle Pfeiffer circa Ladyhawke

Exactly what I was going to say. This is an admission that the costs of tariffs hit US companies, not the country of origin that the tariff was levied against.

Didn’t they literally just lose a court case about this very thing?

He was not the least bit scared to be smashed into a pulp. Brave, brave, brave, brave Sir Robin!

The bottom picture is of Faith, the “second Slayer” in Buffy the Vampire Slayer, who was chosen as the new Slayer following Buffy’s first death. She used this phrase a lot. It was the style of the time.

True for me too, only I did buy a PS5, then a Steam Deck, then built a Linux gaming PC. I doubt I’ll ever go back to PS again, not after this gen.

Plus, I’ve never glimpsed another bathroom-goer’s potty parts in a public bathroom. It’s such a made-up non-issue.

A long time ago, it was actually the best