@lauriewired I don’t like programming for work because I never spend any time understanding “the magic of the machine” or something fundamental and meaningful. I am just stacking slop on top of slop to make some metrics go up
@ilovetonkatsu@rohindhar The rental market explosion is not really an inevitably. I think that housing scarcity is artificial and caused by poor policy. It seems like all tax and local economic policy is increasingly designed to make my life harder.
@Jonathan_Blow@mcnabbd I think most people learn early in their software careers that pure ideas are actually kind of annoying and if it’s actually a good idea you can just write the code and have something concrete to talk about
@ilovetonkatsu@rohindhar They’re not going to go broke but it is a bit radicalizing to see >50% of your salary evaporate into nothing instantly. There are student loans too. Imagine grinding your whole life and being in the top of your class to not even be that successful.
@Melchirasha@ratlimit Okay in this case I think it’s pretty clear the reasoning is that lower levels of air and light pollution in upstate New York allow you to see the night sky better. I don’t think it is zero sum thinking here.