Dog Dad Afternoon

If companies really believed this, they would be aggressively hiring technical writers, library scientists, journalists, basically anyone who makes a living from writing clearly, concisely, and precisely.

hey you fucking idiot they're cutting another homeroom teacher from my child's elementary school because of the massive budget defecit in my state. but sure let's lower taxes some more maybe this time it'll fix everything! surely that's better than using taxes for good things that people want!

yeah they're like half the ads on every nfl game, they buy placement in stadiums and in sports media and subreddits, sponsor a bunch of sports youtubers, bought superbowl ads, etc. It's fuckin' dismal.

The Nine Billion Takes of God, by Arthur C Clarke

lmao

I posted a buy-nothing item and the guy who picked it up came in a Kei truck. I was SO EXCITED to see one in the wild that I think I came across as slightly unhinged, but the dude was really happy to talk about it. Small trucks rule, small truck people seem cool and fun.

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Yeah browsers are a different problem space with, to put it mildly, a wildly more complicated threat model.

I was mostly just commenting on why a team would want this -- there's a lot to like about smaller, more frequent releases, when they're done well. Not a slam-dunk win for a browser though

I have no particular visibility into Chrome's release process, but I wonder if it's basically a way to respond to pressure from above. my team found "no, it has to go in the next release in two weeks" is a much easier sell than "no you have to wait until next month"

I worked on a major android app, and moving from monthly releases to every-other-week helped us stay on schedule and made each individual release more stable. At monthly releases, you constantly get tons of pressure to include "can't wait" features or whatever, lots of cherrypicking and re-testing

This is a really good thread, thank you for sharing it!

receipt showing a donation for a hundred dollars (plus fees and supporting the host fund) to the 2026 Folwell Community Fund

Oh that's a good cause, thank you for sharing. One entry for this ridiculous (laudatory) prize please.

*running around like a dog who found half a squirrel in the yard to share this with all my friends while they scream at me and tell me to get out*

also, even a low-end system should be able to bring up a context menu without visible latency in almost all scenarios! my expectations from microsoft have been dropping for a while now but this is an astonishing new level of dogshit even for them

I love stupid ass bits and I am really excited to watch this.

that's the phrase they're going to put on my tombstone, yeah.

is it nosey? I like that it's set up so you can spell it with touching letters, with or without the 'e'

Do you have to start from a specific side? It looks like the stairs come up along the left and you start from there, but I might just be wildly misunderstanding the diagram

Oh god I literally just watched that episode tonight, his performance is so good. Very convincing and unsettling portrayal of a very manipulative monster. Dude was an amazing actor

sitting like he's in a carvaggio painting, as one does

And then when I discovered that I didn't know this, my teacher made fun of me in class, because I was supposed to be one of the smart kids.

Like, other kids had it way worse, my childhood was overall great, but that was still bullshit.

I didn't learn how to diagram a sentence or even about some parts of speech (I didn't know what an article was!) until like the 8th grade. I read way above grade level so they put me in a gifted class that did computer stuff and arts and crafts instead, and it was during english class

Like I'm also an annoying weirdo who says stupid shit sometimes before I learn better, but "receiving new information" isn't an extinction level event for my psyche so I've been able to avoid kickstarting the fourth reich about it

He's shockingly incurious; it's not even that he doesn't know what he doesn't know, it's that he doesn't *care* what he doesn't know. anything he doesn't know has to be an unimportant, trivial distraction. anything he learns, is being discovered for the first time.

A tweet by @AndrewNadeau0 reading "Hi, welcome to Chuck E. Cheese. Everything is visibly dirty and our mascot is a rat, eat some pizza near a sneezing child. Come on down for some rat pizza at our child casino."

This tweet always summed it up pretty well for me, even though I loved Chuck E Cheese as a kid.

Fun fact: the rat's full name is Charles Entertainment Cheese.

It sucks, I'm sorry you're goin through it

You used to be able to at least bully the computer into getting you a human but now the goddamn robot interrupts you to keep asking questions it doesn't understand the answer to, I hate it so much

The phrase "Richard Nixon RP Account" as rendered by the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles logo generator, featuring "Richard Nixon RP" in white text on a red background and then "Account" in green curved text below.

"when the curious girl realizes she is under arrest"

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