Potatos_are_not_friends @ Potatos_are_not_friends @lemmy.world

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I always lump microservices architecture as premature optimization, one that should be used when you're maxed out of resources or everything is too spaghetti.

I love the idea. And I even pitched it for a specific project. But I had to eat humble pie when the devops nerds threw more servers at the problem and it worked better than I expected.

Because some marketing asshole told them that they better be prepared to scale to a bazillion users.

I memorized all 151 pokemon before the second generation came out.

I also write Jira tickets.

I am able to channel this voice ironically.

Sometimes, you pick up words so alien that you end up replacing the regular word, like domicile.

"Welcome to my domicile where we can refresh with our favorite inebriants and watch fellow humans engage in roughhousing with opposing humans. We can provide praise to the successors and belittle their counterparts!"

The NPCs constantly broke immersion for me. It's the same 10 people over and over again.

Or if you're fighting baddies or cops, they all act the same.

Honestly XY is hard to put into practice.

It wants the Asker to elevate themselves to the level of thinking as the Answerer and also have the forethought to ask "the right question".

But it lacks the perspective of what it means to be new at something. When you're new, you have no context of what the hell anything is. So you throw spaghetti at the wall and ask is this how you make pasta.

If it's a culture where stupid questions are allowed and people are willing to be mentors... Just ask your question.

I had a cat who needed to be wrapped in a towel in order to be given meds. So now every time I touch a towel and hold it a certain way he freaks out a little bit.

My long winded talk about the various types of sword fighting is what got me my current job.

So now that's two people on the Internet that believe this!

My wife, who gave two births, was in a car accident and fought through hell to survive, still rate kidney stones as the most painful thing in her life.

I said would she rather take a bullet to the leg? She said she'd take two over a kidney stone.

All of this can be resolved just by drinking water.

I failed the saving throw and now I'm dead. Thanks a lot jerk

Scientists ideally shouldn't apply rules of thumb to their research!

But I need $600k to pay Jersey City Steve and "The Raven" has a history of being fair with his loans.

I did the grave mistake of shoving my nose in one without proper cleaning.

I had to pretend I was choking on my own spit not to offend the girl.

A wise teacher told me to carry a bottle of water, always.

Nobody will stop you from taking a sip, which is really an excuse to pause.

Funny enough, these have analogs in programming!

Leave it better than you found it.

The Boyscouts rule! Clean up bad code if you can!

Second rule, give people the benefit of the doubt and don't attribute an action as the person.

Sometimes you gotta write janky code to meet a deadline. That is not a personal failure. And give folks a break who do it too.

I frequently have to teach people about being T-shaped.

It still checks out.

Sometimes the true problem isn't the "fire" in front of you, it's the manager/boss.

And then you discover what you should be solving for.

Never call the police unless you are expecting someone to die.

So many fuck faces go, "People should just leave everybody alone!" And then go protest against LGBTQ existing.

This is a good one!

I think about the farmers who refuse to go to the doctor because "it's just a little internal bleeding".

But also about people who are so terrified of criticism, they ignore it.