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Someone’s prowlin’ 'round 'ere…

Coworker loves extensive code reviews flagging every slight deviation from her preferred patterns but literally cries if pressed on why the change is necessary.

Constantly criticizing and nitpicking but can’t actually point to a firm technical reason. “I just don’t feel comfortable…”

Just posturing to present an appearance of technical authority. Tries to badmouth and backstab challengers, doing more harm to herself than anyone else in the process.

Probably projecting, but I’ve heard enough about her family and upbringing to believe it’s internalized abuse. At the time she was moving back in with her parents , which I think was her falling back into the clutches of her abuser, exacerbating her feelings of vulnerability.

Just trying to be assertive snd protect her autonomy. I did my best to get along and shielded her from consequences.

But I don’t nearly have the energy to deal with it every day. Switched teams. Life is better. Hope she’s found her footing.

That must be why they installed it in all those football stadiums.

Tribe

The worst thing about Halloween is, of course, the candy corn.

Not if they don’t start properly lobbying

My Switch 1 broke after just a few months. That gets it the worst spot for me.

They all have flaws, but I’ve had a lot of consoles over a lot of years and don’t have any I’d call “bad” all around. Each did its job masterfully.

Thinking about the question made me remember this bad boy: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Game_Boy_Advance_SP

That might be the favorite. Great size, battery, controls, games, peripherals… I kinda think I remember it got internet hate for some reason? But I LOVED this thing. Ultimate evolution of GameBoy.

1940: “These mechanical monstrosities lack the intuitive check of a human mind. A mathematician can spot a stray digit through reason; a machine will blindly process an error to its conclusion. We are trading the elegance of thought for a noisy, fallible crate of glass and wire.”

1950: “Direct control is the only honest way to command a machine. If you cannot visualize the specific vacuum tube you are firing, you aren’t truly programming. To delegate this to any intermediary is to invite a loss of precision that the hardware simply cannot afford.”

1955: “These ‘mnemonics’ are a crutch for the lazy. By using words instead of addresses, the programmer loses the vital ‘feel’ for memory layout. We are seeing a five-fold decrease in efficiency; no automated assembler can ever match the tight, hand-calculated loops of a master of bits.”

1965: “Compilers are the death of performance. These languages allow ‘programmers’ who don’t even understand the CPU architecture to bloat memory with generic subroutines. Software is becoming a black box—impenetrable, unoptimized, and dangerously detached from the reality of the silicon.”

… did you just post “Why are ‘Why is X bad?’ posts bad?”

Hey hey hey! It’s time to make some crAZY money! Are ya ready? Here… we… GO!!!

Offspring song starts

I’m fairly sure this isn’t something human brains can do

Red light, green light

About to play a couple more rounds now on my way to the grocery store

No no no. I gave them CULTURE! A wonderful work culture.

And security! Sure, not the security I decided I need for myself, and it’s only really present as long as they’re profitable to me, but security nonetheless.

After all, I had the idea and stuck my neck out to secure the financing, which is far more important than the actual daily labor that keeps things running.

We’re like a family, see.

Same, but we could get away with more at Grandmother’s house.

There was still a limit, but it was more forgiving, and we were always looking for it

Those are some good memories.

We were always fighting over whether him dying meant we had to start over 😂

Sometimes he’d just want to see me beat it

*Edit: Oh yeah, he could steal lives! Sometimes we’d agree on how many he should leave me and very often he’d steal more anyway 🤣

Woah look at Mr Popular over here who had friends to be player 2

The vacuum sealer reminds me: a handheld electric pump.

Some are strong enough to blow up car tires. Especially if you have kids, they’re great for inflating water toys and balls and whatnot.

Second the warm white Christmas lights.

They can quickly make a depressing apartment feel like a warm home.

LAN tester.

I thought of it as fancy electrician / network equipment. Not anymore. Now it’s basic troubleshooting / procedure.

On a particularly frustrating switch installation, I picked one up for like $20 on Amazon, and it’s made me much less annoyed by network changes.

For context, I’m one of those people who hoards any electronic bits that might prove useful on a hobby project later, so lots of old patch cables and cable reels with unknown breaks, so maybe a LAN tester is really only worth it for others like that, but I’d recommend it to any level of tech enthusiast at least.