Somehow the local authorities manage to out what-the-fuck Carl:
"Shortly after the corpse's discovery by authorities, physicians and pathologists examined Elena's body and put it on public display at the Dean-Lopez Funeral Home, where as many as 6,800 people viewed it.[9]"
Ya'll can just skip the shit that got him and others killed and go straight into academia if you want to have a positive impact on the world.
That's great advice!
Though my inner academic wants to try to measure the additional positive impact of killing a (almost certainly?) racist cop...
Hopscotch is the one I've been recommending, but it has a "use us before we also enshitify" vibe, so I'm going to check out Insomnium, the open fork of Insomnia.
I'm genuinely wondering, if this is a situation where the open-source community just uses curl and that's why there's only corporate gunk for those who want more features.
Yeah. Pretty much. As one of the folks who could code a new solution in go in a weekend, I have not - because curl plus some trivial one-liners in Bash, Python or PowerShell is already a 90% solution to what I need.
Oh, thanks for the reminder! I need to get a Lego set on the way home!
The issue is there is always Tumblr text below that implies the Klingon are trans forward.
Discussion aside, I completely agree. Folks who swallow that take that are in for a shock when they watch the show, lol!
First, the trill are not trans.
Yes, but Trill are every bit as trans as the network censors have allowed, at every stage of writing for them.
The idea that the Klingon society is at all progressive is absolutely divorced from any sort of reality.
Yeah. That's just silly. Klingon culture is deeply regressive, and has been falling into worse states for longer than human history.
But the individual Klingon from that scene is a progressive ( for a Klingon ).
It's the fact that they didn't even bother watching the show.
I think that's a bit unfair. People can watch the episode and still leave it with that moment as the shining in their memory as the stand-out.
That episode is an early win in LGBT representation. It's about challenges that come from having a nuanced gender identity while everyone else has heavy gender coded expectations.
Taking away "let's all please strive to achieve the bare minimum example by a mildly progressive Klingon" is a great lesson.
It's hardly the only meme that brushes aside the complexities of an episode to highlight a key moment.
I get the frustration of newbies flooding into a Star Trek forum, but then, that's always been a big part of the point of the show! They'll watch more of the show over time, even while parts of it won't age well. And we will have new things to discuss. Lol.
Hey thanks. Sweet timing.
I upgraded my eBook readers to non-Kindle devices, and I've been looking for my next DRM free books to buy.
I finished the Vorkosigan Saga, and almost everything by Corey Doctorow. I was looking for another DRM-free author to throw my money at.
Anyone have a recommendation on a good starting point for Brandon Sanderson's work?
The first image has a Founder and a Progenitor shopped into the same image. To "highlight" their (almost non-existant) makeup differences.
I think the point of the meme is that - technically - the Progenitors might be a different race than the Founders.
...In spite of the fact that they look pretty much identical and founders are shape shifters anyway, and both are - to the best of our knowledge - ancient meddling isolationist asshole races.
I assume the third alien is from a random dream sequence, though I don't recognize it.
I have so many Makefiles. But I refuse to acknowledge that I might have a problem.
I've been clean from using autoreconf for almost a decade, at least.
"I wonder who it's from?!"
Yes. COBOL can be excused because it was the first time anyone was going down that path.
Yeah. And a lot of non-programmers became programmers thanks to Cobol.
I think we're seeing this effect with AI code copilots, as well. It can't replace a programmer, but it can elevate a potential programmer to proficient (in at least some tasks) faster than was possible before.
I know it theoretically means I earn less than I might have, but for my whole career there's been so much more to be done than there are of us to do it, anyway.
Everything that comes later, less so.
Yeah. They really need to get off my lawn with this nonsense. We've seen this enough times to know that it'll be great, but still won't solve all our problems.
Damn, sounds like a a good time to start a consulting firm.
Yeah. I did it for one do the previous go-rounds of this pattern. It was lucrative, but it also meant I was constantly soothing the egos of assholes.
Assholes make great customers, because everyone else is charging them 4x to 12x the going rate, as well.
But eventually there's been enough money to pay off my student loans and car loans and I just wanted my daily work to be with intelligent compassionate people, instead.
The requirements of other companies that you follow xyz audits to do business with them etc(which can be a good thing, it’s just very costly to a business).
I secretly enjoyed getting on the phone (one-on-one) to explain this one to leaders.
"Previous decisions have made us a complete laughing stock among our peers. How would you like me to write that up for the audit report? Okay. I'll use my judgement."
Can you imagine the absolute misery of working for someone like this.
Oh yeah. I remember it well. Ugh. It's why I'm such a loud mouth here sometimes - if I can save one team from that guy, all my soap box shouting will have been worth it.
As a manager of developers - that's not all I do...
But I mean...yeah. That might be the most important thing I do - at least before my team was fully remote...
My mother is currently like, AI will eliminate all junior jobs
There's a little truth to it.
The junior jobs did dry up, due to speculation by ignorant leaders, about three years ago.
But now everyone who didn't hire then has progressed through awkwardness then worry toward outright panic, as AI can't deliver everything they were promised. AI still might deliver what they need someday, but it now even the CEO can see that it clearly won't be in time to save the CEO's next bonus.
In my past experience, three years is about as long as most companies can get away with not hiring developer talent - before unfixed problems turn into crisis.
Sure enough, we're starting to see the leading edge of the panic hiring, now.
Things could still calm back down - due to more speculation, or another coordinated effort by CEOs to suppress developer salaries. I'm not a time traveler.
But the junior jobs will come roaring back with a vengeance one way or another.
My money is on this year.
That's actually literal, in my case.
I successfully made a case to spent some extra on developer bonuses this year to hopefully proactively avoid having to do any backfills during 2025 - when I, personally, expect developer hires to be particularly expensive (relative to inflation).
I've also spent the last three years building up some internal non-developer staff toward readiness to be an emergency backfill, in case I need a developer backfill in 2025, and cannot afford any at prevailing market rates.
Of course, I've lived through enough "developers are ludicrously expensive" years, that I just always prepare for them. If it's not 2025, it'll be 2026 or whenever, and my team will survive because I kept our options open. Probably will help that I also didn't piss off the talent by trying to replace them with bad automation, lol.
Yeah, I didn't do backend stuff for a while so maybe I somehow missed those being called frameworks.
Oh sure. And yeah, the term tends to be used for front end now.
And it's nice of you to say I'm young lol
Lol. You're welcome!
Yes, also WordPress. I was told there would be no more developer jobs after WordPress became mainstream.
I think that empathy through horniness is still technically progress.
Edit: I have this ugly feeling that I just wrote the thesis statement for my entire stance on Star Trek...