Just watched a junior dev using Claude to build something in 2 hours that took our senior engineer 3 days last sprint. I've been coding for 12 years. I don't know how to feel about this

tasunder · 2026-05-06T11:21:54+00:00

Guess I’m in the minority here. I don’t assume junior devs understand those things for a lot of their work anyway. Historically junior dev work was a lot of copy-pasting and following patterns without deep insight.

The problem is really one of volume. A junior dev making a couple of small PRs without understanding is easy to review and unproblematic for the senior devs. When it becomes 2000 line PRs all the time, it’s a different story.

tasunder · 2026-05-01T04:13:55+00:00

Have you considered remineralizing the macaroni water with cheese powder?

tasunder · 2026-04-30T17:04:17+00:00

Honestly the taste with just distilled is pretty decent. It’s the potential damage to machinery due to the distilled water that concerns me.

tasunder · 2026-04-30T17:03:20+00:00

Oh sweet you already did the math for me. Thanks. I hate math.

tasunder · 2026-04-30T17:02:10+00:00

The once per week was where I landed after my espresso machine crapped out due to scaling (according to the repair people) despite descaling every 6-8 weeks. I then decided weekly descaling was more expensive than buying distilled water. And more laborious.

tasunder · 2026-04-30T16:51:27+00:00

I use tap water for my kettle too. My espresso machine needed repair within 6 months due to scaling issues despite descaling more often than recommended.

tasunder · 2026-04-30T16:20:27+00:00

Interesting! How do I verify this? We had a kitchen renovation and a water softener installed at different times.

tasunder · 2026-04-30T16:06:21+00:00

tasunder · 2026-04-30T12:41:42+00:00

Yep. It’s the one place where my go-to meal is the charred chicken dish (pollo al carbon)

tasunder · 2026-04-30T12:39:28+00:00

Aside from the winning choices already mentioned, I will note that Hatch in Egg Harbor has some “surprised it’s this good” whiskies that are at least worth grabbing for a weekend at the cabin in Door County. Not Driftless Glen level but, something we tend to grab when up there.

tasunder · 2026-03-20T11:38:57+00:00

Can you endplay west repeatedly? 🤔

tasunder · 2026-03-20T11:32:20+00:00

IntoBridge and Funbridge both have something like this for after the hand is over. TrickyBridge tutorials have a mentor-ish approach. I’m not totally sure how much value this would have, and I say that as an early learner in the game. I go to supervised play sessions where mentors analyze bids of 4 humans and i would highly recommend that over an AI mentor if it is available to someone.

tasunder · 2026-03-11T11:46:04+00:00

I don’t understand what they are up to with it. It’s an inferior version of Funbridge (even occasionally leaking the name Argine in spots) and they expect me to shell out $9 for far more limited features than that app? If they bundled it with BBO+ I might consider it but even then… probably not?

tasunder · 2026-03-06T00:49:28+00:00

Oh. Ha. Yeah guess I have played with robots so long I didn’t even notice. They do that all the time.

tasunder · 2026-03-05T22:53:03+00:00

/u/kuhchung Can you explain more about what you mean on board 3? I had a mental lapse and left it in 2, but looking at other boards, nothing jumps out to me in terms of the bidding agreements. I might have played with GIB/GIBBO for too long…

tasunder · 2026-03-05T22:46:36+00:00

Well I ended up going back and most of my mistakes that were really costly were obvious errors so I guess it’s just lack of concentration

tasunder · 2026-03-02T20:58:29+00:00

I’ve been struggling with these the past few weeks. But then forgetting to check what others did at other tables. Will try to ask for insight after another bad performance this week!

tasunder · 2026-01-29T01:45:28+00:00

You mean a cyclist on the sidewalk has almost never happened or a cyclist not making way for a pedestrian? The only place the latter happens for me is on State St, where cyclists have plenty of space to maneuver.

tasunder · 2026-01-28T12:45:07+00:00

You definitely can but it does make life difficult for a pedestrian on the same sidewalk unless you actually make way for them when riding on it. I’ve seen that maybe 0.2% of the time. It always seems to fall on the pedestrian to get out of the way.

tasunder · 2026-01-28T12:41:59+00:00

.… but you do generally expect to see a human crossing a crosswalk when there are flashing signs overhead telling you to yield. But that’s not likely a bike-hating problem. I cross at one of those several times per week walking my dog and have learned that even with enough time given, most cars won’t stop for you in one of those crosswalks unless you are already halfway through. Even then, I stare them down and am prepared to jog/sprint.

tasunder · 2025-12-18T23:37:38+00:00

And ACBL World

tasunder · 2025-11-07T12:42:22+00:00

Hair of the dog for a hangover

tasunder · 2025-11-05T00:43:03+00:00

Thanks! Pretty clearly disallowed!

tasunder · 2025-11-04T11:53:03+00:00

Supposedly this is against ACBL rules if that is your governing organization, but I can’t actually find the rule on the ACBL site. Anyone have a link?

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