I live in Vancouver, Canada, in a townhouse with windows that swing out from the side like these:

See how little that window is open? That’s very likely the MAXIMUM it can be open which is dumb as hell.

They also make it impossible to hang a window air conditioner which means you’re limited to the significantly less efficient portable air conditioners. But even then you can’t form a good seal between the exhaust pipe and the window, which make them even less efficient.

Fuck my windows. We’re not allowed to change them even though we own the townhouse because the strata wants to keep all the townhouses consistent. So fuck stratas as well. And the worst part is I see these types of windows EVERYWHERE in new construction around Vancouver.

Ah yes, I was born in the month of Jay.

I’m not trying to convince you on this, but this is my personal belief:

There are runaway reactions already being triggered in the atmosphere that will make the planet hotter and hotter without stopping or slowing down for millions of years. Where are you going to live when the minimum temperature is 60C or higher? A difference of 30C or so is enough to make life impossible for us but isn’t even a rounding error compared to the temperature range of a planet. Look at Mars.

Will it happen in the next few centuries or even millennia? No. But those timescales are miniscule compared to the life of the Earth or the lifecycle of an entire species.

We will be the cause of not just climate “change”, but pretty much a life reset. Like the asteroid. EVERY animal larger than 10 or so cm will die. There’s no way out of it. This is the great filter.

Do American kids actually recite an oath to their country EVERY DAY? I keep hearing about that everywhere but it kinds of blows my mind to much for me to accept it as fact.

For context, I went to elementary school in China before I came to Canada, and in both countries the most we’ve done is sing the national anthem during assemblies.

Phones. I haven’t been excited about a phone launch in literally years and I really think they’re getting worse by the year. Whenever I have to buy a new phone, I feel frustrated and angry because it’s never because I wanted to upgrade to the latest model or anything, it’s because my previous phone’s glued in battery has degraded so much that it’s unusable while the rest of hardware is still perfectly capable of running the latest software (or they arbitrarily decide to ban your device from the latest update meaning you either get a new one or expose yourself to even more cybersecurity risks than having a phone already entails).

There’s no meaning to life. We are an accidental self sustaining chemical reaction that has lasted for billions of years. There’s no creator, no higher power, nothing waiting for us when we die.

We’re also about to go extinct and are way past the window of being able to save ourselves. You and I are among the last humans that will ever exist.

And IMO that’s extremely comforting once you actually internalize it. Focus on making you and the people around you happy in the short time you’re here, don’t worry about the far future because it doesn’t matter.

Human CELLS. Not human body.

There are human cells in the lab that have long outlived the person they came from. Look up Henrietta Lacks. That doesn’t mean you as a whole will live longer.

IMO, simple fact that the majority of drunk drivers survive accidents that kill their victim instantly shows that no higher power is looking out to punish the wicked or protect the innocent.

The thing that gets me is that even if we catch sight of what is indisputably signs of intelligent life from another planet, due to the magnitude of the universe and the comparatively slow speed of light, what we’re seeing is thousands or millions of years in the past. Even if we get a transmission from an alien species, they’re likely long extinct by the time we receive it, let alone the time it will take for a reply to get back to them.

Same for us too. Any life that can see us will not be from our time, they will be eons in the future by which our species will be long gone.

The human population is the highest it’s ever been and is only increasing, yet the average person has never felt more alone.

Not having to use JS is below all of those.

I hate how that’s the language everything is slowly converging to. Even if you don’t work on websites, you always have this fear in the back of your mind that one day your project will be infected.

It’s not even easy like people claim it is. I find JS significantly more difficult than Java because there are way more things that can go wrong and troubleshooting is way more frustrating. Just because the app will launch even with errors in the code does not make it easier in the long run. Compile time errors are good actually.

Anything really polarizing can end up with a cult following. Just look at Rust.

The US is THE state sponsor of terrorism.

Not saying other countries have never done it, but the US has done it more than everyone else combined and pioneered many of the now “standard” tactics.

People would be less mad if you straight up used a stock image with a watermark so I don’t understand why people go out of their way to use AI when they know people will comment on it and it will detract from the point of the article.

Also, using AI in the thumbnail makes people automatically assume you’re using AI in the text as well. And if you’re not doing that, why would you lessen the perceived value of your writing by making it seem like you are?

It just seems pointless and actively harms your actual goals because people will get hung up on the fact that you used AI and ignore your actual valid points. Especially when you’re writing about open source projects when most people interested in open source are vehemently anti-AI, it really just shows you don’t know your target audience.

I like testing my helper/utility functions mainly so I can be sure I implemented them correctly. That way I can focus on my main implementation and narrow down where the problems are coming from.

With a fun side quest of figuring out if your actual code has the error or the tests!

Karen incident in the customer service call center driven development.

If someone hasn’t yelled at a minimum wage phone rep over it, it doesn’t need to be fixed.

Vulnerability driven developer

Fax is also HIPPA compliant, email is not.

Yeah I just love having my cancer diagnosis sent in plaintext over copper wire such that anyone with a dollar store audio recorder and physical access to the wire can intercept. If there’s one thing 19th century data transmission tech is known for, it’s security and privacy.

Is it too much to ask that hospitals use the literally decades old AES standard for sending medical data?

Isn’t that literally how art guilds in the middle ages operated? Like if you weren’t part of the guild and tried to sell art you made, a mob from the guild would come along, destroy all your works, and probably beat the shit out of you for good measure?