Stumbled upon Jeremy Clarkson biking in a European capital. We instinctively approached him to just confirm if he was us, and he politely asked to not bother him because he was on holidays. We felt a little bad and of course left him alone. It must be a little sad to be famous and be recognized everywhere
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Songs of the Gorilla Nation. It's supposed to be a book about the autism of the author, but it's just a weird love letter to the entire Gorilla population, described as perfect creatures every human should aspire to be, it's pretty much like that simpson shimpanzee parody episode, except more sad.
There is very little content about autism, but you can tell there is a lot of resentment towards neurotipicals (who she calls neuromutilated) and a lot of toxic autism pride. I believe the author has a lot of unresolved trauma that she coped with cultivating resentment and obsessing over gorillas.
Didn't learn much about autism nor gorillas, a pretty lame book overall.
They both (Picard more than Discovery) used a nostalgia checkpoint to connect to previous media, rather than expanding those themes in meaningful ways.
Honest question: why buy from doordash at all when you have 120$ in the bank? Why not buy groceries and eat a simple, healthier, cheaper meal?
Even android stopped supporting shaped icons to feel like apple where you only have stupid rounded squares. Thank you overlord google for plain boring corporatism when you could have chosen interesting thing you already did
Which one?
NCIS Los Angeles is the silliest show I enjoyed watching for quite some year. The finale was surprisingly decent and emotionally a little touching. It's a very self-aware show and, if not taken too seriously, can be good fun
Who the hell thinks "tomorrow I'm going in jail, better update my linkedin profile so everyone knows"
"Steadily being replaced" is another hyperbole. Sure as general purpose languages they might be used less, but where they really shine (low level and embedded programming) they are not going anywhere anytime soon. Sure rust is taking more momentum but it will take decaded before it will be used more, if it ever will be
There are pros and cons to both.
On one hand commuting, even on a flexible schedule, helps building a routine and the clear separation is mentally positive and helps focus.
On the other hand, some days I really need to stay home and work in my pajamas, with fewer interactions as possible, especially when it's really cold or really hot. In those days an in-presence work day would be 10% productive, at least remotely in my safe environment it can get 20%.
The best possible solution is flexible: try and be in presence whenever possible, but know that you have the option to go remote when in need. The best of both worlds. Unfortunately yes, it's not always possible when the job requires some hardware.
Well technically C, C++, JS and Python and C# are all more than 25 years old, despite having changed a lot they are still the same languages at core. Of course I would hardly call them underrated.
I use third party launchers, but that's not the point, very few apps support them because google (and consequently Android) stopped caring. Of course, it might just be corporates being corporates, but I just don't see why google doesn't want them