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  • look at this junk!

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  • I used to be better at math and coding. If I pulled up my old project euler solutions I'm not sure I'd understand them anymore.

  • I'm on to you

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  • I broke a player's brain in college playing DND where an NPC just lied to her.

    She'd asked where so-and-so was. NPC didn't like her or her faction, so he just lied and said he'd taken up boxing. This isn't an especially credible lie because so-and-so was a lightweight nerd. But she says okay and goes tearing up the local boxing clubs, and can't find the guy.

    She's like "where is he?"

    Me: "you don't see him, and no one's even heard of him."

    Her: "but the guy said he was here"

    Me: "he did"

    Her: "so where is he"

    Me: "doesn't look like he's here"

    Her: "but he said he was"

    Me: "he did say that"

    Her: "so why isn't he here?"

    This went on for a while until one of the other players got impatient and said "the guy who doesn't like you maybe lied to you! Or was wrong! Can we move on please??"

  • What's the modern day equal of "Be Kind, Rewind"?

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  • At one of the bigger groceries I've been to, the wheels would lock up if you got too far from the store. Well, we'd parked outside that range so the wheels locked up and I had to awkwardly drag the full cart to the car.

    Being a good person, I went to drag it back to the return spot. The wheels did not unlock. Dragged it all the way back anyway.

    But given this, I can see why someone might just abandon their cart if the wheels are locked.

  • What are some of your earliest memories of school?

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  • Oh man kids and making shit up.

    There was a kid who told me he had all these new mortal Kombat games. Just complete fabrications.

    I told another kid that if you got all the chaos emeralds in sonic 3 (I'm old) you could turn into super sonic. Imagine my shock when that turned out to be true.

  • Oklahoma lawmaker proposes blood bank for vaccine-free blood • Oklahoma Voice

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  • Justin Humphrey should be removed from office.

  • I would like to know what native English speakers think of my writing?

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  • Yeah I thought "campus" said "compus"

  • Should Nebraska legislators be tested on civics knowledge? New bill says yes.

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  • It could maybe be useful information if the questions, answers, and test taking process are all public and non-binding.

    Like, they get a pen and paper and a quiz appropriate for high school seniors. They're filmed taking it in a classroom, and the results are all public. Different institutions can grade each test.

    If you want to vote for the guy who says "the president writes laws" then that's on you.

    If conservatives try to make it like old timey literacy tests, it's non binding so it can't so much harm. Might even make them look bad, since it's all public.

  • hell no!

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  • Oof. I've had places that the pipeline was getting long. At one of my previous jobs I made it so all the tests could run locally, and we were keeping the full build as slow as possible.

    We also didn't do any browser tests (eg: selenium) because those tend to be slow and most people are bad at making them stable.

    It's important to know whats worth testing.

  • hell no!

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  • That's the plan. Unfortunately the market is kind of meh. Lots of AI slop. Lots of getting ghosted.

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  • Zero. I can use some of the 7 for holidays.

    Well, sort of. The state gives you 56 hours of sick leave, which isn't technically the same as vacation. Mental health, even without diagnosis, is a permitted use. My job didn't give me any grief when I used some of my time to cover the holidays, but I didn't have enough so some days I just didn't get paid. (You acrue time off by working, and I started late in the year)

    Oh, and this company also really dragged their feet on answering my questions about it, and told me one rule that's just illegal here. I ended up looking it up myself, and thankfully they didn't push back.

    https://www.ny.gov/programs/new-york-paid-sick-leave if you're morbidly curious.

    Edit: they also had the nerve to send out "happy holidays!" Emails wishing me happy and healthy times. No pay, just thoughts and prayers.

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  • I work for a shitty big ass company. I get the legal minimum of time off. In new York that's seven days a year. One of my coworkers is in Texas, so she gets zero.

    The us is an embarrassment

    Edit: and technically that's sick leave, not vacation time. I don't think you need to prove you were sick, and mental health without a diagnosis seems like it's covered, but if you said you wanted to go on a trip they might say that's not allowed.

    Highlights for the curious: https://ag.ny.gov/resources/individuals/workers-rights/benefits-and-leave

  • Minnesota Can Prosecute Jonathan Ross—But It May Not Be Easy

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  • If the legal system concludes that he cannot be charged for murder, then the legal system is in error and should be amended.

    The legal system is not a sacred, immutable, thing. It's a bunch of agreements.

  • hell no!

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  • There's a lot of fear at my job about changing code. I've been trying to tell them to start writing automated tests. Or at least a linter to check for syntax errors. They're all like "ooh that sounds hard maybe next quarter"

    Meanwhile, a trivial change requires a whole day because the developer has to manually test everything.

    I just unilaterally added checks to code I have ownership over, but anything shared I'm getting "maybe in two quarters we can prioritize this" from management.

  • Scrum

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  • My job has a "scrum master". She's nice, I guess, but as far as I can tell her entire job is sharing her screen so we can look at tickets. Then people tell her what to click on and what text to change. It's excruciating because it would just be faster for the person talking to change it, instead of being like "remove the second bullet point. No, not that one"

    On top of that they have all these tasks for "unit testing" but they don't actually do unit testing. Someone just said, in the distant past, we should do testing so it's there.

  • Removed

    Bluesky just verified ICE

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  • Lol, yeah. If I saw an account labeled “American Nazi Party” with a blue check mark, I wouldn’t think “wow, Bluesky endorses Nazis” - I’d think “wow, this isn’t a satire account, these are actual Nazis, imma block them.”

    I'd think "wow they let Nazis on here. Like they know about them and are cool with that. This place is trash"

  • Out smarting older people

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  • My parents tried this many years ago.

    Since then my dad has gotten better- he runs Ubuntu and so far as I know keeps it up to date. My mother on the other hand gets upset if anything at all changes on her computer, and so never updates or anything

  • 'The president is an idiot': Senator unloads on Trump's 'really dumb' obsession

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  • . I will never understand how he got these people so duped

    They are stupid. So, kind of tautologically, they reason poorly and make bad decisions.

  • 24 members of Congress are 80 or older. More than half are running for re-election.

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  • How would you prevent the cognitive test from being used to remove candidates for political reasons?

    "Sorry, he failed the test because he couldn't sing the texas anthem"

    You could maybe have the questions and answers public, but the voting public is poorly informed and educated.

    You could have some sort of third party do it, but then the conservatives would spend decades corrupting that.

  • I spent a year on Linux and forgot to miss Windows

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  • Yep. I've been during linux as my main desktop for maybe a year or two now, and it's been fine. I don't tinker with it. Most things just work.

    The only thing that's been a little dicey is mods for games, but I think I just need to figure out how like wine and proton prefixes work. It's probably not hard, I just haven't had a need lately.