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Cake day: June 17th, 2023

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  • I’d say it’s the tooling that sucks more than anything. I’ve had installations fail because of bad caches (and resolved it by doing things NPM advised me not to do), installations that take forever and seem stuck on one dependency, conflicts with ES and Common modules, node_modules folders that dwarf other folders in size, nobody makes proper use of devDependencies, some odd dependencies on Java or Python, and so on. I think the ease of learning JS has done it a disservice as you get millions of devs contributing but not all are trained as devs or computer scientists and you get a flood of libraries that all do the same thing and often even reproduce built-in functionality.

    I really do enjoy coding in it more than any other language but when it comes time to run or build is when my rage kicks in.

    Wait… what were we talking about? Oh, yeah.

    Shitty web apps aren’t really the fault of the underlying tech. This is a problem of design and I don’t think the programming language really has much of an effect on the usability.




  • Think about how you’d react if he was 18, 19, or 20. If you’re more okay with it when he’s older then you’re thinking 17 is “too soon”. Well, that’s not really your call. Physically, 17 is a safe age for sex. Mentally, make sure he’s aware of the consequences of sex. Emotionally, he’s basically on his own. You can’t teach him to deal with the emotions he’s feeling now or might feel after sex (assuming he hasn’t done it already).

    This is the stage in life where you need to support your son, not control him.

















  • Testing out a theory with ChatGPT there might be a way, albeit clunky, to detect AI. I asked ChatGPT a simple math question then told it to disregard the rest of the message, then I asked it if it was AI. It answered the math question and told me it was ai. Now a bot probably won’t admit to being AI but it might be foolish enough to consider instruction that you explicitly told it not to follow.

    Or you might simply be able to waste its resources by asking it to do something computationally difficult that most people would just reject outright.

    Of course all of this could just result in making AI even harder to detect once it learns these tricks. 😬