Yeah, it’s the exact same expression as of all the others, but I’m feeling that one so much more. Possibly, because I am an introvert, too…

Needlessly absolute take. Yes, there’s going to be parents, who’d rather pay extra than look into what other games they could give their kid, as well as loyal Mario fans, who will pay pretty much any price. But there’s obviously also players who do weigh up their options based on price, and who will make different decisions when they have to decide between two titles, when one of them is cheaper. Especially with the additional invest for a new console and the more dire economic situation, I could see many players not buying into the Switch 2 at all.

It’s like a conspiracy theory for that guy. Everyone who tells them it’s not true that you can get rid of programmers, has to be a programmer, and therefore cannot be trusted.

Well, vegan foods with lots of proteins include: Beans, lentils, peas, nuts, peanuts, tofu, soy.
Personal favorites are red lentils (cook pretty quickly and don’t need to be soaked before) and pre-cooked white beans (I just have a jar of those in the fridge and will scoop a spoonful into all kinds of meals).

Proteins are cool, because they stick around in your stomach for a while, but they’re bad at filling you up. For that, salads and veggies are the best. Sometimes, I’ll eat an entire bowl of salad, which is not a lot of calories, but still fills me up.

I would also recommend slowly changing your diet over. Your gut microbiota need time to adjust to a different diet. If you don’t give them that time, they can kill your will pretty effectively.

Yeah, not sure, Pokemon fans would be as excited, once they’re there. They could have basically their universe, if they just organize a dogfighting league and they don’t do that.

…I hope.

Worst part is when the un-refactored code continues to confuse other devs, meaning it keeps causing additional work, but you still don’t get time to actually fix it.

I don’t know about most painful, but my dad bought a phone many months ago and last week, he wanted to know how to turn on the flashlight on it. I was ready to edit the notification dropdown or give a five step explainer or whatever.

Turns out, nope, you just pull down the notification bar and there’s a pretty obvious flashlight button right there. The problem is, you see, he did not know you could drag down the notification bar. There were dozens of notifications there.

I really cannot blame him either. I don’t know what UX designer came up with just putting a bar at the top and expecting users to know that you can drag on it. But yeah, still, ouch.

Last week, we sent out an offer for 102k and then the customer asked us, if we can please lower it to 99k, so they don’t have to go to their boss to get clearance.

Logically speaking, that is not how any of this works. It’s still going to need the same amount of budget to complete the task. But no one asked us devs how long it’ll take anyways, so I guess, that’s not my problem after all.

Random tip: Kala Namak is a condiment which tastes a lot like egg yolk. If you sprinkle it onto some cooked white beans, that’s kind of like scrambled eggs (well, it is different, but also good and might satiate a craving).

Basically, Kala Namak is salt+sulphur. Egg yolk also contains sulphur, and well, sulphur is one of the minerals we should be eating anyways.

Here’s an example, I have looked up many times (like just now), which checks whether a string is empty:

var=""
if [ -z "$var" ]; then
    echo "empty"
else
    echo "not empty"
fi

Why -z? I have no idea. I will also routinely forget the ]; then part. I believe, if you write the then onto the next line, then you don’t need the semicolon. And then someone’s probably gonna tell me to use double-brackets [[ ]] instead, which probably does something.

Arguably, I never fully learned Bash syntax, but it also is just a stupid if-statement. There shouldn’t be that much complexity in it.

My impression is that it is certainly a lot worse in the US than here in Germany. I imagine the abundance of guns means that being a cop is fucking dangerous, which means they will get uneasy in conflicts quite logically, but also that it’s not exactly a job you go for, if you have aspirations in life. I mean, why would anyone voluntarily become a cop in the US, if not to abuse your power?

“Server” is a really terrible word. There’s server software, which is often referred to as just “server”. And then there’s hardware, which happens to run server software, so it also gets referred to as “server”. There’s also hardware that’s specifically built for the purpose of running server software, so even if it does not currently do so, folks would likely still refer to it as “server”.

But yeah, in principle you can run server software on your desktop PC or even your phone, and then someone might refer to that hardware as “server”.
So long as it serves something on a networking port, you can technically call it a “server”.

It’s the usual ridiculous premise of “AI is better, if you remove all the aspects that are actually involved in doing the thing”.
A real therapist looks at emotions, at your dynamic when you talk about your conflicts. They throw in suggestions to gauge your reaction. And they can get to know you and push you towards a positive outcome over many sessions. In particular, they also serve as a form of mediation. Having a person that holds you accountable for disrespectful behavior and for ridiculous expectations can do a lot for bringing a couple back on track. A chatbot just does not do these things.

But on top of that, even the methodology seems to be flawed. A person liking a response is not an indication of it being good. Sometimes, a therapist needs to tell you that you’re being an ass.

Like, yeah, the research itself has some amount of merit. A chatbot therapist might be better than having no therapist at all (so long as it doesn’t encourage self-harm). But the headline and the premise of the article is so far removed from any truth that it doesn’t belong in a science community.

Yeah, I guess this isn’t the first of these costumes that needs to solve that problem, but rather all of them need to. I just had never thought about it…

Do I want to know the logistics of how the wiener bun is escape-proof, while not also being potty-proof?

I still don’t get why the backslash is on keyboards to begin with. I don’t think I’ve ever seen anyone write a slash backward with a pen. And even if folks do, you could’ve had only one slash anyways. Like, people are going to understand what it means, whether it’s / or \.

I guess, it not being used for much else, does at least make it useful for escaping stuff and for Windows to use as path separator.

You might be seeing posts from the 196 community, which recently split up (personally, I had the old ones blocked and then due to it splitting, the new 196 community showed up in my feed).

The 196 community is very much about quantity-over-quality, when it comes to posts, and as such reposts do happen often, too.
No shade on that, but it’s also not for everyone, so yeah, you might want to just block those communities.

Man, I’m currently in a project which started out with 2 major goals. Pretty early on, we got told that one of the goals is practically impossible, so we decided to ignore that. And we realized the other goal needs to be simplified significantly to be achievable in the slightest, although we still weren’t sure, if it violates the laws of physics.

Now we’re a year into development, we’ve only figured out that it might be physically possible in certain situations. And yesterday, we talked to a guy with domain knowledge, who told us like ten different bigger challenges we’d still have to solve.

These days they’d write “AI” and you’d be none the wiser, because even if it involves a machine learning model (which is definitely not a given either), they will still have used quite a lot of coding and algorithms to tie it all together.

I like to mentally substitute these terms with “magic”. Because ultimately, it just means that they don’t want to explain it to you, but they need to tell you something, so you don’t ask about it.

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