TomMasz

Beginners are the least likely to ask thoughtful questions. We include slides in lectures about how to ask a question, but when there’s an assignment deadline and you’re inexperienced, it’s more likely you’re going to just blurt out “help me!” rather than provide a detailed explanation that doesn’t require repeated prompting. It takes time to learn how to work through an issue yourself before asking. Students are often facing time pressure and that can drive bad behavior. Correcting them is important, just don’t do it in a way that crushes their spirit.

Ever ask a question on SO? I tell my students to search there but never, ever ask a question. The unmitigated hostility is not what new developers need or deserve. ChatGPT won’t humiliate you for asking a question that someone else has already asked.

Black Mirror has its work cut out for it, that’s all I’ll say.

For sheer aggravation, Facebook. I’ve been on it long enough to remember the chronological timeline, which made it easy to see your friends’ posts. Now you basically have to visit your friends’ profile to see what they’ve posted recently.

Instagram/Threads I don’t hate quite so much, but I avoid Meta products as much as possible due to my hatred of Zuck. I left Twitter and Reddit a while ago, not because I hated them but rather because I hate Elon and spez.

I have, and I’m disappointed. It was going to be my next Subaru, now I’m thinking Crosstrek, as long as it doesn’t get upsized.

The government naively assumed the auto makers wouldn’t notice the gaping loophole in the CAFE standards and then did nothing while trucks grew to outlandish sizes.

My Subaru Forester is not a tiny SUV. I was parked between two pickup trucks the other day, and my roof was only slightly higher than their hoods. The Simpsons’ Canyonero is no longer a parody.

Maybe?

Behold the next generation of voters.

Yes, mistress.

He knows the words.

Not to worry, he’ll just replace those expensive professional miners with free slave labor. Salvadoran gulags can only hold so many, after all.

This is what happens when all some of the pedophiles get removed from the priesthood.

LO is fine for most uses though working back and forth with Office users can be problematic. Two things that I like about are: it offers a database module, which Office for the Mac doesn’t have, and it can open a lot of older file formats that newer apps can’t.

I’m not sure I’ve ever had an emotion big enough to warrant a tiger to support.

Don’t wait until tomorrow, stop giving a fuck today!

There’s no way this can cause the Earth to be catapulted into the Sun.

Burger King appeared in my area long before McD’s and there was one just down the street from my high school. They gave us enough crowns for everyone to wear one time and everyone, teachers included, did. It was glorious.

When the BK crown is offered, you wear it.

I bought most of my film cameras in the early-mid 2000s when people were dumping them in order to buy digital. Now I look at the prices now versus what I paid and realize how lucky I was. I wonder how long the market will last.

Thing that doesn’t happen is now illegal, got it. Glad to see Florida tackling the big problems facing its citizens.