I don't buy that that guy thought his life was in danger.

Your best chance is to have both hands ready to help maneuver the rest of your body -- either up onto the hood to roll, or away to the side. Having your gun half-drawn is probably the least effective thing you could do to save your life.

My repo is full of example conversations in Mandarin and Japanese for me to study. What are your markdown files about?

Nitpick: dissapointing -> disappointing. As always, appreciate the update!

Doctorow's take was the opposite: Media companies will always want to control IP, which means they'll always need to employ creative workers. Be interested in your take. pluralistic.net/2025/12/05/p...

But Doctorow actually has substance. I'm a senior engineer who uses LLMs for coding, and his example in my area of expertise is spot on. Everything he says about about "automation blindness", growth stocks and the dotcom bubble matches my knowledge as well.

I'm not a fan of his style either. As you say, such style often masks a lack of substance, assumes points have already been made instead of making them.

I'm not a "young-earth" creationist, and I have thought carefully about what evidence could be presented to me to convince me that the Gospel accounts of Jesus' resurrection were false. Few skeptics I've talked to are able to describe evidence that would convince them they're true.

FWIW an atheist did say to me once that even if he'd personally witnessed the Red Sea parting as depicted in the film "Prince of Egypt", he still wouldn't consider God as a possible hypothesis.

It would be more interesting to hear *what kind* of evidence would convince Nye that the earth was only 6000 years old.

"When you throw away code and start from scratch, you are throwing away all that knowledge. All those collected bug fixes. Years of programming work."

"Each of these bugs took weeks of real-world usage before they were found. The programmer might have spent a couple of days reproducing the bug in the lab and fixing it. ...the fix might be one line of code..., but a lot of work and time went into those two characters."

"Back to that two page function. ...it has grown little hairs and stuff on it and nobody knows why. Well, I’ll tell you why: those are bug fixes."