I said something like “billionaires should remember that the alternative is guillotines”, just a bit of history, and an admin deleted my comment and gave me a warning.

Nuh uh, headline. I bet the soundtrack wasn’t made in Blender

What AI is this?

I’m trying to use emscripten to compile libsnorble to wasm so I can use it in an electron app but it’s not working. Can anyone help me?

“Just use squeeb JS lol”

But squeeb.js can’t squeeb snorbles with Windows line endings!

He did learn a hard lesson, but it sounds like this was exactly what he was attempting to rectify. “This project is pretty important to me. I should probably figure out how to use source control and put it on GitHub” but then by doing so, and due to some arguably poor UX decisions in VSC, destroyed the project.

If someone’s trying to learn how to do something you can’t just be like “well you should’ve already known how”, you know what I mean?

Well actually, let’s qualify that: there are cases where people try to jump right in the deep end. “I’m just learning woodworking! Step 1: build a new deck for my house”, like yeah bro what are you doing, let’s start with a birdfeeder or something.

But that’s not what happened here. He tried to use the built-in GUI, which many would assume would be easier to learn than jumping right to the CLI, and it burned him in a way he didn’t even realize was possible.

I mean, not entirely, and he says he lost months worth of work. Like imagine you know nothing of git:

• Click buttons in the IDE to add source control.

• IDE says a bunch of files have been changed.

• But I don’t want to make changes to the files, I want to source control them.

• Attempt to undo the changes. Click “discard changes” thinking it will put them back to how they were before clicking add source control. Get a warning dialog that this is not undoable, but that’s fine because I don’t want whatever changes it made to my files anyway.

• All files are deleted and unrecoverable.

Like that experience sucks balls and it’s reasonable that a person wouldn’t expect “discard” == “delete”. Also, from reading the GitHub thread, apparently at that time VSCode was doing a git clean when you clicked this. Which like…yeah why the hell would it do that lol? I don’t think I have ever used git clean in my entire career.

It seems like he was trying to learn though? He clicked it, like “hell yes I want source control, let’s figure this out”

“It says all my files are changed? Oh shit why did it change my files? Shit fuck, undo, how do I undo…Do I want to discard the changes? I don’t even know what it changed. Yes please undo whatever changes you did to my files”

And poof.

Chrome devtools and debugger are awesome

For comparison, human brains only use 25W. We’re pretty damn good.

People making less than $35k a year were doing this?

the depletion of savings built up during the pandemic

Built up savings? Is this a thing?

Because they already raised hundreds of millions from investors

Alfred Sloan, GM https://moneymorning.com/2015/11/24/the-evil-genius-behind-the-general-motors-streetcar-conspiracy/

Yeah the pledge is definitely weird.

Eh I don’t buy that, at least not as the primary goal. It’s more a side effect of the structure and resources of a class. When the classrooms were built to support 18 students per class, and the teacher’s union contract says they’ll have a max of 25 students per class, but in actuality they have 31 students per class, kids sharing desks and bumping elbows, yeah we kinda need all 31 of those kids to sit down and buckle up, or no one at all is going to get any learning done.

Is it the ideal learning environment for every student? Nope. Is it the ideal learning environment for any student? Probably not. But unless we’re willing to invest more in education, it’s what we’re working with.

I think they want kids to pay attention in class

Huh. That is way cooler

Common myth. You do not need to pay interest ever to have good credit. Your accounts should show activity, ie your balance on your statement should be non-zero, but you can pay off that entire balance (and thereby pay no interest) and still improve your score.

“illegal for employers to foster fatphobia in the workplace that affects employees and contractors, just like discrimination based on race, gender, and sexual orientation constitutes a violation of the law.”

Do they actually have a case here? Race, gender, and sexual orientation are not things a person can control.

It’s actually people vs. corporations vs. the government, and the corporations keep bribing the refs