orthogonal to alive @avi@computerfairi.es

The back had a sign that said "your apathy scares me"

we they/them boys

Please enjoy this glamour shot of my mother's cat she sent me today:

@avi McAfee is one hell of a character.

i hope that all the #menandenbies are having a great holiday

effortlessly landing a triple salchow as I leap to evade the newest bull shit clogging my time line

I don't believe in the existence of Bryce Youngquists, for I have never seen one in person,,

An unexplored angle on Charlie and the Chocolate Factory is that Willy Wonka is clearly a genius, the finest scientific mind of his generation, yet he focuses almost all of his efforts on manufacturing candy.
The temptation of big profits in the multimillion dollar candy-sector under the candy-capitalist system has drawn him away from more worthwhile pursuits and possibly corrupted him into the weird, weird dude that he is

Just once I want a programming language to release some of their docs as a series of graphic novel tie-ins

as someone who works on systems like this.

this problem doesn't happen because of a technical reason. there is zero reason whatsoever it should be technically difficult to change a field in a database.

it happens because adding any sort of functionality to software requires an investment of time and money. if you didn't design your system with that functionality in mind from the beginning (spoiler alert: they made the assumption that people changing their name is an "exception case" so they don't need to handle it in v1) then it will require a bigger investment. but you won't get it for free.

and every company that does not allow users to change those fields has looked at the cost/benefit analysis and decided that it is not currently worth it to make that investment. there are people whose job it is to do this. they made the choice. individuals, or groups of them. that's who i'm mad at.