Eventually, yes

I don’t use it anymore though because I found the suggestions to be annoying and distracting most of the time and got tired of hitting escape

Same. It took longer for me to parse and validate the suggestion as it did for me to just type what I wanted.

I do like the helper for more complex refractors.
Where you have a bunch of similar, but not exactly the same, changes to make.
Where a search & replace refactor isn’t enough.
It manages to figure out what you are doing, highlights the next instance of it and suggests the replacement.
I don’t think I’ve seen it make a mistake doing that, and it is a useful speedup.
I guess the LLM already has all the context: the needle, the haystack and the term.

Yeh, my example was pretty contrived and very surface level.
It grouped things that seemed related at a surface level but weren’t actually related at all. Which makes it a bad example.
And realistically, you would use a timer class that raised events, and passed in an interval class that could be constructed from any appropriate units.

It was more to highlight that types and classes are a fairly easy way to improve the context around variable.
It can also use type checker to show incorrect conversions between minutes and seconds, Polar and Cartesian coords, RGB and HSV, or miles and kilometers. Any number of scenarios where unit conversions aren’t a syntax error.

Yeh, absolutely.
Horses for courses.

I feel like variable or function names that become overly verbose indicate that a specific type or a separate class should be considered.
I see it as a mild code smell.

Something like int intervalSeconds = 5 could maybe have a type that extends an int called seconds. So then you are declaring seconds Interval = 5.
It describes the unit, so the variable name just describes the purpose.
You could even add methods for fromMinutes etc. to reduce a bunch of (obvious) magic numbers elsewhere.

To extend this contrived example further, perhaps there are a couple of intervals. A refresh, a timeout and a sleep interval.
Instead of having.

int sleepIntervalSeconds = 0;
// etc...

You could create an intervals class/object/whatever.
So then you have.

public class Intervals {
    public seconds Sleep
    public seconds Refresh
    public seconds Timeout
}

The class/object defines the context, the type defines the unit, and you get nice variable names describing the purpose.

Why do you dislike PHP?

Of course a US company is going to jack up prices to cover the import tariffs. They aren’t going to eat the loss.
So who is paying that tariff, that increase in cost?
Let’s break it down:
Is it the government of Canada: No.
Is it the company in Canada exporting the good: No.
Is it the company in the US importing the good: No (they increase prices to cover the tariff).
Is it the consumer in the US buying the good from the US company: Yes.

So, does Canada pay the tariff? No.
Does US pay the tariff? Yes.

It’s the US citizen that is paying more to cover the tariff. The “visible” result of the tariff is that the US pays more.
The money goes back to the US government, so it stays within the US. But IT IS AN ADDITIONAL TAX TO US COMPANIES AND CONSUMERS.

So trump can slap a 200% tariff on something, and the US (companies or citizens) will have to pay that tariff.

Canada doesn’t pay ANY of it.
They might see a decline in sales towards the US. They will be incentivised to diversify their exports, which means they will rely less on their trade with the US.

Tariffs makes sense if it’s a 10-year plan to return manufacturing to a country, where the proceeds of the tariff fold back into the economy as investments (along with additional investments) in the manufacturing they are trying to bring back to the country. Gives companies notice, let’s people get trained, and a decade later it’s cheaper to produce a part locally than it is to import it from abroad.

Massively swinging tariffs every few weeks, throwing a hissy fit because nobody is bending to your childish will, and driving an entire country into an isolated draconian society where foreign companies and talent don’t want to invest… Not the way to leverage tariffs.

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Yeh, Linux doesn’t have to be scary these days.

So, we should be sending people to prison? Cause that’s what happened to people involved in dieselgate. Along with the affected cars being recalled and the owners compensated.

From the wiki, and I’m simplifying:
VW was handed over to the German government after being offered free-of-charge to Ford in 1948 by the British government (who ran the factory up till then).
In 1946 the produced 1000 cars per month. In 1949, 2 cars were sold in the US.
In 1952, 12 VWs were sold in Canada.
In 1955 they produced over 1 million Beetles.

So 3 years on life support being ran by the British. Dunno how long being run by the German government before becoming GmbH.

Over what sort of timeframe?
Couple months? Couple years? Couple decades?

And the news cycle can’t keep up or spend appropriate amounts of time/outrage on the things that are criminal, abhorrent and hurting people.
Throw a bunch of stupid shit to the media, let them feast. Sneak around while they are busy and get the truely hurtful stuff into law (or just skip the law part, and do it).

World Police

That was a day. A few hours, at least

I think we agree.
The intel trump used to order the strikes was wrong… The intel was wrong.
Presuming the buck stops with the president of course.

I doubt he actually cared enough about any briefing material. He probably went in with the mentality of “Iran is developing nukes, and should be stopped” then asked for intel according to that presumption.

I think trump would immediately throw a company under the bus for their “weak loser bombs” if they didn’t perform as designed.
I think trump would immediately “you’re fired” a general for spec-ing the wrong bombs.

I think the intel was wrong

Windows 11 and OSX are so outdated

Huh, interesting.
I imagine the “don’t have to stop gambling to take care of another addiction” is more important than perfect scents.

I’m actually taken aback that smoking in indoor public places is still legal.
I imagine if the demographic swings away from being predominantly smoking gamblers then casinos will react quickly to have isolated smoking rooms/areas

Oh, they do have psychological manipulation in mind.
There are 2 leading design types:
No clocks anywhere, designed to be difficult to navigate out of, designed to make the passage of time difficult to tell.
And open and bright with easy lines of sight, designed to allow gamblers to relax without leaving.

https://www.casinousa.com/blog/psychology-of-casino-design

The former was developed by an ex-gambler that “turned their life around” into an architect that manipulates gamblers to gamble more. He studied the successful casinos, and gathered up all the techniques that makes gamblers gamble more.
The open layout was developed in response to this, and solely concentrates on making gamblers feel relaxed (or able to relax).

But lighting, layout, smells, sounds… Everything is accounted for.
Casino owners know the design of their casino is what makes gamblers gamble more