ME/CFS must be hard to cope with. As a person without it, I also sometimes have pretty bad fatigue but it’s mostly my lifestyle. Key difference is, if I get some exercise, I might be a bit tired at first but then I’ll actually have MORE energy. This little trick is a life saver. I don’t know how I’d survive if I couldn’t do that.

You definitely have my sympathy and I hope they crack it soon.

Robot life partner for everyone? Absolutely.

Thank you for this. Very informative, should try it out sometime. Not a photographer but I like pretty photos.

Switch to English wiktionary for pédale and it suggests also looking at the shorter version of the word, where it is explained where it comes from and - guess what - you’re exactly right.

Also pederast comes from ancient greek which explains how widespread it is. Pede/pederast is commonly used in Estonian as well, as an insult. Usually just the equivalent of faggot, but boy lover

We just got this rule in Estonia too this year. Cash payment, round to nearest 5 cents, card payment, still exact number.

The thing I hate the most about Sarah Andersen is how she must actively be watching how I live my life because of how accurate her comics are!

I’m a software engineer, I think I can be one of the 5 workers straight off the bat. Let’s find 6 more people and we can have this eightsome working!

My friend’s wife said they need to get “a bitch”. Someone who does the tradwife things while both of them can do things they enjoy in life.

This was of course said in a joking tone, they’re both very progressive people, and generally share the workload at home. Gender of said bitch wasn’t specified either. Just saying this before anyone thinks my friends are horrible people lol

I also don’t think that men should be given a wife by the state though…

Ah yes, learn Zangendeutsch for make benefit homeland

I think everyone wants to make good software, except upper level management that only cares about the money. But in some companies, your boss or your boss’s boss has some kind of feature roadmap and they get their asses chewed off if that is not met.

I honestly think most people WANT to do good work. But ain’t nobody going to work overtime to deliver a better product with unreasonable timelines. Not unless there’s a heavy stock option plan and you’re in a startup where your input actually changes things.

To your edit: that’s one of top 3 reasons I moved to iOS and while there are annoyances, overall I’ve been happy with it for 3 years. Not suggesting everyone should switch but if you’re tired of tinkering, it’s a good option.

When possible, use open source software that isn’t developed by commercial entities (yes that also disqualifies all real browsers available - maybe Ladybird will be different? But then the specs themselves for the web are so bloated it takes too long to implement them and you have to cut corners).

Thing with for-profit development is that micro-optimizations don’t make fiscal sense. Say it takes 10 seconds for an API call. That’s too long if it’s supposed to be an interactive website! You spend 4 hours getting 9 seconds off by improving multiple problematic methods. Now the next 900 milliseconds? Maybe that’ll take you 10 hours. Fun? Absolutely, I live for that shit. But in most commercial environments this would be considered a waste of time because I could spend it doing something more impactful.

And anything being twice as fast or memory efficient is usually not noticeable. If you’re going to optimize something, it should be at least an order of magnitude. Therefore everything but low hanging fruits often gets ignored. Usually it’s a case of reconsidering your data structures to be able to use better algorithms, or reconsidering the business requirements to get rid of some processing that could be avoided. The former requires architectural insight not every developer has, plus agreement among devs. The latter may require outright navigating office politics to get product team to drop some low business impact feature requirement that has high impact on performance.

I’m not against either of our countries increasing military spending either, I’m just disgusted that a bunch of people are getting rich off people dying. Hence my idea that weapons manufacturing should be a public industry, not a for-profit one. European nations could still collaborate too. Not everyone needs to make everything.

You can pry my monster ultra from my cold dead hands at the ripe old age of 30.

… It’s because he’s black, isn’t it?

It was FAANG long ago, it’s MANGA now, except even that ignores the fact that Google has Alphabet for a while now. MANAA?

Mate I’m Estonian, Russia is bad by default, it doesn’t even need discussion. You don’t think Russian military industry CEOs and owners didn’t cream their pants when Putin invaded Ukraine again? Chemezov is super happy about it for one, he’s also very happy that western companies are no longer competing with him on the Russian market.

The CEOs of military industrial companies, like any other CEOs, are going to make more money if the company’s numbers are better. If a war happening in bumfuck nowhere doubles the Christmas bonus of one of those bloodsuckers, you bet they’ll cheer for it. It’s not like war affects them personally. And it’s hella fucking profitable.

I’m not anti military spending, I’m anti capitalists profiting from bloodshed. Military industry shouldn’t be profitable. It should be nationalised.

Have you tried drowning your sorrows with a good pilsner?

You know the saying “what doesn’t kill you, makes you stronger”? This is literally what it means. You suffer hardships you can learn from, and you adapt. Lots of people seem to think it’s about physical suffering, but in reality it’s more about overcoming adversity in general.