Have you considered putting your gaming pc in one of the storage freezers? /s

I’m picturing someone lying in a tube while they weld it shut lol…

My first week at a major fund company I was assigned to an internal business tool used by thousands. I noticed all the company email addresses in the sandbox weren’t correct, so I ran a script to correct them. Cue a call from C-level to my boss asking why he got a “email changed notification”. Followed by another… And another… And another…

I went out to lunch

Great! Stop poorly integrating every single thing you can lay your hands on and maybe tend to some of the feature fix requests on idea exchange with hundreds of thousands of votes…

I’d been there one way or another since 2005.

Sometime in 2024 was asked to explain a Bible passage -> did so -> site wide ban for anti-semitism. Passage in question was Ezekiel criticising the behaviour of Jews in the 6th century BC

Reddit is a disaster. Unless you’re generating bland, safe, family friendly slop that’ll rake in ad impressions they don’t want to know.

Just let it die and move on

To my recollection, this feeling happens every January. I’ve seen posts like this for years and years. January is known as the most depressing month. Many people fast from alcohol, maybe fast from media til 1st Feb? I don’t know if it’ll make you feel good. It might make you feel less bad?

By “the cloud” people are generally referring to all the services and storage that you are connected to across the internet. This exists on other computers owned by companies or other individuals. Yes there are lots of storage services available from Apple iCloud to Google Drive to OneDrive (Microsoft) to lots and lots of others. They tend to work in slightly different ways. Some just “backup” your device and you can’t really use them as a replacement for browsing photos for example. Others do exactly this. Most have a small amount of free space available after which you pay. If you are looking to free up space on your SSD I would make sure the one you go with is a well known, reliable one, as they will be the only ones with a copy of your data- you want to make sure they look after it properly!

Manipulative headline? In the technology community?? Que devient ce monde…

South Korea + US better elevate their threat model of the NK army to “now thoroughly trained by someone who once shot themselves in the leg”

“one blink for everything’s ok, two blinks for nothing’s wrong…”

It’s simpler code to re-download the file than retrieve what cached version may or may not exist in memory

This seems incredible

There would already have to be a data layer that serves the main web page renderer. That layer would already have to handle looking in the cache or making an http request in event of a cache miss. It would seem almost trivial for a UI operation like ‘save to disk’ to simply call that layer in the same way

For a few hundred K image file I can understand why some might not bother, but I’ve seen this behaviour where a browser already has an MP4 cached (such that it can replay any part of it without subsequent http traffic) and yet it still makes a new request when saving. It’s weird to be honest…

Have often wondered this myself, would love to know the answer

I watched a lot more Star Trek as a kid but it’s always the Star Wars universe that I feel drawn to. I can’t really quantify it, I think it’s just an aesthetic thing. I suppose Star Wars feels more ‘wild west’.

Old school sci-fi: am re-reading the Asimov robot stories again. Always something new to reflect on.

They are probably unsure of your motives; are you analysing the business or analysing them? Software problems are extremely hard to estimate unless there is almost complete disclosure and discovery. It’s like asking people how long a crossword is going to take without seeing the clues. Or asking how long they’re going to spend on a chess move in 3 turn’s time. They are possibly cagey because you are asking questions that betray the fact you are seeing this as a management problem rather than listening to what they’re telling you about their craft.

Or possibly your manner of communicating is attuned to more socially intuitive people. Try presenting what you need as a problem for them to solve with a clear start and end. That way you’re collaborating, and they know when their obligation to interact with you is “done”.

Instead of open questions like “can you tell me how X is currently working?” try specific problem setting questions like “I’d like to see if we can make X process be 10% faster, what would that look like?” or “what would you say are the top two things that affect the time process Y takes?”

They may not want to offend you, because many of the answers might be “obvious” and, also, if they’re honest workers, as many are, there may not be any clear way to improve certain things as they’re already trying their hardest, and your investigation feels more like an inquisition.

Again, it may be that you’re asking someone “how can I get you to get this crossword done faster?”. It’s sort of the wrong question. Unless you’re willing to listen to their bugbears which might be the actual things affecting how efficiently things run but might not be the kind of answers project management want to hear.

I could have written this word for word, you’re not the only one. I’m about twice your age though.

If they were worried that TikTok gave it to them then yes.

Have you been formally diagnosed by a psychiatrist or other qualified healthcare professional?

Undoubtedly ADHD (especially ADD variant) went underreported for a very long time as until only relatively recently we’d have blamed its symptoms on other things. The increase in people being diagnosed is real.

But it needs to be done by a qualified professional because some ADHD symptoms overlap with other neurodiversity or other conditions. So a portion of self diagnosed people will, in fact, not have ADHD but something else.

I would like to see the poem about onions…

A lot of people misunderstanding you I think.

So you, a regular person, is only attracted to very attractive people, maybe a small number of which you’ve seen in real life and most through media. What to do?

Welcome to the 21st century unfortunately. Your brain was trained on potential mates who were likely accessible, near by, and likely within the realm of being a good pair with you. You were not designed to be exposed to the “best” humanity has to offer on a global scale of billions. You have been spoiled so to speak, your sensitivity is all out of whack.

Solutions? First, don’t lie in a relationship, especially if you already know you’d feel like a fraud. One option is to follow your conscience of not lying and so not entering into intimate relationships at all (because the other almost certainly needs you to appreciate them in that way). Another is to fast from media a while. All of it. You’re in an unnatural situation (biologically speaking) the solution is going to seem extreme but essentially reducing your horizon back to potential relationships of ‘ordinary’ people and nothing beyond. Therapy helps too. Might not work, but you could be surprised.

Are ‘average’ people attracted to their ‘average’ partner. Yes. Attraction works in very different ways in many people. They know celebrities are more ‘attractive’ but the reality and closeness of the person they’re with is what’s more important to them and makes that attraction more ‘real’. Did cavemen find cavewomen attractive? Yes. It was all they’d ever seen. Your brain is on the same hardware version.

It sucks really but, to take an analogy, you’re stuck with your regular food at home with Michelin star chefs serving up masterpieces on TV 24hrs a day. You feel dissatisfied with what your kitchen has to offer. But you can’t afford a fancy restaurant.

Well. Comparison is the thief of joy. Turn the TV off (so to speak). Experiment with some new ingredients to see if you can surprise yourself with what’s on hand.

You should probably also fast from porn for a while (if that’s your thing).

I think that meme melded with the spiderman meme…