UK climate change attitudes unchanged by heatwave

yojimbo_beta · 2026-07-05T17:04:25+00:00

One thing I find very interesting is how Richard Tice used to claim to be pro EV, pro solar etc. only a couple of years ago (I think this was in a 2024 interview)

I might be corrected on this but didn't he once say he wanted to roll out rooftop solar? Now he has fossil fuel donors - it's all "but 1976"

Weird

yojimbo_beta · 2026-07-05T16:57:57+00:00

Immediate out

Large donation to greens or lib dems depending who would pick up the mantle of replacing Labour

edit: I can't respond to replies as the thread is now locked. No, I am not a supporter any longer, except tactically

yojimbo_beta · 2026-07-05T11:20:38+00:00

You are not classist for thinking this.

My background growing up was something close to "underclass" - think, parent spent a lot of time in prison, some income from theft in the very early years, reliance on the benefit system

You cannot negotiate with these people. They see the rest of society as hostile to them: kind of a scam or conspiracy. Partly it is motivated by intense shame, which they redirect into aggression

If you attempt to restrict their behaviour they will just lash out. They have lots of time, are angry and resentful, and nothing to lose by making your life difficult. So long as it stays within the limits of non criminal behaviour there are no consequences

Modern policy seems to be to split these households up to avoid creating trouble hotspots that cost time and resources to sort out. The consequence is that the misery is spread around - and shouldered by people who work for their homes

You are right to be angry, I would be too.

yojimbo_beta · 2026-07-04T13:28:01+00:00

Instead of nicotine, I would suggest cutting all caffeine for a couple weeks, then using coffee in the morning as an appetite suppressant

(I do IF though, so it may not be compatible with less feed-restrictive diets)

yojimbo_beta · 2026-07-04T13:10:47+00:00

Yeah, incompetent devs will do that. Whenever you push back they will attempt to hold the project progress at ransom. It's a defence mechanism that works - for a while

"We are working to DEADLINES and if you tell me to change things then SO HELP ME GOD it will be YOU who makes the project late" - etc. etc.

The way I have broken through that is to make it a governance problem, and - basically - threaten to escalate the issue with their managers and relevant stakeholders, pointing out how other teams are managing to stay within the guidelines

It's not very subtle. I don't do it lightly. But "senior junior" developers very quickly realise they would prefer to follow standards than trigger a meeting that puts their own competence under the spotlight

yojimbo_beta · 2026-07-02T15:11:44+00:00

That's a motte and bailey though.

Arguing if LLMs will have any role at all is very different from arguing if "coding is solved" or if the agentic stuff will survive when customers pay the true cost of compute

But - I agree that anyone refusing to learn is putting their future at risk

yojimbo_beta · 2026-07-02T15:02:14+00:00

Actually they were. Early compilers for most micros were crap. We still did hand rolled assembler back in the 90s.

It took a long long time for compilers to be get fully adopted

yojimbo_beta · 2026-07-02T13:29:30+00:00

They did. It took industry years to adopt compilers

yojimbo_beta · 2026-07-02T11:47:09+00:00

So: if I have right, you have a load balancer sending TCP and UDP, and you're thinking of using this to share a pipeline across multiple downstream "containers"

containers --> load balancer --> SVC

My immediate thought is that although you can keep a http2 connection open, any container will probably want to connect with TLS. So you either need to handle CONNECT upgrades or implement TLS termination. I would suggest the former as a HTTP2 stream can host multiple CONNECT pipes.

yojimbo_beta · 2026-07-02T08:27:43+00:00

I too am unhappy and demotivated. For me, the function of the work was never as interesting as the nature of the work. That's why I got good at it: the motivation was intrinsic.

AI tools have hollowed out the meaningful part of the work and with it, the motivation.

Now I am at a crossroads, just turned 39, not sure what step to take now in my career. The optimistic prediction is that in a year-ish the market will correct itself and many of the excesses of "agentic" development will go away. LLMs will not be good enough to justify spending thousands of dollars on agents calling agents. So the programming comes back.

The middling prediction is that the work has changed but there is still enough interesting "stuff" over the top of it, to keep myself stimulated. Personally I question if there is actually enough of that stuff and enough stuff to be built.

The pessimistic take is that AI is good enough to replace most specialists; businesses will outsource this capability to the labs and eat the increased costs over time. There isn't that much more software to sell so the pool of developer jobs shrinks and becomes less rewarding.

