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My company has been reducing force multiple times and did one round in a particularly shitty way. Our bonuses were the lowest ever this round despite us all having had to carry more weight. They wonder why our morale is shit.

I haven’t touched rust in a few years so the cookbook and the language may be different. I agree that the book didn’t do a great job of preparing for a real project of any size/complexity, but there are other resources out there worth reading. Reading best practices documents might help some things make sense.

The borrow checker is something you will get used to. Lifetimes is another one that took me a bit to understand. I only ever did a little bit in C and even less in C++, but did have professional experience with Java, Perl, JS, PHP, and more at the time I first started looking into it. I was able to replace some fairly simple production PHP code with rust that ran much more reliably and with fewer resources, but didn’t tackle anything huge.

They’ve been reselling people the same game on multiple VMs for years. They’ve been greedy for ages.

I accidentally poured tapwater over my coffee in my french press this morning (I apparently forgot to hit the button on the kettle to heat the water and definitely failed to check). It was alright, if weak, impromptu cold-brew. Hope your power comes back soon!

I used to run my own mailserver, but I haven’t in years now since it was so much of a pain. Not even the set-up part; that wasn’t the worst thing in the world. It’s uptime, back-ups, and other considerations that just require time and money I don’t have.

I’m on my second gopro (a hero 10). It will overheat in the shade outside in summer. The battery also crapped out quite early, though they did find another one to send me (I bought it new from them directly, but after newer models released). I don’t see myself buying another of their cameras.

Article is from 2019. Not sure how things look today, especially post-lockdown.

Except the personal pronoun, that just seems like parts of NZ to me.

I’ve never known anyone to actually intentionally eat the pods. I’m guessing the “digestive upset” is just a lot more fibre than the body normally gets, but it doesn’t say.

I just searched earlier and DDG had a link telling me to try its AI (I think it was on my mobile on firefox). At least it didn’t force it, I guess.

Passive voice shenanigans. They expect to lay off. They’re the ones doing it.

Start kettle set to just below 90 degrees. Put what looks like the right amount of coffee at the moment into french press. Pour water into press when it’s at temp. Wait 5-10 minutes and drink.

I got into D&D in the late '80s. My super-christian grandma even tried to play. My dad’s church thought I was going straight to hell, though.

The app gets messed up on my Japanese LG TV every now and again (and I seem to have lost the ability to thumbs-up videos again), but it’s never been unusable. The app on my android phone looks fine at the moment.

Japanese can only end in ‘a’, ‘i’, ‘u’, ‘e’, ‘o’, or ‘n’. Rhyming in Japanese is boring because it has so few possible endings that tons of stuff rhymes. Haiku, tanka, and other forms exist with syllable*, rhythm, and even thematic rules instead.

IIRC, Anglo-Saxon poetry before the Norman conquest also wasn’t into rhyming.

* it’s technically not syllables but close enough for this usage.

As someone in Japan for a decade, there is no way Tokyo should be that high, especially post-corona and inflation

Except when looking for a new job and now so are 8k other people :/

I left back in 2015 after realizing that, had I stayed in the US, I probably would have killed myself. I haven’t renounced so that I can help my parents (and, yes, I keep voting), but the punishing tax and retirement investing issues make things a huge pain. So much paperwork everywhere, can’t invest in things, potential double-taxation, hours of forms to fill out for a country I’ve spent ~15 days in in the last decade, etc.

Yep. Retirement investing is also a huge pain. Many things are PFICs which can take hours of work each to figure out how to fill in US forms for (and a punitive tax for your efforts), not all accounts are treated as tax-advantaged in both US and target country, etc. I will be renouncing when my parents pass (or I can convince them to GTFO, but that seems unlikely).

I don’t knowingly use AI at all in my person life and projects (I say ‘knowingly’ since many products have it shoved inside now, but I disable all I see). At work, we have AI code reviews which, as a concept, I think is fine and useful.