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If you really have a breakthrough you rewrite that 200 lines of code from last week to 10.

If you think that's unfair, wait until you hear how much they're paid!

I recommend the heaviest book you can find, and pick it up often!

I agree with you. Code should be intelligible on its own without comments. It should also be well documented. One does not preclude the other.

How do you track your steps? I have treadmill desk and a Fitbit, but my Fitbit is worthless because my arms don’t swing while I’m working.

Political more likely.

I worked a programming job out of college for 4 years. Then I quit and did some of this and that for 14 years. Just got my 2nd full time programming job at 40 years old. I’m sharing this to let you know it’s possible and you’re still young.

I’m not the only one who’s seen Demolition Man, right? https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=RnyhkBU1yaw

Woof. I hadn’t even considered, what if the whale dove while you were in it’s mouth before spitting you out! Rapid descent, the bends, oxygen narcosis. Not good! That guys is lucky he was spat out on the surface!

Pseudo intellectual garbage, and the tweets read like if Ayn Rand wrote fortune cookies.

“Oregon Trail” generation here. I’m more tech literate than my older and younger family members. But I also made tech my career so I’m not sure if this is a fair anecdote.

It’s been over a year of explaining this to people. OP is a lost cause.

Presumably most buildings are painted. My house for example. If painting it white saves %10 of my energy costs in the summer, how is that anything but a net positive? BTW, I’m in the market for a new roof. I’m going white painted metal.

Are double pane windows, solar panels, and insulation also gadgetry hype?

I don’t agree with your cynicism. This is a very practical, potentially accessible, inexpensive solution to save literally tons of power. It’s an easy win. Let’s take it and move on to the next area we can make gains in the fight against climate change.

Me too! Now what do we do?

I guess this makes sense if you define “atheism” as “not obsessing over something” and “worship” as a synonym for “unhealthy obsession.” I take issue with those definitions, and also with the premise that an adult must have an unhealthy obsession over something.

What if I told you, I don’t believe in god, nor obsess over money or beauty. Oh, I guess I “worship” all things in moderation and healthy relationships.

I have 100 hours in Factorio. I’m looking for a job. Where do I apply?

I enjoyed it, but damn that dude is hella privileged.

Nearly all of the electronics in my home are protected by a surge protector. We even installed a whole house surge protector.

I lost a cable modem and router once from a surge through the cable line. So I now have a surge protector on the incoming internet cable line too.

> When you look at who is having kids in the US and Canada, the families, (or specifically, women) who have 2 or more children are either exceptionally wealthy (90th+ pc) or exceptionally poor

Source?

ELI5 why we can't make a perpetual motion machine out of this?

It’s more like: First they came for the fascist but I didn’t speak up because fuck those guys. Then they came for the meme stock traders, and what the fuck even is this timeline.

Bottom line is corporations are self serving, and the poem doesn’t really hold up to what is happening.

Eh, I’ve seen enough viral memes in my day to believe this happened without an orchestrator.

Allowing only buying OR selling seems like a good lever to manipulate a stock price.

That’s the absurd thing about Trump. His words are interpreted like a horoscope by his supporters. They mean whatever you need them to mean.

The hell he’s been tweeting them to calm down.

Oof. I don’t know how sad it is. Slap some guns on them and they’ll start selling. I kind of hope they stick to dancing and novelty tricks.

Mine was my freshman year in college. I had a craving for chocolate cake one evening. My epiphany was that I could just hop in my car and go buy one. I didn’t have to answer to or explain myself to anyone. So off I went and bought a cake! My dorm roommate seemed just as enlightened at the notion and he helped me eat it.

I’m not sure I mark this as “adulthood,” but it was a strangely significant milestone in my budding independence.

“The free market will solve everything” is a seductive idea because of its simplicity. “Just let the free market solve it. Oh, there’s a problem? It’s because the market is not ‘free’ enough.” The reality is more complicated. We need a balance of a healthy market forces and regulations to prevent the exploitation of people and the environment. But that’s a lot of work, and not as elegant sounding of a solution as, “let the market figure it out.”

I agree. The good old days were terrible. No doubt many suffered through considerable mental anguish. Unfortunately, this knowledge does not usually help people currently living with depression or similar mental illness.

It’s like, “I can’t pay my mortgage and I don’t where my family will live, but Grandpa was a POW in Nam, so no worries!”