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Why would you are about blank lines? Sounds like aborted attempts at a change to me. Then realizing you don’t need them. Seeing them in your PR, and figuring they don’t actually do anything to me.

More likely artifact of debug prints being removed.

Damn, this is a good era to be in high school (or university) with a lot of free time. $4000 is a pretty good haul for a few hours of work poking at stuff.

Uh, when my son asks me for the phone, I say no, and he asks me why, I just tell him it’s because I think being bored once in a while is healthy. As long as the rules around using it are consistent he can work with that (he’ll start running to get to the bus/train on time too, because he can only use a phone if he can sit down)

one of the reasons NPR is declining so badly, those of us who had to listen to it for hours on end in the back of a hot car and got a kind of bizarro world moss-coane stockholm syndrome aren't reproducing enough to inculcate another generation of mug toting radio listening, garrison keillor on sunday afternoon types

Hmm, I’m fairly certain the ‘having children’ part is what triggers total collapse of the previous worldview. My spouse was adamant that we wouldn’t force our child to study excessively, but we’re at 7 years old and we have a 50cm stack of extra activities books that need to be worked through every morning and evening, in addition to the homework the school sets. It’s madness. The class teacher told me he’s not even involved with setting homework.

I certainly wasn’t expected to do any homework at 7. It wasn’t until middle school we were expected to do some amount of homework.


The US? My 2nd grader has one piece of homework per week, which takes about 10 minutes. If there was more I would tell the teacher to shove it. Instead I talk to my child. If he's interested we talk more about that, otherwise we switch to a topic that interests him. We've covered a lot of science, astronomy and math. Lately I've been telling him about primes, factorization and cryptography. I think our conversations lead to a love of learning and curiosity that is 100x more beneficial than a 50cm stack of homework...

I always thought it was parents being competitive - especially for unobvious social status signals.

We notice competitive behaviours at our jobs - we expect to see it, and in many work situations competition is admissible.

It is harder to notice competition in our social lives because we deceive ourselves with rationalisations (that appear reasonable) and the games are less obvious.

Just a personal theory (I'm a late learner for even simple status signaling).


Could you put your child in a different school that didn't do that?

Hah, I’m now a hostile actor!

Welcome on the world stage. There is not any actor here that can't be framed hostile, it's all about how the scene highlight into nice or ugly way.

Hope you'll enjoy the play.


Wasn’t there that npm malware thing a while ago that trashed your home folder if it couldn’t phone home?

I think this person is too optimistic. Everything that will give powerful people money or influence and not get them killed is pretty much near inevitable.

I think the problem is that this microservices vs monolith decision is a really hard one to convince people of. I made a passionate case for ECS instead of lambda for a long time, but only after the rest of the team and leadership see the problems the popular strategy generates do we get something approaching uptake (and the balance has already shifted to kubernetes instead, which is at least better)

    > I made a passionate case...
My experience is that it is less about passion and more about reason.

There's a lot of good research and writing on this topic. This paper, in particular has been really helpful for my cause: https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/3593856.3595909

It has a lot going for it: 1) it's from Google, 2) it's easy to read and digest, 3) it makes a really clear case for monoliths.


NextJS was just bog standard “we designed an insecure API and now everyone can do RCE” though.

Everyone has been able to exploit that for ages. It only became a problem when it was discovered and publicised.


We use pretty much the entire nodejs ecosystem, and only the very latest Next.js vulnerability was an all hands on deck vulnerability. That’s taken over the past 7 years.

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