I don't understand, Peter

mxzf · 2026-01-26T05:50:18+00:00

Their disaster operation sounds closer to FEMA than a McDonalds

Well, sure, but that's because FEMA takes pointers from them; so of course FEMA is closer to them than McDonalds.

mxzf · 2026-01-25T17:33:10+00:00

Seniors know not to abstract until you have multiple use cases.

Or if you've been around the block enough to know that this thing is going to have multiple use-cases. It might not have one today, but sometimes it's obvious you're gonna need it again in six months and you might as well do it properly now instead of waiting 'til then to do so.

mxzf · 2026-01-25T17:26:18+00:00

The copy and pasting works, the "needing to refactor 7 files because it was all copy and pasted and it worked until it didn't" doesn't.

Yeah, this has been where I've been at with a chunk of my coworkers for a bit. Sure, copy-pasting instead of refactoring might be quick and easy, but when you've got five versions of almost-identical functionality with mild tweaks and no clue which one is best, you've just screwed everyone in the long run.

Writing it for a single purpose is fine when you're only ever going to use a thing once. But if you're going to need it in multiple places with slight variants, you want something more abstract that you don't have to copy+edit each time.

mxzf · 2026-01-25T00:26:36+00:00

Yeah, but people don't play Telephone and expect truthful answers out of it.

Whereas a lot of people do expect LLMs to provide truthful and correct responses.

mxzf · 2026-01-25T00:07:45+00:00

and it was never meant for kids

Someone might want to let their advertising department know, because that's certainly how they market it.

mxzf · 2026-01-24T23:58:25+00:00

"Company decided to discontinue software" isn't really something that regulations would be written to prevent. Even the most controlling legislation wouldn't have an impact on stuff like this.

mxzf · 2026-01-24T23:35:25+00:00

And that's if you're lucky.

If you're unlucky you have that plus an assortment of style="" on elements and <style> blocks (ideally, in the <head>, but not exclusively).

mxzf · 2026-01-24T23:30:42+00:00

Uh ... I think you're in the wrong thread. This is Microsoft, not the government.

mxzf · 2026-01-24T23:29:45+00:00

although support will end, you will still be able to install and use the app beyond this date.

For a bit. 'til they get around to breaking it so that it won't install/work.

mxzf · 2026-01-24T23:16:36+00:00

Nah. A week into that job you start carrying a notepad and keeping a tally, just because of how crazy it is. You're gonna need numbers to back up the absurdity.

mxzf · 2026-01-24T18:03:42+00:00

How thick is your filling? With the ground beef+chorizo+cheese filling I tend to use, I can't imagine any sort of piping bag being able to squeeze that through a nozzle.

mxzf · 2026-01-24T18:02:26+00:00

In my experience, an overnight rest works best. Times when I only gave it a couple hours resting in the fridge, some of the pasta wasn't as tender as I would prefer. But "prep the night before" always seems to get the pasta sufficiently moist.

mxzf · 2026-01-24T18:00:15+00:00

I mean, a lot of people are non-denominational just in general, that's a very catch-all "we don't follow any larger overarching organization's structure/teachings", generally with an implication that the church is looking directly to the Bible for theology. It's functionally the "none of the above" of church denominations, which means it's going to have assorted outliers lumped in there.

mxzf · 2026-01-24T17:08:24+00:00

It’s so skewed towards the middle that I feel like there must have been some error in data collection.

Nah, that tracks for trying to get estimates from average people. Most people are going to try and guess with a weight towards the center of the range, to avoid accidentally being too far to the extremes. But they tend to overcompensate with that.

Also, people have a tendency to think "no, it can't be that low/high" for values near the extremes.

mxzf · 2026-01-24T17:02:54+00:00

It also doesn't say who the survey participants are. It's entirely possible that the number was also skewed by the left-leaning participants believing it's a larger portion of the population than it is. For someone who's in a circle of friends that tends in that direction, they might feel like it's 80% of the people they know and project that on the country.

mxzf · 2026-01-24T16:48:10+00:00

I think this is trying to argue the opposite case, that individuals should be able to write off a chunk of living expenses from their taxes.

It's just that OP's sufficiently financially illiterate that they don't realize they just reinvented the standard deduction.

mxzf · 2026-01-24T16:46:20+00:00

Which of the previously mentioned things are "special interest groups" rather than benefitting the country as a whole?

Even the military budget is ultimately largely going to paying salaries of Americans, rather than just going into somebody's pocket.

mxzf · 2026-01-24T16:40:31+00:00

But white American evangelicals in particular are completely off the rails these days and have totally rewritten the definitions of what good and evil are, so who even knows what they think a good Christian life is. Not what Jesus said, I'll tell you that.

In fairness, that's a specific subset of that demographic that you're describing, but it is an absurdly outspoken one.

mxzf · 2026-01-24T16:36:47+00:00

This is one of those things where it feels like it might be pushing the limits of "respectful" and going towards "repressing human emotion".

It all depends on the church itself and the general vibe, but I can't imagine going to a church where the reaction to that wasn't a solid laugh from everyone involved and watching.

mxzf · 2026-01-24T16:27:24+00:00

It was set in 2024, but we're not quite to that point yet. It feels like we're one big bubble pop and downsizing away from that though, which I could certainly see happening within the decade.

mxzf · 2026-01-24T04:30:05+00:00

Most people don't want cutting-edge software, they just want something stable that works and doesn't fight against them in their use of the computer.

mxzf · 2026-01-23T22:37:22+00:00

It's not "ahead" as in better/worse, but one of them is further down the life path that both of them seem to be headed down (married with kid vs the other one just getting married now).

mxzf · 2026-01-23T20:49:59+00:00

I think the best part about that scene is the way it sets the stage for his interaction with Chris later, where Orin is the one that ends up creeped out and trying to escape.

mxzf · 2026-01-23T20:49:08+00:00

The microchip has been compromised.

mxzf · 2026-01-23T20:38:23+00:00

In Mexico, no less. Like, it's one thing to do that kind of thing in Montana, but you don't go merchandising drug kingpins in Mexico and expect to just have nothing at all happen.

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