He did learn a hard lesson, but it sounds like this was exactly what he was attempting to rectify. “This project is pretty important to me. I should probably figure out how to use source control and put it on GitHub” but then by doing so, and due to some arguably poor UX decisions in VSC, destroyed the project.

If someone’s trying to learn how to do something you can’t just be like “well you should’ve already known how”, you know what I mean?

Well actually, let’s qualify that: there are cases where people try to jump right in the deep end. “I’m just learning woodworking! Step 1: build a new deck for my house”, like yeah bro what are you doing, let’s start with a birdfeeder or something.

But that’s not what happened here. He tried to use the built-in GUI, which many would assume would be easier to learn than jumping right to the CLI, and it burned him in a way he didn’t even realize was possible.

I mean, not entirely, and he says he lost months worth of work. Like imagine you know nothing of git:

• Click buttons in the IDE to add source control.

• IDE says a bunch of files have been changed.

• But I don’t want to make changes to the files, I want to source control them.

• Attempt to undo the changes. Click “discard changes” thinking it will put them back to how they were before clicking add source control. Get a warning dialog that this is not undoable, but that’s fine because I don’t want whatever changes it made to my files anyway.

• All files are deleted and unrecoverable.

Like that experience sucks balls and it’s reasonable that a person wouldn’t expect “discard” == “delete”. Also, from reading the GitHub thread, apparently at that time VSCode was doing a git clean when you clicked this. Which like…yeah why the hell would it do that lol? I don’t think I have ever used git clean in my entire career.

It seems like he was trying to learn though? He clicked it, like “hell yes I want source control, let’s figure this out”

“It says all my files are changed? Oh shit why did it change my files? Shit fuck, undo, how do I undo…Do I want to discard the changes? I don’t even know what it changed. Yes please undo whatever changes you did to my files”

And poof.

Chrome devtools and debugger are awesome

For comparison, human brains only use 25W. We’re pretty damn good.

Lol you’re the one not making any sense, but sure

FTPT is just another convenient fearmongering excuse.

No, it’s reality.

I know very well how it works.

I don’t think you do. Biden has nothing to do with it. Democrats have nothing to do with it. Go read up.

Ok, sure? But as long as we have FPTP, your choices are Democrat or Republican. Or bank on the Green Party winning the Powerball, I guess.

It’s not a matter of politics. We could be voting on which salad dressing to use, and FPTP will always devolve into only two parties (Caesar and Italian, perhaps?). Go read those links I shared.

And without something like RCV, the greens can never win.

You’re presenting a safe with the key locked inside.

What false premise?

The revolutionary isn’t loyal to party, only principle

So the principle you are loyal to is…we get to be led by Democrats or Republicans, forever and forever?

No, you are flat out wrong. Read the links I shared. Statistically, it is nearly impossible for a third party to win under FPTP; you may as well buy lottery tickets. The most a third party can do is create a spoiler effect. This is regardless of being on the ballot or campaigning a lot.

The voting system must be changed. Neither the Democrats or the Republicans will advocate for this, however, since they both enjoy having roughly half the pie.

largest obstacle maintaining duopoly

The duopoly is maintained by First Past the Post. If we want meaningful change, we must change the voting system.

https://ncase.me/ballot/ http://zesty.ca/voting/sim/ https://cdsmithus.medium.com/simulating-elections-with-spatial-voter-models-1ff50892390

People making less than $35k a year were doing this?

the depletion of savings built up during the pandemic

Built up savings? Is this a thing?

Because they already raised hundreds of millions from investors

Alfred Sloan, GM https://moneymorning.com/2015/11/24/the-evil-genius-behind-the-general-motors-streetcar-conspiracy/

Yeah the pledge is definitely weird.

Eh I don’t buy that, at least not as the primary goal. It’s more a side effect of the structure and resources of a class. When the classrooms were built to support 18 students per class, and the teacher’s union contract says they’ll have a max of 25 students per class, but in actuality they have 31 students per class, kids sharing desks and bumping elbows, yeah we kinda need all 31 of those kids to sit down and buckle up, or no one at all is going to get any learning done.

Is it the ideal learning environment for every student? Nope. Is it the ideal learning environment for any student? Probably not. But unless we’re willing to invest more in education, it’s what we’re working with.

I think they want kids to pay attention in class