My lovely wife and I will be volunteering to be injured people in a catastrophe drill at a nearby hospital today. I've never done anyhthing like that before so I'm curious about the experience. Some neighbor friends of ours are participating too, so it should be fun to be injured together. ;-)

How are all other developers able to ship features so quickly while I can’t even ship a simple feature for 2 weeks? I reflect on this a lot recently. Silicon Valley is overrated. Most of us find a job in the valley not because we are good engineers, but because we are gold diggers. The fiat game of the past few decades have made the valley so rich that a new grad can earn 150K a year. Now with the global economy slowing down in terms of fiat, massive layoffs are taking places. Many fake software engineers will never find a job with such high paying for the rest of their life, which might actually be a good thing for the world. We don’t need so many fake engineers to build products to pollute people anymore. Enough is enough. I have learned more about software engineering in the 4 months of Nostr development than the past 4 years of my so called Silicon Valley big tech career. Ironic! I might just be another fake engineer! But no, I refuse to be a fake engineer. I’m going to solve real problems and get shit done. I am here to have fun and have freedom of engineering!

Did a little work on more-speech and then hopped in The Countess to practice power off landings. Now I’m getting my car appraised because it’s time for a new one. Then it’ll be a bike ride with my wife. And at some point I need to get my hair cut.

You may not like it, but this is what peak git commit performance looks like

Jesus what year is this?

That used to be the motto of the ACLU and the Democrats. Not anymore. Thank Goodness it lives here!

From: (benc) at 05/25/23 09:35:05 on wss://nos.lol

CC: #[4]

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>“I disapprove of what you say, but will defend to the death your right to say it.

Nostr is FREE. That means that people you disagree with will come here and say things you disagree with. People you think are harmful will espouse what you think of as harm here. People with political viewpoints that you despise will loudly proclaim their views here. People with sexual or religious viewpoints that you despise will loundly proclaim their views here.

If you don't like that, if you feel like you need to stop them, you are in the wrong place.

Not only is #[0]​ an amazing developer, he’s also an sardine fucking guy

If I encountered an API that forced me to pass a handler for no reason other than to force me handle a result, I'd be miffed. The handler is inconvenient to say the least. For example, handlers prevent the simple composition of functions.

I cannot say f(g(x)) if g returns its value through a handler.

Instead I have to do something horrible like this:

interface H {handle(x)};

class H_imp : H {x get(); handle(x) {this.x = x;}};

H h = new H_imp;

g(h, x);

f(h.get);

From: (benc) at 05/24/23 08:44:34 on wss://nos.lol

CC: #[4]

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>The real life scenario that inspired this quest dealt with life cycle. The value returned was supposed to be used to allow a caller to manage the result.

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>We found instances where consumers where simply ignoring the result leaving things in a bad state.

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>The handler forces the consume to provide _something_ to manage the result. I think this fits the Tell Don’t Ask idea.