Very nice :)

This is the first time I’ve seen a doll house which is so super-shallow like that. I’m assuming that was decided based on where it was going to be placed, so it wouldn’t intrude on where you walk. Super practical. All the play-fun of a deeper one, but a fraction of the space!

I don’t have high hopes either.

Some things are very much products of their time, and you can’t reliably repeat what made that formula work as well as it did.

Sure, I was there then. I was on Facebook right in the beginning, when you needed a university email address to even sign up.

So that’s true, but it’s also true to say that early Facebook wasn’t the same as modern Facebook. Early Facebook was - as the name suggested, a place to connect with friends, share pictures and plan events. You’d probably check it once a day to see what was happening, but that was it. And your home feed would be a direct and unfiltered view of what all your friends posted, in the order they posted it, without bias. And you could easily catch up on everything that had happened and then you were finished.

It’s the birth of the algorithm and infinitely scrollable tailored content feeds that really defines what social media has become.

This and mobile Internet have really gone hand-in-hand. The algorithm has made us want to be scrolling all the time, and mobile Internet has made it possible .

I agree.

OPs answer of saying that WiFi and phone Internet changed the world is correct, but it’s not specific enough or the full truth of the matter.

If we had the Internet and modern phones but the only sites that existed were those from 2002, we’d be living in a very different world.

Mobile Internet is the enabling technology, but if social media didn’t exist we’d probably leave our phones in our pockets most of the time.

Yes

My banking apps work fine on Calyx.

Banking apps normally check for rooted phones as the thing they don’t like. Because pixels come with an unlocked bootloader, you don’t need to root the phone to install a custom ROM, and so banking apps are still okay.

Interestingly, British consumer rights guru Martin Lewis is currently running a crowdsourced data gathering exercise on this in the UK.

The purpose being to identify if companies are purposefully playing these sorts of message no matter their actual call volume. (Which we all know they are, but this will help prove it)

https://www.moneysavingexpert.com/report-high-call-volumes/

Subject: Job Application

From: pussyslayer420xxx@hotmail.com

I don’t think anyone would claim that literally going outside is gonna fix anyone’s life, or cure this broken-ass world we live in.

But the sentiment isn’t wrong.

It means: Take some time for yourself. Enjoy the small things. Exercise. Feel the sun on your face. Leave your phone in your pocket, and stop doomscrolling. See the world in your own terms, not the terms others want to force upon you.

It helps. You can’t change the whole world, but you can change yourself.

Thanks for the confirmation that Buldak is, then, not really for me :)

Haha yeah, fair enough. Applogies for turning your deserved whinge into a serious question.

Wrangling annoying customers is always the most annoying part of the job isn’t it. How nice it would be to spend more time programming…

Technical requirements are often ambiguous when written as free text, the way someone would speak them, because as you have discovered the free text fails to capture where the linguistic stress would be that disambiguates in speech.

Instead, I suggest using a format that is more suited to text.

I would recommend a table. Email the customer back with your current interpretation of the requirements, with a column for outcome and a column for value. Ask them to check and sign off on the table, or to correct the table where it is wrong.

Example:

There are edge-cases with if outcome can be "Complete or Cncelled

I’ve basically decided to give up on Buldak.

I like spicy food, generally, but I ate the black one too and it was all spice and no taste.

I then tried one that was supposed to be cheese flavour (and not even the spicy cheese flavour, just regular normal cheese) and that was also somehow just spicy in a really boring way.

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Seriously. Saw that in the cinema and couldn’t hear a word.

In part due to this, it has also become trendy and normalised to have bassy dialogue and lots of environmental noise, because that’s the expected “epic movie” feel.

So it’s almost become a self-fulfilling prophecy that movies will sound this way, regardless of the anticipated audio hardware.

Tenacity.

I hope(!) that I personally have some good qualities, but tenacity is a pretty tricky one for me. The ability to keep plugging away at something and never give up no matter how difficult, no matter how small your progress towards your goals.

My main characters can have many and varied flaws, but tenacity is a common virtue.

Just another day on the job for pizza guy

You need a CD flap, and that’s the biggest visible feature of the console, so best to make it the centrepiece, and design around it. And CDs are circular so yeah, let’s follow that in the design.

You need two buttons, one for power and one for open. Symmetry is always appealing, so make them symmetrical and balanced on both sides.

Very much an example of “form follows function”

Yes, it absolutely is automated.

There are bots running constantly looking for things that match patterns for exploitable credentials in public commits.

AWS credentials

SSH keys

Crypto wallets

Bank card info

If you push secrets to a public github repo, they will be exploited almost immediately.