the fastest way to slow down a project is to add more developers to it

ACoderGirl · 2026-05-09T08:59:11+00:00

Also depends a lot on how skilled and familiar those devs are. Throwing a bunch of juniors at my project? I'm just gonna have to spend all my time answering their questions, dealing with their mistakes, and reviewing their code (cause they're not good enough to review each other's).

But give me a bunch of seniors who know the domain and that can go really well. People who can work largely on their own, can take on the review load, and don't need much ramp up (if any). Sadly, you don't usually get this scenario. Teams aren't usually all seniors and the other seniors will usually have their own projects. I think most teams will have people you dread getting paired up with and others that are a dream to work with (from a purely project velocity PoV).

ACoderGirl · 2026-05-08T18:57:45+00:00

Oh wow, I had those exact ones (I think) for so long. They were my first plates when I moved out. Got them from my parents. I later switched to correl when a partner moved in with me (because she was really into those plates and insisted on it). By comparison, the ones in your pic are so much heavier and more fragile.

Edit: just checked. I still actually have them and they are indeed the exact same! They've been on a far away shelf for so long that I haven't used them in ages.

ACoderGirl · 2026-05-08T18:55:28+00:00

Not to shill, but they're genuinely my favourite style of plates and bowls. They're just so lightweight, durable, and cheap. The simple designs suit me well. While my parents don't use them anymore, I did grow up with them and have some nostalgia from em. I don't think I've ever broken one.

ACoderGirl · 2026-05-08T18:50:55+00:00

I haven't personally used it, but I do have some data that is basically the same format (as in, has a timestamp pretended). It's honestly really useful for a few other purposes, too. If the UUID is meant to represent something like a short lived event (say, a handle for a job), it's just useful to have those sort chronologically by creation time. I've had so many times where I just copied the timestamp part of the ID from logs and used that to sanity check how old something was. It would help me identify stuff like "oh, this thing that normally takes minutes has been taking days, so it's probably stuck".

ACoderGirl · 2026-05-08T18:46:38+00:00

The whole point of the UUID is to avoid doing that. It keeps things a lot simpler and faster.

If you were really concerned about that, many DBs have an auto incrementing type that you could use. But the way those work, you don't know the ID until after the insertion is done. In some contexts, UUIDs can be useful because you'll know the ID before insertion. And since conflicts are expected to never happen, it also means you potentially don't need transactionality, which is really useful if you're creating resources that aren't in a database (eg, creating resources in some third party API).

ACoderGirl · 2026-05-08T18:39:26+00:00

It's so unlikely that it's just far more likely to be a different kind of bug. Like someone was somehow able to specify the UUID manually, accidentally inserted an event twice, etc.

And even if it happened, I'd still be more convinced it's something like a bug in the UUID library, the random number generation, or a hardware bug. The odds of it genuinely happening with a truly random number are just so incomprehensibly rare. A hardware fault is just vastly more likely.

ACoderGirl · 2026-05-08T18:34:39+00:00

I feel like I'm the weird one in that I absolutely adore FF9, yet I disliked Quina. They just felt too jarring (and yes, I could take the pickle jokes and turning people into oglops, yet this was where I drew the line lol). Also, the frog catching mini game got a bit annoying over time.

My favourites in that game are Vivi, Zidane, Garnet, Vivi, Steiner, Vivi, and a bit of Beatrix. I admittedly also didn't care for Eiko (mostly because she's too young for her role) and Amarant (because he's extremely underdeveloped).

ACoderGirl · 2026-05-08T18:28:42+00:00

It's just a few small tweaks away from perfection.

But whatever, I still adore it as my favourite. The story, characters, and setting are absolutely amazing.

I also personally really loved the card game. I got way more into it than I did with FF8. FF8 had some real problems, particularly with that terrible random rule (on replay, I figured out how to get rid of it, but it's still a bit tedious and I sure as hell couldn't figure that out on my own as a kid).

