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  • I'd never even heard "Charlie Kirk" until he was assassinated. I knew there was some right-wing talking head that everybody made fun of because he had a tiny face. When Kirk was assassinated, my reaction was "holy shit, he really did have a tiny face."

  • I don't think it's all that common. In my case, I was laid off by a west coast tech giant and actually got something of a severance for the first time in my life. Instead of finding another job right away, I bought a used school bus and converted it into a motorhome. Since I thereby already knew how to drive a big bus, getting a job as a school bus driver was a natural progression. Mainly I do it for the health insurance which is otherwise pretty useless and insanely fucking expensive.

  • I used to make well into six figures as a programmer. Now I drive a school bus and I'm vastly happier. I'm always surprised when I wake up on a Monday morning and realize that I'm not dreading going to work (I actually look forward to seeing my elementary school kids). I make less than one-sixth of what I used to but I have savings and already own my house outright, so it's all good.

    It's going to suck when AI takes over for CDL holders, however.

  • My brother makes $200K and his wife makes $100K. Somehow they are broke. It just doesn't make the slightest bit of sense. They do Uber Eats for literally every meal but that can't account for all the money, can it?

  • It's funny, the exact same logic applies to method and variable names. There's no compiler that ensures that a method's name accurately describes what the method does or ensures that a variable's name accurately describes what the variable represents. Yet nobody ever says "you shouldn't use descriptive method and variable names because they might be misleading". And this is hardly academic: I can't count the number of times I've run into methods that no longer do what the method name implies they do.

    And yet method and variable names are exactly what people mean when they talk about "self-documenting" code.

  • There are no comments in the code

    At my last job, I was assigned to a project being run by a straight-out-of-college developer who felt that not only were comments unnecessary, they were actually a "code smell", a sign of professional incompetence on the part of whoever added them. It's an insane philosophy that could only appeal to people who have never had to take over an old codebase.

  • There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there has always been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that 'my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.'

    Isaac Asimov said this almost fifty years ago. It still doesn't answer the "why" but it shows how long (at least) this has been going on.

  • I unfortunately watched the 60 Minutes bit last sunday on farmers getting fucked over by trump (parents had it on). It ended with one of the farmers saying "he's a very smart man, I'm not gonna take that away from him." The thought of the mental state you have to be in to think trump is a genius is just soul-crushing.

  • Music @lemmy.world

    Banco De Gaia - Acquiescence (Tripswitch Remix)