Kind of depends and changes depending on a lot of factors, to be honest.
When I worked in an office, I discovered that headphones + music was the key to productivity for me. When I transitioned to work at home and had a more or less quiet home office to work in, I found that having music going was a bit irritating at times and totally not helpful at the best.
So I guess the deciding factor is whether I have to deal with the ridiculous noises other people make or not?
Don’t you fucking dare speak ill of my Martha. I will hunt you down and force you to eat honey braised turnips from Martha’s website until you agree that her shit’s the bomb
I’m a purist. The stable and persistent main branch, regardless of what you want to call it, should always and only ever be exactly the same as the code that’s currently deployed to the production server. Generally the only exception is for the short duration between a push and deployment under normal circumstances.
But every job I’ve ever had, there’s at least one maverick who knows git way better than anybody else and is super advanced, so they do their own thing which is totally better in a million different ways but essentially fucks everybody else over. And I’m not even here to say they aren’t smarter than the rest of us and I’m sure that somehow their process is better than what we currently do. But with version control, my anecdotal experience has been that the most important things for running smoothly are: consistency and having everybody on the same page. Process doesn’t need to be perfect, maximally efficient, bleeding edge, etc to achieve that.
I was the kid whose creating writing assignments over the years triggered more than one parent-teacher conference.
But in all fairness, I absolutely loved horror movies and my parents let me watch pretty much whatever scary movies I wanted regardless of the violence and sexual content. And I turned out okay, I guess, depending on who you ask and relatively speaking. I mean, I have relatives around the same age who are already dead due to their bad decisions in life, so I’m just saying who cares if an 8 year old writes a story about crocodile-like aliens that eat their meals ass first.
… and nobody is there to poop on it, does it even bear repeating at all?
Yeah, I just commented before I saw yours. Taco Bell has declined the most, by far, of the fast food places I’ve eaten at in the past 5 or so years.
I gotta give their corporate overloads credit – it’s kind of impressive that they figured out so many ways to make trash tier food so much worse, charge triple or more for it, and still remain in business.
If that’s a Taco Bell 5-layer burrito, I don’t remember them being 29 cents (grew up poor, we rarely ate out). But by the time I was out on my own as an adult, I could get two 5-layer burritos and a drink for around $3 - $4 USD and some change. It was enough food to sustain me for a day if it came down to it.
But yes, these days the 5-layers are more like dried out 3-layer mini-burrito abominations that cost $3 or $4 a piece. They are pretty much nothing like the large succulent many layered dollar / value menu beasts of the past.
I guess if typing up this post is considered yelling and web hosting is basically all cloud-based these days and I’m an old man by 2025 standards, then yes, I am indeed an old man yelling at clouds. But mostly I’m an old man avoiding Taco Bell now that it’s completely ruined its brand.
This is a bit tangential, but several months ago I was waiting in line and overheard a couple of men talking about a local chicken farm that is hiring for $12 an hour and how they can’t find any help except for “Mexicans”.
While I don’t know if that’s the average wage for that type of work in my area, I do know that even the dollar store starts people out at $15 an hour because they have signs outside stating that. I’m sure it’s part-time only and you have to pass a drug test, but still.
I’m out of work at the moment, and while I certainly wouldn’t be jumping for joy over a temporary job at the chicken farm, I can tell you that I’d definitely consider it for the right price. But $12 and no benefits is not the right price, even if it’s unreported (i.e. untaxed) paid in cash.
Cormorants?
Intentionally inflammatory posts? I haven’t noticed an uptick, honestly. Doesn’t mean there isn’t one and doesn’t mean I won’t notice now that you posted it.
But I will say that I’ve basically stopped checking my notifications because all of a sudden it seems like almost every time I go in there, I’ve got at least one insufferable, hostile, negative, etc response or message in there. It didn’t used to be that way.
Mostly I assume we must’ve recently gotten an influx of new users from Reddit or someplace similarly toxic. Things usually get a bit unfortunate for a time when that happens.
My granny used to snatch them things out the air with her hands and shove them in her mouth. Said they tasted good. But she stopped after one time she accidentally caught a palmetto bug instead and bit down before she realized what was happening.
Low pressure front will be moving in from the west early next week so we can expect things to be a few degrees more abysmal and overcast.
That’s my precious little Sssussssan.
MMMMM My favorite flavor, too! Blue Raspberry Pi
They look young. Probably not voting for anybody.
I wouldn’t even bother. He’s probably a bill collector.
That’s me. It takes me awhile to get to the point of saying I’m hungry, but once I’m there everything gets foggy, extremities start going numb, I get tingly sensation in my face. My brain will not work, the only thing it will actively think about is food, and even that’s kinda shaky. If I can do something completely mindless, that’s okay, but if you expect me to answer questions, make decisions, or do anything mentally taxing then that’s not going to work out very well for either of us. Yes, diabetes 1 & 2 run in my family.
Boss: I know your dad just died, but can you login and submit your September time sheet before noon? Otherwise I have to email HR and ask them for help and they’re honestly so much to have to deal with.
You wouldn’t believe how many people go postal once they see my tramp stamp.
Looking forward to reading this and the comments.
Having said that and assuming my interpretation of the headline is correct and that the headline is factually correct, my response is DUUUUUUUHUH HUH HUH HUH.
Because DUH HUH HUH HUH HUH.