Aaron Jacobs

@NewtonMark@eigenmagic.net Loving this sentence: “GyG offered bigger burritos in the US than it does in Australia in an attempt to woo American customers, who typically demand larger portions.”

@regehr Thanks. Yeah, I’m much more interested in the question of long-term stuff, software engineering rather than programming, etc. It’s really kind of amazing at generating code, but that’s more or less the uninteresting part when it comes to net benefit in my opinion. I’m totally with you on automating unpleasant things you can’t be bothered to learn because they’re not important to you (like makefiles).

@regehr I’m curious whether you think of this as a “square numbers in [0, 1]” situation, or numbers greater than one. Is it making everybody worse while amplifying the differences, or is it accelerating the good people too? I’m kind of finding the former in my job.

@NewtonMark @ikluft This happened to my brother’s father in law in his RV, although during the day (much better I assume). Sucked his flight bag out, and he flew back with blood in his face from the bird and from his own lacerations. Asked the paramedic to clean him up before his wife saw him. He noted his position, and a few weeks later went and found his bag on the side of the highway.

@ivory Great answer, thanks!

@das_g What do you use Esperanto for daily?