I feel what you're saying. As an aside, I've been thinking of taking up smoking again. It's expensive and unpleasant, but I'm sure it'll kill me faster, so that's a big positive to offset those negatives.

Having to recompile DWM every time you change something isn't so bad. It's a fast compile, but on the other hand, why bother with that if your hardware can handle something more CPU/RAM intensive? I haven't seen a ton of modern systems where you'd really consider dwm or ratpoison or something like that out of necessity. Easy peasy, predictable DE with minimal config is an easy peasy choice, IMO.

@Liebranca DWM is great, I love it. But sometimes (especially after a while) it's nice to just install a desktop environment and not have to spend a ton of time on it ever again - I know this is troll bait, but it's not intentional because I mean it. "Everything" is troll bait nowadays.

if you're on mac or linux, Zed is a very nice alternative, IMO > https://zed.dev

Windows client is coming, someday

It's got to be better than selling toasters and vinyl flooring to people who can't even spell their own names. Heard someone in my town order "a McDouble....but the chicken one" and a "mcdurble fry" within the same two minute window earlier this week. There are worse things than dev.

@antigermanist I don’t believe an IQ test is a predictor of anything. Effort, persistence, and resilience are though, for sure. IQ is worthless without work ethic. Personally, hearing someone chest thump about their IQ is about as meaningful as someone telling me how rich they *could* have been if they’d bought bitcoin when it was ten cents or something. Imaginary numbers don’t matter. Neither does race, but results do.

@antigermanist I don't even know what to say to this, it's so out of left field. I guess if you want to continue to live in the past, that's on you. Move forward or fall behind, those are the choices.

@antigermanist the fuck does this have to do with a modern iq test. Impressive mental gymnastics anyway

@antigermanist I keep hearing this, but I never once noticed any socioeconomic meddling in any assessments I've ever done. It was almost entirely puzzles. I do not understand what's racist about being able to solve a puzzle.

@donkulator ah, a fellow of good taste

@retoor our preferred pronoun is 'murcans, thank you very much. Millionaires here contribute to the "working poor" nowadays. And we're also far too busy putting bacon on everything to notice the billionaires. At least we were before bacon was $60/LB. That's roughly 10 trillion skittles per kilograph for you crazy euros.

Edit: adjusted for inflation

TIL Canva is a thing that exists, fwiw

@Root Yes, I got the job! My current employer is PISSED though, not really the reaction I was expecting. Oh well.

y'all, I think I might've got the job. Small chance maybe not, but it's looking good. fingers crossed.

@Grumm I mean not in the same project lol. They're both great on their own.

@jestdotty Lol sounds like you're selling yourself short big time - Exhibit A

@jestdotty are you recruiting roommates from halfway houses or something? What the fuck?

@lungdart thanks for that perspective! I'll try just letting go and going through it next time one hits. Easier said than done though, because the impulse is definitely to resist it. As you said, this just makes it worse. Mine usually aren't quite the same, but I can see a parallel in that much at least.

windows is the fucking worst. I don't even really get the reluctance/resistance to using Linux, whether you're a "techie" or not. It's better, even if all you want to do is waste your time gaming. I used to give windows a pass before my current job, but just seeing how fucking stupid windows fanboys are has convinced me that neither microshit nor its users are worthy of the benefit of the doubt.

it may not yet be "socially acceptable" to pregame before meetings, but it should be.

@mostr4am That's fucking right!

is there any other kind? My company uses an intercom, because email is too fucking complicated, apparently, and I'm legitimately losing my god damned mind. If you're addicted to being a fucking cunt who wastes everyone's time, at least do it in email where I can ignore you in peace.

We had an all hands meeting yesterday so that the managers could joke around and grab ass about matters utterly unrelated to business. I've tried to explain that these constant pointless interruptions are expensive, not to mention disruptive and infuriating to me personally, but it's just one more thing that they don't listen to me about.

@kiki people are still joking about IE? I haven't even seen it in the wild in years now.

@jestdotty oh god! so not what I was thinking then 😬

@jestdotty was "watch people die" the snuff film one or the funny one? Also reddit sucks

@spoiledgoods I mean honestly, yeah. If you can't submit a small and focused pr, don't do it at all. One of the few times where meetings aren't superfluous is when going over a refactoring commit

helps to scream into a pillow or abuse substances or whatever

someone once said: "high school never really ends"

@Demolishun as far as we know, anyway

Seconded that reddit is a bottom tier shithole now. 4Chan is more respectable. That and part of why devrant is so genius is that it's a topically walled garden.

I've gotten a little bit of enjoyment out of the social component of github, so I guess I'd recommend that.