I didn’t mean to imply that Trump’s overall budget is a good one - maybe the cuts could be justified as part of a serious effort to reduce the deficit, but I don’t support them when they’re accompanied by even bigger tax cuts and the deficit grows.
And here I am stuck babysitting an inferior human baby.
So far, Milei has been right and his critics have been wrong. I assume he’ll veto this again.
The thing about government spending (and I’m seeing it come up a lot in the context of Trump’s budget cuts too) is that pretty much all of it is important to someone sympathetic who will experience hardship without it. Reducing spending means taking money away from people who need it, but reducing spending is still sometimes necessary for long-term national prosperity.
they can just hire more people
In software development, it’s not that easy. Having multiple people working on the same code adds a lot of overhead. Also, finding another excellent programmer is slow and expensive. (The “fast, cheap, good: pick two” rule applies.)
Plus, do you want two software developers with a good work/life balance and fulfilling ways to spend their free time, or do you want one software developer with mental issues that, among other things, leave him with nothing to do except work and no source of meaning in life except getting work done? The first option is more dependable, since the guy in the second option is crazy. However, if you’re building a startup then you need to take risks and the second option is the one more likely to create something amazing. (IMO, of course.)
How is this the fault of engineers? If you give me a project with constraints that I can only satisfy if I design a bridge with a ninety degree turn, I’ll tell you so. But if you insist that you want it like that anyway, I’ll design it (because you pay me) and I won’t consider myself responsible for the mess you’ll be in if you build it.
“This actor isn’t acting upset” seems like a rather shallow analysis. When a person does something that can upset me, I ask myself whether becoming upset serves my interests. Usually it does not and so I don’t. This has let me maintain important relationships, but it doesn’t mean I like when people are rude to me. I still feel a flash of anger in the moment, and while I genuinely don’t hold on to resentment, obviously I prefer when people are nice.
(The actor repeatedly doing something that angers the director also seems less than ideal.)
The funny thing is that I empathize with the robot here - there’s no point in doing something like drawing a picture yourself if a machine can do it better, faster, and cheaper. Despite that, I insist on driving a car with a manual transmission. Let robots have art, but they’ll never take mechanical linkages from me! Using a lever to control which gears engage with which other gears is what it means to be human.
I enjoy a challenge.
Yes, that’s what I’m saying. There’s no way that anyone except Mamdani will win unless something really bizarre happens. He’s not going to lose to forced-to-resign-in-disgrace Cuomo or should-have-been-forced-to-resign-in-disgrace Adams, and he’s certainly not going to lose to Silwa. People who are afraid that the Democratic establishment will succeed in sabotaging him don’t need to worry. In fact, I’m surprised that Paterson is apparently willing to embarrass himself by trying something so clearly futile.
There’s a timeline in which men’s fashion didn’t become boring?
I think I’d rather have the Republican but there’s no chance that a Democrat won’t be elected.
Gun-fired from life.
Ah, nostalgia. Last month, I pulled a 1070 out of a computer someone had thrown out. The computer was stripped of even the motherboard battery but that card was still in there. I put it into my old desktop.
using the em
That’s how you can know that you’re just a simulation.
I see this as an absolute win.
In fourth grade we would read short stories and answer multiple-choice questions about them. One such story was about romantically involved terrapins, and the question was “What would be a good title for this story?” The answers included
a) A turtle love story
b) Two turtles in love
I don’t remember which one I picked but the correct answer was the other one.
You’re never going to get power, limitless power if you’re not even willing to read a few cursed tomes.
What was the prompt? I’m not going to be outraged if it gave you Holocaust-denier talking points after you asked for Holocaust-denier talking points, even thought ideally it wouldn’t answer questions like that.
Approval rating collapsing after the election? Is that the modern version of the “closing the barn door after the horse got out” saying?
Temporarily having the body of a woman would let me learn the answers to some interesting prurient questions, but if I had my choice of temporary body then I would definitely pick to be a bird and experience what flying feels like.
(I don’t identify as much with my body as some other people apparently do. It’s the only flesh I have ever been incarnated in so it has a lot of sentimental value but it fundamentally isn’t me. It’s a thing that I have.)