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  • A crazy number of devs weren’t even using EXISTING code assistant tooling.

    Enterprise grade IDEs already had tons of tooling to generate classes and perform refactoring in a sane and algorithmic way. In a way that was deterministic.

    So many use cases people have tried to sell me on (boilerplate handling) and im like “you have that now and don’t even use it!”.

    I think there is probably a way to use llms to try and extract intention and then call real dependable tools to actually perform the actions. This cult of purity where the llm must actually be generating the tokens themselves… why?

    I’m all for coding tools. I love them. They have to actually work though. Paradigm is completely wrong right now. I don’t need it to “appear” good, i need it to BE good.





  • I’m not suggesting it’s beneficial to remove these people.

    I’m suggesting that they be paid the market value for thier talents and that their presence benefit that nation, not a specific company.

    H1B should be replaced by visas with no ties to a company. That’s it.

    When you argue about global markets, i see that as completely unrelated. There is a mechanism for that already and it’s called offshoreing. You wanna move a factory or tech work to an area with a lower cost of living and can pay them less? Go nuts. You want people on shore? Allow them unfettered access to market their skills at the market price of the labour.

    Again, I’m not against people who are here (there, the USA), and I empathize with rural Healthcare. As a rural Canadian all of my doctors have been originally from South Africa for as long as I’ve been alive.

    This genuinely isn’t an anti-immigrant stance. My wife is an immigrant.

    Bring people to your nation and invite them to join your society. The whole idea of bringing people in as second class citizens to be exploited is perverse. I’m not saying don’t have the people. I’m saying empowering those people is in the best interests of abso-fucking-lutely everyone.

    Except the CEOs, i guess, but you’ll forgive me if I can’t muster a tear.


  • H1-B’s, being tied to a company, are extremely exploitive.

    In Canada, you get fired/quit you don’t get a paycheck.

    In the US, if you’re a citizen or green card holder, you get fired/quit you don’t get a paycheck AND you lose your Healthcare. This is a major way to abuse your workers.

    In the US, if you’re H1B and you get fired/quit you don’t get a paycheck, lose your Healthcare insurance, and are ejected from the country. You can’t even just switch jobs. It’s extremely predatory and allows companies to fuck you so badly because you have so much to lose.

    If the workers were truly great talent, it’s in the interest of the country to have them working ANYWHERE in the country. If they were TRULY great rare talents in industries starved for workers, it’s counter productive to not let the free hand of the market guide them to the best employers.

    That’s the scam.

    H1Bs, being tied to a company, provide a clear incentive for abuse by a company to use them to pay people less than market wages knowing there is no recourse. It deflated the market value of local workers. Average workers who’ll work for below average pay, accept unlimited overtime, and not push back on HR violations or even explicitly illegal actions by their employers is a big win for the company.

    They aren’t the best and brightest. They by definition can’t be. With the reality of the arrangement, the “best and brightest” can and will and always have found greener less abusive pastures elsewhere.

    If you want to be in that arrangement, you’re not that bright. If you can’t find better, you’re not the best.

    H1B is a really bad program. Employers mobility would mitigate most of my issues, but that will NEVER happen because from the industry, that’s the whole point





  • Led Zeppelin - How the West Was Won

    I’d heard many times from people who were old enough to see them live that it was a completely unique experience, describing how the band fed off the energy of the crowd.

    Didn’t fully comprehend the magnitude of that truth until I heard that live album. I’ve heard other live albums from other artists where it was performed roughly the same as the studio version with the further addition of a cheering crowd. This was a completely different animal.

    How The West Was Won really showcased how malleable a work is in the hands of truly talented artists.


  • As others have said, the mailbox and booby-trap laws aren’t the same thing.

    Setting aside basic morality for a second, and strictly from a societal organizational perspective of which is the purpose of law, they’re incompatible with the reality of society.

    For starters, there is literally nowhere you can put one that society has agreed is off limits in all circumstances forever, which is important because the nature of a trap is that they can survive longer than whoever set it.

    Consider your neighbor witnesses you clutch your chest and collapse in your home so they call 911, and the first responders get blasted by a tripwire shotgun. Consider you get hit by a car and die, and your next of kin come to gather your belongings and meet the same fate. Consider you booby trap a basement closet, get dimentia, and your homecare worker gets blasted because you forgot you even did that when you were young and insane rather than merely old and demented.

    By nature of a booby trap, you can’t foresee who will trip it or why. You’ve surrendered contextual judgement. It strictly CAN NOT be proportional.




  • Really depends on your home, but a few that I had…

    • If you have wood floors, a bulk pack of sticky felt pads for furniture you buy to not scratch them up

    • Robot vacuum (or vac/mop)

    • Basic power tools

    • Electric lawn mower/weed whacker that uses the SAME BATTERIES as your power tools

    • if you’re a nerd and wanna do “smart home” stuff, don’t buy smart lights, buy smart switches

    • a touchless live-wire tester

    • A label maker

    • Big pack of furnace filters

    • an accordion folder thingy for the billions of documents you’ll wanna keep (receipts/user manuals for appliances), property tax assessments, etc

    • Bulk pack of lightbulbs with the same colour temperature (it looks idiotic if all your lights are different hues)

    • nail-in picture frame hangers, wall anchors (they’re YOUR walls now!)

    • keycode deadbolt

    • most microwaves have a way to enable “silent mode”, do that

    • water sensors (smart if possible), put under your hot water tank and dishwasher

    • double check your laundry room drain actually has a slope to it, and isn’t the damn high point in the room

    • if you’re not living with a romantic partner… I’d suggest not blowing your budget decorating… Let them have the space to feel like they can make the space thiers as well, and accept that means some of your decorations are going to be retired



  • Edit: I’d originally written a response that matched your tone, and realized after a smoke that it’s needlessly confrontational and snarky, so I’m going to take another shot.

    I don’t mean to imply that it’s imperative that you don’t make your own screws.

    If you wanna make your own screws, go ahead, but I still don’t think you should 3D print them. There are existing tools to do that which are cheap, simple, and will produce vastly superior screws. Also cheaper. A tap and die set is your answer there.

    Also, if you want to leverage your 3D printer, use it for what it is actually good at which is creating complex bespoke geometries. Design your components with interlocking geometries such that you don’t NEED screws.

    Screws exist as the convenient solution to a manufacturing problem, being that it’s often easier to create complex geometries by producing a set of simpler geometries and then fastening them together. The underlying problem goes away if you can print arbitrarily complex components.

    If you think you gotta 3D print screws, you’re probably not even actually leveraging the new technology to its fullest extent anyways, you’re still designing with an old paradigm despite having new options.


  • I think you’ve completely missed the point.

    We produce screws at industrial quantities, out of various materials, lengths, heads, pitches, etc etc etc.

    The industrial scaling of this production results in screws being really really inexpensive. So inexpensive that depending on quantity you’re looking at, the finished screws are no more expensive to you than the raw materials.

    Yeah you can print a screw. The question is why?. It will be more expensive per unit, more labour intensive, of worse quality, and will do wear and tear to equipment you own. It’s a lose/lose/lose/lose.

    The one exception is that it is some mystical bespoke screw. And even then, it is likely that there are traditional methods which would better achieve that end (buy some screws that you can develop a process to modify in order to meet your needs)

    It’s a good analogy. Yes you CAN 3D print a screw. It doesn’t mean it’s appropriate or even economical to include them in your products. Yes you CAN vibe code something. It doesn’t mean it’s appropriate or even economical to include them in your products.