orthogonal to alive @avi@computerfairi.es
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Trans, guy of center, well over 18.
I'm in tech and it feels weird.
Joined Jul 2019
I really don't understand this aspect of tech culture. That it's commonplace for people to push back on documenting their work for others to use, or to act like testing and code reviews are a big burden. There is so much money involved and you want to be fast and sloppy. Wtf.
I mean, if I were to so much as design a flyer for a company, I'd expect there to be at least 3 emails of back and forth before we had a final version, and probably a lot, lot more.
When I write, I expect to get feedback and iterate on it until it is polished.
When I code, I deal with people who think they can just type out any slop, and that planning, testing, and reviews are a distraction.
It's bizarre.
I came to tech from writing and design work, where you are expected to save your work, share it, and get it reviewed, but all of these things seem to get treated as alien when you ask programmers to do them.
I think being a fan of things ruins you. You get really defensive about trivial bullshit and start buying garbage. I'm not going to be a fan of anything ever.
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How I Defeated Fascism With the Power of Love
by Luigi
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Chapter 1: The Power of Love
The first step in my journey was realizing that it is impossible to defeat fascism with the power of love.
Chapter 2: The Power of Incredible Violence
Fighting Melissa in Divinity Original Sin 2 and instantly breaking thru her weak physical armor to turn her into a chicken.
Advent is just reverse Lent
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indie game rec
I finished "Return of the Obra Dinn" yesterday, and... wow. I played it over the course of a week, and took longer than howlongtobeat's average by far, but I really loved it.
If you like(d) doing those logic grid puzzles where you needed to suss out who someone was by various features about them vs other people in the grid, "Obra Dinn" is exactly that. If the colors in the trailer are offputting, there are several other options. I went straight b/w.
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@garfiald I ain’t no houellebecq girl
-Michel Houellebecq
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Starbucks: daughter of police chief says he's absolutely a pig
#Starbuck worker fired for labelling police chief's coffee 'pig', the chief's daughter takes to twitter and says he is absolutely a pig https://nypost.com/2019/12/02/daughter-of-police-chief-in-starbucks-cup-scandal-says-hes-absolutely-a-pig/
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i love the sonic the hedgehog naming convention:
Sonic: named in honor of his speed
Eggman: named after his round, egg-like body
Knuckles: named after his large notable knuckles
Amy: Amy is a girl's name (Amy is a Girl)
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"I'm obsessed with an 1990 Lucasfilm Games point and click adventure"
OK Loomer
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Privilege = private + law = one law for group A, one law for everyone else
Privilege =/= all advantages
Being able-bodied is privilege. The built environment was built FOR YOU.
This message brought to you by the five elevators in the nyc transit system, controlled and budgeted in Albany by lawyers
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I've been looking into it, and I'm pretty sure that all programming languages are terrible, though some of them for different reasons than others.
I can never forgive my second ex for taking me to see Clone Wars. I wake up at night and think about sand
It's not that I hate Star Wars, it's that I hate being forced to watch movies and I especially hate hearing about my partner getting into online arguments where they "own" a "n00b" who doesn't even know who Raygun Spielbergus is or some bullshit
I've said it before and I'll say it again: The best part of not dating a Star Wars fan is not having to watch Stars Wars
My body isn't designed for procreation. My body isn't designed to do anything. My body is just a bizarre collection of carbon and oxygen that can walk around and think.
[dj herman comes on at 2 am, talks at length about the latest whale news, starts describing a childhood memory, and puts on a tom waits record before returning with a small story about the cabin boy aboard a ship he once crewed]
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Trans, guy of center, well over 18.
I'm in tech and it feels weird.
Joined Jul 2019
