“Fiscal Conservatism”

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Seeing “Sue” the tyrannasaur’s skeleton at the Chicago Field Museum is pretty impressive. Last time I was there, she was still in the main hall. You walk in and this thing is towering over you, making you just a little glad you didn’t exist 67 million years ago because you are a perfectly sized snack for a 12 meter long T-Rex.

It is just her humble bragging about being rich by cosplaying as a regular person.

Pretending to be rich yet grounded while actually being neither.

This kind of seems like a solution in search of a problem. Most modern high level programming languages are easily readable, ‘english oriented’, and already capable of at least some level of cross platform development.

One of the main problems with any programing language or framework is that flexibility breeds complexity. If they seriously think they’re going to lower the complexity of programming by allowing devs to write programs [essentially] in plain English, and then let AI do the rest, I think it’s a recipe for disappointment.

TBF, if your steak is well done, you’re probably gonna need some sauce since half the flavor has been cooked out of it.

At least they do initially.

A good rule for those in leadership, or just for people who want to get along with others in general, is “be at least twice as willing to complement as you are to criticize.”

Sometimes people need to be told when they’ve failed. They also need to be told when they’ve succeeded. In the context of software engineering, the best team leads are the ones who actually take the time to understand the code in your PR and let you know if there’s something specific that they like.

That’s how you know they’re doing their job instead of just speeding through the code review looking for low hanging fruit mistakes.

The performance is actually not bad. You’re far better off using conventional columns but in the one off cases where you have to store queryable JSON data, it actually performs quite well.

What’s that? Did you say you needed an RDBMS that can also handle JSON data? Well have I got good news for you!

Footloose Intensifies

My wife. She often has no idea what I’m talking about but she listens patiently and at least looks like she’s interested. I appreciate her for that.

Granted, writing the boilerplate for all possible 64 bit integers is a bit laborious,

I’ve been trying to figure out roughly how many lines of code that would equal out to but I’ve run out of fingers.

“I got on the plane but I did not exit when we landed.”

Ingen went all “move fast, break things” but with genetically engineered apex predators. Pretty much worked out exactly as expected.

I believe the technical term for that is “Keepy Uppy.”

It what you do with what you’ve got that counts.

Just knowing that a black person’s ass cheeks have touched the same toilet seat as theirs is enough to make racists lose their minds.

Probably the “Big Beautiful Ugly Bill”, which is very unpopular, so they are trying to ram it through the house as quickly as possible.