Recommendations for…? Just any music?
Caroline Rose’s new album is very good and very human: https://carolinerosemusic.bandcamp.com/album/year-of-the-slug
Tagged as “alternative psychobilly acoustic guitar alt-country alternative pop art pop folk indie indie folk indie pop indiepop rock n roll shoegaze Los Angeles”
“Use a different language” is a common defense of javascript, but kind of a weird one.
Yeah. My last job, a PR with commented out code typically wouldn’t get approved. Either leave it in version history, or stick it on a branch
One of my queer (bi) women friends today said that she thinks she’s done with dating men. It’s just too much a minefield of danger and stress.
Meta should be broken up and its leadership barred from working in tech (or politics)
I don’t think they thought about it very much. It’s like that spongebob meme where patrick has the wallet. Or the Friends one that I don’t know the name of the template. You could go point by point building up a case for why there should be government regulations, but as soon as you say like “regulation” they go “Nope bad”
Though some people really do believe they as a rugged individual will be able to research and test all of their food without an FDA or whatever. If they buy bread that has sawdust in it, they’ll be able to tell, and somehow get a refund, or buy some other bread that doesn’t have sawdust. That seems like a lot of work and optimism compared to regulations and inspections by qualified professionals earlier in the process.
enough people are like me that carrying guns should not be as easy as it is. We can trade counter anecdotes all we want, but I think the frequency of mass shootings and other gun violence in the US supports my position better than yours.
The point of the anecdote was that when people get really mad, they don’t think rationally. If I had a gun, it would have been really easy in that moment to pull it out and use it. That’s too easy.
(Though yes, I did briefly consider picking up his dog’s shit with a plastic bag of my own, and hitting him in the face with it, but by then I had cooled down enough to realize I didn’t want to potentially ruin my life by assaulting a guy on the street.)
People over estimate how cool and collected they are.
The other day some asshole was letting his dog shit on the sidewalk and not picking it up. I saw. He saw me see. We made eye contact. He called me a coward and walked away.
In that moment I was emotionally ready to murder him. Just put his smug ass on the ground with his dog shit. Luckily, I don’t carry a gun so I just yelled at him. But if I had a gun on me? No way the scene would have gone better.
This kind of problem falls under “communicating badly and acting smug when misunderstood”. Use parenthesis and the problem goes away.
Most email is short. I don’t see a need to summarize it. Google is run by idiots and assholes.
In my last game I sent him back to sanctuary and then could never find him again. I hope he’s happy.
(Among my other problems with Fallout4, it really hurts my suspension of disbelief when the dog like facetanks a mininuke and then is just… fine. I tell myself the protagonist is a synth and that’s why they’re nearly indestructible. Maybe the dog is, too.)
Tech companies don’t really give a damn what customers want anymore.
Ed Zitron wrote an article about how leadership is business idiots. They don’t know the products or users but they make decisions and get paid. Long, like everything he writes, but interesting
https://www.wheresyoured.at/the-era-of-the-business-idiot/
Our economy is run by people that don’t participate in it and our tech companies are directed by people that don’t experience the problems they allege to solve for their customers, as the modern executive is no longer a person with demands or responsibilities beyond their allegiance to shareholder value.
Another finger on the monkey’s paw curls closed :(
Call the function from the if block.
Now your tests can more easily call it.
I think at my last job we did argument parsing in the if block, and passed stuff into the main function.
I do sometimes joke that in order to hold office you must be able to win a game of Civilization with 2 different victory types.
Yeah I was going to say. It’s like that “no take only throw” meme with the dog. Capitalists want us to spend money, but they don’t want to pay us enough money. Just spend what we don’t have.
If I had a nice job I’d be out spending a lot more money. But they want to replace everyone with AI, or off shore, or whatever.
I read a post about different communication styles, and this is “builder vs maintainer”. https://www.haileymagee.com/blog/three-communication-differences
A builder will try to add to the conversation by adding their own experiences. A maintainer will not add their own, but will focus on the other person’s.
A builder talking about something may feel like a maintainer isn’t that interested because they’re not adding anything.
A maintainer talking to a builder may feel annoyed because the builder keeps talking about themselves.
Less access to goods and services made it generally unpleasant.
Less access? what? What places are you comparing?
I live in a city and have never felt like I have less access than when I was in the car centered suburbs.
This feels like an origin story for a Punisher reboot.