I love that I can easily correct and annotate bike lanes

At least in my faang office, there’s essentially zero ports to plug into. If you have a desktop, there’s a port, but that’s the exception. I’ve never seen anyone plug a laptop in.

They mostly don’t even give out desktops to devs these days, everything is in the cloud.

My experience with it on Android had several weird bugs

• Consumed a lot of battery
• Crashed on swapping focus to another app
• Opening the app would get stuck connecting to the game state server (even though the app works fine offline) so I had to use airplane mode to launch the app

These seem resolved now

This is a game I keep coming back to. I love it, and it’s got great replayability. I’m glad the phone version works well now.

It’s mostly software engineers, and distributed across almost every team.

These layoffs didn’t happen because Google is out of money. It’s insanely profitable.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guyana–Venezuela_territorial_dispute summarizes the history. I think what Guyana wants is the status quo.

A lemming that has taken off is https://startrek.website/c/risa !

I love my stream of Star Trek shitpost.

Genocide is not an appropriate response to an attack.

It’s all bullshit, and you’ve hit the nail on the head.

The only way out is through each other: change your workplace to be less bullshit. Demand dignity. Maybe bring your friends and make a co-op.

Ironically, as I’ve become more senior (11+ years at a faang company) I’ve had to do less and less of that “look around and understand everything” work because of time pressure. But I rely on my experience to be more confident that I can ignore the details and focus on the reason I’m in this file.

Well, that, and if it gets too messy I give up and call in a junior engineer…

My dad died from this. It’s a horrible way to go. I’m sorry to hear anyone else has to deal with this condition.

https://slimemoldtimemold.com/2021/07/11/a-chemical-hunger-part-ii-current-theories-of-obesity-are-inadequate/ is a good analysis of why calories in calories out is both true and not a good model for how weight gain/loss works in people.

Down with states and stature
Strive instead to ready
Through direct radical action
Root changes grow fruitful
Refreshed from old ashes
Our society rises
We sow personal power
To free all the people

(This poetic form is dróttkvætt which has internal half rhyme on odd lines and internal full rhymes on even lines)

This is because your operands are const char[]. That’s not a std::string.

C++ does, but it’s not a very efficient operation. https://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/string/basic_string/operator%2B

“well actually” room temperature superconductors do exist, quite definitely! … But only at 100 gigapascals of pressure. https://uspex-team.org/static/file/Troyan2022_ufn227g_High-temperature superconductivity in hydrides.pdf

Still really cool, but not useful for engineering.

I agree that this paper needs to be replicated before we get excited.

One way you might resolve this is to get everybody talking about it without the boss there. I bet nobody likes the policy. Maybe everyone would agree to not give a reason, or to give the same reason that is an obvious lie?

It’s really a shame Stallman and many of the other free software pioneers are absolutely creeps to women.