"Tabletop gaming" was a term invented specifically to capture things that weren't considered self-contained enough to be a "board game" or "card game".

I agree that "a board" is not necessary, but I do think that "less faff than D&D or Warhammer 40k" is a hard requirement.

Which has of course always been the true allure of AI. Do nothing and pretend you did something, when pretending is something you can be bothered to do.

I will say, though, that I think the manager would have done better to encourage the recipients to opt-in to using a LLM to expound on specific points of confusion so that they'd have the actual source document in hand.

That's because you don't live in Maryland.

Our energy bills are through the roof and our transmission company is talking about rolling blackouts in 2027.

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I think that's true at the moment, but only because there's so little demand for it. You can always find a sign post or something because no one else is snatching them up.

At the end of the day bikes are still private vehicles and, though they're smaller than cars, they aren't that small and the infrastructure to secure them (which is integrated into cars) isn't small either. So you get the same problem writ small.

This doesn't scale to wider bike adoption, though.

Anyhow. Software engineers, like, hire nannies when their kids are young. Have cleaning services. Accumulate nice little slices of the S&P500. Generally own houses.

Minor nobility is a better comp than anything to do with chattel slavery.

In particular I think people are very confused by declaring pointers and the overloaded meaning of the dereference operator.

Hierarchy was always a poor substitute for tagging. You have to either decide a bunch of arbitrary parent / child relationships to encode your tags in a deep directory structure or just stuff them all into the file name and filter with regex.

I actually have similar frustrations with emacs org-mode. I get paralyzed by tree-structure decisions and I'm realizing that a tree structure is just not what I want. A flat collection of knowledge items festooned with every conceivable piece of metadata that might help me find them later is.

That's becoming dangerously true of my wife and I as well, to be honest.

The friction is just so much lower than Google Drive or whatever. As long as I handle it right away. It's just finding something from more than an hour ago that's intolerable.

That is, uh, controversial.

Along both "alleged replacement" and "alleged superiority" axes.

The corpus of work on this exact topic is so vast, and so overwhelmingly bereft of distracting racial slurs, that I think we can safely discard this contribution.

Would think twice about linking that one in polite company.

1. REPL is automatically compiled into running systems 2. Great hot-reloading support

So it's generally very easy to "poke" at a running system, and the whole dev process assumes you will do this.

TBH, these days it is largely possible in a C++ debugger. Less so 10 years ago, though.

IMO it's a combination of long-running paranoia about cost-cutting and quality, and a sort of performative allegiance to artists working in the industry.

All they do is elect Republican governors who kill our transit projects.