My city has water and sewer combined.

That was my thought when I saw this post

I work as a glorified code monkey. It feels faster, sort of, in fits and starts.

When I start working on a task, the AI tooling almost feels like it’s doing the job for me. It picks out the relevant part of the code base, makes changes in the right places, and even updates tests.

Assuming that part all went well, the waiting game begins.

Either run the “git” AI prompt or do it by hand. The prompt way has some nice bells and whistles in how it formats commit messages , but

It’s

Just

So

Slow!

Then, either way, my commit goes. Now I wait for the auto build and test pipeline, the code scanner job, and copilot’s review pass. Sometimes it brings up helpful things, sometimes it raises silly objections.

Then, ok, I think it looks good. I need approval from a busy coworker to actually click merge, so I send a link to the chat and hope someone isn’t too busy.

Once I get that approval, it’s wait again for a build agent to deploy my changes.

Now, hours later (sometimes the next day), I can load it up and see my change reflected in our test environment.

The wheels sure are spinning, but I can’t say for sure that we’re going any faster.

Huh, that doesn’t match my understanding (TBF I don’t work in the field).

Looking again at the study… Dr. Jain had a second person split the students into two groups. I’m not sure whether she conducted the followup exams or had yet another person do that. Assuming that the students were strict about not talking about which toothbrush they were using, I suppose you could call it a ‘blinded’ experiment. I don’t really see how you could double it, though.

Ah, there’s the thing. My wife and I try to avoid buying from amazon. Bezos has too much of our money already.

We do look for off-brand replacement heads, but there are more gotchas than I realized until last week.

Ha, if only it were that easy :(

100% renewable, nuts. I’d actually be thrilled just to get back to 1990s levels of coal and oil-based power plants. Even that seems so far out of reach as to be a fantasy, though.

Comment deleted because it was a load of nonsense

LOL! I was just about to “well, akshually” you about minisplit design!

Eh, technically both contribute. Heat from electrical devices still gets dumped into the environment, and a good portion of that electricity is produced with greenhouse gasses (coal or oil-fired power plants).

Generally, though, yeah, the heat from running AC (or, say, a desk fan) is miniscule compared to other factors.

Your phrasing of “a lot of bad stuff” sounded like you were saying that AC puts out chemicals or something.

No. Double blind means that both the researchers and the participants don’t know who is in which group (control group or experimental group). The idea is to avoid spoiling studies with the placebo effect.

It’s kind of hard to avoid knowing that you’re in the control group when you’re being asked to brush with an old-fashioned toothbrush instead of an electric one.

It just kills me a little inside that it’s easier to get parts for my car than it is to get the right replacement toothbrush heads!

No bet.

From that study:

A randomized double-blind clinical trial was conducted

LOL! I do not think that means what they thought it means. Kinda hard to keep the participants from knowing which study group they’re in.

Still, interesting setup. 60 dental students makes sure that the control group brushing manually is doing so with proper technique. They were getting the best-case scenario for manual brushing.

Hey, be nice. Maybe Trebs was a little snarky, but I don’t think you need to go straight to the jugular.

Hey, I actually liked PHP back when I was working in it.

People have lots of criticisms for it, and – yes, they’re all true. I still enjoyed working in the language back in the day.

Are y’all based in America? I bet dentists there are paid to endorse…

It’s a little frightening how plausible this is. And yes, I’m American.

This is def the case for me. I used to bring the old fashioned toothbrushes for camping (well, for any travel). I noticed a HUGE difference when I’d get home again.

Now I just bring the normal toothbrush. The battery lasts long enough for most trips that it’s fine.

Ooh, good idea

Many companies didn’t enshittify because they were shit from the beginning.

Clever, I like this.

Oof, that could be a post entirely on its own!