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UX didn't design with localized strings in other locales being up to ~40% longer in their mock ups5
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Work just keeps surprising me and giving me wtf moments. They want me to finish a course in 1/10th of the time that the industry recommends just because they don't have budget for more time. I'm quite pissed off. Now I have to work 700% faster. Let's do this shit. lol7
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Installing Alpine Linux with GNOME (yes, I want to move from ubuntu to alpine as my daily driver)
Expectations: several days of debugging by entering contradictory commands and workarounds that make little sense
Reality:
type “setup-desktop”
type “gnome”
wait
type “reboot”
Alpine, what the heck? You’re a server-oriented distro with openrc instead of systemd, your own package manager and musl instead of glibc. Making you a desktop should be a challenge! It’s very unlinuxy of you.9 -
you're not allowed to hack computers, you get a felony for that
but hacking human brains is totally fine10 -
new kiki zoo reform:
- only unreleasable animals are allowed to be kept in zoos
- ban cages, replace them with large ecosystems with glass panels. ecosystems are open areas with recreated microclimate that is native to the animals that live there
- ban animal shows/performances. ban circus-like animal training. let animals do their own thing
- ban private zoos. profitable zoo = cruel zoo7 -
In french the world fish means "poisson". Not to be confused with a "boisson" (beverage), nor with the "poison" (poison).
But you could have fish beverage, which would be a "boisson de poisson". And some fish are poisonous, which would make it "poisson poison". Now let's take some poisonous fish, like some fugu, and turn it into a soup. You get a poisonous fish beverage, so "une boisson de poisson poison".
It also follows the poisson distribution10 -
It would be nice and more community spirit if people on YouTube would:
- stop using A.I. for voice-over
- stop using A.I. for random comments
- stop using A.I. for video content
It's beginning to become confusing what's real and what's not. I admire real creators, not quick-buck fakers.7 -
I'm working w/ idiots.
Since a week ago, builds have started being bundled w/ this interesting folder called 'DeleteBeforeSubmission'.
Immediately mentioned the problem, but no action has been taken thus far. Sure, they might !care whether it is bundled or !. If whoever submits the builds for release manually removes those folders prior to submitting the game - fine.
Thing is... the shit is heavy. Depending on the platform, it's ~~500 MB up to some ~~2 GB on top of the actual size of the build. So, apart from our NAS storing garbage, people have to download unnecessarily larger files.
But hey - why do something about it. It's fine, right?
/s6 -
I've been humming and whistling and percussing on various surfaces the same tune for the last 3 days, all day long. No idea how or why I know it but it's killing me3
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A couple months ago I hired a designer to design a mobile app which I am now half way through.
I now understand why the final product doesn’t look like what the initial design conceptualized.3 -
if you learned the government or some corporation can influence anyone into any cognitive state, emotion, or debilitating state like puking or death
and it's like effective, like a magic trick. people come in, and entirely get amnesia on command like it's a scene from the movie men in black. they want you to do the chicken dance they're making 30 people from the crowd do the chicken dance and everybody is laughing and having a great time at this demo conference
would you allow it? or would you be mad and start trying to protest its use?6 -
Zscaler shits itself if you can reach the VPN server from multiple interfaces with different public IPs. Toy quality crap.
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I have PTO and time off from overtime which can temporarily go negative.and if it's negative at end of year the rest becomes unpaid time off. Due to special tax fuckery in my country, unpaid time off actually isn't objectively a thing, instead, my company pays tax based on my nominal salary and I have to pay them back with tax
To get out of this, I negotiated a rather special position where I'm registered for 6 hour days for a few months so that I can aggregate a bunch of overtime to be spent as extra unpaid time off that we aren't paying employment tax on for no reason when no work or payment is taking place.
This creates a rather funny loophole, in that my PTO days are worth 6 hours during these months but 8 hours for the rest of the year, whereas overtime and corresponding time off is measured in hours so it's always worth the same.
Naturally, like the strategic genius I am, I started recording all my absence in this period as PTO days without thinking because I wanted to see my time off on a nice universal counter. I realized about an hour ago that I'd been taking PTO at 75% efficiency. -
Me, reading random wikipedia:
A boutonnière (French: [bu.tɔ.njɛʁ]) or butthole (British English) is a floral decoration, typically a single flower or bud, worn on the lapel of a tuxedo or suit jacket.
Wait, that can't be right
butthole.
buttonhole.
OOOOOH2 -
Don't you love it when the docs say that RTCDataChannel is a transferable object and then you try to send it to a service worker and your browser tells you it isn't transferable
I hecking looove web development 😇🔫3 -
The difference between my CSS and your CSS is that you write z-index: 999999, and I write z-index: 2 to get the same effect.8
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