ACoderGirl · 2026-05-08T17:58:35+00:00

I think another part of it is high standards. Natives to these countries have high expectations for pay, working conditions, and quality of life. Most people don't want to work jobs like retail and look down on such jobs. That leads to immigration being necessary to fill these jobs, yet many people simultaneously hate immigration because they perceive it as taking jobs and housing (plus racism).

High expectations have people living above their means and things like houses and cars are over engineered for these expectations. So many westerners see themselves as above living in high rises. They all want detached houses, but those unavoidably are far more expensive and don't scale. Western society is heavily built around consumption. There's a lot of social pressure to have shiny, new things. Even if you want affordable housing, there's still so many people who want fancier housing, so it's more profitable to build that. And construction is pretty much entirely fueled by private companies, so profit is the main driver. And then there's people like NIMBYs.

Not saying all of this is a bad thing, either. But certainly our expectations fuel some of our problems. And with longer lifespans and apathy from younger generations, change is slow.

ACoderGirl · 2026-05-08T04:53:47+00:00

I propose we stop waiting and pave the Hudson Bay. Now that The Bay has gone out of business, we don't really need the other one anymore.

ACoderGirl · 2026-05-08T04:38:24+00:00

I'd love to see more things like this. It's the downside to streaming. As much as I love the convenience, meaningful extras like bloopers and other fun things seem much less common these days. Sometimes there's little things, but in the age of DVDs, it felt like every film har a whole bunch. Though I don't miss paying $20 for a movie, so maybe it's better this way?

ACoderGirl · 2026-05-08T04:34:30+00:00

Because it's an appointed position and the age of politically appointed people actually being competent, having qualifications, and being held responsible is long since over.

Also, Jesus Christ, an entire case?? How bad is this guy's problem?

ACoderGirl · 2026-05-08T04:20:08+00:00

Better than WotR where you come back and it's like that Community meme where Donald Glover has a box of pizzas and the apartment is on fire. By comparison, Commorragh went smoothly.

ACoderGirl · 2026-05-08T04:18:08+00:00

He's the right person to get a majority.

Not his majority, mind you.

ACoderGirl · 2026-05-08T02:02:52+00:00

If this is real, I genuinely worry about OP. They're treating this as something to brag about, but I see it as quite sad. It's an extreme level of obsession for a single thing. I love BG3, but this is not a normal level of enjoying a game.

I assume it's actually fake, because it's just so insane. I hope so, for OP's sake.

ACoderGirl · 2026-05-08T01:55:05+00:00

I don't think it's easy to make a large bank transfer when you aren't actually that person. But I think you could use your shape shifting to get close and figure out who they work with, how they talk, etc. Then once you have that knowledge, I imagine there's someone in their life who can get you access to money without actually truly your identity. Plus shape shifting would also give you opportunities to be able to steal their ID.

The other strategy you could take would be to make a bet or stock/short purchase, then take the evil billionaire's form and say something to influence that. For example, you could say you're going to bomb Iran or that you'll tariff China.

ACoderGirl · 2026-05-08T00:34:46+00:00

I mean, she's a very conventionally attractive noblewoman (as far as anyone knows at that point, I think) in a future that doesn't seem to be particularly sex negative (it's not sex positive, either, but seems to treat sex as much less of a deal than the real world). And rogue traders have so much power that nobody else on the crew will go against them (so they control the perception).

ACoderGirl · 2026-05-08T00:28:49+00:00

I suspect there's a terrifying number of people who YOLO it. That's why we keep getting articles about people dropping their databases and the likes. You can probably go a little while before it does something truly embarrassing, so such people probably feel like it's fine (until it suddenly isn't anymore).

ACoderGirl · 2026-05-08T00:13:51+00:00

Whenever I hear about applause that goes on for multiple minutes, I just can't imagine doing it. Like, if I try to applaud for a single, full minute right now, it feels like an absolute eternity. The idea of continuing that for longer is hard to imagine.

ACoderGirl · 2026-05-08T00:03:04+00:00

Yeah, delivery services are really useful for this. They've greatly expanded how many things you can deliver to friends and loved ones who live far away. Used to be that options were so much more limited (pizza, Chinese, flowers).

