I’m fairly sure he spends most of his time frustrated with limits of reality.

Oh that is clever.

Does curl send a different useragent when it’s piped?

Searching for those words just vomits ‘hOW to SeT cUrL’s UseRaGenT’ blog spam.

Once upon a time, when you logged in you arrived at the desktop. Then typically you’d click a docked application icon or use the hot corner to open the overview (Apple calls it exposé on macOS) and search for an application to start. Some people would just hit the keyboard shortcut and start typing an application name. Very quick.

One day, the gnome team decided that since a lot of people do this, that immediately after logging in you’d arrive directly at this overview/exposé mode ready to type an app name.

Quite a few people didn’t like this change, and requested a setting so they could enable/disable it as was their preference. The response from the gnome team was essentially ‘get fucked’ enshrouded by weak/nonsense justifications for the change and for not making it optional, apparently taking the request as some kind of personal attack.

It was a trivial minor change but the way the team handled it was… lacking.

I like gnome DE, I dislike the arrogance of the project team.

My straw was the login-to-exposé thing.

Especially as it’s probably newsworthy that they weren’t murdered by an even more far right person because they weren’t far right enough.

The problems with YT will cease when it doesn’t come back up.

I hated it. Consider the first few practice. You’re interviewing them too!

Good signs are employers asking how you work, asking for interesting stories.

100%.

Also “explain why it won’t work doing it thus way”.

I feel like I should be looking to bounce to an employer more willing to create quality tools that take more time.

Start now. It’ll take a while to find one. When you’re interviewing, grill the prospective employer on how the team operates. IMHO field experience is less important.

I avoided saying as much in my reply because I think opening with “get a better job” is a dick move, but if you’re considering it… start.

I’m a big fan of pair programming. I’m also a fan of rubber duck programming when solo.

I’ve found that an LLM agent can be useful as a rubber duck that can respond and sometimes as a more experienced pair that already knows things that I’m less experienced in.

Everything always needs to be shipped fast and I need to move on to the next thing.

This isn’t the AI’s fault, it’s the culture of your employer. A 100% human workforce would write poor quality code too. Using an LLM is just making you more productive in terms of what productive means for your employer: churning out rubbish faster.

But it honestly doesn’t matter if it’s true.

It’s plausible and that’s enough.

It’s not unlike leasing a car. It has its (tax) advantages.

Having said that, this is Needful Things level of deal.

If it can’t even take down a President why think it could take down a Monarchy?

Nice summary.

Doesn’t take many assumptions to reach that conclusion either. Occam would concur.

enjoy

Or the British. But they’re cut from the same cloth.

Yay, it uses the XDG dirs… Wait, no, not like that.

And the Google dudes too?

They’re all the same: billionaires.