NYC is such a corrupt place. You feel it in every facet of life when you live there. The average NYC resident has a long commute with regular delays while the MTA eats billions of tax dollars per year. Renters get gouged by slumlord landlords and pay a 15% real estate broker fee for the privelege. The NYPD spends $121 mil in taxpayer dollars per year to operate lawlessly while solving fewer crimes and locking up anyone who tries to call them out for it.

I enjoy imagining what I would do if money were no object. But agreed, I find what others actually do to be profoundly boring.

Yeah. This isn’t funny. Its just shitty, annoying behavior.

It looks more like Cotton to me.

It sounds like you’ve got a good manager, so hopefully they won’t hold that against you. This is the reality of oncall - it sucks!

When you get woken up in the middle of the night, of course you’re going to be more tired the next day. I’m the same as you - I can’t fall back asleep if its early morning so I normally just stay awake and am tired that day. You shouldn’t feel guilty for being at 1/2 capacity after working all night to solve your employer’s problems!

I tell my engineers - if you get paged off hours, however much time you spend resolving the issue, take that time back from the next workday.

I also practice what I preach - if I get paged at 3am and work on the issue until 5am, I’ll come in 2 hours late or leave 2 hours early.

I read the trilogy and the sequels. The sequels definitely aren’t as intricate and political as the trilogy. But if you like just getting lost in Asimov’s ideas and tropes they’re perfectly good books.

Nuance? On the internet? Get the fuck out of here.

Erdoğan happened.

Hi dad

+1 and there’s a lot of good solutions. FoundryVTT, Roll20, FantasyGrounds and Owlbear Rodeo all work well too

Women are livestock to him.

Imagine actually reading the article /s

I remeber when this piece of shit did a reddit AMA a few years ago and got thousands of upvotes. People still support him and he thinks he did nothing wrong.

I’ve worked in the industry for the last 11 years, and my experience is that the industry has changed dramatically.

In 2012, there were still huge niches in smartphone software that has not yet been filled. There were also almost no barriers to entry - a team of <10 people rapidly expanding didn’t have to think about Cookie Banners or Google Play store delisting. Finally, there was the promise of a huge payout - the win condition for a startup was to BE the next Google.

In 2023, dominant players have captured all aspects of the software experience and when a new idea becomes popular (Snapchat in 2016 is a good early example), big tech has the lawyers and developers to simply clone it with a higher budget (e.g. Insta & FB Stories, Youtube Shorts). Because of scale, big companies can more easily afford to deal with regulation and can even sometimes regulate their competitors (Play Store). Finally, big tech is guaranteed high payout for developers - these days, the win condition for a startup isn’t to BE the next Google, its to be acquired by Google.

The eventual end of all this is Google continuing to strangle open & free Android by buying/shutting down any new ideas and extracting more and more rent from its platform.

The only way to opt out is to move to non-Play AOSP alternatives.

They will pay him off and keep doing it.

You should check out this episode of the podcast 99% Invisible. Its fascinating how valuable sand is to humans.

I would love to be a person* in my late 20s - early 30s in 1920-1930 traveling amongst Western European cities.

Art Deco, The Jazz Age, surrealism and cubism in art, the birth of radio, electricity and cars, Albert Einstein and Nicolai Tesla expanding the scientific consciousness of the human race while Alexander Fleming discovers penicillin. Women get the vote while Egypt and spiritualism grip popular imagination. Monarchies crumble and democracies rise.

It would have been an incredible experience to live through.

* Of course, a lot of people were unfairly treated during this time too. Its easy romanticize the good and ignore the awful.

I’d like to know which 12 users upvoted this so that I can block them all.

They are Christians - is this the choice Jesus would make?