Do it for Ron, be grateful to Earl. Self-sufficiency 101.

That’s delightful. Thanks.

This is the same voice that gets me through command line Linux every day for my job, lol.

“Who remembered a grep flag on only the third try after only using the same command 2,000 previous times?”

“It was me! I did!”

Windows 11

Lol. I assumed they were shopping around for a burned out hard drinking senior developmer - one ready to walk away from computers entirely.

Holy shit. This is weirder than I realized.

I’m just realizing that the person submitting the change was demanding that their lost feature be re-added, and the repo owner decided to YOLO the change into master. Lol.

Nice.

Holds hat over heart, and salutes.

In fairness, the NASA Engineer can’t get NPM to behave either. That’s why we don’t send JavaScript to space. (Edit: Lol. I guess we totally do send JavaScript into space.)

Or do we? Now I desperately want to know what the first piece of JacaScript to run in space was/will be? It did/will mark the exact moment that we stopped taking space seriously.

The real clue here is the cropped top line “refactor…”

“Here’s a huge mostly unnecessary format change that incidentally loses some functionality I don’t care about”.

Followed by “why won’t anyone accept my contributions?!”

Oh, I didn’t realize but I’ve also had a Jade laptop. I was just holding it upside down.

This collection is fantastic.

Mildly related - Ryan North’s recent contributions to Marvel Comics are full of delight. (Ryan North helped organize Machine Of Death).

True rational self interest would involve creating cooperative structures that give a safety net if anything goes wrong just like how it’s rational to get home insurance even if you don’t expect to burn your house down.

This is the part that drives me nuts. Plenty of today’s decision makers only survive later thanks to social nets. But they’re so sure that they won’t be, they’re willing to cut back social benefits to make a quick buck.

You meant to also include The SEGA Activator, right?!

Edit: Of these three, I have only ever tried the SEGA Activator. So I can pretty confidently cast my vote in favor of: either of the others, just anything but the Activator.

Cooking practice is the best practice, because I get to celebrate each success and some of the failures with a nice meal

I benefit from this because I’m always a returning customer.

Every time I have a service I haven’t cancelled in awhile, I go cancel and resubscribe just to make sure they haven’t hidden the cancel button.

Also most high level executives make up a fantasy version of how the business is being run and feel anyone who doesn’t agree is inherently wrong.

This was quite eye-opening for me, when I discovered it.

I’ve met Chief Information Security Officers who I wouldn’t trust to pick my antivirus product.

I would pay the lower rate indefinitely if they just charged that, but I’m not going to play games.

Yeah. A/B tests have no way to prove the value of customer loyalty to a fair deal, so nobody knows how to implement it anymore.

There’s historic evidence - Coca Cola was infamously still 5¢ long after everything else went up in price, and it worked out.

But everyone is obsessed with “engagement” right now.

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When can I start, work is a joke to me and I can figure anything out quickly.

Lol. As a hiring manager, I’ve hired people who am said almost exactly this, as long as they had a public project portfolio that provided evidence to back up the claim.

Very nice.

“We want a whole race perpetually in pursuit of the rainbow’s end, never honest, nor kind, nor happy now, but always using as mere fuel wherewith to heap the alter of the future every real gift which is offered them in the Present.”

• Screwtape, “The Screwtape Letters”, C.S. Lewis

Screwtape (and fucking Putin and Elon) want to remind us all to talk over and past each-other, and really focus on what divides us, this Thanksgiving.

They hope we all do our best to ensure that each of our normal safety nets are as alienated as possible, in preparation for whatever bullshit they want to push on us next.

Let’s all remember that our individual differences in opinion on how to solve their oppressive regimes are the best way to keep us from seeing that we’re in a class war, not a political one.

Edit: And Screwtape sure as shit needs us not on speaking terms with the blue collar workforce who make up at least half of the union we will need to form, before this is all over.