When was the last time Switzerland actively made first strikes

I’m not sure, but I know halberds were involved.

They got rid of the exploding roads, though. Or so they say.

I remember when the original name for the invasion of Iraq was “Operation Iraqi Liberation” until somebody decided that was a little too obvious an acronym.

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I dunno, Harleys aren’t cheap.

I don’t think it’s all that common. In my case, I was laid off by a west coast tech giant and actually got something of a severance for the first time in my life. Instead of finding another job right away, I bought a used school bus and converted it into a motorhome. Since I thereby already knew how to drive a big bus, getting a job as a school bus driver was a natural progression. Mainly I do it for the health insurance which is otherwise pretty useless and insanely fucking expensive.

The AI driving thing? I don’t see why it won’t be a thing eventually. If kids get run over from time to time, they’re easy to replace at that age.

awful, expensive, objectively shitty vehicles like Jeeps

Jeeps are the most hilarious brand out there. Absolute pieces of shit and insanely overpriced. If you buy a jeep Jeep, like the real Jeep thing with the canvas top and the doors that come off, I can at least understand the appeal of that basic form factor. The truly mind-boggling thing is when people buy Jeep-branded cars and SUVs that aren’t even real jeeps. Paying a huge premium just to own a pointlessly gilded piece of poo.

I get that people want fancy cars and shit, but I just can’t even.

I drive a Z3 that I bought eight years ago for $8K. It is by far the cheapest car I’ve ever owned on an annual cost basis, and it still only has 120K miles on it. Even some fancy cars can be had for next to nothing.

I used to make well into six figures as a programmer. Now I drive a school bus and I’m vastly happier. I’m always surprised when I wake up on a Monday morning and realize that I’m not dreading going to work (I actually look forward to seeing my elementary school kids). I make less than one-sixth of what I used to but I have savings and already own my house outright, so it’s all good.

It’s going to suck when AI takes over for CDL holders, however.

My brother makes $200K and his wife makes $100K. Somehow they are broke. It just doesn’t make the slightest bit of sense. They do Uber Eats for literally every meal but that can’t account for all the money, can it?

It’s funny, the exact same logic applies to method and variable names. There’s no compiler that ensures that a method’s name accurately describes what the method does or ensures that a variable’s name accurately describes what the variable represents. Yet nobody ever says “you shouldn’t use descriptive method and variable names because they might be misleading”. And this is hardly academic: I can’t count the number of times I’ve run into methods that no longer do what the method name implies they do.

And yet method and variable names are exactly what people mean when they talk about “self-documenting” code.

There are no comments in the code

At my last job, I was assigned to a project being run by a straight-out-of-college developer who felt that not only were comments unnecessary, they were actually a “code smell”, a sign of professional incompetence on the part of whoever added them. It’s an insane philosophy that could only appeal to people who have never had to take over an old codebase.

True. In a sense, being a successful musician is more like winning the lottery. The best songwriter in the world isn’t going to sell shit without a label behind them.

I think your point stands generally, but Paul McCartney is a billionaire and I don’t think writing a bunch of pleasant tunes qualifies as “dark Machiavellian deeds”.

This is libelous. His business practices were also shady in the '70s and '80s.

Don’t discount the Saudis. They don’t have wealth, they have a wealth faucet.

He claims to work 100 hours per week, but that’s still less than 20 hours per company.

They will also need rigorous safety testing before a new product like this is even allowed to be sold.

Sweet summer child …

I randomly got a job recommendation from one of the sites that looked for exactly my programming skill set. I was interested until I saw what company it was – Palantir. GOD DAMN IT. On the plus side, most of these job listings are fake anyway, so it was probably just a phishing attempt of sorts based on my resume. At least the AI isn’t smart enough yet to know they should not mention Palantir with me.