I do not disagree, but I use IntelliJ for work and it shows clearly where some reference is imported from and let you navigate to it with a shortcut. VSCode does similar things with plugins and LSP, just much worse. I cannot work in VSCode because navigating code is so slow. Is this suggestion only useful when you don’t have such tools? It seems impossible to me that people can live without them, at least in a professional setting.

Let's not write software and especially programming languages which assume or depend on users having access to advanced tools that require a monthly subscription.

> I use IntelliJ for work and it shows clearly where some reference

Useful when writing the code but not much use when reading the code.

But it is possible, when the cosequence is someone dying, the likelihood do not need to be high to act carefully. Anyway the example here was about a car in front avoiding a stopped car.

The thread is about how closely to follow a car. If the car is stopped, the answer is "as closely as you like, it's not moving".

This thread is about how closely to follow a moving car. The worry is if the moving car suddenly switches to being stopped. Will you be able to also switch to being stopped before hitting it?

Yea, some people seem to miss that just because the car in front of you can jump over in another lane doesn't mean you can at all. If you have a car beside you, and the car you're tailgating does not, then you're screwed in an emergency situation like this.

From what i understand this is already mostly the case. The military excercises by USA and China produces reports that shows an attack is too expesive or leads to a standstill. This is works as a deterrence to the other side, unless the other side acts irrationally, which is known to happen…

There is nothing that «most people do». When will people realize this? Yes you have trends on HN that are different from trends in, say, the oil prospecting industry or something. And yet they overlap sometimes. You also have vastly different needs. Some beed to optimize for execution speed and some for development speed. Some need high parallellization some need single thread performance. Analytics demands writing code in minutes or preferably seconds while aircraft software may require years of testing for correctness. Even the level of experience will impact how well you can perform on any level with any tool. I mean stop discussing how many teeth a horse has and just count them. We should spend time defining what problems current and old tools can solve, not discussing what tools solve one problem better because no two people will ever have the same exact problem let alone have the same exact understanding of it.

Why is this even a problem? The way I see it you have already broken a agreement with your new employer, and now you are considering breaking it again?

I understand that your current project may need your attention. But that is a result of mismanagement, and two wrongs won't make a right!