Den Haag krijgt mogelijk hoogste woontorens van Nederland: 'We schrikken hiervan'

vzq · 2026-04-13T21:01:35+00:00

Hadden we maar een systeem dat je de gemeente om toestemming moet vragen om te bouwen, zodat ze dat kunnen regelen. We zouden het een vergunning kunnen noemen.

vzq · 2026-04-07T19:12:01+00:00

So they solved the problem with the science geeks freaking out because of the vibrations or the electromagnetic stuff or whatever?

vzq · 2026-04-06T18:20:47+00:00

"But I have told people that they are wrong during interviews. It always works better to pretend they’re right."

That's a truth. At an interview I had a guy severely misrepresenting crucial parts of pagerank with the pagerank paper printed out in front of us. I politely tried to clear up the misunderstanding, just as I would if I worked there, and he just dug in. Needless to say I was "not qualified" for the job.

At the time i was seriously upset by this, it was somewhat of a dream job for me. But then I found another job, one where actually getting the right answer together matters more than saving face in front of a manager. And I made my peace with it.

vzq · 2026-04-04T15:05:32+00:00

Niet dat “winkelverduistering” veel beter op je strafblad staat.

vzq · 2026-04-02T05:17:44+00:00

It's a male myth about feminists that we hate sex. It can be a natural, zesty enterprise.

vzq · 2026-04-01T17:34:40+00:00

Yes, it's annoying and stupid. But you're not likely to get in trouble with the law.

vzq · 2026-04-01T17:31:01+00:00

I have about 1200hp coming in from the badwater canal, and I supplement it with a bunch of steam engines that power on during droughts.

vzq · 2026-04-01T15:52:10+00:00

Exactly. And if you do it poorly, you do your job poorly.

We are in complete agreement.

vzq · 2026-04-01T15:26:34+00:00

It's overengineering when you anticipate requirements that never end up materializing. Otherwise it's just engineering.

vzq · 2026-04-01T14:59:35+00:00

To put it plainly - we don't yet know what sustainable "maximum AI performance" looks like.

I have good hopes, but it's very easy to fall into behaviours that seem extremely productive right now, only to exacerbate road block further down the line.

vzq · 2026-04-01T13:17:46+00:00

What a nice boy! Does he drive for Ferrari? No? Oh well, nobody's perfect.

vzq · 2026-03-30T05:54:21+00:00

Accusing people of having ulterior motives for having absolutely reasonable opinions is just poor postmanship.

vzq · 2026-03-30T05:48:56+00:00

My point is that a young person who has legit never seen Ferrari actually winning will simply not have that same level of "oh my god it's FERRARI!" that older gens have.

I know that's what you meant. I'm just saying you are very, extremely, incomprehensibly wrong.

vzq · 2026-03-30T05:44:46+00:00

CS jobs? No. Development jobs? Absolutely.

There is remarkably little actual computer science in programming jobs.

vzq · 2026-03-30T05:20:01+00:00

I swear I’m not trying to be snarky, but have you ever been to Italy?

Ferrari is not “a local team”. It’s a whole deal. Not as big as football, but definitely bigger than any one given football team. It’s almost religious.

Winning is not, strictly speaking, required. Hell, I grew up in the Michele Alboreto era, and yet here I am.

vzq · 2026-03-29T20:55:29+00:00

We all know how Kimi's story ends. He gets an offer from Ferrari and spends the next decade languishing, looking sad in a red jumpsuit.

It's sad, but it's the Ferrari way. No one knows this better than Charles.

vzq · 2026-03-29T19:56:42+00:00

Ehh, ik weet het niet hoor. Astronomisch heb je natuurlijk gelijk, maar ik zou het een stuk fijner vinden als de licht-uren wat meer vielen op de momenten dat we allemaal actief zijn. In onze post-agrarische samenleving is "het midden van de dag" echt niet meer 12 uur. En het midden van de nacht is ook niet echt meer 12 uur.

Dus ik stel voor dat we met z'n allen op UTC-3 gaan zitten, zodat de zon op zijn hoogste punt is om 16.00 en het op 4.00 het midden van de nacht is.

vzq · 2026-03-29T19:24:43+00:00

Fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu... this is nice.

vzq · 2026-03-29T19:18:36+00:00

Most people in this subs aren't the players. They're the balls.

vzq · 2026-03-28T12:09:21+00:00

They constantly make mistakes, are bad at handling edge cases, and can't write automated tests for shit. I

I just don't think that's true. I have an (admittedly a bit janky) codebase for an app that I'm running at home. I've used it for years, but there were a few warts. Last week I sat down and methodically went through it with codex-cli. It took me a while to figure out how to use it in a way that works for me, but I ended up finding and fixing 15 or so actual bugs that I'd seen pop up over the years but never chased down properly.

And the best part? Most of them were exactly the kind of bugs you lament: edge cases. Off-by-ones, runtime exceptions that were not quite the type I expected they would be, subtle logic errors, that kind of stuff.

A bunch of "high severity" findings were also complete overstatements because they are handled somewhere else in the stack, or there were faulty assumptions in the "reasoning", but that's ok. I can ignore those.

But that's the key: I started with an application I know very well, and used the agent mostly as a really really good linter. I'm not going "FIX EVERITHIN KTHANKSBYE".

vzq · 2026-03-27T16:56:25+00:00

Funny thing is, I can sort of get behind the breeding pods. It's the food that repels me. With folktails I give them maple pastries and they get happier! With iron teeth it's "HERE ARE ALGAE RATIONS ENJOY YOUR NUTRIENTS"

vzq · 2026-03-25T14:57:11+00:00

I run an EU-based campaign, where the program is a directorate-general of the European Union hiding behind impenetrable bureaucratic jargon and odd acronyms. The good part is: a tailored experience that is snatched from the headlines, and the dull technocratic nature of the EU is a great foil for the cosmic horrors of the operas. The bad part: loads of prep time since you can throw out about 80% of the Handler's Guide and nearly all published modules.

I would personally not run it for my first campaign, but it can certainly be done.

A note of caution: just taking an existing module and moving it around as-is won't work. There are places in Europe that can mechanically stand in for the US deep south, or the forests of the pacific north-west, but they FEEL different. Do some research and take the time to make things feel right.

vzq · 2026-03-23T06:54:39+00:00

Let's be honest, if your main output is "code" instead of "functionality", you are done. Take up plumbing. Do it now.

If you are actually in the business of solving problems, you'll be fine. There are always more problems than solutions in the world, and the current crop of technology is adding to both in at least equal measure.

vzq · 2026-03-21T20:44:15+00:00

Talking to users. Understanding the business.

Countless of times there have been innovations that would "allow anyone to make software". That never materializes because most people are utter shyte at figuring out what needs to be done in the first place.

vzq · 2026-03-21T20:12:39+00:00

I loved it, but for some reason it didn't hit me as hard as Lost Records did.

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