Just “as any” everything until it runs. That’s runs, not works.

I got as far as seeing they chose Java and opening the constants file, and immediately executed a strategic withdrawal. I love that people went to this level of detail

Really interesting! It makes me want to get scanned now bc I share a number of the same character traits that you mentioned. But, who knows how much that is just looking for a pattern/explanation or whether it’s even a common thing. Having some idea of the cost and maintenance of NMR and MRI machines, I don’t imagine many places offer walk-in elective scans for bargain prices.

If you don’t mind my asking, what were the circumstances that led to you getting an MRI, to even notice that?

If you do mind my asking, please let me know and I will continue to wonder.

I, for two

Laying people off instead of offering to move them to the now-more-important projects has to be one of the dumbest management moves that tech companies repeatedly do. These are people already trained on all the policies and procedures and tooling and “culture” specific to your company.

It’s going to be more expensive to hire and train new people when the dumdums in upper management finally figure out the mistakes they made that got them to a point where they decided they need to cut jobs and projects, and the ramp-up time before you actually start seeing progress on those priorities is going to be seriously lengthened. Of course they won’t acknowledge it was their fault in the first place, and again the heads roll on the wrong end of the corporate ladder.

Ah, so you’re an abdomen guy, eh? I’m partial to a nice thorax.

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Mostly trapped in my own mind, focusing on details that don’t matter to others and oblivious to the ones that do, struggling to understand what they’re trying to communicate and reciprocate in kind.

It’s one of those unfortunate words that has multiple meanings depending on the venue/context, and where the casual meaning conflates and lessens the value of the technical meaning. Another: “experts.”

LPT or masking tip? Masking makes things more bearable but I find it often prevents being able to make a genuine connection. I can mask fairly well for a couple hours but by then I’m exhausted. Trying to mask with people I see regularly inevitably ends up in ruined relationships due to internalized guilt from lying and them recognizing me as a liar. It saves time and stress to just be honest, even if that means coming off as acerbic or just eccentric.

Blessed be

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They already started their Linux journey with Chrome OS! What’s the worst that could happen, they turn a brick into a brick? And the best? @[email protected] transcendence 🧘

Arch. Arch! ARCH! /pumping_fist_like_Arsenio

I think it’s a good first language to learn. Because it’s a lower level language than most of the popular ones these days, you will learn a lot of interesting concepts and problems you wouldn’t otherwise get or even need for higher level stuff - like memory management, allocation, garbage collection and cleanup, and pointer references - but which give you a better understanding and appreciation for what’s in the black box.

But you also learn a lot of transferable concepts like typing, mutability, objects and object oriented design, polymorphism, etc. And there are still a ton of jobs where C++ knowledge is required or at least useful.

I have barely touched it over the years since first using it, but patterns and approaches I learned in C++ have come in handy for me a lot when troubleshooting and when reading other people’s code, and being able to recognize who is going to be a helpful person to talk to when I run into problems I can’t quickly figure out.

It’s hard to find a therapist who meshes well with you and can help you make progress, but a busted Lenovo takes to Arch better than Saint Louis.

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