Ah yes. Life before Agile was wonderful.

^ yes, this exactly. It was the equivalent of living on the dark net in the eves. Total Wild West.

Not all > 45 tho. I’d say 40-55 or so who were also “nerds” or “geeks” as kids.

Agreed. This type of fun is good for the team. Trying to stamp it out, when it impacts very little, is just a buzzkill to the team.

It’s referring to variable names. For example, you have a variable named fileDialog. I would prefer to have that named dialogFile.

I’m very familiar with what LLMs do.

You’re misunderstanding what copilot does. It just completes a line or section of code. It doesn’t answer questions - it just continues a pattern. Sometimes quite intelligently.

Shoot me a message on discord and I’ll do a screenshare for you. #locuester

It has improved my quality and speed significantly. More so than any other feature since intellisense was introduced (which many back then also frowned upon).

If you’re skilled enough to know it’s wrong, then you should do it yourself, if you’re not, then you shouldn’t be using it.

Oh I strongly disagree. I’ve been building software for 30 years. I use copilot in vscode and it writes so much of the tedious code and comments for me. Really saves me a lot of time, allowing me to spend more time on the complicated bits.

And since electric leaf blowers often have a much higher pitch, that pitch attenuates at a much greater rate

As the article states, it’s this sound that they got rid of. A 94% drop in the high pitched shrill of the electric leaf blower.

Read. The. Article.

It’s a 2 minute read ffs.

Exactly

I did not see the link for some reason, just the quote. Once again, I’m not being willingly obtuse. Thank you for the link and I will read it.

It’s not helpful to the discussion to repeatedly tell people how they feel, unless you just want to dismiss the conversation. And in such a case, no reply at all would be a better option imo.

Not being willingly obtuse, this is a good faith discussion. It feels very obtuse on the other end tbh, and I’m genuinely trying to have an intelligent discussion.

“Other taxes and bullshit” I agree 100% that I’m not taking into account. Thats where I’m looking for some sources of specific info. Not just unsourced opinions.

Ugh I’m sorry. I started trying to make sense of it and then somehow confused myself into thinking it was a % share of total - as if each side added to 100%. Nevermind, I was wrong.

Anyhow, back to the chart - it simply makes no sense in that case. I would need to take a look at the underlying to tell me how the bottom 20% pay 13% of income to taxes in a state with 0% income and 6.25% sales tax. Only thing left is property tax (according to chart it’s those 3).

Yes I realize small local sales taxes may apply, but is a max of 2%.

How much property does this bottom 20% own?!

I agree with all this. Not sure it’s relevant.

CA charges almost no tax on its poorest, and the poorest make $0 , so they see no benefit. Same in TX.

This isn’t comparing taxes. It’s comparing what section of the population shares more of the total burden.

This isn’t saying the people in Texas pay more, just that the distribution is different across income groups. Which makes sense because there is no income tax. Overall, the vast majority (and all non-landowners) in Texas is paying less than they would in Cali.

It’s a misleading graph, possibly on purpose to make people think what you did.

Edit: brain fart. further discussion below.

That makes zero sense.

Cali sales tax is 7.25, Texas is 6.25

Poor people likely don’t own property, but yeah it’s about double in Texas.

Income tax in Cali ramps from 1% up slowly to 9% at just 68k/yr. But even lowest income pays 1%. Texas is 0%.

The argument has no merit. None. California appears to have objectively higher tax on most people, and certainly on all those who don’t own property.

What am I missing?

Source? Texas has no income tax so I’m finding this a weird thing to say

I have a girls name and my last name is a very popular Asian female name too.

My entire life I get misgendered on phone, email, chat. It’s not a big deal. Hell, it can be an advantage - I’ve gotten more than one job interview because they expect a woman.

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Be careful with this dangerous logic. You’ll get pitchforked.

My knowledge of electrical engineering has not shown that solder increases performance. Do you have some more information on this?

I’m sorry you’re upset about ads and privacy.