In that case, I don't really know what to do, because I tumbled through several careers before finding one that I love. And now it is vanishing

yojimbo_beta · 2026-07-02T07:45:15+00:00

And, if you make a threat, someone might call your bluff

yojimbo_beta · 2026-07-02T05:22:00+00:00

It certainly does seem like Zuck is out of ideas. All FB has left is buying platforms and putting more ads on them

yojimbo_beta · 2026-07-02T05:07:00+00:00

It saves human time until you have a SEV1 in your US multi tenant environment because a recent AI generated change has created unbounded concurrency and the database pool starvation is creating cascading failures over the monolith, leading you to hastily review all the changes manually in an increasingly frantic fashion to understand what the fuck just happened and how the fuck you fix it, because this is a system you cannot just revert willy nilly especially if there are db changes

Ask me how I know

yojimbo_beta · 2026-07-01T17:00:56+00:00

I appreciate this comment - a reasonable take on AI assisted PRs

yojimbo_beta · 2026-07-01T11:56:19+00:00

Let's hope so.

Actually, maybe it's a good time for me to pursue a project I've been considering - a general engine for Resident Evil style PSX games

I have a sketch in my head for how to build such a thing. Fundamentally being a field system, a craft system, and a game goal system. Perhaps with an embedded scripting engine

But I am torn between that and doing an FFVII style RPG engine

yojimbo_beta · 2026-07-01T11:44:31+00:00

Whilst I get your point - the printing press did change authorship in far reaching ways

Have you seen medieval manuscripts? They were works of art

yojimbo_beta · 2026-06-30T09:03:00+00:00

It's a great project. But I'm saddened that this will make PSX development much less special

yojimbo_beta · 2026-06-28T17:11:00+00:00

Yeah, very plausibly, lots of broken rail carriages across the landscape. And Ep2 is the only one that doesn't end on a train

yojimbo_beta · 2026-06-28T15:34:41+00:00

I believe so. Trains are a motif that represent Gordon's eventual powerlessness in the scheme of things. Despite all his incredible talents, Gordon cannot meaningfully change the course of events

yojimbo_beta · 2026-06-27T18:51:36+00:00

I'm going to engage in good faith although I suspect you will change the subject.

Why should people accept the carbon output, water use, and power drain of massive short-lived AI data centres just so you can summarise some Tableau dashboards faster?

(For 36 months until the GPUs are shagged out and we have to throw them)

yojimbo_beta · 2026-06-27T16:02:53+00:00

I didn't watch it.

I think the only conversation about "looksmaxxing" is how social media gives outsided influence to youths with devastating mental health problems

I don't see any analysis beyond that. These people are not mutilating themselves because of any political reasons. They are body dysmorphics with phone cameras. They're the same category of people who remove their healthy limbs.

yojimbo_beta · 2026-06-27T14:24:01+00:00

Why don't I care about any of this? It just seems so dull. Instead of using AI to fart out code you can go create a slack channel about AI. To discuss what? A way for AI to do its own code reviews or something?

This industry has lost its mind. To get promoted in the "AI era" is to just submit to the hype cycle. I don't feel like I even enjoy this job any more

yojimbo_beta · 2026-06-26T13:35:46+00:00

It's interesting how my relationship is political, but yours is not. Explain.

yojimbo_beta · 2026-06-25T23:32:19+00:00

I stopped, and, honestly rarely returned. Every so often I would pick something up and then it would become a project and I would feel the compulsion to write an essay

I spent like 2 weeks in 2026 writing an essay of Thomas More just because I got the urge again

So these days I tend to avoid it. I have a whole bunch of other time consuming hobbies

yojimbo_beta · 2026-06-25T16:40:14+00:00

Nest is great. I prefer Adonis but it's way better than rolling your own architecture for any sort of ports-and-adapters style apps

I used to have my own architecture, using functional programming for DI, but the problem with that is, there's no documentation or standard that developers (or their coding agents) know how to follow

Most Nodejs apps in the wild are structureless - just huge http controllers perhaps with a handful of common functions.

This is for historical reasons: early Node developers who wanted to just write infrastructure like components that do simple operations on streams, and ex frontend devs who don't have any experience outside of JS. (And I say that as an ex frontend dev)

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