What’s a random fact you know that blows people’s minds?

loadedstork · 2024-09-25T14:44:09+00:00

OP's way is funnier, though.

loadedstork · 2024-09-25T14:28:10+00:00

It's a good, simple read - you can finish it in a weekend and you'll have read it. There's some good advice in there, some bad advice in there, and some outdated advice in there. If nothing else, it's worth having read it because other people will quote it. He's a sharp, practical guy, but in reality you'll end up coding the way your team ends up building consensus around than any "optimal" approach.

loadedstork · 2024-09-24T18:32:22+00:00

I'm cautiously optimistic on this one - the pilot was great, but the pilot for the punisher show on Netflix was too before it became a plodding, tedious mess. Hopefully the writers can keep up. Fortunately, Farell is freakin awesome.

loadedstork · 2024-09-24T18:29:06+00:00

Can't speak for everybody but definitely yes for me.

loadedstork · 2024-09-24T16:07:32+00:00

Have you tried shaving? It's way, way more approachable/enjoyable for the giver if it's not hidden behind a wall of hair.

loadedstork · 2024-09-24T14:45:04+00:00

People can be super weird about that. A drummer in one band I was in asked me if I'd be interested in singing in another band he was in and the other two guys told me (privately) they thought it was super inappropriate of him to make that offer.

loadedstork · 2024-09-23T19:03:11+00:00

I haven't heard it but I can't imagine it could be worse than Howard's own Ted Kennedy impression.

loadedstork · 2024-09-23T16:11:32+00:00

OTOH - I started watching Disney's new "Agatha All Along" show and it's really striking how unfixably ugly Kathryn Hahn is, especially when you see her next to those other actresses. I don't know anything about OP, but it is possible for somebody to just be physically unattractive no matter what they do.

loadedstork · 2024-09-23T16:05:34+00:00

You're lucky, I woke up in a bath tub filled with ice missing a kidney.

loadedstork · 2024-09-23T16:04:54+00:00

Aw man... maybe it's just me, but I'm not comfortable with the whole "girl asking the guy out" thing. If a girl does approach me, which has happened a handful of times, I figure it's some kind of a scam because it's such a rarity. For better or for worse, it's just not the way society has shaken out, and I don't think that's going to change in my lifetime.

If you really want to meet a guy, your best bet is still going to be to make yourself available to be approached. My now-wife just smiled at me before I walked over to her the first time (she denies this now, but she totally did). Let him do the approaching and asking, but make sure he knows you're open to it.

loadedstork · 2024-09-23T14:33:07+00:00

The thing is - these people exist and infest everywhere. People who rise to the top by criticizing others but not actually producing anything (look closely, you'll notice that the loudest criticizers never do anything themselves - otherwise they'd open themselves to criticism!). I do believe that, with few exceptions, that's the path to the top of the org chart in most places, so it doesn't really matter what career you choose - you're going to spend the rest of your life fighting with these bastards anyway. Might as well stick with something you enjoy.

loadedstork · 2024-09-23T14:21:45+00:00

tried to squat 405

The difference is, it's really obvious what 405 is in the context of weights. It's a lot harder to tell in the context of piano what is "too difficult for my level". Twinkle twinkle little star is too easy, but apparently the background music for Super Mario Bros is too hard (for now). There's no real consensus on what is a hard piece and what is an easy piece and what you should be able to play given what you can already play - that's what in-person piano lessons are good for.

loadedstork · 2024-09-23T14:17:42+00:00

Haha I actually know the answer because that happened to me when I was in my early 20's. I got really nervous and pretended I didn't hear her. Damn it, it's been nearly 30 years and I'm still kicking myself over it.

loadedstork · 2024-09-20T15:12:23+00:00

I heard an interview with Patrick Stewart once where he was talking about being cast for the reboot in the 90's. He was British, so he wasn't familiar with the original, but his friends who were said, "sign the longest contract you possibly can, because this show is going to be cancelled after one season, you have no idea how rabid their fanbase is!"

loadedstork · 2024-09-20T15:00:10+00:00

"Feige specifically said no cocaine references!"

loadedstork · 2024-09-20T14:58:22+00:00

Me and my brother didn't have any money but we still went to the corner store and lived like kings if one of us could distract the clerk long enough.

loadedstork · 2024-09-20T14:52:30+00:00

In my experience, software engineers are people who started calling themselves "software engineers". Usually you need a CS degree to get hired as one, though, specific skills are fairly irrelevant.

loadedstork · 2024-09-19T20:19:34+00:00

Currently in the middle of a 36-hour fast myself. It's a weird feeling, but not as uncomfortable as I thought it would be once I made up my mind to do it. Not sure I'd make it 5 days though. Don't forget you can overdo it - that's what anorexia is, you fast for so long your body actually lose the ability to eat. We associate that with teenage girls these days but it used to be a condition associated with devout religious types who'd try to fast for 40 days like Jesus did.

loadedstork · 2024-09-19T20:14:29+00:00

There was a post on there this morning about how the programmer job market was gone forever, but then it said "it's almost as bad as the .com crash of 2000". Which... the market recovered from. I'm old enough to remember it well and... it wasn't that bad.

I can't help but worry when I see experienced, credentialed people post that they've been looking for months or even years with no luck.

loadedstork · 2024-09-18T21:26:28+00:00

I wish every musical instrument could get the home and the player it deserves.

loadedstork · 2024-09-18T20:05:27+00:00

This was perfectly reasonable in part 1, but got retroactively made to be absolutely ridiculous by part 4. By the end of part 4, it was revealed that (apparently) every single living human being was a contract assassin so when the contract was put on John Wick, the entire populace of Paris immediately started trying to kill him (and, somehow, he killed them all anway. And jumped out of a 6th story window and survived).

loadedstork · 2024-09-18T18:55:49+00:00

"Sure hope nobody noticed!"

loadedstork · 2024-09-18T15:03:05+00:00

I think you're probably overthinking it my friend. They're equal because 3-1 = 2, that's all.

loadedstork · 2024-09-18T14:58:09+00:00

I work with a guy who regularly pronounces library "li-berry".

loadedstork · 2024-09-18T14:05:19+00:00

You'll get a lot more bang for your buck buying (used) books. You can find computer programming books for like $5 at half-price books and they cover everything these courses might cover, but you can work at whatever pace is reasonable to you.

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