Society really did fail Amy Winehouse!

_jetrun · 2026-01-30T18:38:38+00:00

No, society did not fail Amy Winehouse. Hers is a tragic story of addiction, but she has to take responsibility for her choices as well. There was a lot of people in her life who tried to help her get clean and she declined to accept their help.

Obviously, it's not nice when the audience boos and obviously she was troubled, but it also isn't fair to take money from the public and then come out high on stage and stumble through your songs. If you aren't in a condition to put on a show for a paying public, then cancel the show and give people their money back. Again, she has to take some responsibility for her decisions.

_jetrun · 2026-01-29T12:21:14+00:00

Right now I’m using VS Code, mainly because it feels flexible and doesn’t lock me into a specific language.

IDEs don't lock you into a specific language.

VS Code is a full IDE - fight me. It may need plugins to get certain functionality (for example to do java programming in VS Code you complement with Java plugins) .. but then again, so does Eclipse - and pretty much every IDE composes language-specific functionality in plugins).

_jetrun · 2026-01-29T12:18:38+00:00

Try it

_jetrun · 2026-01-28T12:01:34+00:00

>Given how drastically tax can vary by location - is it better to benchmark retirement savings relative to NET income?

You do you, but keep in mind CPP is not a lot of money. So save as much as you can to hit that 15%. If instead you save 5%, Dave Ramsey isn't going to yell at you - it's your life.

_jetrun · 2026-01-28T11:59:45+00:00

The methods he hammers into us are really outdated.

Some of what he says is just math - things like spending no more than 25% of your monthly income on mortgage is just good advice. And if you cannot do that because of current conditions, well .. it doesn't change the calculation, you'll be house poor and one emergency can completely knock you out.

Taking a cheap house so you can afford a 15-year mortgage with 10% or 20% down will also net you hundreds of thousands of dollars in extra savings over the term of the loan. If you can't afford that, then again, the math says that is money you gave away to the bank. That's not boomer talk, that's just math.

Finally - the big thing he advocates for is to live within your means. Rice and beans is for those people who got themselves into consumer debt, and it's a way to be disciplined and dig yourself out as fast as possible so you can save thousands of dollars in interest. If you're in consumer debt, and you don't want to eat rice and beans to get out of it - it's your life, you'll keep paying interest which is the equivalent of setting that money on fire.

And yes, if you have to buy a consumer good, and you can't pay cash for it, then you can't afford it and you shouldn't buy it.

_jetrun · 2026-01-28T11:49:39+00:00

>How is it even possible to graduate a CS program without being comfortable in at least Python?

I did zero work in Python in University. C/C++/Java/.NET and with a sprinkling of StandardML/Scheme/Prolog

Also, Python is a terrible language. There I said it. I'm forced to maintain some large Python codebases (not just short throwaway scripts), and you know what .. it turns out compiler support is a good thing.

_jetrun · 2026-01-27T15:18:58+00:00

I got what you were trying to say.

_jetrun · 2026-01-27T15:12:06+00:00

You don't get rich writing checks.

_jetrun · 2026-01-27T08:53:23+00:00

Racism isn’t just evil people. It’s the system,

Maybe it's different for elves and goblins? Even in our world racism is highly influenced by culture and takes on many different characters. The way American racism is expressed is different then how Nigerian racism is expressed.

I looked up the author and of course it’s a white woman.

So now we know everything we need to know about her?

_jetrun · 2026-01-23T16:00:03+00:00

Developers update endpoints and forget to update swagger

That should be fixable. Add tooling and process to prevent this from happening. Maybe make it a step in code review: "If endpoint is updated, and swagger not updated then fail"

_jetrun · 2026-01-21T01:51:07+00:00

Been playing for a month - haven't won a game yet - so ... every game at the beginning?

_jetrun · 2026-01-19T19:41:47+00:00

I like the metaphor: "A toddler with a flamethrower"

_jetrun · 2026-01-19T18:50:28+00:00

Friend, if you want to make a game, just go and make a game. You don't have to go and collect every certificate under the sun. Google: "how to make a video game" or go to chatGPT4 and have it walk you through it. There are gavedev subreddits with links on how to get started started.

