So it doesn’t work because your sample size = 1?

Speeding cameras wouldn’t have changed that.

“There is little evidence” that automated traffic enforcement is an effective tool at either “improving traffic safety [or] limiting violent interactions between law enforcement and drivers during minor traffic stops … when enforcement is predicated simply on the assessment of financial sanctions," the group Fines and Fees Justice Center argued in its report.

https://usa.streetsblog.org/2024/03/20/is-automated-enforcement-making-u-s-cities-safer-or-just-raising-revenue

Not to mention, many cameras are hidden and create false positives. They get mailed tickets and have to spend a day in court.

I’m laughing way too hard at this.

Honestly this is the best answer.

Like, use the tools that work for your use case?

I fucking hate macs but man using a video editor on windows was a pain back in the day. Where I would rather set up a server on Linux, than use whatever the hell windows servers operate.

I bring my headphones, audio on, and then put my mic close to my toilet so they can hear my opinion of their ideas.

Just today, I recorded a video to provide training and just uploaded it.

What I didn’t realize was that five minutes in, my microphone picked up my sweet child screaming about how she stepped in cat vomit and now theres cat vomit all over the house.

Yeah I’m not doing two takes and wtf microphone, why are you picking up sounds that far away?

I’m preparing to be mocked once people watch that video.

My wife does this because shes purely a M+K player and one game, she was sucking st. So she plugged in one of my controllers and moved with the controller, but looked with the mouse.

Fighting games with a keyboard? Scary stuff.

As a longtime PC gamer, Games like Dark Souls was impossible for me to play with a keyboard. But I kept watching my friends play it and really liked it a lot. Got one of those discount Xbox controller knockoffs and got pretty good with the game using a controller.

When the Steamdeck came around, I felt right at home with a controller.

It’s shifted dramatically where 90% of games, I’m playing controller. But still can’t play FPSes with one. (Even though I got pretty good with Halo back in the day)

Jurassic park? Lame.

Jaws? Unmoving.

Saving Private Ryan? Save me from this bore.

Schindler’s List? Yak yak yak about the Holocaust.

But I will not take slander from the epic masterpiece that is the Animaniacs.

PCMasterRace. Each year, your consoles get shittier.

Has final fantasy summon vibes.

In the same scenario, there’s another joke where he goes:

Cartman : Oh yeah? I’d like to see you try, asshole. I’m like six feet tall.

I use it all the time and nobody gets it. Especially when I’m more midget size.

Working in open-source, frequent issues do end up being future feature requests.

I took it as software engineers tend to build for scalability. And yep, IT often isn’t prepared for that or sees it as wasted resources.

Which isn’t a bad thing. IT isnt seeing the demands the manager/customer wants.

I’m glad you’ve done both because yeah, it’s a seesaw.

If IT provisions just enough hardware, we’ll hit bottlenecks and crashes when there’s a surprise influx of customers. If software teams don’t build for scale, same scenario, but worse.

From the engineer perspective, it’s always better to scale with physical hardware. Where IT is screaming, “We dont have the funds!”

Accurate!

Developers are frequently excited by the next hot thing or how some billionaire tech companies operate.

I’m guilty of seeing something that was last updated in 2019 and having a look of disgust.

This is like saying before you can be a writer, you need to understand latin and the history of language.

. I think to be a good software developer it helps to know what’s happening under the hood when you take an action.

There’s so many layers of abstractions that it becomes impossible to know everything.

Years ago, I dedicated a lot of time understanding how bytes travel from a server into your router into your computer. Very low-level mastery.

That education is now trivia, because cloud servers, cloudflare, region points, edge-servers, company firewalls… All other barriers that add more and more layers of complexity that I don’t have direct access to but can affect the applications I build. And it continues to grow.

Add this to the pile of updates to computer languages, new design patterns to learn, operating system and environment updates…

This is why engineers live alone on a farm after they burn out.

It’s not feasible to understand everything under the hood anymore. What’s under the hood grows faster than you can pick it up.

Rough and that sucks for your organization.

Our IT team would rather sit in a room with developers and solve those problems, than deal with hundreds of non-techs who struggle to add a chrome extension or make their printer icon show up.

Absolutely agree, as a developer.

The devops team set up a pretty effective setup for our devops pipeline that allows us to scale infinity. Which would be great if we had infinite resources.

We’re hitting situations where the solution is to throw more hardware at it.

And IT cannot provision tech fast enough within budget for any of this. So devs are absolutely suffering right now.

Sometimes managers do guilt trip.

Shitty manager: “Oh you’re taking a few days off to go to a funeral? Now Sarah has to work overtime… :-(”

A dumb employee would then try to reduce your PTO time to make it work, because they’re too stupid to realize that it’s the manager’s responsibility, not theirs.

Oh, and the manager is paid significantly more than them.