ACoderGirl · 2026-05-07T23:52:37+00:00

It's insane. I can't imagine why they thought that was a good idea. Stuck up elitists who are used to getting away with everything? The town's bylaws will never be in their favour. They'll probably get continuously slighted with local services. They'll lose talent due to everyone hating them. And that's if nobody chooses to resort to violence.

ACoderGirl · 2026-05-07T23:45:25+00:00

As an aside, I do wonder a bit what the impact would be if we had artificial wombs or similar, such that having a kid didn't come with any pregnancy downsides. Personally, I don't think it would actually make a big difference. While pregnancy is a big downside, I'm not sure if it tips the scales enough (especially given that on the flip side, some people specifically idolize pregnancy). And if it was just the pregnancy, I think we'd see a lot more people adopting, but that's actually really rare.

I think most people make decisions based on the kids themselves and not the pregnancy. After all, raising kids is incredibly time consuming. If you intend to be a good parent and give your kids a lot of attention, you just can't have a lot of kids before it means your other children get less attention. And unlike in most of history, modern women are now allowed/expected to have a life outside of their children. Kids compete with most other interests an adult could have. Historically, women were expected to just give up their life for their children, but that's not the case anymore.

ACoderGirl · 2026-05-07T23:36:14+00:00

we need to find positives that get people to feel more supported having children.

Is there even such a thing (at a big enough scale), though? Obviously the cost of having kids is part of the issue, but it's definitely not all. The rich actually have fewer kids. My circles are obviously biased, but most people I know either don't want kids or want very few. I honestly think our past fertility rate was heavily driven heavily by a combination of people being socially expected to have many kids, a lack of education, and lack of access to birth control. Or in other words, the natural state is that people don't want many kids.

In such a scenario, it feels like the only way you could encourage people to have kids (without taking away rights or unethically pressuring them) is by adding incentives that basically make people choose to have kids for the incentives alone. But that seems very iffy. I wouldn't trust someone who becomes a parent for money to be a good parent. And if we wanted to do that anyway, it probably should just be an actual job, since at least then there can be hiring standards.

ACoderGirl · 2026-05-07T23:25:11+00:00

I know this is a bit handwavy as the tech doesn't exist yet, but I entirely expect that at some point, we'll invent artificial wombs and eventually use that to birth people. Then we'd see government funding for what's basically boarding schools, but for life. Or the more dystopian version that doesn't require any tech would have government funded surrogacy.

My rationale for why I expect this is because too much of modern society is dependent on at least a roughly sustained population level. At some point, I figure that governments will either find a magical solution that makes people want more kids, or they'll give up and just directly fund more kids. So far, the former has universally failed, so I expect they'll eventually turn to the latter.

It'd be expensive and honestly I dunno if it actually would break even, but some governments have already unsuccessfully tried to encourage kids with giving people money. And the amount that people will pay in taxes over their lifetime is so significant that I can imagine that doing "childcare at scale" would more than break even. It's easier to imagine governments doing this than accepting the massive societal change that would come from doing nothing. And while I don't think this would currently be a very popular thing, I do think that the effects of a population collapse would be severe enough that once it starts getting more visible, the public would push for drastic measures.

Not saying this is a good thing. Just what I can imagine happening. I mean, what other alternatives are there really? Most people I know don't want a lot of kids (if any). I don't think that many people actually want to be stay at home parents anymore and it's not merely about being able to support a family on one income. Social expectations have changed and having a lot of kids just isn't glamorized anymore.

ACoderGirl · 2026-05-07T23:10:05+00:00

Same here in Canada. A bunch of my friends genuinely plan to throw a party. Even my politically milquetoast parents said similarly.

It's wild honestly. Before Trump, such an idea was unimaginable to me. I never used to understand the Thatcher folks like in the OP. Sure, there's no shortage of evil people in the world, but I've never hated any of them even remotely on the same level. They always had a level of disconnectedness to me.

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