It’s gonna be emacs. You know it, we all fear it, but it’s gonna be emacs and some visicalc-mode shit.

Tesla has faced criticism in the past for the design of its manual release levers, which are considered poorly designed and unintuitively placed.

I like how the article delivered that fact in a way that focuses on their inadequacy while highlighting their existence. It’s like "we know they had a backup option, so shut up. They still weren’t good enough to be available for the emergency when they’re hidden behind shit.

If I put a half-wall up in my house in front of a visible window that can be used as emergency egress, I’m in shit. This hidden latch is no better.

Careful. The yaml cult will come after you in a long and formless column, and only self destruct when one of them is a step too far to the left.

secret boys

“How not knowing how to use commas got me arrested for a double felony”

workout

‘work out’, here, with the space. It’s the difference between “what’s up Chuck” and “what’s upchuck”, and one of those may involve a hospital visit.

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\sigh

It’s okay to still use a hyphen between ‘load’ and ‘balancing’. As a bonus, what you write would then be English, too.

I have a standing desk.

Some days I’m just too freaking tired. If I sit another minute in this chair - an Aeron, which sucks to sleep in - I will absolutely fall unconscious, and I need to function.

It’s an old army trick that you stand up. So I raise the desk, stand, move about, mark a little time, sway a bit, get a Cuban with the hips, etc – humans were made for motion.

And I’m no longer sleepy. Typically this is during a meeting, and we are cameras-optional so it’s all good. Oh. If you have a meeting that is longer than 30 minutes, kinda fuck you just a bit.

This is like survivor bias.

Is that the same as prosody.im ?

That’s the one I’ve been looking at. It seems to be easy, but I haven’t had time to look into it fully.

decade

Cries in SeaMonkey

It’s that like “Y’ever been ta tha SEA, Billy?”

It’s okay to spell-check articles before screen-shotting them.

That’s the one that avoided any enterprise SSHd, right?

ITT: American HR vs the world.

This is true.

Look, the moment you know you need a new job, you’re done at the current shop. So get looking.

I see that in the bad spots, though – people are looking but not landing a new post, so they cope by doing the minimums, peacing out on the dot and getting their sleep. They no longer care about the success of the company, and while that’s admirable, it’s a social issue to abandon the tribe and it can eat on people.

I’m so happy when they land a new post, happier still if I do before I just … stop going. And that’s what I do: I lose interest in going if I can’t find a new post within the year I usually allow (I’m picky).

This last move I told my boss he had a year. It was like 13 months.

I had a miserably toxic job, and, yeah, I know that pit of despair and what it does to our decisions. I opened the search to the world, but came up with a domestic job about 3000mi away.

I grabbed the go-bag and all but bugged the fuck out, quitting on a Thursday, boarding a plane on a Friday and starting my new job on the Monday. She sold the house, got the movers (fuck moving) and shepherded all our worldlies to the new place. She’s not military but she faked it really well.

This is why I have two jobs. The second one fills with work until every 5 years it seems I abandon the day job and bulk up on the second job to make ends meet and burn its queue down.

It’s not intentional but it works out that way.

No. I haven’t doubled my salary, but I’m on the wrong side of 40 where I’m happy to be employed in this toxically ageist field.

My wife has done super well and sometimes beats my day job pay cheque, so we finally have that buffer too. And she doesn’t quit her jobs as she’s a super team player and instead gets promoted to fix problems. (Kinda got a crush on her for being so awesome)

Too bad about its failure as an init system, though.