I see Flowers for Algernon more as a tale of social relations regarding people on extreme IQ positions. The book would be less tragic without the "hammering down", but I don't think it would be better. We are all prone to a decrease in mental capabilities as time passes, so that part of the book makes it more relatable to me.
> It is a lesson for scientists about not messing with god-given realities
Maybe by comics standards, but not really. I mean, it is not like they had decades of research and experiments, and that sort of thing doesn't seem the kind of breakthrough you can make quickly. While fiction, I think it is a tad bit more like real science than comic books science
I would like something like this for linux, any recommendations? I usually run some Image Magick command or open Krita simple editing, and it feels like overkill. I thought about configuring imv[0] to have some common editing features, but didn't take the time yet.
I think it depends on the nature of the task and on the experience of your pair.
If the task is more mundane, you get someone to think about corner cases and other consequences while you code, or vice versa. This is a great way to onboard beginners, as you constantly show not only your code but your process and tools.
If the task is more exploratory, a second person might still be helpful, specially if it is someone with more experience; they can provide real time feedback on your ideas and it might be valuable.
For me, it is not just about getting the work done, it is about knowledge diffusion and code quality - I can't remember now and didn't search again, but there is some data gathered on IBM that shows that, while pair programming doesn't deliver code faster, it usually deliver code with less bugs.
> I'd imagine that pair programming would devolve into a weird social game where winning strategies are either to do minimal work while one party does everything or a situation where one party does 90% of the work while demotivating their counter party. In fact - both of these strategies could be paired together!
This doesn't seem to be a problem inherent to pair programming; you'd need management or someone else to deal with those people in any scenario.
> I decided to move from PyCharm to VSCode and honestly, I am starting to miss PyCharm.
I'm a vim user and had to use PyCharm on a previous job, and it wasn't half bad. I'd take IntelliJ before VSCode if I had to.
> Not necessarily an indication of actual user base; could just be that more/less devs of each "group" are deciding to participate.
I found no data regarding this, but I have the impression that new developers are getting into VSCode, and maybe those younger ones are skewing the editor/IDE usage. I'd like to see a survey about editor/IDE migrations, it would be interesting to see where people start and with what people settle.
I'd rather not have that statement more than 80 char long; that might be a one liner where many things are happening, in case there _is_ value is breaking it up, or maybe the variable names are too long, not helping readability.
I think everyone dislikes that as a company practice, but I have the impression that most of the people who would complain are simply not using Edge, and thus don´t remember/bother to say anything about it.
This reminded me of toodles[0], a nice project you can use to visualize TODO comments as issues. I didn't have the chance to try it, but I'm looking forward it for my next project
> Most of the NFTs now are like trading cards, at least the successful ones. Why is there so much hate for digital trading cards?
From what I heard on artist communities, the huge electric energy demand that doesn't scale well. I like the possibilities NFT creates for fine art creators, but I'm more concerned about the ecological issues here.
As for the ecological impacts, Ethereum is primarily used as the basis for almost all NFTs. Ethereum currently uses Proof of Work like Bitcoin which spends lots of electricity to achieve decentralization. Unlike Bitcoin, Ethereum has spent years developing Proof of Stake as an alternative. You can follow the progress here: https://ethereum.org/en/developers/docs/consensus-mechanisms....
Proof of stake should dramatically decrease the electricity requirement of Ethereum.
