I was doing full stack dev for 20 years until very recently. Never needed anything beyond basic algebra EXCEPT for while I was getting my CS degree…had 2 classes, i think, where we were doing matrix math/Fourier transforms, but iirc they were electives…one was writing a very basic 3d graphics driver and the other was working with very simple computer vision…things like recognizing handwritten letters.

I think they use that to help track whether you’re watching or not (I don’t recall ever seeing the “are you still watching?” prompt when skipping intros… but my sample size is 1)

I imagine the implementation would cost them more than the fine…

Shut the front door!

It does sound ludicrous…might be better off making a concave mirror so it reflects and intensifies the light…like a giant magnifying glass over an ant hill. Yeah…that’s how they should do it. Nothing gonna wrong with that.

They fired 12 employees of a workforce numbering over 216,000. Looks like they fired 1000x more employees (literally…12000) last year just because “that’s business.” What a nothingburger.

What do they mean I can’t pay in qubluds?!? What else would I pay with?

It was like 2003…so probably not “latest”, but definitely a niche thing that you had to be part of a specific subculture to be exposed to.

Wait…you guys get paid?

100% agree. My childhood is a haze of physical and psychological abuse… not just between the parents and kids but between the adults as well. If I’m proud of anything, it’s the success I’ve had breaking that cycle. I slip up sometimes, but I can honestly say I’ve never called either of my kids hurtful names or laid a hand on them in anger.

That mirrors my own childhood as well. It’s actually things like like standing up when I wouldn’t have expected it. As an example, I’ve overheard my preteen chastising her friends for talking about someone behind their back. Another example is our 2nd grader bringing home an assignment the other day where she was supposed to write what she wanted to be when she grew up, and her answer was “kind.”

Like holy shit kid… they’re both miles ahead of where I was at their ages around topics of justice and the skills it takes to maintain social cohesion, and they’re so much braver than I was and willing to use their social capital to stick up for people that can’t themselves. Then they’ll come home and get in a fight with each other over a spot on the couch or something insignificant like that.

I’ve fucked this up a few times and snapped at my kids for things that it isn’t reasonable to expect of them. It’s really hard when they show maturity beyond their age and developmental level in some aspects because you can almost forget they aren’t fully developed and so the behavior can feel intentional. Like you get this flash of thinking, “I know the kid knows this is wrong,” and if you aren’t mindful in that moment, you can handle it wrong.

I have always made sure to calm myself down and then go talk to them about it. I apologize for losing my temper and, with an emphasis on how what I did was NOT ok, explain what I was feeling and why it made me react inappropriately. I’m pretty big on making them understand that adults are fallable and make mistakes, too.

I don’t know…it feels like it’s working well.

Fruit-flavored boneless wings. Pretty sure sweet and sour is just cherry-flavored boneless wings too

Thanks for unlocking that memory, gofsckyourself

Fucking pre-commit hooks

It’s pronounced ‘gif’

I’ll start worrying about artificial intelligence when customers can generate requirements specific enough for actual intelligence to decipher.

Kinda hard to build a prompt when they don’t even really know what they want until they’ve seen what they asked for.

Generating power…

I don’t recall anyone going after the folks that made “Leaving Neverland,” but I also wasn’t paying much attention.

With a keg in the office comes great responsibility.