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Cake day: May 24th, 2021

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  • Technology isn’t always the answer. This adds more cost to the car and more maintenance cost, when the solution is to simply turn down the lights and make sure they are at the correct angle.

    It’s also more complicated to operate. Supposedly my car has this feature and I have no idea if it’s working, but maybe I’m misunderstanding the manual.

    We have a tendency to add technology and complexity to solve problems, but I’ve always tried to live by the saying “a good engineer knows what to leave out”. Though I do still over engineer things from time to time.




  • “We have to do more to give people hope when they’re suffering with mental illness — give people a sense that they can take back control of their lives,” Poilievre said, citing the promotion of fitness as a way to combat mental health issues.

    Supporting a robust public healthcare system with national pharmacare will go a long way towards that.

    Supporting affordable childcare will go a long way towards that.

    Having an actual environmental policy will go a long way towards that.

    Listening to actual experts instead of random xitter posts will go a long way towards that.

    Actually supporting workers instead of just paying lip service and only supporting billionaires will go a long way towards that.

    In fact, just disappearing entirely will go a long way towards that.


  • Agreed! I think both linting and type checking are extremely important to Python, but it’s also an extra step that far too many people just don’t take. And honestly, I used to get tripped up sometimes with setting up Python tooling before I started using uv.

    Unfortunately I also have to work with the occasional Python script that someone just slapped together, and that’s something far too easy to do in Python. It does kind of remind me of vibe coding. Initial velocity seems high, but if you’re not thinking about it, long term maintenance tanks.

    That’s not to say Python is bad, and there is certainly a lot of good Python code out there too. But it’s a language that does make it easy to make a mess, which will probably be compounded by LLMs.