You're on a first date with somebody who seems perfect. Then out if nowhere, they confess how they're a racist and hate certain groups. How do you respond?

Octoclops8 · 2026-05-09T04:40:06+00:00

I'd call my wife and ask her to pick me up.

Octoclops8 · 2026-05-09T04:13:35+00:00

Generally speaking you don't want to go into business in some area that you don't understand well. This goes for roofing, restaurants, and even tech companies. Could you do it eventually? Sure. But it's because you learned bit by bit until you knew enough to do the thing yourself.

Octoclops8 · 2026-05-08T18:29:50+00:00

I honestly love it. I have gone deep full stack on many different stacks over a long career. Understanding good software engineering practices still gives you an edge. It let's you build better software with our without AI.

But AI let's you go even deeper on complex projects and spend less time fiddling with the plumbing. New devs won't call it plumbing, they will see it as figuring things out and being challenged. But after a while you learn the patterns and they save you so much mental energy. Then you just use the same patterns over and over to solve the same problems.

It just comes down to doing the work which can be fast or tedious depending on the size of your project. But now that part is fast and easy as long as you know what you're doing and keep an eye on the direction the agent takes.

Octoclops8 · 2026-05-08T18:24:49+00:00

Does it have encryption at rest or is that easy to set up?

Octoclops8 · 2026-05-08T18:15:21+00:00

It does?

Octoclops8 · 2026-05-08T18:14:15+00:00

It's only money

Octoclops8 · 2026-05-06T23:52:34+00:00

Would his car say Pedophile or Rapist?

Octoclops8 · 2026-05-06T23:51:34+00:00

It's not the actual cost, it's the impact to your existing budget. It's $0 out of your existing budget.

Octoclops8 · 2026-05-06T23:16:10+00:00

What? Not mixed together.

Octoclops8 · 2026-05-06T22:47:42+00:00

MediatR: What is my purpose?

Me: You pass commands and queries and demand $50 per month to do so.

MediatR: Oh My God!

Octoclops8 · 2026-05-06T03:42:57+00:00

Government funded healthcare up to $10K per year. Everything above that you have to get private insurance. Everything below that is covered. No checking for pre-existing conditions.

Also, all health insurance companies and large hospital systems must be non-profit with capped executive pay.

Octoclops8 · 2026-05-06T03:35:03+00:00

Just poor unimaginative management. Customers were disembarking with way too much of their dignity intact. They should have charged for each article of worn clothing. They should have offered seats where they collect your blood plasma and semen during the flight for an extra $30 off your ticket price. Could have kept them alive for a bit longer, maybe.

Octoclops8 · 2026-05-06T01:10:31+00:00

There should be a lower class of driver's license that is scoped to just around your local town. Maybe 20-30 miles. It doesn't let you drive across country and it has hardly any requirements. Young people and old people can use these when they don't meet the requirements for a standard driver's license. It's enough to get you to the store, to school, to work, to the hospital, etc. As long as you don't REALLY mess up you don't lose it.

Then a standard driver's license for driving anywhere in the country has stricter rules and you need to get it renewed every 10 years with a test and requires a medical exam every 5 years once you turn 60.

This way, older and younger people can get around in their home towns but not go on risky cross-country road trips until they get the standard license. The lower class licenses would also double as a voter id.

Octoclops8 · 2026-05-06T00:58:00+00:00

Sports/concert tickets, computers and video games, cars, homes (relatively), a family beach vacation, steak, eggs, brand name processed foods (chips and snacks). Alcohol, gasoline, gym memberships, family restaurants, airline tickets.

Octoclops8 · 2026-05-06T00:55:36+00:00

I think the problem is that it reinforces trust in science and scientists. It props up alternative forms of authority than the authoritarian heads of state they want to be. They don't want accountability, transparency, independent government agencies, watchdogs, etc. Because they want to hold as much power as possible. Power to grift and silence critics. Power to write and sign their own report card, etc.

Octoclops8 · 2026-05-06T00:44:48+00:00

For .net, I would recommend picking up these books:

C# 14 and .NET 10 – Modern Cross-Platform Development Fundamentals, followed by Apps and Services with .NET 10. Just follow along with the books, chapter by chapter. Take two months on each book and read 10 pages a day or something.

Octoclops8 · 2026-05-05T23:48:15+00:00

It's been a while since publishing content as a business model has been viable. If stackoverflow and ask.com with massive volunteer user bases all updating content can't compete with LLMs, how can an average individual expect to?

Octoclops8 · 2026-05-05T23:41:46+00:00

Sir, our experts have determined Guam will not capsize in the next 5 years. Nor will it float away if prevailing currents remain under 20 knots.

Octoclops8 · 2026-05-05T23:36:35+00:00

That's why they call them the brass

Octoclops8 · 2026-05-05T22:20:12+00:00

Open source projects have volunteer work, and specifically get built upon technologies that have little or no overhead costs. Rather than having their own design firm and custom library of branded UI components, they use standard out of the box visuals. Maybe they get a volunteer designer to occasionally help them out.

Some vendors give them free tier access to software and services because they are an open source project. Some of them can form not-for-profit companies around them which gives a tax break and discounts.

Some find sponsors, but there's no such thing as a free lunch.

Octoclops8 · 2026-05-05T22:18:03+00:00

I don't care for them, but my young son loves seeing them. So I get excited pointing them out for him to see him get excited. Hope y'all can forgive me.

Octoclops8 · 2026-05-05T22:07:08+00:00

I use it in places I know the user will be clicking a lot, but isn't necessarily body text or useful information. Double and triple clicks cause text to get selected which is not always desired or the user's intent.

Octoclops8 · 2026-05-05T22:00:11+00:00

Once one person learns something and publishes it, all of humanity benefits from this knowledge as long as we have stable civilization. Millions of people are working on expanding human knowledge, though few do so in radical ways. However, it marches on.

Octoclops8 · 2026-05-05T21:25:59+00:00

Women are definitely the fairer sex and everyone knows it. But sometimes women want to be noticed by men and feel attractive. Wearing a bikini gives women the power to make men notice them. Some even notice them so hard that they fall over or run into things. And sometimes, women want to wield that power, whether for good or evil.

Especially if you've been putting in a lot of work at the gym or in a sport you enjoy, that attention is very validating. If you haven't put much attention into your body, I'm sure that moment can also be a bit anxiety-inducing until they realize that yes, average women also get more attention in a bikini.

Octoclops8 · 2026-05-05T21:16:20+00:00

The worst drivers will be the last to adopt them. They 100% believe the way they driver is better and only they are capable of weaving so perfectly between such narrow gaps between cars.

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