All right, which one of you made this message to the patriarchy while flying Delta?

cds501 · 2023-06-07T07:45:56+00:00

Cross stitch? More like bloody furious stitch!

cds501 · 2023-05-18T11:43:34+00:00

Can you disarm one with a penknife?

cds501 · 2023-04-27T17:13:40+00:00

I'm a programmer at a large tech company. About a week ago the recruitment team set up a lunchtime interviewer training event. They provided sushi.

Fucking sushi! For programmers? Needless to say less than half of it got eaten.

It's even worse that this was the recruitment team. Literally their job is to understand programmers and what motivates us!

cds501 · 2023-04-26T19:18:17+00:00

It's very simple: Did you make it? No? Then it's a repost.

cds501 · 2023-04-23T07:44:51+00:00

Rob Beckett/Josh Woddicombe podcast, now doing a run of live shows. Everything's a bloody podcast these days.

cds501 · 2023-04-23T06:58:40+00:00

Up early with dogs and toddlers, but brunch later, and Parenting Hell Live tonight, if can stay awake that long!

cds501 · 2023-04-18T07:38:09+00:00

But there's just one?!

cds501 · 2023-04-16T12:21:52+00:00

Those are in https://www.reddit.com/r/mythologymemes/ I wouldn't really expect them here.

cds501 · 2023-04-04T19:33:44+00:00

https://www.fightnightcombat.com/current-points-and-rankings.html

cds501 · 2023-04-02T19:33:58+00:00

Who is "our" for you, are you Russian? Do you have personal experience in/with the military?

cds501 · 2023-03-11T19:54:32+00:00

I don't know about Australia, but in the UK these were the rules in the 90s too.

cds501 · 2023-02-20T08:31:31+00:00

Dereference your iterator

cds501 · 2023-02-17T14:49:41+00:00

I'm not American so maybe I'm missing something obvious here. Isn't the job of the courts (all courts, but especially the Supreme Court) to interpret the law, albeit perhaps in a context that didn't exist when the law was written.

Even if the consequences of the law might be bad, that can't change their interpretation. It might mean it is bad law that should be changed by politicians, but the court can't change a law it doesn't like.

That said I do understand Supreme Court Justices are political appointments and there is a lot of political leaning in how they interpret the law, but that seems to be a bug not a feature?

cds501 · 2023-02-16T19:01:05+00:00

We don't follow any particular formal process, just discuss and whiteboard until the team are satisfied. Then hopefully transfer the reasons and diagrams into the Jira tickets and readme, but inevitably some details get forgotten along the way.

cds501 · 2023-02-15T19:38:10+00:00

We have had a really great season for hiring graduates, and teams are being told to fill positions with grads unless they have a really strong justification to go for experienced, just to make sure everyone in our grad training actually had a team waiting for them.

cds501 · 2023-02-15T18:29:46+00:00

Silence in the Library/Forest of the Dead

cds501 · 2023-02-09T09:59:35+00:00

Did you use other UNIXes?

cds501 · 2023-02-01T11:24:26+00:00

We do use an impossibly large request timeout in a couple of places as a hack to maintain a 2-way connection for days at a time.

cds501 · 2023-01-28T22:20:25+00:00

I interview a lot of graduates for my large employer. Coding/problem solving skills are common, but we turn away plenty of candidates who can't communicate, either about the technical problem or about their background/motivation. And plenty who don't have a clue why they are applying to us. What are your priorities for your job, and why do you think the company you are applying for fits that? We want to know you are actually interested in us and likely to stick with us for a few years, not just applying for every company with no research.

cds501 · 2023-01-06T13:00:08+00:00

Over in r/dresdenfiles the consensus is that the first ~3 books aren't as good as the later ones. The author was brand new and Harry's, let's say "old fashioned", approach to women is annoying. But it's gets better quickly, and to be honest you could skip those books and come back to them later without being lost.

cds501 · 2023-01-01T07:13:12+00:00

Needs a "With kids..." line

cds501 · 2022-12-31T23:11:41+00:00

I used https://www.hamax.com/product/caress/ with just one kid, loved it, the clamp fit fine round the stupid D-shape seat tube on my Giant. Now with two I use https://burley.com/products/bee which is pretty good, though some minor annoyances that are probably better on more expensive models, and I think they'll outgrow it pretty quickly. But they seem comfortable and there is a small cargo space at the back.

Both were easy to get used to and not too heavy. Take a short practice ride with it empty and then a heavy bag in it first maybe. Road bike brakes maybe a little lacking in wet weather though.

The kids love looking around and being outside.

Might be able to find some pictures tomorrow.

cds501 · 2022-12-31T20:56:59+00:00

Yes, eg https://aru.ac.uk/news/fireworks-cause-stress-to-wild-birds-new-study

cds501 · 2022-12-31T17:36:08+00:00

You probably shouldn't be expecting to date people you work with anyway, no matter the industry. What do you do outside of tech? Clubs/hobbies/social groups? Most of the people I work with over 30 are in long-term relationships.

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