abstractspoon

Oof

A bit too gushing for my tastes

As long as having any sort of understanding of your code is not important

Alibaba == AliExpress ?

[2014]

Sounds very much like my breakdown 20 years ago. When I finally emerged 10 years later I was both the same and utterly changed. I liken it to having had my personality deconstructed and then reconstructed from the ground up. I wouldn't wish it on anyone though I'm now in a much better place.

There's also a PKD short story about an alien pinball machine that fights back

They seem rather samey to me

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Fightin' words

I always find it a bit suspect when the author structures specific questions to answer as a way of proving their desired outcome

I must be the only one who loves reviewing their own code because it allows me to spot yet further improvements on my already crafted solutions.

Fuck yeah

What a horrible existence you have created for yourself

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Please can we ban this site

I think we read this at school (60M)

But how many times can you do that before you destroy the touchpad altogether?

I read it in Harmonic from the bottom up

I never knew that about the Anne Frank diaries

Joke's on you. I didn't even start it

When it's hardly needed!

The German critique of Pennsylvania Dutch reminded me of how the Nazis critiqued Yiddish back in the day for not being High German and thus its speakers must themselves be of lower class/value

Recently retired software developer. Still using a crappy 2015 Acer laptop for hobby projects since I figure that whatever performance I'm getting it will be heaps better for most other people using my software

Cool

Ah, but getting what you want is not necessarily getting what you need.

Wants just represent the ways in which we feel incomplete

And its flak towers!

To me, doubt is the pause that occurs when the negative consequences of an action outweigh the probable success. So it's a probability threshold

Rats can drive?!