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New comment by lisbbb in "27M Fewer Car Trips: Life After a Year of Congestion Pricing"

lisbbb — Tue, 06 Jan 2026 19:38:01 +0000

Let me tell you something about Magic Kingdom: Everything between the parking lot and the rides exists the way it does in order to SLOW YOU DOWN so you spend more money. All of it! Okay, maybe not the parking lot trams, but all their other gimmicks are just part of a funnel to keep you away from the rides as long as possible and once you're inside, to keep you from leaving.

New comment by lisbbb in "The skill of the future is not 'AI', but 'Focus' (2025)"

lisbbb — Tue, 06 Jan 2026 19:35:22 +0000

The skill of the future is behaving ethically.

New comment by lisbbb in "A prediction market user made $436k betting on Maduro's downfall"

lisbbb — Tue, 06 Jan 2026 06:20:30 +0000

Don't gamble on this crap. Just...don't.

New comment by lisbbb in "I changed my personality in six weeks"

lisbbb — Sun, 04 Jan 2026 21:11:56 +0000

It's highly questionable whether she changed her personality at all. Why is being extraverted so highly praised, anyways?

New comment by lisbbb in "Using Hinge as a Command and Control Server"

lisbbb — Sun, 04 Jan 2026 21:08:58 +0000

But the malware was encoded as an image, how is it runnable on the target's smartphone?

New comment by lisbbb in "IPv6 just turned 30 and still hasn't taken over the world"

lisbbb — Sat, 03 Jan 2026 19:22:08 +0000

I spent an excruciating 3 months or so learning about IPV6 in a college networking class circa 1994 so that I could be "current" in order to land a job right out of college.

New comment by lisbbb in "A website to destroy all websites"

lisbbb — Thu, 01 Jan 2026 23:03:19 +0000

The site that is really, insufferably toxic is LinkedIn.

New comment by lisbbb in "A website to destroy all websites"

lisbbb — Thu, 01 Jan 2026 23:01:22 +0000

Delusion. The only thing that will make dead Internet come back alive is another technological leap forward. Big Tech has total control.

New comment by lisbbb in "Warren Buffett steps down as Berkshire Hathaway CEO after six decades"

lisbbb — Thu, 01 Jan 2026 18:54:44 +0000

How many days a year did Buffet live in that house, though? I suspect he was always on the move such that the home base never actually mattered. Same as Musk.

New comment by lisbbb in "I rebooted my social life"

lisbbb — Thu, 01 Jan 2026 18:44:53 +0000

You wouldn't need the long blog post or any other efforts if you didn't work remotely (remote work is poison). Having kids is a personal choice, but so many of you are failing to understand why family is so important that maybe you should revisit that choice, too. What are so afraid of? Was your home life as a kid that painful and awful? Even so, you can do a better job of it!

New comment by lisbbb in "Swapping SIM cards used to be easy, and then came eSIM"

lisbbb — Mon, 29 Dec 2025 20:15:12 +0000

I get it, but the quality of headphones with cords has gotten so bad that the male jacks wouldn't last more than a few months. My son has gone through an untold number of corded headphones because his school iPad is too locked down to use bluetooth ones.

New comment by lisbbb in "Swapping SIM cards used to be easy, and then came eSIM"

lisbbb — Mon, 29 Dec 2025 20:11:47 +0000

There must be some axiom about how corporations will eliminate every form of useful removable media, making customers more beholden and enslaved.

New comment by lisbbb in "Software engineers should be a little bit cynical"

lisbbb — Mon, 29 Dec 2025 16:41:04 +0000

I spent nearly 2 years at a major pharmacy chain trying to implement various solutions for them and going in circles. Meanwhile, the entire construction of Epic Universe in Orlando took place. I've moved from realist to cynic. In fact, I'm not even working and may just be retired at this point. I just couldn't get past certain things about how these gigs have gone for the most part--so much waste.

New comment by lisbbb in "Stepping down as Mockito maintainer after ten years"

lisbbb — Mon, 29 Dec 2025 16:38:14 +0000

I know!!!!!! I've been yelling about this for years how impossible to uplift JVM versions is because of how products were built! It's so crazy. Lots of obfuscated jars went unsupported after like Java 7.

New comment by lisbbb in "Stepping down as Mockito maintainer after ten years"

lisbbb — Mon, 29 Dec 2025 03:56:55 +0000

Had my fill of both until I could not stand it anymore. So tired of the grifters--agile was sometimes good, but mostly a grift.

New comment by lisbbb in "Stepping down as Mockito maintainer after ten years"

lisbbb — Mon, 29 Dec 2025 03:08:14 +0000

Wasn't it a riff on "Mojito" which was a popular drink at the time?

New comment by lisbbb in "Stepping down as Mockito maintainer after ten years"

lisbbb — Mon, 29 Dec 2025 02:52:31 +0000

I used it mainly because the code I inherited was untestable as written. I made it testable via those methods. Then it got refactored.

New comment by lisbbb in "Stepping down as Mockito maintainer after ten years"

lisbbb — Mon, 29 Dec 2025 02:51:46 +0000

I liked Groovy, but Kotlin was the better successor. Scala was beyond ridiculous as far as learning curve--crazy language. I always thought Java sucked and I spent far too much time working with Java (because money) and having to deal with framework on top of framework as well as all those idiotic design patterns that seemed so important only for me to realize years later that it was all basically a waste because OOP itself is a waste. I was writing better code in Python and Go five years ago without needing those all-important design patterns (okay, a few still translate). I just didn't know it at the time how horrible the situation was in Java. In hindsight, everything about Java was someone's money grab that I was dealing with. Mockito did help me a lot through those times, but I wish I had never gone through them at all!

New comment by lisbbb in "Stepping down as Mockito maintainer after ten years"

lisbbb — Mon, 29 Dec 2025 02:46:26 +0000

Hey, fwiw, thank you for all of your hard work! Mockito and Powermock helped me be a big hero at one company I worked for 2011-2014. Before I arrived as a tech lead there, they had ZERO tests. The QA cycle was weeks, even months long. I instituted a whole new regime of unit and intergration testing for all the applications I was responsible for. Within one release cycle, the bug counts fell to nearly zero and the QA cycle basically became a verification step because there were no more bugs. The only way I was able to pull that off was using mocking and some clever powermock hacks because the code was otherwise untestable and thus un-refactorable. So, thanks!

New comment by lisbbb in "Retreating from EVs could be hazardous for Western carmakers"

lisbbb — Sat, 27 Dec 2025 03:40:13 +0000

You are not allowed to decide how everyone else should live. But just for the sake of argument, take a trip to Montana and get back to me on how well universal EVs would work in much of the US. They're fine for urban and suburban areas. They aren't so great for agricultural work, and certainly not great for people who live in places you probably haven't visited. I don't even think EVs are a solution for people in Nebraska, let alone places where the weather gets really extreme.