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Writing bios is the weirdest thing. I just had to write one for a local authority in the UK who want to know why I might be qualified to teach secondary school level computer science to somebody, and to my ears it both sounds weirdly boastful while at the same time I know that it probably doesn't include what some of the officials are looking for/expecting.

"Why does it matter that he's taught hundreds of people over 15+ years? He didn't even finish his degree, and he has no initials after his name at all!"

@[email protected] @[email protected] Isn't this also basically the Punisher, Deadpool, etc? Obviously not nice people, sometimes in fairly upbeat settings (if not always upbeat stories) but who only interact with enemies who are so obivously worse than them that they appear... not quite as morally bankrupt. See also things like John Wick, although that has the whole glanced at initially redemption overtones that are almost part of the character if you squint hard enough.​

@[email protected] @[email protected] @[email protected] ​Ah, yes. That is hard. Although mentioning remote work has reminded me of somebody else. @[email protected] , do you happen to know anybody in Padua who can recommend reputable estate agents? I know it's not right in your stomping grounds but I don't have many contacts "up North"

@[email protected] @[email protected] @[email protected] A lot of the best deals here go by word of mouth, so if he is moving there for a job or similar it may also be worth asking any local contacts. It's far more acceptable here to both ask for and recieve help with this type of thing from 'professional' contacts than it can be in the some parts of the UK.​

@[email protected] It's almost as if software architecture needs to try and solve real, specific, problems rather than being chosen according to fashion. Who would have thought?​

@[email protected] "I feel a great disturbance in the Force, as if a million security researches all face palmed at once..." ​

@[email protected] @[email protected] I needed to speak to a plumber about irrigation for a large garden a few years ago, and yeah. Whole new world of plumbing knowledge and terminology I didn't understand layered on top of horticultural terminology I didn't understand.​

@[email protected] @[email protected] I cringed this morning when I saw somebody saying 'oh, I'd love to set up my own blog but I'm not sure how' because I'm sure that at least 15 helpful IT professionals have now convinced them it is impossible.

(Although also, hats off to people like @[email protected] who are actually doing the hard work of writing guides that make sense to the rest of the population)

@[email protected] @[email protected] I have been promoted repeatedly in my career for being mediocre at translating between my fellow IT professionals and ... well, anyone else.

Yeap. I've been thinking about this as well. Maybe especially because of my #adhd (which - let's face it - is not rare in the industry) I'm keenly aware that scanning walls of existing code for bugs and existing test suites for holes is way, way harder and more error prone than writing the same code/test cases yourself. Which is why we ask devs to produce small, scoped, change requests and try and spread the review load.

mastodon.online/users/pseudo... ​

@[email protected] @[email protected] ​...and have the scars and the tears to prove it

@[email protected] ​Although she's not based in Italy right now, @[email protected] might know some groups it would be good to pass this on to?

@[email protected] ​Fun fact: my mother has expert card shuffling skills because as the daughter of a merchant navy captain she was one of the only people the sailors trusted to deal for money games in or out of port (she would have been around 10 at the time and didn't normally travel with the ship). The captain, of course, couldn't be involved but the crew preferred having relatives of the captain run the game than the local casino.

@[email protected] it feels like the only common point across everyone using Codeberg will be version control and the usage restrictions set by server policy. "Shared history for open projects"? ​

The next train on platform 2 is going to Errore XSLT @[email protected]

@[email protected] In Jackie Chan's Gorgeous the character in this role actually states he's now a commentator for sports matches​; he likes being behind the microphone because with his knowledge from training 'he sounds like he's invincible' but he fell so far behind the lead character's skills he now hires people to fight him and comments on the fight instead of trying to fight him himself. So I think the film makers are pretty aware of the similarities!

I'm not quite sure how, but somehow this video manages to be a mind blowing display of skill, a hilarious display of grown men making fart noises into microphones, and an absolute banger of a tune all at the same time. Well played, Hiss and H-has. Well played.

youtube.com/watch?v=zdTzaWIc...

@[email protected] @[email protected] I second this message, and basically everything else in this thread. Realising you're badly dehydrated and need to pee and then going back to what you were​ doing before you manage to do anything about it is... well. It is, I suppose.

@[email protected] vlc added its very own anti memetic? ​