Nate Cox @ natecox @programming.dev

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“You just need to educate and inform!!!”

“Ok, we’ll educate and inform people using a proven method we’ve already successfully implemented with cigarettes”

“No not like that!!”

I may not have a monopoly on pain, but you’re certainly trying hard to have one on being intentionally obtuse.

Thanks, I appreciate you.

Yes, I have. It was much more pleasant.

Watch someone live in agony for months, then come back and be a smart ass.

Edit: also, why the fuck would anything you said above matter? Nobody is telling you that you can’t drink, they just want to make sure you know and accept the risks.

I’m not Canadian, but I think that anyone who has watched a loved one suffer and wither and die in agony from cancer would argue that you deserve to know when you’re putting yourself at risk of that.

None of those warning labels seem excessive or pointless anymore after watching the last months of my father’s life.

Grave Digger has several albums which follow both fictional and actual stories. Notably there are three albums known as the “Middle Ages trilogy”: Tunes of War, Knights of the Cross, and Excalibur.

They’re killing it? Where did you hear that?

Do these designers not have children? Wiping pee off the seat is like an every time thing; seems silly not to just use a bit of toilet paper.

Even I have to clean up when I miss; which happens max, max, 95% of the time.

I wish I could buy into the idea of church as a community; my mom very much saw it that way. However, church is inherently exclusive. It turns away people who refuse to conform to very specific beliefs. It’s hard for me to root for or even accept that as a communal space.

I want to see more YMCA and less church.

Edit: yes I know the Y is technically a Christian thing, but it’s not the religion I object to it’s the exclusion. Never been to a Y that felt like I needed to be Christian to be there.

The Rust Book helped me realize that I wasn’t likely to just learn Rust by doing as I had done with many other languages. I fucking love Rust but it is a bit of an oddball and the book is a great way to start.

Chinese citizens: I can’t take it anymore, this society is so unfair!

Chinese government: ok, we can just go ahead and increase surveillance and harass you about any little infraction some more.

Text rendering over the gpu is much smoother. For many users there may indeed be no perceptible difference but if you work on anything that scrolls a lot of text or has a tui that updates the screen rapidly the gpu can give a much nicer overall experience—especially if you use a lot of Unicode.

I have been living with tinnitus non-stop for the past few years. I can understand how some might find it unlivable.

The cross section of companies willing to pay poverty wages and companies ok with/happy to make your life suck all day is depressing but not surprising.

I mean, the answer is agency. You enjoy doing things that you choose to do—which you choose to do because you enjoy them, it’s just a tad selective and cyclic there.

Most people don’t choose to work because they enjoy it; they work to survive, doing what the market will support.

Some few very very lucky people get to do work they would otherwise choose to do anyways.

I doubt Dorsey will do much at all with Bluesky, given he is no longer on Bluesky’s board.

The XL is indeed corexy but it’s also marketed to professionals who would be able to navigate any issues. I’ve seen some mixed reviews on if it’s good.

FWIW, Prusa has definitely had some major failures. The MMU2 was fundamentally broken on release with sensors that were unreliable at best and the community had to step in with replacement models to get it even somewhat reliable.

Just be wary of trusting the brand. I like Prusa too but they aren’t immune to misses.

For me, pre-purchasing a Phrozen resin printer that every single YouTube influencer assured me was the absolute best printer ever made only for it to be an absolute mess that just sits on my shelf unused because it is complete garbage, was my lesson to wait for the reviews.

I advise against getting the brand new thing. My experience has been that frequently the reliability and feature set of yet-to-be-released things tend to be highly overstated. The CORE looks cool but I would give it six months after release before you consider buying one so you can see some real reviews.

Prusa has a pretty decent track record but they are really branching out of their comfort zone now and I would be cautious.

If you don’t want to wait, the Bambu P1S is a phenomenal printer. I wish they were more open along with everyone else but I have many, many, many hours on mine and has been an excellent purchase. It was a massive upgrade from my Prusa Mk3S.

ITT: people absolutely refuse to accept that accidents happen—even to smart people—and the consequences can be mitigated through non-knowledge-based precautions.

I refuse to keep a round just stored in the chamber. In fact, I think it is incredibly stupid and irresponsible to do so. But, like, just put a fucking magazine disconnect in there too, just in case I make a mistake eventually.

Yes please.

Managers usually love to say they, too, coded back in the day, but they didn't, they wrote some small scripts and thinks everything is easy like that so why not use AI, and why is it taking long to fix that bug?!

To be fair, some of us were real developers with real experience; you just don’t tend to hear us making claims about how easy dev work is and how AI is going to take over all the coding.