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Shopping for an anonymous VPN service is so weird because all the marketing and all the reviews are like DO YOU WANT TO DO CRIMES? DO YOU WANT TO DO DOUBLE SECRET CRIMES? DO YOU WANT YOUR PACKETS TO COME FROM THE MOON? DO YOU WANT TO DO MOON CRIMES WHILE WE PROJECT A PLAUSIBLE HOLOGRAM OF YOU IN TIMES SQUARE? DO YOU WANT NO LOGS OF YOUR CRIMES? DO YOU WANT US TO ERASE THE GOV...

I was trying to describe what working on code with AI while *all this* [waves vaguely] is going on. What came to mind is: imagine spending a couple years in the desert learning to harness petroleum to power tractors and cranes. Then you visit the big city, and everyone is putting crude oil in their hair and on their pizza and using it for sex.

Chris Oliver asked on LinkedIn:

Spotted this in the Rails source today. The trailing comma made me think it was a typo at first glance but it uses the $, global variable for nil instead of nil ...