jubilationtcornpone @ jubilationtcornpone @sh.itjust.works

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"Rabbi, is there a blessing for the Tsar?"

"A blessing for the Tsar? Of course! May God bless and keep the Tsar... Far away from us."

Yes. Because they'll store everything in MongoDB.

Kirby model 513 from 1953. Still works great after 72 years.

You know your limits better than anyone. I don't think I will take you long to get comfortable doing more complex ones. That is some nice work!

Me: "The Vacuum is not going to hurt you. Calm down."

The vacuum:

PO: "Why does it seem like it takes a really long time to develop new features?"

Dev: "I'm glad you asked! We've got this piece of code (points at smoldering pile of spaghetti) that literally has to be changed every time we do anything. The person who wrote it has been gone for like four years. No one knows how it works and it's central to the entire application. I would estimate that this easily doubles the time it takes to work each ticket. I've created a set of stories to rewrite this code. We just need your approval to bring it into an upcoming sprint."

PO: "Can't... Hear... Breaking... Up... Bad connection..."

Dev: "Uhhh... This isn't a Teams meeting. You're sitting in the room with us right now."

PO: ...

Dev: "We know you're still here even if you're not moving."

PO: ...

Jokes on him. A lot of corporations will gladly tell Orange Julius whatever he wants to hear, true or not, as long as there's a financial incentive to do so.

The US is currently shooting itself in the face and Russia is embroiled in a war that it can't actually win.

All China has to do to reap the benefits is not interrupt.

If Russia wanted peace, they would pack up and go home.

I have ADHD. I also have a daughter with ADHD. I think being able to see it from the point of personal experience and from a parents perspective has been helpful in some ways. I was officially diagnosed at 28. I wish I had been diagnosed as a child. I have never been outwardly hyperactive but aside from that, the signs were clearly there.

Instead of outward physical hyperactivity, I have what I have heard called "inner restlessness". It feels like an inability to relax. I can't just sit and do nothing. It's an insatiable need to constantly feel like I'm doing something productive, every waking minute of every day. It doesn't sound that bad but in reality it's a tremendous source of misery. Humans aren't built to work constantly without rest but my ADHD brain will not let me turn it off. Meds help with this a lot.

One of the challenging things about having a child (or even maybe being a child) with ADHD is that physicians often like to focus on school performance as the primary barometer of "success". In fairness, that's somewhat understandable when kids are young and lack the self-awareness to analyze how they're feeling, much less communicate their feelings in a meaningful way.

The goal should be to help the child have a happy and fulfilling life with school performance as a component of that.

People with ADHD are significantly more likely to experience mental health issues throughout their lives, especially if they're untreated. That can often lead to "self medicating" (AKA substance abuse). As someone who experienced severe difficulty regulating their own emotions -- often a symptom of ADHD -- from an early age, and spent most of his 20's binge drinking as a form of self medication, I wish someone would have asked if I needed meds when I was a kid.

ADHD symptoms can change as the brain develops. It's perfectly normal to make adjustments to medications to deal with that and keep everything dialed in.

I think what's really important is teaching your son the importance of looking after his mental health and that having an ongoing dialogue with his doctor about his disorder is a positive thing.

How's the humidity where you live? If you live in a dry climate, a swamp cooler might be a good option.

If you live in a humid climate, window units or portable AC's are better than nothing. A long time ago, the only AC I had was a window unit in my bedroom. It was miserable overall but at least I had someplace I could go to stay cool and sleep comfortably at night.

0/10. Do not recommend.

One time I came home from work and found a deer in my front yard that had been hit by a car. It was still standing but it looked awful. I seriously thought about putting it out of its misery but before I could do anything, it limped off into the woods right behind my house where it collapsed and died.

About three days later, I opened my front door and got hit in the face by the most horrible smell I have ever smelt. Imagine the smell from when you leave a meat package in the trash for a day or two. Dial that up to about 1000. Set it in the hot sun for three days and you'll probably be pretty close. It's so strong it stimulates your gag reflex. I have a pretty strong stomach but I thought I was going to be sick. I couldn't go outside for a week after that because that's how long it took the scavengers to clean up the carcass.

• ORM's

1. Place ALL of the business logic in stored procedures.
2. Eliminate the backend.
3. Make the front end connect directly to the database.
4. Profit
5. Introduce tons of bugs and terrible performance.
6. Database is compromised within five minutes of going live.

Delete this now.

It's pretty easy to "leapfrog" communications infrastructure if you're building out that infrastructure during a time when technologies like fiber optics are well established.

Landline phone service in the US had been ubiquitous for the better part of a century at that point. And, since most homes had a phone line, it kind of made sense that communications technology expanded from that particular connection point. Unfortunately, there are severe limits as to how much you can push through a two wire cable and it didn't take very long to reach those limits.

There have been some very significant developments in telecom but the rollout of those has been slow overall due to the fact that the American telecom system is still mostly monopolized by the remaining descendents of "Ma Bell", whose primary goals are to squeeze as much money as possible out of their existing infrastructure while spending as little on it as possible.

🎶Doo doo doo do dooo doooooo doo dooo doo. Doo doo doo do dooo doooooo doo.🎶

Tesla's aren't selling?

1. Set them on fire.
2. Claim that it's arson.
3. File insurance claim.
4. Profit.

Oh yeah. Fire the team responsible for pen testing. That's real smart.

/S

I care. Granted I'm just one American and I'm not in a position of power, but the blatant bigotry being pushed by some of us is shameful and makes me very angry.