…that leech fell. Wtf is this jumping business

Why did you get kicked out?

I can’t tell if ops joke is “intentionally confusing buffers with registers” and everyone is playing along or if people aren’t making the distinction between the two in this thread.

Which is ironic and humorous…potentially by accident.

Yea, our 1 year old just got her first MMR shot. I think it’s a series though so she may only be partially protected at this point.

It’s really fucking infuriating that this is a thing at all in 2024.

I was proud too. I was starting to think either I was an asymptomatic carrier or I was immune unlike the rest of you peasants with weak immune systems. My wife had it and I took care of her the entire time she was sick, and I never got it.

I was in the ICU COVID wing for weeks when my dad got sick (immuno compromised lung transplant situation:( ). I still never got it.

But alas, I guess I had just been lucky. I got it after last thanksgiving. The only one in my family to. My wife and baby never got it from me either. It’s such a weird sickness in that sense.

For what it’s worth I was all vaccinated and up to date. As soon as I was able to get each round I did. I wore a mask for a little longer than most people but haven’t really worn one for a year or so? Honestly don’t remember when I stopped. I wore one again when my baby was born for a few months.

Haha it took me 3 (almost 4) years to finally catch it :(

There are different audiences for demos though. It should be that way at the “working level”. When you start moving up the chain with more senior leadership in your org, it starts to make more sense to have the PM do the demos/briefs.

Usually devs don’t particularly care or want to and sometimes they aren’t really qualified to–its not their skillset. But if it’s a good PM, that’s where they shine. That’s the value they bring to the project. They (should) know the politics, landmines, things that specific leaders would care about (and to highlight for them), and how to frame it to current business needs. They have the context to understand when a seemingly innocuous question is actually pointed. They might not know the intricacies of your code, but they (should) know the intricacies of the organization. That’s not something most developers know, and why should they? That’s not their job.

Sometimes it even involves groundwork meetings and demos to make sure you have support from other key components in your org-- like getting your CTO excited because one of his performance goals was x and your project is the first real implementation of x. Now, you have the CTO ready to speak on your behalf in front of the CIO. As a PM you know that the CIO has been getting flack from the CFO because there hasn’t been a good way to capture costs for Y, but your system starts the org down the path to fix that. Now they are both excited about the project and in your corner. Etc etc

As a former PM/PO who has moved up the chain, your PM is full of shit and you should look around. Looking out for your top talent is how you succeed as a PM.

Quite the opposite. “Yo, we should probably come at you, but this next thing ain’t us. You’ll know when it’s us”.

They are literally asking for your input though…

I really liked beehaw at first, but their admins (specifically alraza maybe was her name?) was the epitome of “tinpot dictator”.

It was obnoxious to see her flout their rules/spirit of their rules and be a dick to people and not approach them in good faith.

They had they essay on their site re: moderation. Ironically, about assholes causing people to quietly just leave. That’s what I ended up doing. I didn’t want to invest a bunch of time on an instance that had such a petty, opinionated admin running it.

So yea, leave if you feel like it. I don’t know that I would notice.

In one sense it’s like getting a streaming service for $3 a month.

In another sense, it’s like the prime value proposition is starting to crumble. I got it for the shipping but the video was nice and music was discounted and pretty good.

It def feels like these companies are turning the screws because they know they can get away with it. And on principle that bothers me, but I’m also torn because I want to pay for content I like (and don’t want ad supported media).

I got an eye patch laying around here somewhere. I might have to dust it off. It’s been 15 years since I wore it.

He reportedly joked that the secret to a long marriage was ensuring your spouse was “someone who is always mildly sedated so she can never realise there are better men out there”

“In what was always understood as a private conversation James, the Home Secretary tackling spiking, made what was clearly meant to be an ironic joke - for which he apologises,” a spokesperson for Cleverly said in a statement.

So a self-deprecating, incredible obvious joke, told in private to friends, has people jumping to be offended!

People really need to save their outrage for serious stuff because being outraged over something like this minimizes actually serious situations. It’s like the boy who cried wolf(read: outrage).

Edit: is also fairly obvious that most of you just read the headline and popped in to be outraged. Merry Christmas!

I don’t know any of those names except Katey ledecky.

My niece is a great sport and competes mostly against herself and works on beating her times. I don’t even know how she’d feel about something like that. She’s a great kid and she’d probably grin and bear it.

But I think it’d be horse shit if she had to. We separated men and women’s sports for a reason. We dont let 20 year olds compete in little league. We don’t let Olympians use performance enhancing drugs. Competition and sport needs some bounds for fair play.

Ensuring a level playing field is crucial, acknowledging natural talents and physical differences, while drawing a line at artificial or external enhancements that could skew competition. It’s about maintaining the spirit of fairness and respect in sport, so everyone has the opportunity to compete and excel based on their natural abilities and dedication.

There is more to it than just “current testosterone levels” because (like you mention in your question at the end) biological birth sex as a male would likely afford the person with a larger frame, muscles/skeletal structure, bigger hands, longer legs, etc.

And to answer your question: no I wouldn’t have a problem with cis women competing with each other. Obviously, natural differences exist and set people apart. But sport and competition is predicated on a foundation of fair play, personal excellence, and mutual respect among participants.

Any artificial advantage or thumb on the scale, for whatever reason, undermines the integrity of the competition, devalues the effort of athletes, and erodes the spirit of the game.

Naturally occurring differences like extra testosterone, height, or flexibility might be advantages but they aren’t unfair because they are inherent to the individual’s unique physiology and not externally imposed or artificially enhanced. That’s the line we’ve drawn for sport and competition for centuries.

So no, that wouldn’t bother me at all.

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Let’s be clear. Anyone who’s not spoken out about him in the Republican party is a coward.

But, I think you are right. I think quite a few aren’t taking the risk of speaking out against him because they think the courts and process will do it for them. They are trying to have their cake and eat it too.

In some ways it’s probably a smart move, but it shows the absolute lack of moral character and backbone of modern Republicans.

So are breed characteristics. It’s like people tout breed characteristics…until pit bulls. Then it’s like "no way! Mine wouldn’t hurt a fly!

Yea, that may be true but they were breed to hurt more than flies and we did a good job of it.

Dachshunds have breed characteristics, Chihuahuas have breed characteristics, Labradors have breed characteristics, golden retrievers have breed characteristics, greyhounds, etc. It’s almost like they were “bred” to bring out specific traits–both physical and behavioral.

Pitbull advocates act like they don’t exist or downplay their role in the breeds behavior. It’s bullshit. Pitbulls, as a breed, shouldn’t exist.

What’s rpn and how does base 12 work.

Don’t you still have “numbers” between 11 and 12?

I think that’s actually been proven at this point hasn’t it?