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I'm just curious, what about your local bus and/or train is not safe? Do you mean it could crash at any moment? Or it is usually full of unsavoury characters?

Maybe they should have updated the server capacity?

Tuesday rhymes with blue. Not to mention "Blue Tuesday" is a phrase used quite often.

You might be associating orange with Friday because it makes you think of the sun and going outdoors?

It's all very interesting. Even more so because I don't think of days/colours. My mind gives the days size and mass. ie. starting with Sunday (I'm American) the day is small. And as the week progresses the days get larger, heavier and denser. Until Saturday, which is a big fat puffy ball of "day". You can do what you want with it and it will just be there and be your friend. I love Saturdays.

If I had a choice between my mom's 30+ year old windy-uppy egg timer vs. the abomination that is the digital interface on my stove, I would take the egg timer every single time.

Unfortunately my sister keeps stealing it (back) every time she visits!

It's probably similar to the difference between doing "proper" squats in a squat rack vs. using a cheater frame. The muscle movement is more varied and not as linear as doing a single left/right up/down exercise. But that's just a guess.

Which used to depend on the legendary `is-is` package. Apparently the maintainer is a certain B. Clinton.

I've just returned from a 10 day trip across Europe. 5 days to destination. 5 days there. 5 days back. I've been back for 2 weeks now and I think I've only just "recovered" from the drive. The cognitive load of the German autobahn. Trying to understand the road markings in different countries. Rain one day. Snow the next. Glaring sunshine the next.

Now, sitting in my home office in a comfy chair with no vibrations, no continuous noise and no apparent imminent potential for death is most definitely my preferred way to spend 8 hours a day.

Next year is going to be a stay-cation!

As an aside, I was intrigued by your use of quotes around "real life". I think we've collectively gone so far down the internet rabbit hole that real life, ie. not on the internet, is seen as the anomaly or unreal. Not the other way around.

This must be why those "EasyPost is hiring" posts show up every 3-4 weeks like clockwork. I assumed they were just bad at employee retention.

I could be wrong, but isn't MDF basically made from the waste of wood products? I mean, it's graded and standarised. But MDF _is_ the waste. So to waste it again is no great loss.

But as with all things, I'm certain some producers are using raw/virgin materials. Probably from wood that is dirt cheap.

Just curious, where did you go to school that would allow this?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Białowieża_Forest on Poland. Unfortunately, if some people have their way a good portion of it will be cut for profit. Battles over the wood have been going on for years. If you are ever in the region it's worth a visit.

So they claim the change to node reduces the 60k lines of Ruby to only 2k of node. So how did they manage to add 1,998,000 more lines of node in the next 10 years and not think something was amiss?

Those are just poorly done voiceovers to bad AI video. I've seen better lip synching at a Milli Vanilli concert.

Yes, it's true of everything. But it doesn't really mean anything. Is walking easy? Then make a choice. Walk faster. Call it running. Make it harder. Walk up mountains. Walk backwards. Chew gum at the same time. There are always ways to improve.

Or you could choose to do nothing. Easy walking is great! Do it in a park and clear your mind. Use it for time to think over problems. Or just enjoy the ease of your new-found skill.

Lastly, it's good to acknowledge that not everyone can walk as easily as you or at all. Perhaps you can help them. Make of it what you will.

Is that all it takes to get from 13 to 8!? I guess nobody reads anymore.

I'm surprised the article didn't take a good-humoured pot shot at the uniquely American phenomenon known to me as The Empire of Pillows.

I left the states around the year 2000, and when I left bedding was usually comprised of sheet + sheet + comforter.

But since then on my yearly trips home, more and more pillows were appearing on the beds. Now when I visit, part of the nightly ritual before going to bed is finding a place to store the dozen or so decorative throw pillows to make room for humans in the bed.

Maybe this is an opportunity? Would anyone be interested in a pillow-bed? You know. A bed. For pillows. They do their duty all day making a bed look.. inviting? But at night they deserve a rest too. Chucking them on the floor is just wrong. And stacking them jenga-style on the side chair is fraught with danger. But a pillow-bed would solve that! I feel a start-up comin on...

What gets me about newer cars is that they seem to be stolen at the same rate as they have always been (conjecture. i could be entirely mistaken). What with keyless entry, immobilizers and standard car alarms, I would expect them to be virtually theft-proof nowadays.

Interesting that you also used Elixir. It's also quite interesting contrasting your approach to OP's. Was there a specific reason that you chose Elixir?

Does pet urine spray work differently? It instantly removes the colour and it's been on the shelves for years. Did they know the secret? Or does this discovery just mark the formal identification of the specific enzyme?

Does anyone remember the "reset" button? I assume it still exists, but to be honest I have never found the need for it. But I do remember it being on many forms that you would encounter pre-2000.

Do any Heroku users have a way of making the platform more robust? Simple redundancy wouldn't have helped in this recent case. I suppose having apps in mutiple regions might have done the trick, but then you have to maintain a hot spare and manually spin it up when needed. Also, our business has customers exclusively in the EU so a US server wouldn't make sense. And there are GDPR issues with having servers in the US.

Anyhow.. I'm just looking for some advice and really some to tell my manager about how we plan to ensure this doesn't happen again in the future. But I don't think that is possible.

I’ve never worked with someone who had less than 10 years of experience that I would call a senior engineer. However the number of people who claim to be with less than 5 is astounding!

Maybe the talent pool in the UK has a serious case of Dunning-Krueger?

Whatever the case may be. I find hiring extremely time consuming because I need to wade through so many candidates to find a true senior.

Hasn't this been solved with editor extensions such as Emmet?

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I was kind of hoping this was a remake of Kaboom! the Atari game. It was one of the first games that I "mastered". I made my mom take a photo of me in front of the TV with my high score. IIRC you could send it in to Atari and get a badge of some kind. Or maybe it was a patch for your jeans - remember them?

Anyhow, the photo came out horribly because she used a flash. You couldn't see my score on the TV. It was just a bright reflection of the flash bulb.

I'm not sure I've ever gotten over that. What could have been... How my life would be different... If only I got to go to school with my shiny Kaboom! badge or patch or sticker or whatever it was. The kids would have cheered. The principal would have given me the day off. I could have been somebody!

"in the opinion of many, it made the shirt look far more beautiful." Said no one ever. What sort of writing is this? It feels like AI generated spam.

There used to be a product called Statsbot which was a friendly UI built on top of Cube.js. They shuttered the service a few years back and we're still struggling to find an alternative that is as simple to use by anyone in the company and easy to set up. We've gone through all the usual BI suspects and nothing comes close. I'd love to find the time to rebuild this.

It would be interesting to see if there is a correlation between the number of honks per driver and the number of accidents they are in involved in. But I doubt the onboard computer collects "num_honks: integer"

I wonder if the meat could be donated to a zoo to feed large carnivores?

personally i'm not worried. i'll just have my lawyer take the fall. the best lawyers my supporters money can buy.