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  • As I understand it, people mostly change their mind (and thus behavior) for two reasons.

    The first is in-group beliefs. If someone sees other people in their in-group believing a thing or behaving in a way, they’re more likely to adopt that. Possibly the people who play audio in public, their friends and peers are the same way. But if you also might be in one of their groups, like a college kid to another college kid, or a junior professional to another, talking to them might make a difference. But if you’re like a 59 year rich old white guy, telling a 16 year old non-white poorer kid is unlikely to land, because they probably see you as outgroup.

    The other thing that changes minds is horrible trauma. Like, if you smashed their head into the bus window, took their phone and transferred all their money (via venmo or whatever), then tossed the phone out the window, they might change their mind about being a public irritant. Maybe. They might also take some other lesson instead. But either way you’d go to jail for several crimes, so probably don’t do that.





  • New Jersey is fine. A lot of north jersey is overshadowed by NYC being right there. One of my friends moved here from florida, and one of her friends was like “Why don’t you move to jersey city? it’s cheaper” and she went “I didn’t move to new york to live in new jersey”. But even if you do live just outside the city and none of your friends want to visit, you’re still a short train ride away from it.

    I don’t know as much about south jersey, but, like, it’s fine. And unlike, I don’t know, Iowa, you can usually get on a train to a world class city.






  • a program like any other that just needs to be able to access each websites’ server and display its files right?

    In software engineering “just” is often considered a dirty word.

    Rendering HTML and CSS correctly is not trivial.

    Doing JavaScript to spec also is not trivial.

    Doing all your http verb network request stuff is also not trivial.

    Plus the interface (probably graphical) is a lot of work.

    There’s also probably a thousand other things that would eat up time. Displaying all the different image formats, for example.




  • People are interesting. People produce culture. Cities are where people are. Cities are always going to be more interesting and more cultural.

    You want to start a band in nowhere, Utah? Ok, well, you’re going to have a lot fewer people interested in joining or watching than a city of any size.

    Some stuff might move online. But I’m reminded of an interview I read during the pandemic. Someone was asked “what can I do at an in person party I can’t do online?”. The other person replied, “fuck people.” So there’s that. In-person social stuff matters.

    So like yeah I guess it might be cheaper but it’s probably going to be less interesting just because there’s fewer people around.


  • I’ve never had a complaint about logging stuff in python. It generally does what I expect.

    “Create a copy of your object and print that” is what I ended up doing, but I don’t think most people would say that’s intuitive. I expect if i print something at a particular time, I get what it is at that point in time.