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I'm only on book 3 of WoT but decided to check out the first few episodes of the show anyways -- I think some of the changes were wild and out of left field and some were very reasonable. Like skipping the first few towns of the journey makes sense, and introducing Tom at a slightly later point cause he's kinda useless before that.

I did stop watching and had an existential crisis when they showed Waygates just being basically Minecraft Nether Portals haha Oh and channeling looks SO GOOFY in the show!

That elephant has watched me make queries no man ever should. Bless his soul.

Gregor Samsa time whoop whoop

I've used ReVanced every day for over a year now and nothing has ever happened to my Google Account. I also used regular Vanced for at least two years before that, never had any issues.

Does it sound conceited to say that both my siblings are fat and don't have their shit together? I'd not give up physical fitness and my good job for literally zero benefit.

Honestly, I just ordered some online and hoped that they'd fit lol Not a big fan of shoe stores and stuff

Regular running shoes really do lose their cushioning. I'm a bit heavy for a runner so it goes extra fast for me.. Maybe like 300km and I start to notice.

It does feel like such a waste to constantly be swapping shoes though. I usually like wearing shoes until they literally fall apart, but that takes longer than it takes for a new pair to get run-trough. :/

I've switched to barefoot shoes about 6 months ago. They can't lose cushioning cause they never had any to begin with, so in theory I should be able to run in them until they completely fall aprt, whenever that might be. Their company promises at least 2.5k miles if I recall!

ESLint has entered the room

Sie waren Mitbewohner!

Same, aber um 6 Uhr morgens. Manchmal ist es einfach geil zum Daily schon den halben Arbeitstag vorbei zu haben.

No matter which model you decide on, try to find it second hand on a website like Craigslist (or your local alternative). That's a general rule of thumb with all sports-related gear: there are always people who buy it new, never use it, and then sell it for much much cheaper.

I got my Polar HR strap for like 20€ (a new one would be 80) and my threadmill for less than 300 (new would be 500+). Same with my first Garmin watch, it wasn't even taken out of the original package but still about half of the price of a new one. People are weird.

IT pain was my first major running injury haha - foam rolling and sticking to a strict stretching routine resolved all of it within like a month or two. I specifically got one of those ridged fascia rollers that really gets deep down but hurts a bit, seems like it worked well.

Congrats! Don't forget to stretch after every run, no matter how short or easy! A lot of pain and soreness can be prevented from even starting by stretching properly :)

Es gibt ein Paper dazu, wie doch Magic the Gathering Turing-complete ist. Sehr interessantes Ding haha

Aha, Leute mit Sprachproblemen verstehen ein einfaches Zeichen nicht (der Sinn ist, dass man * : und / sofort sieht und weiß was gemeint ist), aber nen ganz neuen Genus deklinieren lernen können die? 🤡

Hate to be that guy, but keeping leopard geckos anywhere near sand is risky business. The dumb babies will swallow it, get intestinal impaction, and die very quickly from it. :(

I've always felt like the best course to stay ethical is to stay far far away from working on any projects that will be used or seen by "the general public". Games, Social Media, any sort of Sales or Marketing - they're all a shitshow, cause the variable they have to optimize for is income.

My father is a Delphi programmer for a small family business that writes software for Wood cutting factories. Yeah, getting money in is a factor for the company, but the pool of customers is so slow and stable that the programmers can just focus on creating the best software possible - so the thing they optimize for in this case is getting as many boards out of a tree as possible. You could spin it in an ethical direction and say they're reducing waste from excess trees that would be cut if they didn't have good optimized software. Or you could spin it in an unethical direction and say that they're supporting an industry which can cause environmental trough over-consumption of resources. It's a weird thing to think about and I feel like everyone draws the line at a different point.

So what I want to say, I guess, is that you just gotta focus on what your own values are and what you'd expect from a potential employer. Upheaving your whole life and moving to another country for your first job might be a bit much, as the sunken cost of having moved for a company will inadvertently make you more hesitant to leave them.

Maybe just look around in your area and see what small companies are around - not small as in Start-Up, I wouldn't trust a company that hasn't been around for a few decades, but rather small in their niche and their customer-base. Big Tech might just be a lost cause. Also don't do that dumb americanized interview circus. A company that respects the people who work for them never lets you jump trough leetcode hoops and dozens of evaluations and interviews before even having a chance to speak to someone.

The company I work for has been noting but great so far, and they've hired me within five days of applying. It was one interview, no evaluations or personality quizzes or whatever.

I also don't know how common that is, but they're an AG that only employees can own stocks of - so there isn't a centralized owner or CEO, just a board of majority-owners who still have to listen to everyone else who owns the stocks. The fact that it's somewhat self-governing makes for pretty sweet employee benefits (free ebike and car charging, 29+2 days off per year, everyone has the option to do half-time or 4-day workweeks, up to 100% remote for everyone etc).

And again, they're a small-ish business that stays far away from the general public. I write software for the German Energy Market. The companies that use it are extremely regulated by law and couldn't even do anything unethical with it if they wanted to. They're also bound by law to use software like ours to even oparate legally, so there isn't much client turnover or financial pressure. A few deadlines per year exist, but the job is mostly open to actually improving the software instead of selling as much as possible to as many people as possible. I think that's kind of a key point. Desperation and Greed can make people take bad turns, so maybe staying away from anything that can push you in that direction is the safest bet.

Of course we worship Saitan, it's delicious!

Yes, they prefer to be called Scrum Daddy 🥺💦

It's wild that that is even considered progress! Here in Germany it's completely standard for everyone to have the Electric and Gas Company they choose.

The nitty-gritty of the Anti-Monopoly laws runs under the hood and restricts Energy Companies in all kinds of ways, because just owning the distribution network is a natural Monopoly. The big 4, which are the ones who own it, are literally not allowed to make a profit ( they pay their contractors handsomely every Q4 to get rid of the profits lol). After that, all semi-regional providers get split into companies with maximum sizes and maximum responsibilities. A company that buys from the Energy market cannot be the same company that sells that energy back to consumers, or even be affiliated with a company that does so beyond very superficial levels.

The coolest part (and literally my job lol) is that all actors in the Energy market are barred any communication with each other, except for extremely specific pre-defined messages in specific pre-defined formats. They are designed in a way that makes it impossible to relay information that could lead to illegal market-fixing or anything else that could hurt the consumer. There's a good dozen of different formats and they get changes twice a year, so staying on top of that alone requires whole companies (because not staying on top of it will get you in deeep shit with the government).

Which lets me get to the point I actually wanted to make: that is a very cool name you have!!! Haha taste the meat not the heat amirite