When someone tells you to stop and go away and you refuse, that is harassment.

You don't have some God-given right to demand the undivided attention of a stranger. That is literally the behavior of a 5-year old. Grow up.

I don't think my headphones are depriving me of some grand experience of human life.

But also we have a serious problem where taking away someone's license to drive is to sentence them to poverty if not homelessness and starvation. We don't have decent public transit and there are very few jobs within walking distance of most residential areas. Those jobs that do exist don't pay a living wage because pegging minimum wage to inflation or even the poverty line is "communism" and an "attack on businesses".

Our problems with car fatalities is really only one small symptom of the ongoing collapse of American society.

Or maybe this is just how young people think when given access to this type of information.

CI caching is, apparently, extremely difficult. Why spend a couple of hours learning about your CI caches when you can just download and build the same pinned static library a billion times? The server you're downloading from is (of course) someone else's problem and you don't care about wasting their resources either. The power you're burning by running CI for there hours instead of one is also someone else's problem. Compute time? Someone else's problem. Cloud costs? You bet it's someone else's problem.

Sure, some things you don't want to cache. I always do a 100% clean build when cutting a release or merging to master. But for intermediate commits on a feature branch? Literally no reason not to cache builds the exact same way you do on your local machine.

The absolute hardest part (for me) about learning a language is listening comprehension. I can read, write, and speak French at a reasonable level, but I've never been able to understand a native speaker. It would take a lot of work and exposure to bring my mastery up to the level of my second-year written French. A large part of that is because spoken French is a hot mess compared to the written form, but I digress.

A written language without a spoken form is a lot easier to grok. Especially programming languages and their limited grammar. But I think there's more to it than that. One of the reasons I find it trivial to learn programming languages is that code is code is code, no matter which flavor of sugar you shovel on top. The language is simply an abstraction for a logical construct. Skilled programmers work on that logical construct directly, and the language is nothing more than a means to an end.

Also there's the fact that the written word is intransient. You have time to pause and search your memory or dictionary for a word. A spoken language requires extensive training to literally rewire your brain. You can't stop to ponder a word because it's gone before you can reconstruct a word from sounds. There's a very good reason that our brains have hardware to turn sounds into linguistic tokens. It's just too much processing to do at a conscious level at any reasonable speed.

We definitely would not have Electron and that's a world I want to live in.

Right, because it's fucking ridiculous to expect a driver to fumble through menus while driving.

The ultra-rich get tax loopholes and the rest of us have to make up for it with increased taxes and decreased government services.

It is an investment vehicle, not a functional currency. For most people you can't use it as a currency if you tried.

It's maybe not a literary masterpiece and it's suspiciously similar to The Martian if you squint. But not many books can get me laughing out loud the second or third time through.

It's a really fun read and I find the aliens particularly compelling in a way that most Sci-Fi doesn't get right.

I also don't play any games that require a rootkit, so..

No matter how secure your browser setup is, Google is tracking you. By filling their trackers with garbage, there's less that can personally identify you as an individual