Stop reading the news.

If it happens it happens. If you see the flash, lay down prone on the ground with your head towards it and your hands covering your face. Otherwise until that happens, just carry on as normal with your life

How do you afford all this?

I think I might be a project manager. it’s not my job description, but a good amount of my time is spent coordinating client needs (software), company needs (money), management needs (reassurance) and developer needs (concise and complete design, and decisionmaking).

Normally there are 6 software projects on the go at any one time, all in various stages of production that I need to keep ticking over to prevent a backlog or a gap in work for the Devs.

I’m fortunate that my only supervisor is the owner of the company and he now trusts me enough to say “Do whatever gets the job done” and so I don’t get micromanaged or roadblocked on decisionmaking. I choose the Devs, the architecture, the design, the timeline, and the budget. I take a dictatorial attitude to the clients to force their nebulous and sometimes stupid ideas into a clean, detailed, and clearly defined box long before the Devs ever hear of it. I take a very hands-off approach with the Devs, giving them plenty of support, asking for their advice, accepting their limitations and a very quick yes/no/alt when they have questions or recommendations. I don’t micromanage them, but I do have a system that helps me identify problems with the delivery pipeline. They also know I’m excruciatingly thorough in my testing so between their own testing and mine, very few bugs make it to production.

As for my manager, he pops his head in maybe twice a week to give me updates on stuff but otherwise leaves me alone, and I take a very firm line with all of the other senior management and clients when it comes to adhering to the project development procedure, which I wrote. I have no fear of telling people no, or telling them that we stick to the procedure or no work commences. Maybe I’ll get fired for being a hardass to mgmt one day, but it’s been 4 years and I don’t think I will.

I keep detailed track of every involved party, every task, event, meeting, test and correspondence between me and any other involved person, but they don’t know that.

And if anything goes wrong with the project, it’s my fault. I’d never blame the Devs for not for seeing something that I should have foreseen, and I’d never blame the client for not providing information that I should have asked for and verified.

If a project appears as if it doesn’t need a project manager, the project manager is probably doing a great job

The Houthis will claim your couch as a combat win anyway.

Based on the sample size and the information available, the mean age of UK actors is 34

The landlords.

There are a lot of them so it would be exhausting work to behead them all myself but that’s a sacrifice I’m willing to make

His name is Bogdan

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Passing a drumstick to your fellow commuter in the next lane out the window at highway speeds should be part of the drivers Ed curriculum.

You’re saving heaps on landscaping costs! 🙌

Nice.

Wait, they have this here in Australia too? I have never heard of this.

“personally, I like to run my camy on Peanut oil, it’s got a high smoke point and fairly neutral smell.”

Annual tho? That’s a bit much.

Fuck I think I could just vibe with the Noongars, hunting, fishing and sleeping til I died of old age.

Maybe use basic science and chemistry to improve sanitation and quality of life. Not too much, just enough to be regarded as a clever fella, not a warra wirrin bad spirit.

If I fed it a big enough number, it would report back to me that a particular python math library failed to complete the task, so it must be neralling it’s answer AND crunching the numbers using sympy on its big supercomputer

When I learned that it could factor primes, I got it to write me a simple python GUI that would calculate a shitload of primes, then pick big ones at random, then multiply them, then spit out to clipboard a prompt asking ChatGPT to factor the result. I spent an afternoon feeding it these giant numbers and making it factor them back to their constituent primes.

Paranoia is a survival trait dating back to our ape ancestors.

Angry water.