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Cake day: July 31st, 2023

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  • Been using copilot and another smaller AI model for hobby projects. Both of them slowed me down as much as they helped me with my code.

    Now I’ve switched to supermaven free tier, and it’s actually net positive for me.

    It’s not like it’s writing whole functions for me, but it’s actually quite context sensitive when it comes to defining functions and using them with the same parameters and things like that. I won’t say I am 50% faster, but I could easily attribute a 30% development boost to it. Now mind you, for bug fixes and bug prevention that’s back down to a 5% boost in speed, but that’s still a net positive, so I’ll take that.














  • Your first paragraph makes a lot of sense to me.

    The second paragraph I have a very different opinion on, because there’s a difference between patterns of abuse and having to deal with a shitty situation a few times. And although there’s people who don’t take any shit and will fit you for small inconveniences, there’s also a lot of people who have learned to endure almost every situation for way too long.

    My mom has been working overtime for years and I’m scared she’ll get overwhelmed eventually. Every one of our band mates got bullied in school and just endured it. A school friend told me he was the black sheep in an Asian family and he just had accept it. I’m sure he’s way past his limit but he’ll still try with them. A friend of mine has a dad with narcissistic tendencies and a mom with major health issues and an aunt who almost killed her multiple times intentionally already. I tend to not speak up because sometimes I get it wrong and it fucks me up in major ways.

    As you can see I know a lot of people who wait way too long until they change things, and if they spike up a bit more, they could be holding a successful job and maybe even keep their sanity. Goes to show that everyone is different and every social dynamic is unique.


  • One of the bigger cities in Germany.

    We have a mayor for our district, who is basically a blank slate to 95% of people. It doesn’t help that he lives together with his family in a different district. He is a member of one of our political parties and specifically one I don’t particularly like.

    For some reason I was in the same school class with his son, who was pretty chill, but got very annoying when it came to politics (of course).

    So basically the mayor does a lot of city management stuff but the average person has no clue who he is or what exactly he does.

    I would imagine that’s very unique compared to most other countries but I’m not sure.



  • I guess it is very interesting to think about that analogy, cause I never fully thought about that.

    The camel was miserable before.

    Which means the camel tried to last through it until it broke the camel’s metaphorical back. Which I guess also tells me that if someone says that to me, they are saying someone suffered through something way too long until they finally reacted. I never really thought about it as a hint that you didn’t have to bear something, you could have spoken up earlier already.

    This explanation might be too detailed but I just realized that so maybe this is interesting to someone else.