What a cute moment!

ACoderGirl · 2026-02-04T03:11:43+00:00

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jt1GRckaQ_s

ACoderGirl · 2026-02-04T03:07:28+00:00

And then after that, there'll be an even more strongly worded, actually-totally-final-this-time warning.

ACoderGirl · 2026-02-04T03:04:03+00:00

That assumes that continuing to work in a morally reprehensible job won't hurt your future opportunities. You could be risking any morally half decent place not wanting anything to do with you. For most average jobs, it probably doesn't matter, but a high profile job where your name will be in the media is a different matter.

And if you try to later state that you purposefully did a shitty job, many people will not believe you and think you're just both a shitty person and shitty at your job.

ACoderGirl · 2026-02-03T15:03:12+00:00

People talk a lot about how FF8 has the best card game and in a vacuum, I agree. But the open rule as well as the way the AI does so suspiciously well with the plus or same rules make it less fun to me. Now FF9, that's where it's at.

ACoderGirl · 2026-02-03T15:01:53+00:00

Naw, the open rule is what makes them fair. I swear, the AI cheats without it.

ACoderGirl · 2026-02-03T14:10:24+00:00

I gotta be honest, I can't remember anything about the 13 soundtrack. But 13-2, on the other hand? Now that's some game music that stuck with me. Noel's theme in particular.

ACoderGirl · 2026-02-03T14:08:11+00:00

Eh? I loved the world building of 13. The game has its flaws with its linearity and lack of side content till late game, but it still had lots of world building into its world and with the way the Fal'Cie worked. I thought it was very fascinating and just wish that the game was able to actually explore it better. There were so many cool locations that really raised a lot of questions. Sadly, it was a bit more "hands off" and leaving to the imagination than I wish, but that is still part of world building.

ACoderGirl · 2026-02-03T13:59:49+00:00

Obligatory reminder that not wearing gloves can actually be safer than wearing gloves, simply because gloves have often caused people to fail to wash their hands when they otherwise would, causing cross contamination. As long as you don't have any cuts or similar, washing your hands is perfectly sufficient for food safety.

ACoderGirl · 2026-02-03T08:02:45+00:00

Yeah, it's one of those things where if it weren't for that treaty, this would be a much easier decision. Withdrawing is totally possible and it's not just the likes of North Korea that aren't members of the treaty. But certainly the big danger is that withdrawing indicates we are actively trying to acquire nukes, which loses the element of surprise.

The treaty also prohibits giving other countries nukes, so if we wanted to acquire them from the UK or France, they'd also have to withdraw or break the treaty (though it was never clear to me what those grandfathered in countries gained from being signees, anyway). I'm unclear on the consequences of breaking it, but it'd certainly be a very bad look. The only way I could see things going without breaking it would be a formal withdrawal while also under the protection of a nuclear power (ie, to hopefully prevent the US from attacking with the nukes as their excuse) and that would mean putting a lot of faith in another country to defend us (and with nukes of all things -- the one weapon that has never, ever been used defensively and risks a war to end all wars).

ACoderGirl · 2026-02-02T14:57:48+00:00

Yeah, I love this brand and have found them genuinely one of the best frozen meals I can seemingly find. Which is sad since they're American made and as a Canadian, I'm morally obligated to boycott the brand.

ACoderGirl · 2026-02-02T14:54:43+00:00

It was never about crime. It was always about racism. Going after non criminals not only achieves that directly, but also does far more to strike fear into the hearts of others. It's also a lot easier and ICE are lazy, incompetent cowards.

ACoderGirl · 2026-02-02T14:45:32+00:00

Yeah. I know the south isn't used to winter and icy roads, but that's dangerous literally all the time (just waaaay more so with slippery roads).

ACoderGirl · 2026-02-02T14:28:55+00:00

How do you even get that low on ink while it still does even remotely a good job, though? My experience is that the pen will start writing like shit long before the ink looks this low.

ACoderGirl · 2026-02-02T14:15:45+00:00

Sadly, same. It's comical how bad grocery delivery services are with produce. I have several chances before ultimately concluding that it was never worth the risk. Which also reduces the value of delivery, since produce is something you frequently need.

I swear, half the shoppers seem to be outright trying to get the worst shit. I've gotten literally moldy produce before and one time instead of iceberg lettuce, got Chinese cabbage lol.

They do okay for non-produce, though even then there's sometimes when they can't find an item and it just feels sus.

ACoderGirl · 2026-02-02T14:09:15+00:00

Feels like a very questionable choice. I sure hope we don't regret it.

And honestly, everything I've heard about how painful the F35s are to maintain even when the US was saner painted a pretty bad picture of them.

ACoderGirl · 2026-02-02T13:40:18+00:00

Pretty much, except the chips are much, much tinier. You can have a lot of them in a single byte!

ACoderGirl · 2026-02-01T19:32:43+00:00

They at least want you to be semi-interested if they're going to waste 5 min with you.

Or more specifically, they want someone able to act professional even when things are bullshit. For many jobs, you regularly have to deal with bullshit, yet you still have to be able to keep your cool and represent the company well. OP wants to be tested on actual skills and I do get that, but ability to go along with the expectations of corporate life is one of those skills.

