Good hackathons don't mean more work. They should carve out time for people to participate. However if the systems those employees are maintaining need constant work then you can't carve out time for a hackathon because the systems will go down otherwise. It sounds like Facebook is doing the latter. A one off event will also not improve morale, just like a pizza party won't on its own.

I think Enterprise immediately being like "TIME TRAVEL COLD WAR" was one of the biggest narrative problems with Enterprise. It didn't let Enterprise stand on it's own, but was constantly shadowed by future events. IMO they should have spent more time writing ahead of the show to figure out what the overarching storylines should be rather than just figuring it out as they went.

Talk to a vet.. Don't take veterinary advice from random Internet strangers

Blockchain is just a ledger. Most systems don't need a ledger, they need a database. It was a solution looking for a problem in most cases and the marketing/business types don't listen to the engineers if the engineers are even in the room.

I did this recently. They "replaced" me with two engineers after I had been begging for meaningful help for months.

You might want to consider a more thorough wiping of your area code next time. It's pretty easy to figure out what it is through the scribbles

How about those Epstein files?

When driving don't be nice. Be predictable.

I've had an EV as my only vehicle for about 5 years. The biggest cost of maintenance was replacing my tires. Then replacing one of the new tires after I ran over something and put a big hole in one of them.

The regular maintenance on it has been effectively zero. I don't have any fluids to change (other than windshield wiper fluid) or other regular maintenance tasks other than tire related things. My parents have had an EV for something like 8 or 9 years and their experience has been similar.

My soulcat used to demand I sit on the edge of the tub wrapped in a towel after a shower so she could cuddle up in my lap on the towel... I miss her

During a Nov. 5 court hearing, CBP Agent Charles Exum, identified as the agent who shot Martinez, was questioned by Parente about text messages he sent to friends and family after the incident in which he appeared to boast about his shooting skills.

"I fired 5 rounds and she had 7 holes. Put that in your book, boys,” one of those messages said.

What a psycho

Myth: software engineers replicate value similar to a factory worker making the same item over and over

Truth: software engineers are closer to artists than factory workers IMO. We find and create new value, not replicate existing value

Spawn location has too much influence over late game content

I once asked ChatGPT to generate some random numerical passwords as I was curious about its capabilities to generate random data. It told me that it couldn't. I asked why it couldn't (I knew why it was resisting but I wanted to see its response) and it promptly gave me a bunch of random numerical passwords.

glances at the history of Christianity

• Separate holes for eating and breathing
• Separate sewage system from entertainment complex
• Remove mental health disorders
• Improved empathy

Putting question marks or exclamation points after "quotation marks"! I've never understood the point of putting the punctuation inside the quotation unless it's part of the quotation itself.

Bitcoin

Yea, I said it

Colorado enshrined the right to abortion and removed anti-gay marriage language from their constitution.

One recruiter (who was there head of recruiting at this company) I talked with several years ago drilled me on why I had switched jobs every 2-3 years. Tell me you know nothing about the modern job market without telling me you know nothing about the modern job market...