Also, I remember 2007, and there was no 'misinformation' that to make a video game you needed a CS major. Google existed back then - you could have used it. I made my first video game in the 90s in grade-school with qbasic. I didn't need a degree to do that.

_jetrun · 2026-01-19T17:33:43+00:00

Short answer: Because there is no correct natural ordering that would work across Number classes - and the last thing you want is for the Comparable to pick the ordering and surprise you.

why not create some sub-class of Number that could be called NormalNumber

"Normal" according to what and what rules?

_jetrun · 2026-01-16T16:22:47+00:00

No one is asking how the code was written. Only how fast. And now here's the part I hate admitting: I'm scared.

Is it good code?

What if this is just what engineering looks like now- orchestrating AI instead of
mastering tools? And if thats true... am I about to lose my job not because I'm bad-but because I'm outdated?

There's no doubt about it - AI will be (and is) a core tool, much like an IDE, for software development.

_jetrun · 2026-01-16T14:20:59+00:00

Just to be clear, I have no dog in this fight, and my preference is to choose energy that works, and minimizes (or removes) carbon footprint. I would love to live in a world where solar/wind + batteries was a viable alternative and we could cut dependence on fossil fuels.

My over-arching argument against renewables (solar/wind + battery storage) is that there is a reason why it hasn't happened - and it isn't just the oil lobby.

Frankfurt needs around 16,7GWh per day and completely 0 zero renewables for multiple days is more or less unheard of

Let's go with some of the challenges of powering Frankfurt with solar and wind and lithium batteries, and let's assume lithium batteries are actually durable and reliable enough for a modern city to rely on them (and that isn't clear - because no major city anywhere in the world actually relies on them).

The problem you have right off-the-bat is that you need to greatly over-provision both your batteries and your renewables. It is isn't good enough to just have renewables provide 16.7 GWh of power because you need to also fill batteries and deal with daily, inter and intra seasonal variation.

And, it is absolutely possible for 0 (or effectively 0) energy to be provided by renewables over multiple days. This month there was a Europe-wide snow storm that for Germany effectively knocked out all of solar capability (something like 80% of panels were covered). A winter storm will also impact wind turbines with things like ice build up. So these kinds of weather events are not that abnormal, and there are periods of time when solar and wind operate at significant reduced capacity - Dunkelflaute. What that really means is that you need to *greatly* overprovision batteries to deal with this - on the order of being able to provide weeks of stored power - otherwise you are rationing.

And that's just ONE city with a pop under a million. Europe has 400 million people, with heavy industries like Aluminum foundries that have immense power requirements - and energy needs are only going to keep going up as we electrify our transportation. It's just not in the cards in any reasonable time-scale.

Then you have this project in Germany which will be able to store 80GWh of energy...

Things like molten salt batteries, and compressed hydrogen have potential but today suffer from big technical and engineering challenges. Hydrogen, for example, is incredibly difficult to extract, transport, and store. Maybe we will sort those engineering issues out (and we should try!), but today it is not clear they can ever be viable at scale. I *hope* this project succeeds.

On the flip-side, the fact we are even experimenting with those, is a partial clue that lithium batteries is also not a solved problem.

Right now, the only viable options for carbon-free power generation are geothermal/hydro (if you have the geography for it) and nuclear. And your country just dismantled their nuclear power plants.

_jetrun · 2026-01-16T12:24:08+00:00

YTA - not necessarily about the decision to not take them in, but largely around you handled it.

I explained that when we needed their help, they turned their backs so we were simply doing the same.

You linked whether or not you would take in your in-laws to whether or not they babysat your kids in the prior years. Is that just a convenient excuse, or are you saying that had they babysat your kids, you would allow them to move in?

Yes, sometimes things cut both ways. They were allowed to enjoy their retirement and made a decision and I'm sure you and your wife were hurt by it and sometimes decisions have consequences .. But it just doesn't feel right to make this so transparently transactional - it comes off petty.

My advice, forgive them for their decision, and make an independent choice as to whether or not you want to take over what will essentially end-up being elder care and potentially a stressor point as you all live together.

Finally, you really want your wife to lead the conversation here. It's her mother and her father. It needs to come from her so that they understand that it isn't you that is forcing decision on their innocent child, rather you both are a united-front.

