Eric Loewenthal

Software Engineer. Sailor. Skier. Cyclist. Cat Dad. Gay AF.

[Eric Loewenthal @ericonstuff]

Might have to uninstall @Spotify so i can stop seeing this hideous app icon 🤮 🗑️

[Nic Barker @nicbarkeragain]

"AI will generate all the code, and senior programmers will review it" is basically a mantra at this point.
I'm fortunate enough to know a number of top tier programmers personally, and precisely 0% of them want to spend their time reviewing AI generated code (myself included)

[Eric Loewenthal @ericonstuff]

@stevesi You should really get off the internet before your brain fully rots 🤦‍♂️

[Eric Loewenthal @ericonstuff]

Everyone “both sides”ing the biden pardon should literally fuck right off.

[Mightykeef @MightyKeef]

I got people who make 30k a year, in my comment's gloating that Trump is gonna win. Brother I'm wealthy. IM the one that is getting tax cut benefits from Trumps policy. The benefits YOU will be paying for.

Stupid.

[Nick Knudsen 🇺🇸 @NickKnudsenUS]

I have a confession and a plea to folks who are flirting with voting Jill Stein.

When I was a 20 year old college student in 2000, I voted for Ralph Nader instead of Al Gore. I loved the progressive message Nader offered, and Bush and Gore seemed kinda the same to someone who was paying peripheral attention.

I've regretted that vote for my entire adult life.

Ultimately, George Bush won by a margin of 500+ votes in the state of Florida over Gore. And that was the ballgame. Ralph Nader peeled 97,000+ votes away from Gore. If only 600 of those 90,000 had voted for the major party candidate that more aligned with their values, things would have been very different.

When I was in my senior year of college, 9/11 happened. The country and western world rallied around Bush's resolute response to the traumatizing terror attacks. I was in NY at the time, and it was a terrifying moment for the nation.

But the consequences of Bush being in office at that moment were immense.

Bush's disdain for his dad's nemesis, Iraqi President Saddam Hussein, led him to invent a rationale to invade a country that literally had nothing to do with 9/11. End result? He killed hundreds of thousands of Iraqi people, thousands of American troops, and spent over a trillion dollars of taxpayer money in the process.

Beyond the completely immoral and indefensible Iraq War, Bush was a complete disaster as a president. His "No Child Left Behind" effort turned public schools into standardized testing centers. He tripled down on fossil fuels and ignored climate change. His tax cuts for the rich helped contribute to the 2008 economic downturn that led to the Great Recession.

He was a terrible president.

In an alternate reality, Al Gore would have been president in 2001 when terrorists attacked America. Would he have gone into Iraq? Absolutely not. Would he have ignored global warming? 100% no! Gore was perhaps the preeminent proponent of fighting climate change at that time. Would he have passed massive tax cuts for the wealthy? No way.

This is a sliding doors scenario. What would have happened? We can't be sure. But one thing is for sure: those votes for Ralph Nader (in Florida in particular) were EXCEPTIONALLY consequential for the lives of millions around the world. Gore would have offered a more forward-facing, environmentally conscious & peaceful presidency that wasn't so rooted in grievance and privilege.

My point is:

Either Kamala Harris or Donald Trump will win the election. That is a fact. You might feel the need to submit a "protest vote" as I did in 2000.

Just be ready to wear it when Donald Trump wins, strips away reproductive rights from all Americans, implements an economy-destroying tariff, dismantles the entire federal government, eliminates the Department of Education, prosecutes his perceived enemies, and devolves America into chaos.

There are no perfect choices. But rest assured, there are only two.

Trust me - I've been wearing my vote for a quarter century.

[Eric Loewenthal @ericonstuff]

@stevesi @metz123 john ✅
steve ❌

[Eric Loewenthal @ericonstuff]

@stevesi Those ultra ultra wealthy who would actually move over this tax that has ZERO impact on their lifestyle or spending power are just greedy self absorbed pricks who care more about seeing the numbers in their bank account than enjoying their wealth and financial flexibility.

[Eric Loewenthal @ericonstuff]

@stevesi Talk about deceptive. 99+% of tech workers will never sell a long term capital gain greater than $250k

Tech based compensation is income when vested and can be immediately sold in any amount without a capital gain or this tax applying.

[Eric Loewenthal @ericonstuff]

Thanks for the update @UPS

In a related software engineering topic:

An engineer once suggested (0, 0) as the default lat/long value in a data model. Surely no one would ever actually a couple hundred miles offshore from Ghana…

Valid values are bad default values!

[Eric Loewenthal @ericonstuff]

tfw ur in kotlin and u keep typing
String helloWorld;

but then u switch to java and u keep typing
helloWorld : String

#kotlin #java #SoftwareEngineering

[Eric Loewenthal @ericonstuff]

@TwitterSupport i still cant send messages. Please help.

[Eric Loewenthal @ericonstuff]

So many 🤯. First @Twitter @elonmusk wtf is an Arkose challenge? Second your challenge doesnt work it just blank loading screens forever. Third hire a god damn UX designer. #arkose

[Eric Loewenthal @ericonstuff]

tmobile in seattle down for everyone or just me? @TMobileHelp

[Eric Loewenthal @ericonstuff]

$meta @Meta lays off 11k humans (reducing CapEx by ~$2B) and likely more to come for “efficiency” then spends $40B on stock buybacks for shareholders. Capitalism is great!

People are more important than more profit they already don’t have anything useful to do with.

[Eric Loewenthal @ericonstuff]

@blairh Nice flex going under that bridge without it needing to open 🤣

[Eric Loewenthal @ericonstuff]

I implemented HTTP/2 PUSH for IE/Edge back in the day. Even have a couple of silly patents for it. RIP #http2

[Eric Loewenthal @ericonstuff]

dear internet please make $sq a meme stock thx in advance

[Eric Loewenthal @ericonstuff]

Stroking out watching the mets #lgm