Mostly stuff I bought from Bandcamp. It’s drm free, but for convenience I usually let it stream from the app.

I also have a bunch of mp3s from older purchases I listen to sometimes, but I don’t have a media server set up so that’s mostly limited to my desktop.

Sometimes I’ll pull up a specific track on YouTube, but that’s mostly for “do you remember this song?” stuff. Adblock and the “resume playback from lock screen” make it bearable.

Well, sunk cost fallacy is extremely common.

But also people don’t have perfect knowledge. And people change, and change at different rates.

Imagine a couple that meets when they’re both pretty immature in their 20s. They have fun and fall in love. Then they buy a home together, and the woman slowly realizes she’s matured into an adult role while the husband is still basically the 20 year old bro. Would you casually suggest burning the whole thing down? Finding a new relationship in your mid 30s, especially if you want kids, when there’s no guarantee the new person will be any better, is daunting.

What if they’re not financially independent?

It’s easy to sit back and tell people how to behave in the abstract, but real situations aren’t always so obvious.

The thing i don’t get is why do women put up with it?

Many reasons.

Some people are taught gender essentialism from a young age. Women are like this, men are like that, and there’s no way to change it. It’s just nature (or God) that women clean and take care of the house, and men go out and hunt.

Many boys are socialized from a young age not to cook or clean. Many girls are taught that that’s what they do. Have you seen this in your life? A family gathering, where the boys run off to play and the women and girls stick around to clean up? Children learn from what they see and what they’re taught.

It’s only recently that women had any shot at financial independence. Women weren’t guaranteed the right to open a bank account until 1974, in the US. Sexual discrimination is a problem with finding a career to pay one’s own way. From that, one can infer that some women “put up with” shitty men, because the alternative is destitution.

Some women may believe that changing it is just too much work- it’s not an immutable nor innate property of men that they don’t cook or clean or know anything about the children, but changing that would be an overwhelming amount of work. If the man’s not interested in changing anything, it’s even more daunting, and may damage the relationship.

Also some men get violent if they feel threatened, insulted, or hungry.

These are just some things I’ve read or women have talked to me about. I’m a dude doing the best I can. Talk to the women in your life (but don’t make them teach you a whole seminar for free, heh.)

Apparently there’s a couple free games. Never played 100% Orange Juice myself but a friend was super into it when it came out.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/282800/100_Orange_Juice/

I think part of it is a lot of stuff goes on deep discount repeatedly. Like Overcooked is $2. That’s a steal. But I already have it. If this was my first steam sale, I’d be super excited about that.

Nioh1 was pretty okay. Never finished it. Nioh2 is one of my favorites in the genre, and I play it like once a year. It’s an improvement in every way.

The data center haters are the strangest, to me. Because there’s this default assumption that data centers can never be powered by renewable energy

Opportunity costs

At least twice now I’ve had math nerds get really mad when I suggested “if people are misreading it, add parentheses”. Very much skinner “it’s the children who are out of touch”.

Some people would rather be right than understood, I guess.

No one’s going to die because you write x = c + (a * b) even though those parentheses aren’t strictly needed.

How will it reduce demand for parking? Do you envision the car will drop someone off and then drive away until it finds a parking spot that’s farther than the person would want to walk?

That sounds like a very hard problem , and people wouldn’t be happy waiting 5-10 minutes for their car to navigate back to them. Or it would just cruise around looking for parking, causing more traffic.

Cars could tailgate like virtual train cars following each other at highway speeds with very little separation, lanes could be narrowed to fit more cars side by side in traffic, etc.

Once again reinventing buses and trains

It took like 100 years to build the car-hell we have now. It’s going to take a lot of time and effort to fix it.

And people are, famously, stupid. They’ll fight like hell to avoid change, but once it’s in they’ll fight like hell to keep that change.

Plus there’s a lot of selfish idiots that need to be overridden.

Snapshot tests suck. That’s a test that stores the dom (or I guess any json serializable thing) and when you run the test again, compares what you have now to what it has saved.

No one is going to carefully examine a 300 line json diff. They’re just going to say “well I updated the file so it makes sense it changed” and slap the update button.

Theoretically you could only feed it very small things, but if that’s the case you could also just assert on what’s important yourself.

Snapshots don’t encode intent. They make everything look just as important as everything else. And then hotshot developers think they have 100% coverage

I had this fight at work once. Someone wanted to write a makefile to invoke pytest. I didn’t want to do that because I wanted people to know how pytest works, so when something goes wrong they know they can do -vv or --pdb or whatever.

Scripts that cover trivial steps and obscure stuff people should know, I’m not a fan of.

Men are just big children.

The other day at work, a woman said “I have three children. And a husband, so I guess three and a half children.”

Don’t usually see that stereotype in the wild.

I don’t want people to give up joy and fun things, but the idea that men are just irresponsible and their wife has to also be their responsible mother is sad.

Edit: typo

So leave that problem for later. Let them keep driving themselves, and focus on improvements where people actually live.

Most people live in or close to cities.

You have to be careful at low skill/knowledge levels, because it’ll happily send you down a crazy path that looks legitimate.

I asked it how to do something in oracle SQL, because I don’t know oracle specifically, and it gave me a terrible answer. I suspected it wasn’t right so I asked a coworker who’s an old hand at Oracle, and he was like “no that’s terrible. Here’s a much simpler way”

I found it’s useful for code where I know like 70% of what I’m doing. More than that and I can just do it myself. Less than that and I can’t trust and diagnose the output.

I’d rather have old fashioned stack overflow and tutorials, honestly. It’s hard to actually learn when it just gives answers.

Most of the code at my current job doesn’t even have the optional type annotations. You just see like def something(config). What’s config? A dict? A list? A string? Who the fuck knows.

Unfortunately most of the developers seem to have a very pre-modern take on programming and aren’t interested in changing anything.

Get a code formatter. Ruff is popular. So is black. Never think about it again.

I don’t have the means or motivation to do research now from the couch, so I’ll concede you may be correct. However, I think it might be even safer to take those same billions of dollars and invest them in mass transit and other infrastructure changes. That would mean fewer car accidents, less pollution, nicer spaces, healthier people, healthier economies, etc. private car ownership cannot be the long term solution. If it’s not an outright dead end, it’s certainly a side street instead of high speed rail (if you’ll pardon a strained metaphor).

Self driving cars are a great idea, but they aren’t a fix everything solution, they just one part of an overall solution.

Why are they a great idea? What are they making better? How is it worth the real and opportunity costs?