Hi Boris! Wanted to let you know that I find those ads with you saying "now when you code, you use an agent" obnoxious because of that incorrect statement. I have no interest in slop coding. I find it way more ergonomic and effective to use code to tell a machine precisely what to do than to use English to tell it vaguely. I hate that your ad is misleading so many non-coders, who will actually believe your lie that nobody codes anymore. Probably doesn't help that YouTube was playing it as an interruption in every video I watched. I probably saw it 100 times and was getting to the "throw the remote at the tv" stage XD.

Lately I've occasionally been running into round check boxes that look like radio buttons. Why????

UX want to put their own spin on things. I’ve noticed this repeatedly.

UX has gotten from something with a cause to being the cause for something

In 20 years of front-end web development I've never encountered a designer willing to use standard form controls. I assume they exist.

I think the answer is they just don't know.

iOS decided square checkboxes were ugly, and design patterns are flowing from mobile->desktop these days.

I think Apple does stuff like this because a) they can get away with it and b) they know countless competitors who can't get away with it will blindly follow their shitty new design paradigm.

And yet, Microsoft is still doing their own thing. It's a shame they didn't follow through with, and / or the industry didn't follow along with, Windows Phone because it was a pretty unique design.

Google / Material Design also does their own thing still.

Squircles[1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Squircle

Should eventually be on pds atlas I hope. https://pds-imaging.jpl.nasa.gov/

And whales, don't forget the whales https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/sep/26/trump-whale-...

and the noise causes cancer

I think ra is complaining because changlog.qgis.org appears to be inaccessible. HN hug of death I guess. qgis.org itself seems fine.

I believe in freecad! It's not there yet, but the latest release is a lot of progress!

When I finally Get Around To™ learning CAD, I'll definitely invest my time in FreeCAD.

Hmmmm... even though I'm a cheerleader for it, I wouldn't recommend starting with FreeCAD. Learn on something more feature-complete and with a less idiosyncratic UI, like Onshape. I learned Solidworks at work and without that foundation I wouldn't understand what's wrong / missing about FreeCAD (which is still a lot).

I used it to write papers about glaciovolcanism early in my career. Later, I used it to study caves on the Moon.

Hard agree. Before LLMs, if there was some bit of code needed across the industry, somebody would put the effort into writing a library and we'd all benefit. Now, instead of standardizing and working together we get a million slightly different incompatible piles of stochastic slop.

This was happening before llms in webdev

I don't think we should use webdev as an example of why lossy copy and paste works for the industry.

webdev is a special world with people going nuts and creating JS libraries for every color code.

Yeah and then when that library stops being maintained or gets taken over, everything breaks.

Before LLMs companies and people were forced to use one-size-fits-all solutions and now they can build custom, bespoke software that fits their needs.

See how it's a matter of what you're looking at?

I just got a new job, hired as level 5 with official title Software Engineer (Mid-career) although my boss tells me I'm Chief Engineer. All the level 2 people on my team seem to be Senior Engineer or Lead Engineer.

> If you really think "the whole moon thing is pointless" NASA is pointless.

There's more to NASA than Artemis! NASA's robotic spaceflight programs generate extremely high science return at relatively low cost. Missions like Psyche, Europa Clipper, and Dragonfly are humanity's real explorers.

And their aeronautics work is valuable as well. Low-boom, etc.