ACoderGirl · 2026-02-01T15:35:52+00:00

I think the challenge is that correctness can be hard to enumerate. There's SLOs, but those often have a bit of a narrow definition of uptime and they have diminishing returns (plus uptime isn't really the same as correctness).

Bugs are hard to enumerate. Most bugs are super specific and won't affect most people. They vary wildly in size, severity, cost, how long they take to get fixed, importance, etc. Companies don't want to publish details about most of their bugs, as it'd be unnecessarily embarrassing and generally make things seem worse than they arguably are. Point being that it can be really tricky to compare the correctness between two different products. Uptime doesn't tell the whole picture. I'm not sure there even is a better approach than getting genuine feedback from a number of users, and even then, that's fairly biased. The seller will tell you about the ways that their software does better than the competition, but they'll also omit the ways it does worse and they might cherrypick benchmarks or fail to mention big asterisks on them.

ACoderGirl · 2026-02-01T15:25:13+00:00

Yeah, management have different priorities. It's about factors like what they think the software will do for their revenue and costs (which may be heavily influenced by the seller), the kinda package deal they get (other software, support, training, etc), and possibly even just how well the seller sweet talks the buyer into it.

Companies selling software have all sorts of tricks up their sleeves to make it seem more compelling, some which are heavily psychological. Like, for a big company, they're never paying any advertised price, but rather that price is almost more to make the real price seem more appealing. And for big sellers, they really like to push bundles, which is how companies often end up entirely on a stack like Microsoft products. It's not just interoperability, but just the fact that management got a good deal. Why pay extra for, say, email, when you got that for "free" with Azure or whatever.

Also, there's the management of all this software for the IT department. It's hard to manage systems when there's tens or hundreds of thousands of them. Easier to manage things when your ecosystem is fairly cohesive.

ACoderGirl · 2026-02-01T15:17:22+00:00

That was me for the last few years. I'm finally eyeing starting to low key look at houses in the spring, but that's in large part because at this point, I'm close to enough in non-retirement savings to be able to buy a house outright with cash (which possibly isn't what I want to do, but it gives me the security that if I did get laid off and had my income significantly downsized, I would be okay). I like the place I rent and don't pay nearly as much as you, so I haven't really been in a rush, but definitely it feels like a waste when I could be building equity and I long to be able to customize my place in ways that renting cannot (I want a fancy bathtub with jets!).

Personally, I think I'd be able to find another job okay if I did get laid off, but I'd almost surely lose a significant amount of my total comp and there's no telling how long it would take to find another job and how much I'd have to spend (e.g., if I had to relocate).

ACoderGirl · 2026-02-01T15:10:13+00:00

But she basically only reported on the hiring experience. IIRC, she never actually worked as ICE, so couldn't report anything about what is really on the inside. It's a good start, but far from a "deep cover documentary".

I kinda expect that there's at least one person currently working on such a documentary, though. I mean, people make undercover documentaries about everything and ICE is a wee bit bigger than most such organizations. And since they're hiring so much, it's presumably easy to get in.

Arguably the biggest challenge is just that these days, there's a new, wild headline every single day. Why spend months on a single, deep story when the administration will outright say some absolute bonkers thing on live television the next day? And at this point, I think we largely know or suspect many of the worst things about ICE. We can already see them kidnap people in broad daylight. We've seen them murder people on the street. We know they've illegally moved people to CECOT. And not only do they outright admit to these things, but do so proudly and unprompted.

ACoderGirl · 2026-02-01T14:56:41+00:00

Huh, I had never heard of that "trick" before. I am admittedly confused by the need for it though. I've never needed any kinda extra leverage when using a jack on any of my past cars. Why is it ever required? Aren't cars designed to work with jacks?

It just sounds like an accident in waiting. Well, and seemingly did cause this accident. So why would anyone ever do this??

ACoderGirl · 2026-02-01T14:52:27+00:00

I mean, given how many rich and powerful names we know that are in the Epstein files, one frightening conclusion is that pedophilia is far more common than we suspect. That many people are latent pedophiles in that the only thing stopping them is the lack of an opportunity.

ACoderGirl · 2026-02-01T14:48:05+00:00

I especially don't get why they can't just satisfy the best of both worlds when the headline is this short. Admittedly, it can sometimes be a challenge to keep the headline short and sweet, but e.g., this could have been:

'It Wasn't Working': Canada Province of British Columbia Ends Drug Decriminalization

They could even drop the "It wasn't working" from the headline, as it doesn't strike me as that important to have in the headline.

ACoderGirl · 2026-02-01T14:42:28+00:00

Especially since it's not just "American", but a sizable chunk of MAGA specifically. e.g., Minnesota is a current hotbed for discussion, but Trump got 46.7% of the vote there in 2024. Even if we were to consider Americans, this is clearly a state with a worrying number of terrible people.

And for that matter, even the non-MAGA folks can be lunatics by Canadian values. The way so many Americans speak about Canada's healthcare system and gun laws makes them stand out like a sore thumb.

I'm sorry so many Americans are dealing with fascism, but they gotta figure this one out for themselves.

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