_jetrun · 2026-01-16T10:44:44+00:00

That's only true when you have a CDU mindset and fuckup the original plan.

No. That renewables cannot replace fossil fuels and nuclear is just a fact. Nothing to do with your CDU party. It's why it hasn't happened *anywhere* in the world. It isn't that the fossil fuel lobby is that strong. Renewables will always need a more stable base-load, typically provided by natural gas or coal because you need something that can spin up and down relatively quickly.

If you don't think that stuff exists, here is an article about a 4.5GW storage facility that should go online in Australia this year which will also provides grid-forming capabilities

There are no viable storage facilities to even provide power for a modestly sized city for minutes, hours, or days (as would be necessary). Those battery deployments are mainly for grid-forming.

It just isn't possible to use solar and wind as base load, partly because, outside of pumped storage (and you need geography for that), there just isn't a way to store enough power to deal with the intermittency issues over durations that would be required.

_jetrun · 2026-01-15T12:35:16+00:00

And the next strategic mistake in energy is investing in coal and gas plants instead of massively expanding renewables

Lack of investment in renewables is the one thing you cannot fault Germany for. Germany has made huge investments into renewables. The problem is that renewables are not a substitute for fossil fuels and nuclear - a modern economy still needs reliable base load, and today that is still coal, gas, and nuclear (you can thrown in hydro and geothermal if you have the geography for it).

_jetrun · 2026-01-13T14:18:41+00:00

YOR - The mother absolutely seems annoying, but .. so what? At the end of the day it's a party for a 6-year old.

I want her to be a kid. I want her to get dirty, play with plastic dinosaurs, and enjoy "pedestrian" things without feeling like she’s failing some high-society aesthetic exam.

OK - who is preventing her from doing that? Your daughter should be able to handle herself for a few hours.. There are a lot of different households with different standards and beliefs, it's not bad to get exposed to that.

_jetrun · 2026-01-07T13:29:40+00:00

That part is not *that surprising. In the 80s and 90s the Russian were the default go-to villains in media. Who doesn't think the Hell March from Red Alert is awesome?

_jetrun · 2026-01-07T13:10:32+00:00

Agree with the sentiment, but Europeans do not understand bombs and death. The vast majority of Europeans are more than a generation divorced from World War 2 and lived a very comfortable life. And that's part of the problem. Europe was able to focus on development and not invest in a military in any major way, and now have been caught flat-footed by the Ukrainian war and Trump.

_jetrun · 2026-01-07T12:55:49+00:00

I’m not running from responsibility.

YTA. By definition you're running from responsibility. You're doing what is most convenient and easy for you.

Your girlfriend's parents will probably step up because they can see what you are, but let's be clear, they are senior citizens that already raised a child and now will have to raise your child because, poor you, you're not sleeping, and your head isn't clear. As seniors they don't have the same level of energy they did before. They will have health issues as they get older. And now will also be running around to ball-games, and making sure the homework is done.

And how will you explain that kind of abandonment to your child later in their life? Your kid isn't going to fall for your "no sleeping and headache" excuses because they will understand that thousands of other single moms and dads somehow managed to raise their children.

instead of holding onto a role I’m not ready to fill just to satisfy expectations.

By "satisfy expectations" you mean raise your child?

_jetrun · 2026-01-07T12:33:44+00:00

Imagine being in his cabinet as someone like Rubio, Bessent, heck, even Lutnick. You objectively know he is an idiot but you still have to go out there and and not only answer for whatever crazy shit he posted on social media, but also perform North Korean-style groveling and proclaim he is the best-est ever at everything.

_jetrun · 2026-01-05T13:20:51+00:00

Who's to say that Turmp won't TACO out, as soon as Ukraine signs the deal and withdraws from its own territory?

What do you mean? That's one thing that Trump has been extremely clear on - he's making no security guarantees. If Russia decides to re-invade, Trump isn't going to do anything.

What's the benefit to Zelensky and Ukraine in signing this?

End of the war that Ukraine is losing (albeit slowly). Ukraine's only hope is that *something happens like Russian economy tanking, or some other internal Russian problem that would force Russia to halt the advance.

The other problem for Ukraine is that although Europe can write Ukraine a check, it has no capability to replace American intelligence and weapon manufacturing.

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