Strong urge to watch him comb his hair real fast

I wonder if the website did the thing where it lists their big customers like a trophy cabinet on the main landing page.

It would probably make a good list of places to sell snake oil

Also love that this is all evidence to back up the premise that building the happy path of an application is generally easy, one of the main skills in software engineering is ensuring the unhappy paths are covered sufficiently. I can say I’ve started a bank and keep people’s money in my wardrobe, I’ll be providing the service of holding their money—I’ll also probably get robbed sharpish because I’m not skilled in the kind of security needed to avoid that.

Monkey ball just makes me think of Nick Robinson now

Great game though

This is the first time I’ve realised these comics are actually from the 50s and not just modern ones stylised to look like it

A software engineer was not involved in this if waterfall is painted positively.

I think the last time I heard an engineer unironically advocating for a waterfall IRL was about a decade ago and they were the one of the crab-in-a-bucket, I-refuse-to-learn-anything-new types—with that being the very obvious motivation for their push-back.

You get used to it, I don’t even see the code—I just see: group… pattern… read-ahead…

Firstly it’s a fraction of a percent of the pool of people working as entertainers that get paid anything close to a comfortable salary—many don’t even last a few years and make basically nothing before they change careers.

The successful ones get paid a load basically because the people that invest in funding TV shows & films know that you can generally multiply your investment by attaching a household name to the project. Now this is for several reasons, firstly a household name will generally actually be a good actor. Secondly, people recognising a member of your cast means they’re generally more likely to watch it. Finally, there’s the effect on the rest of the casting—some studios might take the opportunity to push the compensation of the “no-name” actors down because they have an opportunity to work with a star, others might go the other way and use the first star in negotiations to get additional starts signed on to the project.

So essentially, the big projects make a lot of money, and executives attribute a significant part of that generated value to having the big star involved, and so they portion the funding to ensure that happens.

There’s also the negotiation factor on long running shows, main characters end up in good negotiation positions for more money if a show is successful and their character isn’t easy to kill off. This is also why Netflix tries to cancel stuff before the 3rd season—that’s about the point who holds the power in negotiations shifts away from the studio.

An in-demand actor is a finite resource, they can only really work on one or two projects at any given time, so this also pushes their fees up as projects may end up in bidding wars. Conversely most entertainment costs very little to sell beyond the initial production costs, so after that’s broken even it’s free profit they can use for these fees.

Tl;dr capitalism

Treating it like a joke because half the GOP are probably implicated in some way and this is a flimsy attempt at minimisation

OpenRA was written from scratch and just uses the assets from the free game.

This is the source of the original game

Evil

The system V init approach did the job fine for a couple of decades—even if the actual service definitions were a glorified shell switch statement as you insinuate.

Canonical did their upstart thing for a couple of years that wasn’t too bad to use, personally I’m glad they ended up switching to systemd though.

Truly and harrowingly sadly:

Conservative voters hate trans people simply because they’re told to

Conservative politicians tell their voters to hate trans people because it distracts the voters whilst the politician robs them (of their rights, their potential or simply their actual fucking money)

It’s currently trans people because the previous victim roster of gay dudes and middle eastern people just isn’t cutting it any more.

I think it’s more for the kind of people that do a couple of musical shows a day

I’ve lost my voice from singing as part of the crowd at a music gig before, I can totally imagine that being a problem that professional singers need to mitigate

A pretty dull one really:

Some singers use throat sprays to reduce irritation

Arch and TempleOS being in the same sentence is pretty apt

Both are weirdly religious

Some of the components typically used (e.g. op-amps) in audio gear like active pickups & pedals typically need at least 5-10V to work.

If you used AA for those scenarios you’re either going to need a load of batteries or you’re gonna have a short battery life.

9V batteries are just a better fit for the use case basically and mean things like active pickups & pedals can be kept small

War is for pussies

Real men talk out their problems without violence

Better without the Radisson ripping off someone else’s idea and shoving their logo on it

Some of us are still recovering from the trauma