All of a sudden I'm staying awake longer & having energy (albeit somewhat frantic energy) later in the evening.
However, I'm still sleeping very late, ignoring multiple alarms, and so on, because I'm taking a while to fall asleep when I do go to bed.
I guess it's time for a microdose of melatonin?
Oh, dear!!! I'm so sorry to hear about this!!
Anyone in the Pittsburgh area, if you've ever wanted to see what science fairs are all about, you can judge them. Its actually really fun. I used to do it. Its in Heinz field I think. Anyway, here's a link: kaminsciencecenter.org/pittsburgh-r...
You never know when Harpo Marx will turn up.
Would you be in a situation where I could ask your advice about my garbage disposal?
It won't run, and the trick where you rotate it from beneath with an Allen wrench isn't working: it won't rotate at all. The Allen wrench threatens to bend.
I don't even remember the last time I ran it.
As a coder who is mandated (by my employer) to use AI from now on, I'm wondering how one will demonstrate that one has this skill. Having a degree or experience from before 2020?
This is a serious question, because I don't know enough about the period: I got the impression (actually, from a Philip K. Dick novel) that the 30 Years War was about religious differences and put Europe back a whole century.
Without religious conflict, would it still have happened?
My dad, the youngest of 6, was the 2nd.
My grandfather made his 3rd daughter quit high school to go to work and support the family. He let the 2nd daughter finish. It ruined the relationship between daughter 3 & her father, bc daughter 3 was the smart, ambitious one of the two!
Daughter 4 put herself through college, was 1st in the fam.
So the (artificial!) zeitgeist was "all women really want is to keep a home and hang out diapers!" while women wondered what was wrong with them that they found it exhausting & soul-deadening.
All this just 20 years after Rosie the Riveter, too. My Mom (b 1929) told me how it all suddenly changed.
I wasn't actually there to experience it (born in 1965) but "The Feminine Mystique" makes it clear that Madison Avenue and the media supported by advertising pushed "a woman's highest calling and greatest joy is keeping a home!" very heavily, precisely to sell more products to unhappy women.
Very true! Our vacations (in the 70s and 80s) were very low-end. Pack up the station wagon with a tent or a rented camper, drive a few states away to a lake for a week.
My Mom stayed at home with us until I was 10, in 1975, then went back to work (teaching at a college.)
She had always intended to have an academic career, like her husband (a math professor), but she went with him to a place that had a lot of colleges - but no departments in her field (linguistics)
It's very possible to revere a ROLE while despising the people who fill it!
I'm not young but even people my age, who talk about how "people used to RESPECT stay-at-home moms, before feminism!" are deeply mistaken.
They might praise the ROLE, but they didn't respect the PEOPLE. They just assumed those women had nothing to say that didn't involve their kids.
A good one!!
Stepped on a cat. :(
(Narrator: she continued recombobulating for a further hour, drinking the same cup of tea!)
Oh, wow, it's 8pm already, and I'm only just getting my head recombobulated!
Maybe I'm less a morning person than I thought!
Maybe it's the healing powers of a cup of tea!
Maybe it's that walk I took in the fresh air.
"Can we make him look like Hugh Grant, but perpetually pained?"
I am, to be clear, not arguing with you. I'm more thinking out loud, pondering how to _manage_ all this generated stuff.
... you've taken on the burden of a lot more code than you previously had. As if a nameless coder turned up overnight, did EXACTLY what you told them, and then vanished, leaving you with all the code to maintain.
And I have to think that's going to be a significant maintenance burden (when writ large), unless you re-gen all your unit tests, which will, again, only prove that your code does whatever that it does, not what you want it to do.
Or you can re-plumb, make the class a named constant, but ...
One thing that it does, that I saw Friday, worries me.
Let's say your method digs an HTML element out of a page and changes its CSS classes to something like "article quote .fenris". (I just made that up.)
Your Cursor-gen'd unit tests will have that string repeated ALL OVER THE PLACE.
And sometimes it gets the wrong end of the stick and writes tests to prove things you really don't care about.
I also feel that it eliminates stepwise refinement, in a way I can't quite put my finger on. You can generate a huge amount of code based on assumptions that turn out to be premature.
*snort*
It can prove that your code does ... exactly what it does, which actually can demonstrate to you that it's not doing the right things!
There's a great tendency for it to make more work, bc now you have to clean up tests that it wouldn't have been cost-effective to write by hand in the first place.
I'm a software developer, a very good one, who could in theory retire but is terrified to.
I've begun using AI coding tools. I've used Cursor for generating tests, even though that violates the principles of test-driven development.
It can produce mediocre, irrelevant tests in great qty, quickly.
Definitely. In my case, my (quite large) employer has demanded that EVERYBODY, not just the tech staff, make "AI" a pillar of what we intend to do this year. They've institutionalized it in our job requirements and standards.
So I comply: the "or else" was not stated but still emphatic.
Well put!
