Depending on how stoned you’re interested in getting, and your cognitive abilities under the influence, consider Mad Ape Den.

At its core, Mad Ape Den is a writing exercise where you only use words composed of three letters or less:

To bid you a bit of it, the gab may go as so.

Our favorite thing to do is to make a guessing game of it. Have everyone else try to guess something you’ve chosen, describing it using Mad Ape Den. Your turn ends if you mess up and use a longer word. For example:

He is a man, but he is a bat, too.

Batman!

Cars made to be sold and driven in Japan (aka JDM vehicles, for Japanese Domestic Market) can not be imported into the US until they are over 25 years old. This is part of a series of import laws that American vehicle manufacturers lobbied for to keep foreign cars from dominating domestic marketplaces.

The US also has crash test safety standards that domestic cars must meet because a) safety is good, and b) people drive tanks like maniacs. Kei cars used to be pretty awful in crash tests, but have gotten a lot better in recent years.

Solid article. I imagine the folks at the cyberwire podcast will be doing more digging over the weekend for a solid summary come Monday.

The image link is to the cover of The Premonition by Michael Lewis.

Lemmy supports community RSS feeds natively; no need for a third party service to do it for you.

Here’s the RSS feed for the Selfhosted@lemmy.world community: https://lemmy.world/feeds/c/selfhosted.xml

If your employer requires you to have a phone for official use, keep it separate from your personal phone; different device, different number, different networks if possible (ie: only let it join your home’s guest network). Don’t do personal things on your work devices, including logging into personal services, social networks or communication tools.

Obligatory:

I’m Comic Sans, Asshole by Mike Lacher from McSweeney’s Short Imagined Monologues June 15, 2010

I spotted a documentary that addresses the language issue at a tangential level that I put in the trailers community earlier last week…

https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/post/16657105

01:09: “Yer such a jerkoff!”

Perfection.

( ( laughs in old… ) )

For your hypothetical scenario to make more sense, the US would have had to annex Baja California just a decade prior, then straight up have gone to forward invasion war with Mexico to annex more, bombing the shit out of the country including children’s hospitals.

In that scenario, fuck yes Mexico would be justified in finding allies to help them maintain sovereignty and protect themselves.

That’s what happens when nations invade one another.

Alternate title: MA B2W GM 86’d by Cl2, not OK.

12 year SDE + 12 year TPM vet here.

Do everything you can to help your software engineers (or whoever is doing the work) have as much focus time as they need. Buffer your meetings and questions to one chunk of time per day. Encourage them to block-out and protect their focus time. And encourage the team to keep office hours so they can still make themselves available to others, but in a controlled way.

Be transparent with the business’s goals and frustrations you are facing. There’s an attitude (often among inexperienced devs) that PMs are good for nothing; just an interface to the rest of the business, and a source of where tasks come from. And some certainly are that, but a good PM is worth their weight in gold.

Find a good mentor, and start thinking about your next career step now.

Periodic office hours are tremendously helpful as well.

Block an hour, once or twice a week, for people to come by an ask you (and your team) about literally anything they want. And open it to everyone at your organization. Have your team stop answering one-off questions and tell people to bring it to office hours.

Team leads and tpms should help with logistics, messaging and hand-slapping.

The web version of themoviedb.org has been my go-to for a while now. No app though.

I worked for Akamai for 7 years.

This is why, if your CDN infra is core to the operation of your business, you make your systems accommodate multi-CDN integration. Cutting one CDN off shouldn’t be significantly difficult, and it comes in handy during contract negotiations. All the major players work this way.

No wonder I can’t find a TPM job anywhere. The senior devs are doing all my work.

Until the day of release arrives and you launch the game for the first time and discover the “Oops! All Escort Missions!” title card.

Television programming? It’s a stretch, one might say a broad-casting of the term.

Archive.org is here to save just a thimble-full of the magic:

https://archive.org/details/robotunicornattack_flash