Thanks, I hate it.

Only sorta related, but now I have an excuse to tell my anecdote…

One job ago I had a manager who decided that he would convert some of our helper scripts from bash to Python for reasons. I was new there and so didn’t realize what he was doing, or that he had started the process just as I was going through orientation. However, I ended up being the reviewer for the PR.

This was the worst Python I had ever seen but in such odd ways and it mostly worked. It almost felt like it was written by someone who knew bash really well but had never learned any other languages, or thought that bash was just so damn good that he wanted to turn every other language into it. For example, instead of using argparse he was manually looping through argv and parsing them one at a time. And instead of using a standard for each in foo loop, there were index variables and while loops. And certainly there were no comprehensions or any understanding of the basic built in data structures other than using lists as arrays.

So I did a review, assuming that this person was just really new to python and tried to gently coach him towards basic Pythonisms. His response was: “Oh yeah, I just ran them through ChatGPT and assumed it was all ok.”

I quit about two months later.

I really miss the unhinged topiary that used to be outside of every fast food restaurant when I was a kid.

Array operations in FORTRAN are much easier for the compiler heavily optimize than it is in c/c++ due to its array model and type system. You can achieve much of the same thing with modern compiler extensions, but it’s difficult and not as portable.

I moved from IC to full time management this year and I’m struggling with this. I don’t control the money, the most I can do is give a glowing review and argue for my team members to get raises but the budget is not in my hands. I do have a small “team building” budget that I can spend on food and drinks so I take them out for a nice meal as often as I can. What else am I supposed to do?

Why not both?

There’s a major subtlety here that a top line fertility rate measurement is missing. Fertility (births/1000 people) has risen dramatically among Americans in their 30’s and 40’s! But it has dropped for people in their 20s and collapsed for teenagers. In the 90’s teenagers were having babies at the same rate as people in their early 30’s (!!), and now they aren’t. People in their early 20’s are having fewer because of easy and cheap birth control, education and attempts to establish careers. You don’t need a big conspiracy to explain that.

source: https://www.census.gov/library/stories/2022/04/fertility-rates-declined-for-younger-women-increased-for-older-women.html

Looking at my dating history… yeah, that tracks.

Watermelon: As expected Earthmelon: Potato Firemelon: Red chilies Airmelon: ??

I recently rewatched all three, and they all hold up as I remember. The first one is great, the second could be great if there was a bit more editing to trim down some overly long monologues, and the third one is a bit meh.

In The Matrix 2, Trinity uses nmap to check for an ssh exploit, then cracks it using a cli tool, all from Linux.

Edit: The ssh exploit was a real, known vulnerability at the time.

That’s my first guess. Why bother changing the whole design when you can just edit the text?

Saluton Sro. Zamenhof!

Big mood Jennie, big mood.

It is such bullshit that it works. It doesn’t fix everything but damnit it does enough that I have to keep doing it.

That’s why you reroll on already taken numbers. Or drop down a die size every two arrows.

I’d absolutely allow something like that at my table. Something like this isn’t going to have explicit rules, so even in a serious RAW (Rules As Written) game, the GM is going to have to come up with something. It’s just that we all have dice and may not have the right setup for tokens, etc.

Really, the simple way to do it is have arrows #1-5 be the cursed ones. The player then rolls a D10 to see which ones are pulled, rerolling on repeat “arrows”.

Ooh! Time to give it another look.

My motorcycle dealer has a similar sign about being sad and ugly.

Looking back… that was right, hmm, 7 out of 8 times. The miss was a very chill place that gave out Dells, but I lost my job because the funding round didn’t come in.